KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN KOLKATA REGION

PRE-BOARD EXAMINATION 2020-21

CLASS –XII
SUBJECT: CHEMISTRY
TIME: 3HRS M.M.-70

General Instruction:
Read the following instructions carefully.
a) There are 33 questions in this question paper. All questions are compulsory.
b) Section A: Q. No. 1 to 2 are case-based questions having four Assertion- Reason or MCQ
type based on given passage each carrying 1 mark.
c) Section A: Question 3 to 16 are MCQs and Reason Assertion type questions carrying 1
mark each
d) Section B: Q. No. 17 to 25 are short answer questions and carry 2 marks each.
e) Section C: Q. No. 26 to 30 are short answer questions and carry 3 marks each.
f) Section D: Q. No. 31 to 33 are long answer questions carrying 5 marks each.
g) There is no overall choice. However, internal choices have been provided.
h) Use of calculators and log tables is not permitted.

Sl. SECTION-A (OBJECTIVE TYPE) Marks

No. QUESTION
1 Read the passage given below and answer the following questions:
Colloidal solutions exhibit various properties like colligative properties, tyndall effect,
colour, Brownian movement, charge, electrophoresis, coagulation etc. The colligative
properties of colloidal solution are different from the true solution. Tyndall effect is
used to distinguish between a colloidal and true solution. The two factors, charge
and solvation of the colloidal particles make the colloidal sols stable.

In the following questions (i) to (iv) a statement of assertion is followed by a

statement of reason. Choose the correct answer out of the following choices.
A) Assertion and reason both are correct statements and reason is correct
explanation for assertion.
B) Assertion and reason both are correct statements but reason is not correct
explanation for assertion.
 C) Assertion is correct statement but reason is wrong statement.
D) Assertion is wrong statement but reason is correct statement.
i) Assertion: The values of colligative properties of colloidal solutions are of small 1
order as compared to values shown by true solutions.
Reason: Colloidal particles form bigger aggregates.
ii) Assertion: Colloidal solutions do not show Brownian motion. 1
Reason: Brownian motion is responsible for the stability of the sols.
iii) Assertion: Fe3+ ion can be used for coagulation of As2S3 sol. 1
Reason: Fe3+ ion reacts with As2S3 to give Fe2S3.
iv) Assertion: The stability of lyophobic sols is due to the presence of charge on the 1
colloidal particles.
Reason: Colloidal particles exhibit tyndall effect.
OR
Assertion: Aqueous gold colloidal solution is red in colour.
Reason: The colour rises due to scattering of light by colloidal gold particles.
2 Read the passage given below and answer the following questions:
An alkyl halide with β-hydrogen atoms when reacts with a base or a nucleophile
has two competing routes: Substitution (S N
1
or S N
2
) and elimination. The route
which will be taken up depends upon the nature of the alkyl halide, strength, and
size of the base/nucleophile and reaction conditions. Thus a bulkier nucleophile will
prefer to act as a base and abstract a proton rather than approaching a tetravalent
carbon atom (steric reason) and vice versa. A primary alkyl halide will prefer a SN2
reaction, a secondary halide- SN2 or elimination depending upon the strength of
base/nucleophile and a tertiary halide- SN1 or elimination depending upon the
stability of carbocation or the more substituted alkene.
i) 1. Name the major product formed when 2-Bromopropane is heated with 1
concentrated solution of alcoholic (ethanolic) KOH.
a) CH3CH2CH2OH
b) CH3CH(OH)CH3
c) CH3CH=CH2
d) None of these
1
ii) In the reaction between alkyl halide and sodium alkoxide to form ether, it involves
SN2 attack of an alkoxide ion on alkyl halide. Ethers containing secondary or
tertiary alkyl groups can also be prepared. Better results are obtained if the alkyl
halide is
a) Primary
b) Secondary
c) Tertiary
d) None of these.
iii) Which one is the most reactive towards SN1reaction? 1
a)C6H5CH2Br
b) C6H11Cl
c) C6H11(CH2)Cl
d) CH3(CH2)5- Cl
iv) Identify the major product in the reaction of (CH3)3C-Br with CH3ONa. 1
a) CH3-C(CH3)=CH2
b) (CH3)3C-OCH3
c) CH3OH
d) None of these
OR
Identify the major product in the reaction of 2-Bromobutane with alcoholic KOH
a) CH2=CH-CH2-CH3
b) CH3-CH=CH-CH3
c) CH3CH2CH2CH3
d) None of these

Following questions (No. 3 -11) are multiple choice questions carrying 1

mark each:
3 Which one of the following is not correct for an ideal solution? 1

a) It must obey Raoult’s law.

b)∆H=0
c) ∆V=0
d) ∆H=∆V ≠ 0
1
 Which of the following ion is coloured?
4 a)Sc3+
b)Zn2+
c)Ti4+
d)Ti3+
OR
Which of the following pairs are similar in their atomic sizes?
a) Ti and Zr
b) Ni and Pt
c) Nb and Ta
d) None of these
5 The magnetic moment of a divalent ion of an element having atomic number 25 in 1
aqueous solution is
a)4.9 BM
b)5.92 BM
c)3.87 BM
d) None of these.
OR
Identify the element which is not d-block element.
a) Mo
b) Lu
c) Cu
d) Pd
6 The structure of [Ni(CO)4] is 1

a)Square planar
b)Tetrahedral
c)Pyramidal
d)Octahedral
OR
Which of the following complex ion is diamagnetic?
a)[CoF6]3-
 b) [NiCl4]2-
c) [Ni(CN)4]2-
d) None of these.
7 Which of the following molecule is achiral? 1
a)2-Chlorobutane
b)2,2-dichlorobutane
c) Bromochloroiodomethane
d)2-bromobutane
8 Which of the following alcohol contains C sp3 - OH bond? 1
a)Allylic alcohol
b)Vinylic alcohol
c)Phenols
d) None of these.
9 The reagent used with phenol in Reimer-Tiemann reaction is 1
a) Chloroform and hydrazine
b)NaOH and CO2
c)Conc.HNO3 and conc.H2SO4
d)Chloroform and aqueous NaOH
10 Methylamine reacts with HNO2 to form 1
a)CH3-O-N=O
b) CH3-O-CH3
c) CH3OH
d) CH3CHO
11 Name the reagent required for carrying out of the following reaction. 1
CHO-(CHOH)4-CH2OH CH3-(CH2)4-CH3
a) HF
b) HCl
c) HI
d) HBr
 OR
Name the linkage present in polysaccharides.
a) Peptide bond
b) Glycosidic linkage
c) Phosphodiester linkage
d) None of these.
In the following questions (Q. No. 12 - 16) a statement of assertion followed by
a statement of reason is given. Choose the correct answer out of the following
choices.
A) Assertion and reason both are correct statements and reason is correct
explanation for assertion.
B) Assertion and reason both are correct statements but reason is not correct
explanation for assertion.
C) Assertion is correct statement but reason is wrong statement.
D) Assertion is wrong statement but reason is correct statement.
12 Assertion: Nitric acid and water form maximum boiling azeotrope. 1
Reason: Azeotropes are binary mixtures having the same composition in liquid and
vapour phase.
OR
Assertion: Na2SO4 is soluble in water while BaSO4 is insoluble.
Reason: Hydration energy of BaSO4 exceeds its lattice energy.
13 Assertion: EDTA is a hexadentate ligand. 1
Reason: Denticity of a ligand is given by number of lone pairs donated to central
atom by a ligand.
14 Assertion: Alcohol is more acidic than phenol. 1
Reason: Carboxylic acid is more acidic than phenol.
15 Assertion: The compounds containing methyl ketone (–COCH3) respond to iodoform 1
test.
Reason: Ethyl alcohol also undergo iodoform test.
16 Assertion: Aromatic 10amine cannot be prepared by Gabriel phthalimide synthesis. 1
Reason: Arylhalides do not undergo nucleophilic substitution with anion formed by
phthalimide.
 SECTION-B
The following questions, Q.No 17 – 25 are short answer type I and carry 2
marks each.
17 i) What type of stoichiometric defect is shown by 1+1=2
a) ZnS b) AgBr
ii) Arrange the following in increasing order of packing efficiency:
a) Simple cubic, b) Body centred cubic c) Hexagonal close packed lattice.
18 When 2.5 g of an unknown substance is dissolved in 100 g of nitrobenzene, the 2
freezing point of the solution is depressed by 2K. What is the molar mass of the
unknown substance? Given: Freezing point depression constant of nitrobenzene is
8.0K Kg mol .
-1

19 A reaction is second order with respect to a reactant ‘A‘ .How is the rate of this 1+1=2
reaction altered if the concentration of ‘A‘ is
(i) doubled (ii) reduced to half?
OR
a) Distinguish between between order and molecularity of a reaction.
b)Identify the reaction order from the value of rate constant given:
K= 2.3x10-5 Lmol-1s-1
20 Give reason: 1+1=2
a) The enthalpies of atomisation of the transition metals are high.
b) The transition metals form a large number of complex compounds.
21 [NiCl4]2-is paramagnetic while [Ni(CO)4] is diamagnetic though both are tetrahedral. 2
Explain why?
OR
a) Write the IUPAC name of [Co(NH3)5SO4]Br.
b) A metal ion M+n having d4 valence electronic configuration combines with three

didentate ligands to form a complex compound. Assuming Δo>P, write electronic 1+1=2

configuration of the valence shell electrons of the metal M+n ion in terms of t2g,
eg level.
22 a) Give a chemical reaction to distinguish between the following pair of organic 1+1=2
compounds: Pentan-2-one and pentan-3-one.
b) Give reason: Aromatic carboxylic acids do not undergo Friedel Crafts reaction.
23 a) How will you convert the following? 1+1=2
Propanone to Propene.
b) Write the reaction to represent “Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction”.
OR
a) Write reaction to illustrate the following name bearing reaction: “Clemmenson
reduction”.
b)Complete the following reaction: HCHO + HCHO + conc.KOH
24 Write the mechanism of the following : 2
Conc. H2SO4
CH3CH2OH CH2 = CH2 + H2O
443K
25 a) Arrange the following amines and ammonia in increasing order of their basic 1+1=2
strength in aqueous solution: (CH3)3N , (CH3)2NH , NH3 , CH3NH2.
b) How would you convert aniline to 4-nitro aniline?

SECTION C
Q.No 26 -30 are Short Answer Type II carrying 3 mark each.
26 An element with molar mass 63.5 g mol-1 forms a cubic unit cell with edge 3

length 3.6 x 10-8 cm. If its density is 8.97 g cm-3, what is the nature of the
cubic unit cell?
OR
Silver crystallizes in fcc lattice. If the edge length of the cell is 4.077 x 10-8 cm
and the density is 10.5g cm-3, calculate the atomic mass of silver.
27 Observe the graph and answer the following questions: 3
a) Predict the order of the reaction.
b) What is the slope of the graph in terms of k?
c) If the slope of the graph is -2.0 x106 s-1, what will be the value of the rate
constant?
 log[R]

Time (t) seconds

OR
A first order reaction is 60% completed in 100 minutes. How long will it take to
complete 90% of the reaction? Given log 2.5=0.3979,log10 =1.00.
28 a) Arrange the following in the order of property indicated: 1+1+1
HF, HCl, HI, HBr (Increasing acid strength). =3
Conc.H2SO4
b) Complete the reaction: C12H22O11
c) Give reason: High concentration of ozone can be dangerously explosive.
29 a) On what ground can you say that copper is a transition element in spite of 1+1+1
having completely filled d-orbital but zinc is not? =3
b) Give examples of compounds (one each) where transition metal exhibits
minimum and maximum oxidation states.
c) Second and third series of transition elements show similar atomic sizes.
30 a) State two points of differences between DNA and RNA. 1+1+1
b) Name the forces which are responsible for the stability of secondary and tertiary =3
structure of protein.
c) The structure of amino acid alanine is CH3CH(COOH)(NH2). Represent alanine
in zwitter ionic form.

SECTION D
Q.No 31 to 33 are long answer type carrying 5 marks each.
31 a) By which units the the specific and molar conductances are expressed? 1+4=5

b) A voltaic cell is set up at 250Cwith the following half cells: Al3+(0.001M) and
Ni2+(0.50M).Write an equation for the reaction that occurs when the cell generates
an electric current and determine the cell potential.(Given; E0Ni2+ / Ni = - 0.25V,
E0Al3+/Al = - 1.66V
 OR
a) State one application of Kohlrausch’s law of independent migration of ions.

b) The values of Λ0m for NH4Cl, NaOH and NaCl at infinite dilution are respectively
1+2+2
-1 2 -1
129.8, 248.1 and 126.4 ohm cm mol . Calculate Λ0m of NH4OH.
=5
c) How would you construct “Standard Hydrogen Electrode”?
32 a) Chlorine water on standing loses its yellow colour, why? 1+1+3
b) Ozone acts as a powerful oxidising agent. Explain why? =5
c) Write the reactions involved for the preparation of nitric acid by Ostwald
process.
OR
a) Write the structures of the following: Peroxodisulphuric acid, Pyrosulphuric acid.
b) What happens when 2+2+1
i) Sulphur dioxide is passed through an aqueous solution of Fe (III) salt? =5
ii) Excess chlorine gas is passed through ammonia?
Write the reactions involved.
c) Name one poisonous gas which can be prepared from chlorine gas.
33 a) An organic compound ‘A’ having molecular formula C3H8O, on treatment with 3+2=5
copper at 573K, gives ‘B’. ‘B’ does not reduce Fehling’s solution but gives a yellow
precipitate of the compound ‘C’ with I2/NaOH. Deduce the structures of A, B & C.
Write the reactions involved.
b) Write the reactions to represent the following :
i) Rosenmund reduction ii) Cannizaro reaction.
OR
a) Give an example of the reaction for the formation of ‘Oxime’ .
b) Convert benzoic acid to meta-bromobenzoic acid.
c) Arrange the following in increasing order of reactivity in nucleophilic addition
reaction: Ethanal, Propanal, Propanone, Butanone. 1+1+1
d) Identify ‘A’ and ‘B’ from the following series of reactions: +2=5
NH3 Br2+ NaOH
a) CH3CH2COOH A B
Heat