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PART A

Questions 1 10 : Fill in the blanks with the most grammatically correct and meaningful
option from those provided :

1. I do not like sitting _________ him in the class as he talks a lot.

A) along B) by C) besides D) beside

2. The principal asked us ________ the school until5 Oclock.

A) not to stay B) not to leave
C) dont leave D) shall not leave

3. He was told to __________ the pace of his work.

A) advance B) accelerate
C) increasing D) speeded up

4. The accident took place early __________.

A) today morning B) at the morning
C) morning of today D) this morning

5. He is the kindest and ____________ of all my friends.

A) the generest B) more generouser
C) most generous D) the generous

6. The epidemic broke out last winter and did not die _______ for many months.
A) out B) down C) off D) away

7. Did you not __________him yesterday ?

A) met B) meet C) seeing D) meat

8. Has the bell __________ ?

A) rang B) ringing C) rung D) ringed

9. I wish you could stay here _________ days longer.

A) few B) a few
C) the few D) fewer more

10. A word that is no longer in use is said to be ________.

A) exotic B) ancient C) primitive D) obsolete
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11. The correct match for the items in List 1 with those in List 2.
List-1 List-2
(1) Bhupen Hazarika (i) Tamil
(2) Shivaji Ganeshan (ii) Malayali
(3) Satyajit Ray (iii) Bengali
(4) Adoor Gopalkrishnan (iv) Assamese
A) 1-i, 2-ii, 3-iii, 4-iv
B) 1-ii, 2-i, 3-iii, 4-iv
C) 1-iv, 2-i, 3-iii, 4-ii
D) 1-iii, 2-ii, 3-i, 4-iv

12. Which actor is known as Bharat Kumar for his acting in patriotic theme based films ?
A) Shashi Kapoor B) Akshay Kumar
C) Manoj Kumar D) Pran

13. If 45*15=30, 17*7=10, then what will be the value of 52*25 ?

A) 77 B) 27 C) 50 D) 45

14. Gary Sobers belonged to the

A) Australian Cricket team
B) New Zealand Cricket team
C) South Africa Cricket team
D) West Indies Cricket team

15. In a certain code language SUPPORTERS is written as 8780. How will

INEVITABLE be written in that code language ?
A) 5940 B) 5841
C) 5742 D) 5040

16. What color flag is flown by ships carrying persons with infectious diseases ?
A) Yellow B) Black
C) White D) Purple

17. World Environment Day is celebrated on

A) June 15 B) June 26
C) June 05 D) July 01
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18. By selling a calculator in Rs. 418, a shopkeeper makes a profit of 10%. The cost
price of the calculator is __________
A) Rs. 360.00 B) Rs. 372.80
C) Rs. 376.20 D) Rs. 380.00

19. Next number in the following pattern will be

21, 9, 21, 11, 21, 13, 21, ?

A) 15 B) 17 C) 23 D) 25

20. The first Union Minister of Education in independent India was

A) Vallabhbhai Patel B) B.R. Ambedkar
C) Abul Kalam Azad D) Jagjivan Ram

21. The headquarter of the BRICS Bank is located at

A) Mumbai B) Sao Paulo
C) Beijing D) Shanghai

22. A computer cannot boot if it does not have the

A) Compiler B) Operating System
C) Loader D) Assembler

23. Mrichchhakatika was written by

A) Vikramaditya B) Shudraka
C) Kalhana D) Banabhatta

24. Jog Waterfall the highest waterfall in India, is located in the state of
A) Odisha
B) Karnataka
C) West Bengal
D) Maharashtra

25. Dada Saheb Phalke award has not been awarded to

A) Mr. Manoj Kumar
B) Ms. Sitara Devi
C) Mr. B.R. Chopra
D) Mr. Shashi Kapoor
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PART B

26. Which of the following statement is correct for NaCl crystal structure ?
A) It is a simple cubic lattice with one ion basis
B) It is face-centred cubic lattice with two ions basis
C) It is a simple cubic lattice with two ions basis
D) It is a body centred cubic lattice with two ions basis

27. The first derivative of Fermi-Dirac distribution function with respect to energy is a
A) Dirac delta function B) Gaussian function
C) Lorentzian function D) Step function

28. Which of the following theorem allows us to convert line integral to surface integral
or vice-versa ?
A) Stokes theorem B) Gausss theorem
C) Greens theorem D) Blochs theorem

29. The half-life and mean-life of a radioactive element, whose decay constant is
4.28 104 per year, are respectively
A) 365 years and 1619 years B) 1619 years and 2336 years
C) 2336 years and 1619 years D) 2336 years and 365 years

30. In Newtons rings experiment diameter of 9th dark ring is 3 mm. The diameter of this
ring when placed a liquid of refractive index 1.44 between the lens and glass plate is
A) 3.6 mm B) 3.0 mm C) 2.5 mm D) 2.1 mm

31. Which of the following statement is true for nuclear forces ?

A) They are charge dependent B) They are gravitational
C) They are long range D) They are spin-dependent

32. 10Ne23 decays into 11Na23 by emitting a beta particle. If the atomic masses of Ne23
and Na23 are 22.994466 u and 22.989770 u, respectively; the maximum energy of
emitted electrons would be
A) 4.37 MeV B) 5.31 MeV
C) 9.31 MeV D) 1 MeV

33. The packing fraction of diamond with face centred structure is

A) 74% B) 34% C) 52% D) 68%
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34. The minimum thickness of a half wave plate of doubly refracting crystal ( 0 = 1.55

and E = 1.54) for a light of wavelength 6000 is

A) 1.0 105 m B) 1.2 105 m C) 3.0 105 m D) 6.0 105 m

35. A light of wavelength 5000 is incident perpendicularly on a plane grating having

2540 lines per one inch. Maximum number of spectrum that can be seen with this
arrangement is
A) 2 B) 5 C) 10 D) 20

36. An oscillating voltage V(t) = Vosin t is applied across a parallel plate capacitor

with plate separation d. The displacement current density through the capacitor is
A) (o o sin t)/d




B) (Vo o cos t)/d

C) (Vo sin t)/d

D) ( oVosin t)/d

37. The Miller indices of a plane which intercepts at a, b/2 and 3c in a simple cubic unit
cell, are
A) (3, 6, 1) B) (1, 

, 3) C) (1, 2, 1/3) D) (1, 2, 3)

38. The planes (1, 1, 2) and (2, 2, 4) are

A) Perpendicular to each other B) Intersecting each other at 60
C) Intersecting each other at 45 D) Parallel to each other

39. Which of the following plane will not be observed in diffraction from a face centred
cubic structure ?
A) (1, 1, 1) B) ( 2, 2, 0) C) (1, 1, 0) D) (2, 0, 0)

40. The output voltage across the load resistance of an inductor filter connected to a
bridge rectifier shows a dc value of 20 V and a peak-to-peak ripple voltage of 1 V.
The value of the ripple factor is
A) 0.5 B) 0.354 C) 1.77 D) 0.0177

41. A transistor having = 0.99 is used in a common-base amplifier. If the load

resistance is 4.5 k and the dynamic resistance of the emitter junction is 50 , the

voltage gain of the amplifier is

A) 89.1 B) 88.2 C) 99 D) 97.5

42. The binary equivalent of 13.65625 is

A) 1101.111 B) 11010.01 C) 1101.10101 D) 1101
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43. To add two m-bit numbers, the number of required half adders is
A) 2m 1 B) 2m C) 2m 1 D) 2m + 1

44. The number of bits in a nibble is

A) Two B) Four C) Eight D) One

45. The slew rate of an ideal OP amp is

A) 1 V/s B) Zero
C) Infinite D) 0.707 V/s

46. Two cars are travelling towards each other on a straight road at velocities 10 m/s
and 12 m/s respectively. When they are 150 m apart, both drivers apply their brakes
and each car decelerates at 2 m/s2 until it stops. The distance between the cars when
they have both come to a stop will be
A) 25 m B) 36 m C) 61 m D) 89 m

47. A cord is used to lower vertically a block of mass M by a distance d at a constant

acceleration of g/4. The work done by the cord on the block is
A) Mgd B) (3/4)Mg C) (3/4)Mgd D) Mg

48. Two bodies of masses 10 kg and 2 kg are moving with velocities (2i 7j + 3k) m/s
and ( 10i + 35j 3k) m/s respectively, the velocity of the centre of mass is
A) 2k m/s B) 2j m/s C) 2i m/s D) Zero

49. A uniform thin bar of mass 3 kg and length 0.9 m is bent to make an equilateral
triangle. The moment of inertia about an axis passing through the centre of mass and
perpendicular to the plane of the triangle is
A) 0.0075 kgm2 B) 0.045 kgm2
C) 0.015 kgm2 D) 0.577 kgm2

50. The velocity of a particle at which its mass become twice of its rest mass is
A) c B) 0.707 c C) 0.866 c D) 0.5 c

51. The energy of the first excited quantum state of a particle in the one-dimensional
potential V = 2mw 2x2 is
A)

B) 3/2

C)

D) 3

52. The commutator [x2, Px] is

A) 2i

B) 2i x

C) 2i xPx

D) 2i x2Px

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53. If a particle of charge e and mass m moving with speed enters a magnetic field B 0

perpendicular to its direction of motion, it will move in a circular orbit of radius r,

then
A) r is directly proportional to e/m and B0
B) r is inversely proportional to e/m and B0
C) r is directly proportional to e/m and inversely proportional to B0
D) r is inversely proportional to e/m and directly proportional to B0

54. The Poynting vector has the dimension of

A) Energy / Area B) Power / (Charge Volume)
C) Energy / (Charge Volume) D) Power / Area

  

 

55. The eigen values of the matrix 

  

are


  

 

A) 2, 1, 0 B) 1, 1, 1 C) 1, 1, 0 D) 3, 0, 0

56. The equation of the plane that is tangent to the surface xyz 8 = 0 at the point
(1, 2, 4) is
A) x + 2y + 4z 12 = 0 B) 4x + 2y + z 12 = 0
C) x + 4y + 2 = 0 D) x + y + z 12 = 0

57. A 3 3 matrix A has Trace [A] = 5. Which of the following can be a possible set of
eigen values of A ?
A) (2, 1, 4) B) (1, 0, 4) C) (2, 3, 4) D) (2, 3, 4)

58. Give that , the value of H2(0) is

n


2 t x
t

H ( x )
e

n

n !

n  0

A) 2 B) 1 C) 2 D) 1

59. Which one of the following sets corresponds to fundamental particles ?

A) quark, electron and meson
B) proton, electron and photon
C) electron, photon and neutrino
D) proton, electron and neutron
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60. The number of ways in which N identical bosons can be distributed in three different
energy levels, are
A) (N+1)(N+2)/2 B) (N+2)/3
C) (N+1)/2 D) (2N+3)

61. Hydrogen atom in the ground state absorbs a 12.09 eV photon. If the ionization
energy of the hydrogen in the ground state is 13.6 eV, the final state of the electron is
A) 5 B) 4 C) 2 D) 3

62. The electric and magnetic field amplitudes associated with an electromagnetic

radiation from a point source behave at a distancer from the source as

A) E = constant, B = constant B) E 1/r, B 1/r

C) E 1/r, B 1/r2 D) E 1/r2, B 1/r3

63. In a He-Ne laser, the laser transition takes place in

A) He only B) Ne first, then in He
C) Ne only D) He first, then in Ne

64. Order of free electron concentration in case of metal is

A) 1028 / m3 B) 1022 / m3 C) 1010 / m3 D) 104 / m3

65. The radius of a nucleus is measured to be 5.2 1014 cm, then the radius of a
$ "

+ K

'

nucleus can be found of the order

%

M g

A) 4 1014 cm B) 3 1014 cm
C) 3.9 1014 cm D) 4.2 1014 cm

66. A test charge is moving without experiencing any force at a certain point under the

magnetic field and velocity, , then electric field at that





 

 

B  B  j  k

   i  j





 

 

point is

A) B)

 

 

B  i  j  k

B   i  j  k

 

 





 

 

C) D)
   

B   i  j  k
B   i  j  k

   




   

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67. If z = ii and i = , then z is


A) Imaginary number B) Real

C) Complex number D) Not defined

68. A 27 g radioactive material was found only 1 g after 1 hour. If the measurement
would have been done 20 minutes before, how much material would have been found ?
A) 12 g B) 9 g C) 15 g D) 3 g

69. The ratio of the root mean square speed to the most probable speed of the molecule
of an ideal gas is
A) 3 : 2 B) 2 : 3 C) 2 : 
D) 1 : 2

70. The number of minima between the adjacent principal maxima in a diffraction pattern
produced by a N parallel slits of equal width and separation is
A) N B) N + 1 C) N 1 D) 2N + 1

71. Root mean square speed of an ideal gas is

A) inversely proportional to square root of molecular weight
B) directly proportional to square root of molecular weight
C) inversely proportional to square root of temperature
D) directly proportional to square root of density

72. The number of molecules in one meter3 volume of oxygen at N.T.P. is

A) 2.69 1023 B) 2.69 1024 C) 2.69 1025 D) 2.69 1026

73. The average kinetic energy of a monoatomic ideal gas molecule at Kelvin temperature
T is

A) B) C) D)
1 3 5 7

k T k T k T k T

2 2 2 2

74. A jar has a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen in volume ratio 1:5. The ratio of the
mean kinetic energies of hydrogen and oxygen molecules is
A) 1:16 B) 1:1 C) 1: 4 D) 1:5

75. The critical temperature of a real gas is

A) B) C) D)
= % = & =

% > 4 & > 4 % > 4

% > 4

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76. The phenomenon of adiabatic demagnetisation is used to

A) Demagnetise a magnet B) Generate electricity
C) Purify a gas D) Produce very low temperature

77. Temperature is a
A) Microscopic concept B) Macroscopic concept
C) Space-time concept D) Time concept

78. If molar heat capacity of a gas at constant pressure (Cp) is 4.97 cal/(mol-K), then
molar heat capacity of a gas at constant volume (Cv) in cal/(mol-K) is
A) 0.97 B) 2.97 C) 4.97 D) 5.97

79. The second law of thermodynamics implies that

A) Whole of the heat can be converted into work
B) No heat engine can be 100% efficient
C) The Carnot engine is 100% efficient
D) A refrigerator can produce a temperature of 0 K

80. When heat flows from a body at a high temperature to a body at low temperature, the
total entropy of the system as a whole
A) Decreases B) Increases
C) Remains unchanged D) Becomes zero

81. The Gausss law for electrostatics can be mathematically represented as

A) D . d S
Q

e n c
B) D = Qenc

C)

D . d S
Q

e n c
D)

E . d S
Q

e n c

82. Two concentric hollow sphere of radii R1 and R2 (R1 > R2) have respective charges
Q1 and Q2 distributed uniformly over their surfaces. The electric flux density D at a
Gaussian surface of radius r such that R1 > r > R2, will be

A) B) C) D)
3 3


3 3

"
4 "
4

"
H "
H

83. For scalar field V and vector field A, the div (VA) will be
A) V div A B) V div A + A. div V
C) V div A + A. grad V D) Zero
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84. Two parallel wires carry current along opposite directions. The resultant force
experienced by the two wires is
A) Repulsive B) Zero C) Attractive D) Infinite

85. Maxwell inserted the expression for displacement current JD in Amperes law to satisfy
A) Amperes law for time varying case B) Faradays law
C) Gausss Law D) Equation of continuity

86. An electromagnetic wave has electric field component along y-direction and
magnetic field component along x-direction. The electromagnetic wave is propagating
along
A) x-direction B) y-direction C) z-direction D) z-direction

87. If the frequency of light in a photoelectric experiment is doubled, the stopping

potential will
A) Be doubled B) Be halved
C) Become more than double D) Become less than double

88. The equation E = pc (where E is energy, p is momentum and c being the speed of
light) is valid
A) For an electron as well as for a photon
B) For an electron but not for a photon
C) For a photon but not for an electron
D) Neither for an electron nor for a photon

89. A proton and an electron are accelerated by the same potential difference. Let

and

F
denote the de Broglie wavelengths of the electron and proton respectively. Then
A)

A


F
B)

A


F
C)

A


F
D)

A


90. The wavelength of radiation emitted when He+ makes a transition from the state n=3
to the state n=2, is
A) 154.0 nm B) 164.0 nm C) 174.0 nm D) 0

91. X-ray beam can be deflected

A) By an electric field
B) By a magnetic field
C) By an electric field as well as by a magnetic field
D) Neither by an electric field nor by a magnetic field
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92. After how much time constants the charge on the capacitor of RC circuit will become
99% of steady state ?
A) 1.6 B) 2.6 C) 3.6 D) 4.6

93. If the intensity of magnetic field at a point is B = (x+3y)i + (y2y)j + (x+by)k Tesla.
For what value of b, above statement is correct ?
A) 2 B) 0 C) 1 D) 2

94. Due to a change of 10 ampere current in a coil during 0.1 second, an emf of 25 mV is
induced in another coil placed nearby. The mutual inductance of the coil is
A) 1 H B) 103 H
C) 25 103 H D) 25 105 H

95. Phase velocity of a wave varies on wavelength in a medium as follows v = a/ ,

where a is a constant. Group velocity should be

A) v/2 B) v C) 3v/2 D) 2v

96. A damping free harmonic oscillator has zero damping coefficient. Its quality factor
should be

A) 0 B) 

C) 1 D)

97. Which of the following relations is fourth Maxwells equation ?

A)

S /
P 

6


V /
T 

2
B)

T /
P 

5


V /
S 

C)

S /
V 

6


V /
T 

8
D)

T /
V 

5
 

P /
S 

98. Impedance of free space for electromagnetic wave is

A) 37.7 ohm B) 100 ohm C) 120 ohm D) 377 ohm

99. Which one of the following functions is not the eigen function of operator
/
x
?
A) sin 3x B) cos 4x C) 5x2 D) 3e5x

100. Equivalent focal length of Ramsdens eyepiece is 7.5 cm. The focal lengths of the
lenses used are
A) 7.5 cm B) 10.0 cm C) 15.0 cm D) 20.0 cm

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SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK

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