GSFC UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE
Admission Common Test for M.Sc. Data Science, 2023-24

Time: 60 Minutes
Total Marks: 60

Instructions:
i. All questions are compulsory.
ii. All questions are Multiple Choice Questions.
iii. Each question Carries 1 Mark.

1 Average age of a group of 30 boys is 16 years. A boy of age 19 leaves the group and a new
boy joins the group. If the new average age of the group is 15.8 years, find the age of the
new boy.
a. 12 years
b. 13 years
c. 14 years
d. 15 years

2 Which of the following numbers is divisible by 9?

a. 67578
b. 56785
c. 45678
d. 65889

3 What is the unit digit in the product of 853 * 1346 * 452 * 226?
a. 4
b. 5
c. 6
d. 8

4 The sum of the ages of father and his son is 44 years. If 6 years after the father will be 3
times as old as his son, what are their present ages?
a. 36, 8
b. 38, 6
c. 35, 9
 d. 37, 7

5 Two ships are sailing in the sea on the two sides of a lighthouse. The angles of elevation
of the top of the lighthouse observed from the ships are 30° and 45° respectively. If the
lighthouse is 100m high, find the distance between the two ships.

a. 155.80 m
b. 157.80 m
c. 159. 80 m
d. 161.80 m

6 man sees the top of a tower from a point P. It makes an angle of elevation of 30° with the
man's eyes. If the height of the tower is 100 m, find the distance between man and
tower?
a. 57.8 m
b. 110 m
c. 173 m
d. 140 m
7 The perimeter of tiangle ABC is 6 times the arithmetic mean of sines of its angles , if a =
1 then A = __________
a. π/6
b. π/3
c. π/2
d. π /5
8 The maximum value of sin 𝜃 is
a. 1
b. 0.8
c. 0
d. 0.6
9 9. What is the median of the sample 5, 5, 11, 9, 8, 5, 8?
a. 5
b. 6
c. 8
d. 9
10 Differential Equation used widely in the fields of Economics, Ecology and Physics
a. True
b. False
11 Write down the number which will complete the sequence and replace the ?
6, 26, 126, ?
a. 278
b. 526
c. 626
 d. 726

12 Rajesh walks 7 km to the north then turns left and walks 3 km. Then takes another left
and continue walking this time another 7 km forward. How much distance in km is he
away from the starting point
a. 10km
b. 6km
c. 3km
d. 2km
13 Balwant had 17 sheep. A storm in the village killed all but 7 sheep .How many was he left
with?
a. 10
b. 6
c. 7
d. 9
14 What is the smallest number of ducks that can swim in this formation- two ducks in front
of a duck two ducks behind a duck and a duck between two ducks?
a. 3
b. 5
c. 7
d. 9
15 What is the product of all the numbers in the dial of a telephone?
a. 1,58,480
b. 1,59,450
c. 1,59,480
d. None of those
16 A group of 1200 persons consisting of captains and soldiers is travelling in a train. For
every 15 soldiers there is one captain. The number of captains in the group is
a. 85
b. 80
c. 75
d. 70
17 Aruna cut a cake into two halves and cuts one half into smaller pieces of equal size. Each
of the small pieces is twenty grams in weight. If she has seven pieces of the cake in all
with her, how heavy was the original cake?
a. 120 grams
b. 140 grams
c. 240 grams
d. 280 grams
18 First bunch of bananas has ¼ again as many bananas as a second bunch. If the second
bunch has 3 bananas less than the first bunch, then the number of bananas in the first
bunch is
a. 9
b. 10
c. 12
 d. 15
19 At the end of a business conference the ten people present all shake hands with each
other once. How many handshakes will there be altogether?
a. 20
b. 45
c. 55
d. 90

20 A student got twice as many sums wrong as he got right. If he attempted 48 sums in all,
how many did he solve correctly
a. 12
b. 16
c. 18
d. 24

21 Which is the most popular medium for direct access secondary storage of a computer?
a. RAM
b. ROM
c. Magnetic tape
d. Magnetic disk

22 Which major development led to the production of microcomputers?

a. integrated circuits
b. logic gates
c. floppy disks
d. magnetic disks

23 The first computer mouse is built by

a. Robert Zawacki
b. Daniel Cougher
c. William English
d. Doughlas Engelbat

24 An input device used with interactive graphics to locate a place on the screen is
Conservative
a. mouse
b. modem
c. tablet
d. touch screen

25 Disk units that use unremovable platters are called

a. high density disks
b. sealed disks
c. unremovable disks
d. hard disks
26 A device that prints one character at a time is known as
a. character printer
b. dot matrix printer
c. laser printer
d. line printer

27 A device designed to read information encoded into a small plastic card is Baculovirus
a. badge reader
b. magnetic tape
c. light pen
d. punched card
28
The two kinds of main memory are
a. direct and sequential
b. floppy disk and hard disk
c. primary and secondary
d. Rom and RAM

29 Which of the following produces the best quality graphics representation?

a. Plotter
b. laser printer
c. ink jet printer
d. dot matrix printer

30 A mass storage system is a direct access device capable of storing within its array of
cartridges Dendrogram
a. 472 billion characters
b. almost 16 billion characters
c. over 500 megabytes of data
d. 2000 megabytes of data

Questions 31 to 40 are from Python lenguage

31 What is the output of this expression, 3*1**3?
a. 27
b. 9
c. 3
d. 1
32
What will be the output of the following Python code?
x =['ab','cd']
foriin x:
 i.upper()
print(x)
a. [‘ab’,‘cd’]
b. [‘AB’,‘CD’]
c. [None,None]
d. none of the mentioned

33 Is Python case sensitive when dealing with identifiers?

a. yes
b. no
c. machine dependent
d. none of the mentioned

34 What is the maximum possible length of an identifier?

a. 31 characters
b. 63 characters
c. 79 characters
d. none of the mentioned

35 Which is the correct operator for power(xy)?

a. x^y
b. x+^y
c. x^^y
d. x**y

36 What is the answer to this expression, 22 % 3 is?

a. 1
b. 7
c. 0
d. 5

37 What will be the output of “Hello”.replace(‘l’,’e’)

a. Heeeo
b. Heelo
c. Heleo
d. None

38 What is the output of math.ceil(4.4)?

a. 4
b. 5
c. 4.0
 d. 5.0

39 Python is a _________________ language

a. Procedural oriented
b. Object Oriented
c. Object Based
d. All the Above

40 What arithmetic operators cannot be used with strings in python language?

a. +
b. *
c. –
d. All of the mentioned

41 What is the average of first five multiples of 12?

a. 36
b. 38
c. 40
d. 42

42 What is the compound interest on Rs. 2500 for 2 years at rate of interest 4% per
annum?

a. Rs. 180
b. Rs. 204
c. Rs. 210
d. Rs. 220

43 Which of the following is not a basic data type in C language?

a. Float
b. Int
c. Real
d. char

44 40 % of 280 =?
a. 112
b. 116
c. 115
 d. 120

45 30, 23, 17, 12,________,5

a. 6
b. 7
c. 8
d. 9

46 The runs scored by a batsman in 5 ODIs are 31,97,112, 63, and 12. The standard
deviation is

a. 24.79
b. 23.79
c. 25.79
d. 26.79

47 Find the mode of the call received on 7 consecutive day 11,13,13,17,19,23,25

a. 11
b. 13
c. 17
d. 23

48 Find the mode and median of the 9 consecutive number 12,7,8,14,21,23,27,7,11

a. 12,9
b. 7,9
c. 7,12
d. 11,9

49 If the probability of hitting an object is 0.8, find the variance

a. 0.18
b. 0.16
c. 0.14
d. 0.12
50 If the probability that an object dropped from a certain height will strike the ground
is 80 percent and if 12 objects are dropped from the same place, find the mean and
variance. (consider binomial distribution)

a. 9.6,1.92
b. 8.6,1.92
c. 9.6,1.82
d. 8.6,1.82

51 Variance of a constant 'x' is

a. 0
b. x/2
c. x
d. 1

52 E(X) = λ is used for which distribution?

a. Binomial distribution
b. Poisson's distribution
c. Bernoulli's distribution
d. Laplace distribution

53 If P(x) = 0.8 and x = 3, then find the value of E(x)

a. 2.6
b. 2.8
c. 2.2
d. 2.4

54 If P (1) = P (2) in Poisson's distribution, find the value of mean

55 If P (1) = λ P (5) in Poisson's distribution, find the value of mean

a. 33.81
b. 53.81
c. 63.81
 d. 43.81

56 A month after colleges opened......

A. 35% seats reserved under OBC

B. in private colleges
C. for the next academic year
D. remain vacant

a. CBDA
b. CADB
c. ADBC
d. BADC

57 The water tanks may remain empty

A. on Tuesday evening
B. in the city
C. will repair the damaged water pipes
D. as the water supply department

a. BADC
b. BACD
c. DBAC
d. ADCB

58 She lived ____ the expectations.

a. as per
b. up to
c. on
d. at

59 Tony, where are you? ____ up this tree.

a. Here I am
b. Here am I
c. There I am
d. There am I

60 a good looking girl does not necessarily have a good character,

_______________________

a. don't go by the appearance

b. beauty is only skin deep
 c. never judge by the appearance
d. all that glitters are not gold

Answer Key

1 B 2 d 3 c 4 a 5 b
6 C 7 a 8 a 9 c 10 a
11 A 12 c 13 c 14 a 15 d
16 C 17 c 18 d 19 b 20 b
21 D 22 a 23 d 24 c 25 d
26 A 27 a 28 d 29 a 30 a
31 C 32 a 33 a 34 d 35 d
36 A 37 a 38 b 39 b 40 b
41 A 42 b 43 c 44 a 45 c
46 C 47 b 48 c 49 b 50 a
51 A 52 b 53 d 54 a 55 d
56 B 57 a 58 b 59 a 60 b