Q&A: practice questions with answers

Concept: Look for the phrase linked to safety measures taken in advance.

1. Passage: 'safeguarding children… requires conscious effort'.
2. It is followed by locked cabinets, safe caps, labels – prevention steps.
3. Packaging and scents are dangers; 'accidental ingestion' is the accident itself.

Trick: Prevention = deliberate action → 'conscious effort'.

Answer: (A) Conscious effort

Concept: Find the word meaning 'harmful or dangerous'.

1. 'Hazardous' = risky, dangerous – used for mixed cleaning products.
2. Essential = necessary; Mild = gentle; Responsible = accountable.

Trick: Hazard = danger → hazardous = dangerous.

Answer: (B) Hazardous

Concept: Locate the reason given in paragraph 1.

1. The passage says bright packaging and pleasant scents attract young ones.
2. Chores, kitchens, or poor knowledge of symbols are not given as the reason.

Trick: In detail questions, choose the option that echoes passage words.

Answer: (B) They are attracted to colourful packaging and scents.

Concept: Canvass (verb) = seek opinions; also discuss thoroughly. Canvas (noun) = heavy cloth.

1. After 'will', a verb is needed → canvass households.
2. After 'will', again a verb with 'the issue' as object → canvass the issue.
3. 'Canvas' is a noun, so it fits neither blank.

Trick: Double 's' = doing (verb); single 's' = the cloth (noun).

Answer: (D) canvass, canvass

Concept: Duel (noun) = fight between two; Dual (adjective) = double.

1. 'a fierce ___' needs a noun → duel.
2. 'a ___ exhaust system' needs an adjective → dual.
3. 'Dule' is not a word – removes (C), (D).

Trick: Think 'dual SIM' (two parts) vs 'a duel is fought'.

Answer: (B) duel, dual

Concept: First word is a tool, second is the job it does.

1. Pen → used to write.
2. Knife → used to cut.
3. Sharp = quality, Steel = material, Food = thing cut – not the job.

Trick: Make a sentence: 'A pen is used to ___' – then fill the same blank for knife.

Answer: (A) Cut

Concept: With 20% profit, SP = 120% of CP.

1. 120% of CP = ₹900
2. $\text{CP}=900\times \frac{100}{120}=900\times \frac{5}{6}$
3. CP = ₹750

Trick: $20\%=\frac{1}{5}$ → SP is 6 parts, CP 5 parts: $900÷6\times 5=750$.

Answer: (C) ₹750

Concept: Terms are squares of consecutive numbers.

1. $4=2^2,9=3^2,16=4^2,25=5^2,36=6^2$
2. Next = $7^2=49$

Trick: Differences 5, 7, 9, 11 → next +13: $36+13=49$.

Answer: (D) 49

Concept: Apply each interchange and solve using BODMAS.

1. Given: $6+3\times 2-4=8\ne 16$.
2. Swap 4 and 2: $6+3\times 4-2=6+12-2=16$ ✓
3. Others: (A) $4+6-6=4$, (B) $6+3-8=1$, (D) $6+8-3=11$.

Trick: To raise 8 to 16, make the product bigger ($3\times 4$) and the subtraction smaller (−2).

Answer: (C) Interchange 4 and 2

Concept: Organ : the sense it gives.

1. Hand (skin) → touch.
2. Nose → smell.
3. Taste – tongue, See – eye, Hear – ear.

Yaad rakhein: Five senses: eye-sight, ear-hearing, nose-smell, tongue-taste, skin-touch.

Answer: (A) Smell

Concept: Terms are cubes of consecutive numbers.

1. $125=5^3,216=6^3,343=7^3,512=8^3,729=9^3$
2. Next = ${10}^3=1000$

Trick: Learn cubes 1–15: $2197={13}^3$, $2744={14}^3$ – they are traps.

Answer: (B) 1000

Concept: Each letter is written as its alphabet position.

1. N = 14, Q = 17, B = 2 ✓
2. 5 = E, 15 = O, 20 = T
3. So 5-15-20 = EOT.

Trick: Remember EJOTY: E5, J10, O15, T20, Y25.

Answer: (B) EOT

Concept: Check the letter part and the number part separately.

1. Letters: Z, Y, X, W → V (one step back).
2. Numbers: $1^3,2^3,3^3,4^3\to 5^3=125$.
3. Next term = V125.

Trick: Letter alone eliminates T125, S125 and U100 – done in 5 seconds.

Answer: (B) V125

Concept: Compare every field with the master address.

1. (A) PIN 700166 ✗
2. (B) Block DC ✗
3. (D) House no. 43 ✗
4. (C) matches fully ✓

Trick: Check numbers first (house no., PIN) – most errors hide there.

Answer: (C) 42, Sector III, Salt Lake City, Block AC, Kolkata - 700106

Concept: Compare each part with the master address.

1. (A) Shop 8 ✗
2. (C) Level 3 ✗
3. (D) PIN 422043 ✗
4. (B) identical ✓

Trick: Scan digits only: 7, 2, 422003 – the option with all three is the answer.

Answer: (B) Shop 7, Level 2, City Centre, Opposite Mall, Nashik - 422003

Concept: Find the common category of three words.

1. Eye, ear, nose = sense organs.
2. Lung = organ of breathing (respiratory system), not a sense organ.

Trick: Group by function: sensing vs breathing.

Answer: (D) lung

Concept: Action must match the evidence: suspicion, not proof.

1. No copying seen → harsh penalty (cancel paper) is unfair.
2. Confiscating or reporting is a later step if behaviour repeats.
3. A warning stops the problem and is fair to the student.

Trick: In such questions, first choose the mildest step that still fixes the problem.

Answer: (B) Warn them and ask them to take care further

Concept: Find the option holding the same lines at the same tilt (no rotation).

1. Question figure: a small arc on top, two lines crossing like an X, and a horizontal base.
2. In option (C) the two diagonals form the X, the upper arc closes the top and a horizontal edge closes the base, in the same proportions.

Trick: Lock on the most unusual part (the arc) first, then check the X and base around it.

Answer: (C)

Concept: Match the exact slant of each line; rotation is not allowed.

1. Question figure: two parallel lines rising to the right, cut by one line falling to the right.
2. Option (C) has two parallel rising chords crossed by one falling chord in the same way.
3. Other options lack the parallel pair or have different slants.

Trick: Count parallel lines first – it quickly removes wrong options.

Answer: (C)

Concept: Count in groups: inside the square, then the outside part.

1. Smallest pieces around the centre: 6 (top and right quarters are split in two).
2. Joined quarters (top, right): 2.
3. Half-squares cut by each diagonal: 4.
4. Outside wedge on the right: 3 (two small + one large).

Trick: Total = 6 + 2 + 4 + 3 = 15. A square with both diagonals alone always gives 8.

Answer: (B) 15