Sample Paper (IX Studying) Aakash National Talent Hunt Exam 2015 (Junior)

Aakash National Talent Hunt Exam 2015 (Junior)

Talent
(For IX Studying)
Time : 2 Hours MM : 320

SECTION-A : SCIENCE
1. Action and reaction forces 6. Which of the following graphs corresponds to
(1) Act in the same direction uniformly accelerated motion? (Symbols have their
usual meaning)
(2) Act on the same body
(3) Never cancel each other s v
(4) Act at different times
2. A ball when dropped, reaches the ground in 2 s. (1) (2)
It was dropped from a height of [Take, g = 10 m/s2]
t t
(1) 10 m (2) 20 m
(3) 15 m (4) 5 m s v
3. Which of the following measures the distance
travelled by a unifomly accelerated body in time t?
(3) (4)
[Symbols have their usual meaning]
t t
(v u )t v u
(1) (2) t
a 2 7. Which of the following can be best explained by
Newtons third law?
2v (1) A passenger falls backwards as a bus starts
(3) (4) 2(v 2 u 2 ) t
a2 from rest
4. A ball of mass 250 g, having initial speed v, moves (2) A driver bends to one side while driving on a
along a straight path under the action of a constant curved road
net force of 8 N. If the ball has speed v after 2.5 s (3) A gun recoils when a bullet is fired
of its journey, then the value of v is
(4) A heavy stone requires stronger push than a
(1) 20 m/s (2) 40 m/s
lighter one to start from rest
(3) 15 m/s (4) Zero
8. If a ball floats in liquid A but sinks in liquid B, then
5. A block of mass 2 kg moving horizontally with the correct order of their densities is
velocity 3 m/s hits a vertical wall. If the block comes
(1) DensityA > DensityB > Densityball
to rest after hitting it, then the momentum transferred
to the wall is (2) DensityA < Densityball < DensityB
(1) 2.5 kg m/s (2) 4.5 kg m/s (3) DensityA < DensityB < Densityball
(3) 9 kg m/s (4) 6 kg m/s (4) DensityA > Densityball > DensityB

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9. A body starts from rest with a uniform acceleration c. Evaporation takes place only at the surface of
of 1 m/s2. The average velocity in the interval of the liquid
t = 3 s to t = 5 s is
d. Water droplets appear on the outer surface of a
(1) 4 m/s (2) 1 m/s glass containing cold water due to evaporation
(3) 0.4 m/s (4) 4 cm/s (1) Both b & c
10. Which of the following cannot be measured in the
(2) Both b & d
same unit as the others?
(1) Force (3) Both a & c

(2) Weight (4) Both a & d

(3) Change in momentum per second 15. The compressibility of Z is less than that of Y and
(4) Work done per second higher than that of X. If X, Y and Z are the different
states of the same substance, then the kinetic
11. Relative densities of two objects A and B are 7 and energy in the increasing order will be
3.5 respectively. The densities of A and B are in ratio
(1) Y > Z > X (2) Z < Y < X
4 2
(1) (2) (3) Y < Z < X (4) X < Z < Y
7 3
2 1 16. Find the incorrect match.
(3) (4)
1 2 Mixtures Separation techniques
12. Which of the following is true for the values of G and
g on the surface of moon and earth? (1) Blood Centrifugation

(1) G remains the same but g changes (2) Dye Chromatography

(2) g remains the same but G changes (3) Air Fractional distillation
(3) Both G and g remain same (4) Petroleum products Distillation
(4) Both G and g changes
17. Which of the following is a homogeneous solution?
13. On addition of salt, if the boiling point of water
increases by 10C, then the boiling point of the (1) Milk
resulting solution will become (2) Blood
(1) 373 K (2) 283 K
(3) Tincture of iodine
(3) 383 K (4) 110 K
(4) Starch solutions
14. Which of the following statements is incorrect
regarding evaporation? 18. If one third of 100 g of 27% aqueous sugar solution
is taken in a beaker and 10 g of sugar is added to
a. Evaporation takes place above the boiling point
it, the concentration of the resulting solution will be
of the liquid
b. Rate of evaporation of water is less on a rainy (1) 48.34% (2) 44.38%
day as compared to a hot day (3) 34.84% (4) 43.84%

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19. Which of the following techniques is used to 26. Which of the following is known as Suicide bag of
separate a mixture of two miscible liquids having a cell?
difference of more than 25 K in their boiling points? (1) Nucleus (2) Lysosome
(1) By using separating funnel (3) Plastid (4) Ribosome
(2) Evaporation 27. Which of the following are common to both animal
(3) Crystallisation cells and plant cells?

(4) Distillation (i) Cell wall (ii) Cell membrane

(iii) Ribosome (iv) Chloroplast
20. The ratio by mass of carbon to oxygen in carbon
dioxide is (v) Mitochondria
(1) 8 : 3 (2) 3 : 8 (1) (i), (iii) & (iv) (2) (iii), (iv) & (v)

(3) 4 : 3 (4) 3 : 4 (3) (i), (ii) & (iii) (4) (ii), (iii) & (v)
28. Which of the following organisms does not belong to
21. Which of the following has the highest number of
the class pisces?
moles?
(1) Flying fish (2) Mandarin fish
(1) 46 g of H2O (2) 83 g of O2
(3) Star fish (4) Climbing perch
(3) 18 g of H2 (4) 112 g of N2
29. The tissue present around blood vessels and nerves
22. The chemical formula of aluminium phosphate is is
(1) Al2(PO4)3 (2) Al3(PO4)2 (1) Areolar connective tissue
(3) Al(PO4)3 (4) AlPO4 (2) Tendon
23. The total number of moles of oxygen molecules (3) Ligament
present in 9.6 g of oxygen gas is
(4) Cartilage
(1) 0.2 (2) 0.3 30. Echinus and Holothuria are placed in the phylum
(3) 0.8 (4) 1.2 (1) Porifera (2) Mollusca
'X' (3) Echinodermata (4) Annelida

24. Dry ice  
 carbon dioxide gas
31. The non-living element of the complex permanent
The process X is tissue in higher plants that transports food is
(1) Sublimation (2) Fusion (1) Vessels (2) Xylem fibre
(3) Evaporation (4) Boiling (3) Phloem parenchyma (4) Phloem fibre
25. Nuts like walnut and almond are enclosed in a hard 32. How many organism(s) given in the box has/have
covering made up of three chambered heart?
(1) Sclerenchyma
Frog, Turtle, White stork, Draco, Hydra
(2) Collenchyma
(3) Aerenchyma (1) One (2) Two

(4) Parenchyma (3) Four (4) Three

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33. 35. Aerenchyma is essential for aquatic plants because

(1) It provides buoyancy to the plants to help them
A float
(2) It performs photosynthesis
(3) It is dead and provides support and strength to
plants
(4) It provides flexibility to the plants
36. Which of the following groups of organisms possess
the following features?
a. Cold blooded
In the diagram, the function of the part labelled as A
is to help in b. Scales on body
(1) Digestion of food (2) Locomotion c. Breathe through lungs
(3) Respiration (4) Excretion (1) Sparrow, white stork, pigeon and ostrich
34. The outermost rigid covering of plant cell is made up
(2) Dog fish, lion fish, angler fish and mandarin fish
of
(1) Chitin (2) Cellulose (3) Toad, salamander, tree frog and common frog

(3) Starch (4) Phospholipids (4) Flying lizard, cobra, turtle and chameleon

SECTION-B : MATHEMATICS

37. If n is a natural number, then which of the following 39. In the given figure, if AB = BD and BC = BE, then
is not always divisible by 2?
A
(1) n2 n

(2) n3 n
B
(3) n2 1 C D

(4) n3 n2

38. If b + c = 1 and bc = 6, then b3 + c3 is equal to

E
(1) 19 (2) 18 (1) ABC EBD (2) ABC BED
(3) 21 (4) 19 (3) ACB DEB (4) ACB EDB

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40. In the given figure, ABC is an equilateral triangle 4 4

x y
having area a. P is the mid-point of AC from which 43. If 47, where x and y are positive real
a perpendicular PQ is drawn on BC. If ar(PQC) = b, y x
b x y
then is equal to numbers, then is equal to
a y x
A
(1) 5 (2) 3 3

P 2
(3) 3 (4) 4 5
5

44. If k 1 x 2 x 1 , then k is equal to

B C
Q
1 1 (1) 2x 3 2 ( x 1)( x 2)
(1) (2)
2 4
1 1 (2) 2x 3 2 ( x 1)( x 2)
(3) (4)
6 8
1 1
(3) 2x 3
41. If x 3 3 3 3, then 3x3 9x equal to
1 1
(4) x 2 x 1
(1) 9 (2) 3 3 3 3

45. In the given figure, by which congruence rule is

(3) 10 (4) 0 ABC DCB?
42. In the given figure, ABCD is a kite with AD > AB. If O A D
is the point of intersection of diagonals AC and BD
40 40
OD E
and OB = OC = = 2 cm, then ar(ABCD) equals 60
2
B 30
B C
(1) RHS (2) SAS
A C
O (3) SSS (4) AAS

46. Which of the following is not true?

(1) Every rhombus is a kite

D (2) Every rectangle is a parallelogram

(1) 6 cm2 (2) 24 cm2 (3) Every square is a rectangle
(3) 16 cm2 (4) 12 cm2 (4) Every trapezium is a parallelogram

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47. x3 y3 is equal to 51. In the given figure, if AB = AC, then the relation
between x, y and z is
(1) (x + y) (x2 + y2 + xy)

(2) (x y) (x2 + y2 xy) A

(3) 3
x2
3 2
y2 z
40

x y
3 3 3 3 70
(4) x2 y2 x2 y2 B D E C

48. Which of the following statements is incorrect? (1) z = y + x (2) y = z + x

(1) A median of a triangle divides it into two triangles (3) x = y + z (4) z = 2x y

of equal areas
52. In the given figure, if PQRS is a parallelogram, then
(2) Area of a triangle is double the product of its ABCD must be a
base and one-fourth of the corresponding altitude

(3) Triangles on the same base and between the S C R

same parallels are congruent to each other
D
(4) Two congruent triangles have equal areas but the
converse may not be true O
B

49. If x 0.1234 , y 0.1234 and z 0.1234 , then P A Q

which of the following is correct?
(1) Parallelogram (2) Rhombus
(1) x > y > z
(3) Rectangle (4) Square
(2) y < z

(3) z > x 1 1 1
53. If 0 , where a, b and c are non-zero real
a b c
(4) x > z > y

50. Cube root of x3 + 3x2 + 3x + 1 is equal to a2 b2 c 2 ab bc ca

numbers, then is equal
(a b c )2
(1) x 3
to
(2) x 1

(3) x + 1 (1) 2 (2) 2

(4) x + 1 (3) 1 (4) 1

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54. In the given figure, if ABCD is a parallelogram of area 58. In the given figure, if ar(OAD) = ar(OBC), then the sum
16 cm2, then the length of EC is of the measures of OAD and ADO is equal to
E D C
A B 30

F O
m
4c
D C 40
A B
(1) 70 (2) 140
(1) 4 cm (2) 2 2 cm
(3) 110 (4) 120
(3) 4 2 cm (4) 8 cm 59. ABCD is a rectangle having length (x + 1) and
breadth (x 1). If P, Q, R and S are the mid-points

55. If a 125

1
9 5 1
3
4

125 9 , then the value of a is
of sides AB, BC, CD and DA respectively, then the
perimeter of quadrilateral PQRS is

(1) 2 (2) 5 4 x ( x 2 1)
(1)
(3) 3 (4) 2 x

1 2 2
4x 2 1
(2)
56. can be written as 2
1 2
(3) 2 4 x 2 1
(1) 32 (2) 23
(4) 2 2( x 2 1)
(3) 2 3 (4) 3 2
57. In the given figure, if CD = AC, AD || BC and 60. In the given figure, AC || BE, ar(ADC) = 9 cm2 and
BA || CD, then DAP is equal to ar(ACE) = 6 cm2, then the area of quadrilateral
ABCD is
A B
P
A D

B C D C E
(1) 3 cm2 (2) 15 cm2
(1) 2 (2) 90
(3) 90 + (4) (3) 9 cm2 (4) 12 cm2

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ANSWERS
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