SAMPLE QUESTIONS

ADSAT
(Allen Digital Scholarship Admission Test)

Pre-Nurture and Career Foundation Division

CLASS IX
(For Class IX moving to Class X)

READ THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY

Paper Instructions:
1. This paper is divided into two sections: Section-A & Section-B.

2. The questions appearing in Section-A are based on Mental Ability.

The questions appearing in Section-B are based on Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics.

3. In Section-A, there are 4 marks for each correct answer and no negative marking. There are 4 marks for
each correct answer and –1 negative marking for each wrong answer in Section-B.

4. Use of Calculator is Not Allowed.

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lead to disqualification.

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3. Ensure your microphone is on and there is no disturbance in the surrounding and you're sitting in a

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where exam is being attempted.

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5 Find out how many cubes are there in given

SECTION-A figure.
MENTAL ABILITY
This section contains 18 multiple choice
questions. Each question has 4 choices (1), (2),
(3) and (4) out of which ONLY ONE is
correct. There are 4 marks each for correct (1) 20 (2) 50
answer and there is NO negative marking. (3) 70 (4) 32
1 Study the following information carefully and
6 The four different positions of dice are given
answer the question given below :
below. Which number is on the face opposite to 6?
'A @ B' means 'A is sister of B'
'A % B' means 'A is son of B'
'A # B' means 'A is father of B'
'A $ B' means 'A is mother of B'
How is D related to W in the given expression?
T@Q%D$P#W
(1) 1 (2) 2
(1) Mother
(3) 3 (4) 4
(2) Grandfather
7 P is 9 m to the South of K. K is 5 m to the East of
(3) Grandmother
H. H is 4 m to the North of B. L is 3 m West of B.
(4) can’t determined D is 7 m South of L. G is 8 m East of D. How far
and in which direction is point K from Point G?
2 Study the following information carefully and
answer the question given below: (1) 11 m to the South
J is the only son of R. J is the brother of L. L’s (2) 7 m to the North
father-in-law is W. L’s son is K. K’s maternal
grandfather is D. W’s son is Q and M is the (3) 11 m to the North
daughter of Q. (4) 7 m to the West
How is M related to L?
(1) Sister
8 In the following question, you are given a figure
by four alternative figures (1), (2), (3) and (4) such
(2) Son that figure is embedded in one of them. Find out
the alternative figure which contains figure as its
(3) Brother
part.
(4) Daughter
3 If ROSE is coded as 6821. CHAIR is coded as
73456 and PREACH is coded as 961473, what
will be the code for SEARCH?
(1) 246173 (2) 214673
(3) 214763 (4) 216473
(1) (2)
4 How many triangles are there in the following
figure ?

(3) (4)

(1) 11 (2) 13 (3) 9 (4) 15

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9 What number should replace the question mark in 13 Select a figure from among the answer figures
the given figure? which will continue the same series as established
by the problem figure.

(1) (2)
(1) 8 (2) 14
(3) 10 (4) 6
10 Which of the following interchange of sign would (3) (4)
make the given equation correct?
5 + 3 × 8 – 12 ÷ 4 = 3 14 In the following number series how many such 7's
are there which are immediately preceded by an
(1) + and – (2) – and ÷ odd number and immediately followed by an even
number?
(3) + and × (4) + and ÷ 227139487654283574659786439
11 74652
Find the correct option for the mirror image of the
following given problem figure. (1) 1 (2) 4 (3) 2 (4) 3
15 In a row of boys, Haran is 11th from the left and
Manoj is 17th from the right. When they exchange
their places, the Haran will be 13th from the left.
What will be the new position of Manoj from the
right?
(1) 11th (2) 19th (3) 13th (4) 17th
16 Find the missing term.
1, 1, 2, 6, 24, ?, 720
(1) (2)
(1) 100 (2) 104 (3) 108 (4) 120
17 Find the venn diagram that show right relation
between CAR, WOOD, and MOUSE?
(3) (4)
(1) (2)
12 In the following question, you are given a
combination of alphabets and/or numbers
followed by four alternatives (1), (2), (3) and (4). (3) (4)
Choose the alternative which most closely
resembles the water image of the given
18 Which are those numbers that make their presence
combination. felt in only one of the geometric figures?

(1)

(2)
(3)
(1) 4, 6, 7 (2) 1, 2, 9
(4)
(3) 3, 7, 9 (4) 2, 3, 8

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24 The velocity- time graph of a body moving in a
SECTION-B straight line is shown in figure. The displacement
PHYSICS and distance travelled by the body in 6 seconds are
respectively
This section contains 10 multiple choice
questions. Each question has 4 choices (1), (2),
(3) and (4) out of which ONLY ONE is
correct.There are 4 marks each for correct
answer and –1 for each incorrect answer.
19 What happens to the inertia of an object when its
velocity is doubled ?
(1) The object's inertia becomes √ 2 times
greater.
(2) The object's inertia becomes 2 times greater. (1) 8 m,16 m (2) 16 m, 8 m

(3) The object's inertia becomes 4 times greater. (3) 16 m,16 m (4) 8 m, 8 m

(4) The object's inertia remains unchanged.

25 What will be the energy possessed by a stationary
object of mass 10 kg placed at a height of 20 m
20 A freely falling object falls through a height h in above the ground? (take g = 10 m/s2)
the nth second. What is the fall of height in the
(1) 2 J (2) 20 kJ
next second?
(1) h – g (3) 200 J (4) 2 k J

(2) hg
26 The v-t graph of a moving object is given in
figure. The maximum acceleration is
(3) h +g
(4) h
g
21 A stone is thrown vertically upward with an initial
velocity u from the top of a tower. It reaches the
ground with a velocity 3u. The height of the tower
is (1) 1 cm/s2 (2) 2 cm/s2 (3) 3 cm/s2 (4) 6 cm/s2
(1) 3u2 (2) 4u2 27 Acceleration-time graph for a particle moving in a
g g straight line is as shown in figure. Change in
(3) 6u2 (4) 9u2 velocity of the particle from t = 0 to t = 6 s is
g g
22 To reach the same height on the moon as on the
earth, a body must be projected with :
(1) Higher velocity on the moon
(2) Lower velocity on the moon (1) 10 m/s (2) 4 m/s (3) 12 m/s (4) 8 m/s

(3) Same velocity on the moon and earth 28 A body of mass 4 Kg at rest is acted upon by a
constant force of 20 N for 2 s and then the force is
(4) It depends on the mass of the body removed for next 2 seconds and finally it is
23 retarded uniformly at 2 m/s2 for 4 seconds.
You would have the largest mass of gold if your
What is the final momentum of the body after 8
chunk of gold weighed 1 N on seconds of its journey?
(1) Earth (2) Jupiter (1) 20 N-s (2) – 20 N-s
(3) the moon (4) can't say (3) – 40 N-s (4) 8 N-s
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35 How many electrons are present in the M shell of
CHEMISTRY
the atom of an element with atomic number 20 ?
This section contains 10 multiple choice
(1) 5 (2) 6
questions. Each question has 4 choices (1), (2),
(3) and (4) out of which ONLY ONE is (3) 11 (4) 8
correct.There are 4 marks each for correct 36 Which of the following is a correct representation
answer and –1 for each incorrect answer. of K+?
29 The boiling point of diethyl ether is 35ºC. What is
its value on Kelvin scale ?
(1) 70 K (2) 273 K (1) (2)
(3) 308 K (4) 309.15 K
30 Maximum surface area is available in which state
of matter ?
(1) Gas (2) Liquid
(3) (4)
(3) Solid (4) Plasma
31 Particles of which are visible by naked eyes
(1) True solution (2) Colloidal solution 37 The number of molecules in 35.5 g of chlorine gas
is
(3) Suspension (4) None of these
(1) 3.011 × 1023
32 Which of the following does not affect rate of
evaporation? (2) 6.022 × 1023
(1) Wind speed (3) 9.033 × 1023
(2) Surface area (4) 1.2044 × 1024
(3) Temperature 38 Which among the following fundamental particles
(4) Insoluble heavy impurities is not deflected by magnetic field?
33 The paper with coloured spots due to different (1) Proton
solubilities of coloured components is called
(2) Electron
(1) centrogram (2) chromatogram
(3) Neutron
(3) carbon paper (4) coloured paper
(4) Positron
34 What is represented by the follwing figure ?
BIOLOGY
This section contains 10 multiple choice
questions. Each question has 4 choices (1), (2),
(3) and (4) out of which ONLY ONE is
correct.There are 4 marks each for correct
answer and –1 for each incorrect answer.
(1) Comparison between compressibility of three
states of matter. 39 Which one is the mis-matched pair?
(2) Comparison between density of three states (1) Model of DNA – Watson and Crick
of matter.
(2) Golgi apparatus – Discovered by Altman
(3) Comparison between diffusion of three states
of matter. (3) Nucleus – Contains genetic material
(4) None of these (4) Cell wall – Dead & permeable
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40 Identify the acrocentric chromosome from the 43 Refer to the given figure and select the incorrect
given figure & choose the correct option
statement regarding it.

(1) (i) as the centromere is at the middle

(2) (ii) as the centromere is slightly away from
the middle point.
(3) (iii) as the centromere is near the end
(4) (iv) as the centromere is at the tip (i) A is the site of ribosome synthesis.
41 Select the incorrect pair out of the following. (ii) B transfer characteristics from parents to their
Type of offsprings.
Function
tissue (iii) C is the nuclear envelope with nuclear pore.
Storage, (iv) A contains DNA while B contains RNA.
(1) Parenchyma
photosynthesis (1) (i) and (ii) (2) (i), (ii) and (iii)
Mechanical (3) (ii) and (iii) (4) (iv) only
(2) Sclerenchyma
strength 44 Mitotic cell division occurs in
(3) Xylem Ascent of sap (1) germ cells (2) In all somatic cells
Conduction of (3) roots only (4) shoots only
(4) Phloem water and
45 Look at the figure given below and identify the
minerals correct statement about A, B, C from picture.
(1) 1
(2) 2
(3) 3
(4) 4
42 Neha observed the following observations while
looking into a permanent slide.
Cells are long and cylindrical
Light and dark bands are present giving striated
appearance
It would be a slide of :
(1) A is involved in increasing the girth of the
(1) skeletal muscle fibre plant.
(2) ligament (2) B is responsible for elongation of internodes.
(3) smooth muscle fibre (3) C increases the length of shoot and root.
(4) All of these (4) A, B, C are examples of complex tissue.

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46 Which one of the following organelles digests the 51 A school has strength of 2000 students. The
old organelles that are no longer useful to the following pie chart shows the interests of students
cells? in different subjects. The number of students
interested in Maths is
(1) Ribosomes (2) Mitochondria
(3) Lysosomes (4) Chromatin
47 ________ coined the term "cell".
(1) Robert brown (2) Robert Hooke
(3) Leeuwenhoek (4) Schwann
48 Robert Hooke published the discovery of the cell
in his book -
(1) The origin of life
(2) The physical basis of life (1) 700 (2) 200
(3) Micrographia (3) 600 (4) 500
(4) None of these 52 In figure, PQRS is a rhombus in which the
diagonal 'PR' is produced to T. If ∠ SRT = 152°,
MATHEMATICS find x and z respectively.
This section contains 12 multiple choice
questions. Each question has 4 choices (1), (2),
(3) and (4) out of which ONLY ONE is
correct.There are 4 marks each for correct
answer and –1 for each incorrect answer.
49 In figure, lines XY and MN intersect at O. If
∠ POY = 90° and a: b = 2 : 3. Find c.

(1) 62°, 28° (2) 28°, 62°

(3) 124°, 28° (4) None of these
53 A sum of Rs. 2500 is invested for 2 years at 20%
per annum, interest compounded half-yearly. Find
the compound interest.
(1) Rs. 3660.25 (2) Rs. 1660.25
(3) Rs. 1160.25 (4) Rs. 1330
(1) 18° (2) 36° 54 A and B started the business by putting Rs.12000
(3) 54° (4) 126° and Rs.16000 respectively, and after 8 months C
also joined 15,000 rupees. What is the share of C
50 The numerator of a fraction is 3 less than the from the benefit of Rs 45,600 after 2 years?
denominator. If 7 is added to the numerator, the
(1) Rs. 12000 (2) Rs. 12500
value of the fraction increases by 1. Assuming the
numerator to be x form an equation, then find the (3) Rs. 11500 (4) Rs. 11000
fraction.
55 (52)3 − (42)3
(1) 1 (2) 2 Simplify : .
52 × 52 + 52 × 42 + 42 × 42
7 7
(1) 10 (2) 20
(3) 3 (4) 4
7 7 (3) – 10 (4) – 20

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56 A plot of land is in the shape of a right angled 58 A dome of a building is in the form of a
isosceles triangle. The length of the hypotenuse is hemisphere. From inside, it was white washed at
50 m. The cost of fencing it at Rs. 3 per metre will the cost of ₹ 997.92. If the cost of white washing
be is 400 paise per square metre, then find the
(1) less than Rs. 300 22
volume of air inside the dome. (T ake π = )
7
(2) less than Rs. 400
(1) 83.16 m3 (2) 523.90 m3
(3) more than Rs. 500
(3) 425.20 m3 (4) None of these
(4) more than Rs. 600
59 The polynomials ax3 + 3x2 – 3 and 2x3 – 5x + a
57 In fig, if chords AB and CD of the circle intersect when divided by (x – 4) leaves remainders R1 and
each other at right angles, then find x + y.
R2 respectively then value of a if 2R1 – R2 = 0, is
(1) − 18 (2) 18
127 127
(3) 17 (4) − 17
127 31
60 If A(2, 2), B( – 4, – 4), C(5, – 8) are the vertices of
any triangle, the length of median passing through
C will be :
(1) √ 65 units (2) √ 117units
(3) √ 85units (4) √ 113units
(1) 45º (2) 60º (3) 75º (4) 90º

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OBJECTIVE

ANSWER KEY
Q. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
A. 3 4 2 2 1 1 3 3 3 2 3 4 1 4 2 4 2 2 4 3

Q. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
A. 2 2 3 1 4 4 2 4 3 3 3 4 2 1 4 1 1 3 2 3
Q. 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60

A. 4 1 4 2 1 3 2 3 4 4 1 1 3 1 1 3 4 2 2 3

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