Csir Net general aptitudes.
Sciences part A
1. In each of the following groups of words is a hidden number, based on which you should arrange them in descending order. Pick the correct answer:
E. Papers I Xeroxed
F. Wi-Fi veteran
G. Yourself ourselves
H. Breaks even
(a) E, F, G, H
(b) E, G, F, H
(c) H, F, G, E
(d) H, E, F, G
2. Five congruent rectangles are drawn inside a big rectangle of perimeter 165 as shown. What is the perimeter of one of the five rectangles?
(a) 37
(b) 75
(c) 15
(d) 165
3. At one instant, the hour hand and the minute hand of a clock are one over the other in between the markings for 5 and 6 on the dial. At this instant, the tip of the minute hand
(a) is closer to the marking for 6
(b) is equidistant from the markings for 5 and 6
(c) is closer to marking for 5
(d) is equidistant from the markings for 11 and 12
4. Statement A: The following statement is true.
Statement B: The preceding statement is false.
Choose the correct inference from the following.
(a) Statements A and B are always true.
(b) Statements A and B can be true if there is at least one statement between A and B.
(c) Statements A and B can be true if there are at least two statements between A and B.
(d) Statements A and B can never be true, independently.
5. A person walks downhill at 10 km/h, uphill at 6 km/h and on the plane at 7.5 km/h. If the person takes 3 hours to go from a place A to another place B, and 1 hour on the way back, the distance between A and B is
(a) 15 km.
(b) 23.5 km.
(c) 16 km.
(d) Given data is insufficient to calculate the distance
6. The number of squares in the figure is
(a) 30
(b) 29
(c) 25
(d) 20
7. A bird leaves its nest and flies away. Its distance x from the nest is plotted as a function of time t. Which of the following plots cannot be right?

8. Four circles of unit radius each are drawn such that each one touches two others and their centres lie on the vertices of a square. The area of the region enclosed between the circles is
(a) π-l
(b) π-2
(c) 3-π
(d) 4-π
9. A turtle starts swimming from a point A located on the circumference of a circular pond. After swimming for 4 meters in a straight line it hits point B on the circumference of the pond. From there it changes direction and swims for 3 meters in a straight line and arrives at point D diametrically opposite to point A. How far is point D from A?
(a) 3 m
(b) 4 m
(c) 7 m
(d) 5 m
10. A shopkeeper purchases a product for Rs.100 and sells it making a profit of 10%. The customer resells it to the same shopkeeper incurring a loss of 10%. In these dealings the shopkeeper makes
(a) no profit no loss
(b) Rs.11
(c) Re.1
(d) Rs.20
11. A vessel is partially filled with water. More water is added to it at a rate directly proportional to time [dV/dt ∝ t]. Which of the following graphs depicts correctly the variation of total volume V of water with time t?
12. The triangle formed by the lines y = x, y = 1 - x and x = 0 in a two dimensional plane is (x and y axes have the same scale)
(a) isosceles and right-angled
(b) isosceles but not right-angled
(c) right-angled but not isosceles
(d) neither isosceles nor right-angled
13. A car is moving at 60 km/h. The instantaneous velocity of the upper most points of its wheels is
(a) 60 km/h forward
(b) 120 km/h forward
(c) 60 km/h backward
(d) 120 km/h backward
14. A living cell has a protoplasm which is water based and demarcated by a lipid bilayer membrane. If a cell is pierced to 1/5th of its diameter with a very sharp needle, after taking the needle out
(a) no effect will be observed.
(b) protoplasm will leak out from the hole made by the needle for a few minutes until the cell heals the wound.
(c) protoplasm will keep on leaking out till the cell is dead
(d) the cell will burst like a balloon.
15. If D + I + M = 1501
C + I + V + I + L = 157
L + I + V + I + D = 557
C + I + V + I + C = 207
What is V + I + M = ?
(a) Cannot be found
(b) 1009
(c) 1006
(d) 509
16. Density of a rice grain is 1.5 g/cc and bulk density of rice heap is 0.80 g/cc. If a 1 litre container is completely filled with rice, what will be the approximate volume of pore space in the container?
(a) 350 cc
(b) 465 cc
(c) 550 cc
(d) 665 cc
17. A cubical cardboard box made of 1 cm thick card board has outer side of 29 cm. A tight-fitting cubical box of the same thickness is placed inside it, then another one inside it and so on. How many cubical boxes will be there in the entire set?
(a) 29
(b) 28
(c) 15
(d) 14
18. A film projector and microscope give equal magnification. But a film projector is not used to see living cells because
(a) a living cell cannot be placed in a film projector.
(b) the viewer’s eye is close to a microscope whereas it is far away from the projector screen.
(c) a microscope produces a virtual image whereas a projector produces a real image.
(d) a microscope has greater resolving power than a projector.
19. Secondary colours are made by a mixture of three primary colours: Red, Green and Blue in different proportions; each of the primary colours comes in 8 possible levels. Grey corresponds to equal proportions of Red, Green and Blue. How many shades of grey exist in this scheme?
(a) 83
(b) 8
(c) 38
(d) 8 × 3
20. There are two buckets A and B. Initially A has 2 litres of water and B is empty. At every hour 1 litre of water is transferred from A to B followed by returning 1/2 litre back to A from B half an hour later. The earliest A will get empty is in:
(a) 1.5h
(b) 4h
(c) 3h
(d) 2h
Answers
1. option (d)
2. option (b)
3. option (c)
4. option (c)
5. option (a)
6. option (b)
7. option (c)
8. option (d)
9. option (d)
10. option (b)
11. option (b)
12. option (a)
13. option (b)
14. option (a)
15. option (c)
16. option (b)
17. option (d)
18. option (d)
19. option (b)
20. option (c)
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