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General Aptitude
Q. No. 1 - 5 Carry One Mark Each
1. In the following the question choose the word which best expresses the opposite meaning of
the given word.
SOPORIFIC
(A) Sedative (B) Balmy (C) Conscious (D) Nodding
2. The term lead pencil is a____; pencils are filled with graphite not lead
(A) Misnomer (B) Peccadillo (C) Metaphor (D) Euphemism
3. Choose a pair that has most similar relationship to the given pair:
PLANE: AUSTERE
(A) Neutral: Detached (B) Clean: Sterile
(C) Lonely: Gloomy (D) Deserted: Barren
4. If P means 'add to', Q means 'multiply by', R means 'subtract from' and S means 'divide by'
then 30 S 2 P 3 Q 6 R 5 = ___________.
5. The ratio of the number of scientists and technicians in an organization is 7:8. If the
percentage increase in the number of scientists and technicians be 20% and 10% respectively.
What will be the new ratio?
(A) 21:22 (B) 46:47 (C) 31:32 (D) 6:7
Q. No. 6- 10 Carry Two Marks Each
6. In the question below a statement is given followed by two conclusions numbered I and II.
You have to assume everything in the statement to be true, then consider the two conclusions
together and decide which of them logically follows beyond a reasonable doubt from the
information given in the statement.
Statement:
In a recent survey report, it has been stated that those who undertake yoga and meditation for
at least half an hour a day are less prone to have any heart ailments.
Conclusions:
I. Moderate level of yoga and meditation is necessary for leading a healthy life.
II. All people who do desk-bound jobs definitely suffer from heart ailments.
(A) Only conclusion I follow (B) Only conclusion II follows
(C) Either I or II follows (D) Neither I nor II follows
7. A manufacturer of large truck engines recently developed a new engine with increased horse
power than the earlier engine put out by the company. During the last year, when both engines
were sold, the earlier engine outsold the new model by a factor of two to one. The
management of the truck engine manufacturer concluded that the company's customers do not
care about increased horse power.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion reached by the
management of the truck engine manufacturer?
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(A) Many types of customers buy this company's truck engines, including private truck
enthusiasts and commercial truck companies.
(B) A number of horse power increasing accessories for the earlier engine sold well during the
last year and these products are not yet available for the new engine.
(C) Many customers of this truck engine manufacturer also purchase truck engines from
companies that did not come out with a new, higher horse power, engine in the last year.
(D) The newer engine can be used in all the same trucks as the earlier engine.
8. A dishonest milkman professes to sell his milk at cost price but he mixes it with water and
there by gains 50%.The proportion of water and milk in the mixture is ________.
(A) 4:5 (B) 3:8 (C) 1:2 (D) 5:7
9. A man travelled a total distance of 1800 km. He travelled one-third of the whole trip by
plane and the distance travelled by train is three-fifth of the distance travelled by bus. If he
travelled by train, plane and bus, then the distance travelled by bus is ______km?
10. A Robot walks around a circular field at the rate of one round per hour while a man runs
around it at the rate of seven rounds per hour. They start in the same direction from the same
point at 11:30 a.m. They shall first cross each other at___________?
(A) 11:40 a.m (B) 11:35 a.m (C) 11:45 a.m (D) 11:50 a.m
Mechanical Engineering
Q. No. 1 to 25 Carry One Mark Each
1. The system of equations x + y + z = 0, 2x + y - 2z = 0 and x + 2y - 3z = 0 has trivial

solution only for =______
(A) -7 (B) 7
(C) Any real value except -7 (D) Any real values except 7
2. In a city, 6% of all drivers get at least one parking ticket per year, then the probability the
among 80 drivers,4 drivers will get at least one parking ticket in a year is____(up to three
decimal places)
2
sin x
3. 1 cos
0
3
x
dx ________.

x2
4. (ax b)dx x 2 x1 0 is evaluated analytically as well as Numerically by the Trapezoidal
x1
Rule. If I is the exact value of the integral obtained analytically and J is the approximate value
obtained using the trapezoidal Rule, which of the following statement is correct about their
relationship.
(A) J I
(B) J I
(C) J I
(D) Insufficient Data to determine the relationship.
2
x 2 y2
5. The value of the integral F.dr; where C is the boundary of ellipse 1 oriented
c
a 2 b2
yi x j
Anti-clockwise and F is _________.
x 2 y2
6. Universal testing machine (UTM) can be used to perform

(A) Compression test (B) Impact test
(C) Torsion test (D) All of the above.
7. As shown in figure roughness between rod and block is present all other contacts are smooth.
If contact force at end A is 50 N and whole system is at rest then tension in the string is
50N
A rod
string
30
(A) 20 N (B) 25 N (C) 30 N (D) None of these
8. Primary crank of an engine with radius 1 m rotating at 250 revolutions per minute has
equivalent reciprocating mass representation at the crank pin. For secondary force
representation of same mass, secondary crank must
(A) Rotate 250 rpm at radius > 0.5 m
(B) Rotate 500 rpm at radius < 0.25 m
(C) Rotate 500 rpm at radius > 0.25 m
(D) Rotate 250 rpm at radius > 0.5m
9. What is damping factor for un damped system?

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) (D) 2
10. Efficiency of a riveted joint is the ratio between

(A) Tearing strength of joint to the strength of a pitch length of the solid plate
(B) Shearing strength of joint to the strength of a pitch length of the solid plate
(C) Crushing strength of joint to the strength of a pitch length of the solid plate
(D) Minimum of three strengths of joint to the strength of a pitch length of the solid plate
11. A 120 strain gauge is bonded to cast Iron bar, which is subjected to a tensile load. The
cross-sectional area of the bar is 0.6 104 m2 and Youngs modulus for the bar material is
100 GPa. If the load of 60 kN produces a change of 1.2 in the gauge resistance then the
gauge factor of the gauge is _________.
12. In a laminar flow over a flat plate, the convective heat transfer coefficient is proportional to
(A) X (B) X0.5 (C) X-0.5 (D) X-0.2
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13. In a thermodynamic system, a non-flowing fluid kept in vessel at a height of 10 m has a

rotational kinetic energy of 10 J/kg and internal energy is 80% of kinetic energy. Flowing
fluid is kept in a vessel at height of 5 m has rotational and translational kinetic energy of 5
J/kg whose internal energy is 70% of total kinetic energy. If it is observed that total energies
of both fluids are same, what is the specific flow energy (J/kg) of flowing fluid (g=10 m/s2)?
14. The entrance length (in m) required to achieve fully developed laminar flow in a 8 cm
diameter pipe when the Reynolds number is 2000 is ________.
15. For a thermal system, Helmholtz function initially for a system is 0. Volume reduced from
2m3 to 1.5m3 in an isobaric atmosphere of 1 bar and temperature reduced from 20oC to 10oC
with entropy maintained constant at 1 kJ/K. What is final value of Helmholtz function?
16. Which of the dimension less number is only the function of properties of fluid.
(A) Reynolds (B) Prandtl (C) Nusselt (D) Grashoff
17. Instead of straight blades, curved blades are designed on the water wheel so that water strikes
the blade of the wheel without shock. This type of wheels are called
(A) Overshot wheel (B) Undershot wheel (C) Poncelet wheel (D) Pelton wheel
18. Component demand is calculated from master production schedule using

(A) MRP system (B) Inventory status File
(C) EOQ (D) Bill of Materials
19. Which of these is called as chase plan?

(A) Just in time production plan (B) Production smoothing plan
(C) MRP II (D) Capacity plan
20. A motor of mass 50 kg is vibrating with force of 200cos100t N. The motor is attached with
four springs, each of stiffness 20 N/mm and is fixed on ground. Then the transmissibility ratio
for vibration transfer from motor to ground is ___________.
21. In thin walled heat exchanger with no fouling, the overall heat transfer coefficient is
(A) A h i1 h o1 (B) h i1 h o1
1 1
(C) A h i1 h o1 (D) h i1 h o1
22. A punch and die system in which sheet is fed from one stage to other for further operations so
that the blanking will be a last operation is called
(A) Compound die (B) Combination die
(C) Transfer die (D) Progressive die
23. Cooling curve for a binary eutectic alloy is shown below:

A
ToC B C
D
Time
4
The region BC is termed as

(A) Non-variant system (B) Univarient system
(C) Bivariant system (D) None of these
24. The property due to which the material resists indentation is
(A) Brittleness (B) Toughness (C) Hardness (D) Hot hardness
25. A 15mm thick steel sheet is bent into a radius of 150cm. Assuming that its yield stress is
200MPa, the spring back of the sheet after it is bent is _________.
Q. No. 26 to 55 Carry Two Marks Each

6 2 2
26. The two linearly independent eigen vectors for an eigen value 2 of the matrix 2 3 1 are
2 1 3
(A) 1 1 1 , 1 0 0 (B) 0 1 1 , 1 0 1
T T T T
(C) 1 1 1 , 0 1 1 (D) 0 1 1 , 1 1 1
T T T T
27. It is known that screws produced by a certain company will be defective with probability 0.01,
independently of each other. The company sells screws in pack of 10 and offers a money-back
guarantee that atmost 1 of the 10 screws is defective what is probability that a pack will have
to be replaced.
x
28. x dx ___ x 1
4
1
x2 1 1 x2 1
(A) n 2 c (B) n c
x 1 2 x2 1
1 x2 1 1 x2 1
(C) n c (D) n 2 c
4 x2 1 8 x 1
(x y2 z)dxdydz;
2
29. The value of the integral
D
Where, D {x y 9, 5 z 5} is_________.
2 2
(A) 405 (B) 2 (C) (D) 0
30. For a brass alloy, the following engineering stresses produce the corresponding plastic
engineering, prior to Necking.
Engineering stress Engineering strain
235(MPa) 0.194
On the basis of this information compute the true stress __________ in MPa and true strain
________
(A) 250MPa, 0.152 (B) 280MPa, 0.177
(C) 230MPa, 0.123 (D) 180MPa, 0.136
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31. The pressure within the cylinder of a hydraulic press is 9MPa. The mean diameter of the
cylinder is 366mm. If the permissible internal tensile hoop stress is 180 N/mm2 then find the
thickness of the cylinder wall.
(A) 21.65mm (B) 12.5mm (C) 9.15mm (D) 19mm
32. A rectangular plate is subjected to a two perpendicular stresses of 10MPa tension and 5MPa
compressions. The stresses on the planes inclined at 30o to the 10MPa plane are
(A) 1.25MPa (Tension) and 6.5MPa (CW)
(B) 1.25MPa (Compression) and 6.5MPa (CCW)
(C) 1.25MPa (Compression) and 6.5MPa (CW)
(D) 1.25MPa (Tension) and 6.5MPa (CCW)
33. A flywheel for a punch press must be capable of furnishing 2.7kJ of energy during the
revolution while the hole is being punched. The maximum speed of the flywheel is
200rev/min and the speed decreases 10% during the cutting stroke. The mean radius of rim is
915mm.Co-efficient of fluctuation of speed is _________.
34. Suspension of bike upon jerk is vibrating with force 5000 cos100t N. The natural frequency
for suspension vibration is 100 Hz. The stiffness of spring for suspension and damping
coefficient for damper out the vibration is 1000 N/mm and 20 N/m/s, respectively. The
maximum amplitude of vibration for suspension is__________ mm
35. The spring having 180 mm of free length and having 25 mm of pitch. If inactive coils are 2
Then the number of active turns for the spring whose ends are plain ends is _________.
36. Two blocks m1 and m2 of mass 6 kg and 2 kg respectively on a fixed inclined plane are
connected by a light string that passes over a mass less and frictionless pulley as shown in
figure. Coefficient of friction for each block with the plane is 0.2, then acceleration of m 2 is
(g 10m / s2 )
45o
m2
m1
(A) 1.5m / s2 (B) 3 2m / s2 (C) 1.5 2m / s2 (D) 2 2m / s2

37. The maximum fluctuation of energy in a flywheel is equal to ________.
(A) I. 1 2 (B) I. 2Cs (C) 2 E. Cs (D) all of the above
38. A spur gear has 20 teeth having diameter 150mm and pressure angle is 20 having length of
path of contact is 500mm. The contact Ratio is ________.
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39. In a quick return mechanism, the ratio of maximum velocities during cutting stroke & return
stroke is 0.5.If the radius of crank is 0.5 m.
Find the sliding velocity of Block at the position of minimum mechanical advantage and also
the mechanical advantage of the system. Take angular velocity of crank as 5 rad/s and assume
100% efficient mechanism.
(A) 0 m/s, 1 (B) 2.5 m/s, 2 (C) 2 m/s, 1 (D) 0,2
40. A rotor with polar moment of inertia 12.5 kg-m2 has bearings 0.5m apart with highest speed 10
revolutions per second. It is spinning about an axis perpendicular to rotational axis with 1/3rd of
maximum speed. Neglecting the gravity effect, reaction force at the bearing is________ (N)
41. A 0.05 m3 of steel flask is used to store nitrogen at 12MPa, 293K. The flask is to be protected
against excessive pressure by a fusible plug which will met and allow the gas to escape if the
temperature rises too high. The temperature in oC at which the fusible plug will melt in order
to limit the pressure of a full flask to a maximum of 15MPa is _______.
42. Air at 1 atm pressure flows over a plate 0.5m long with a free stream velocity of 5 m/s. The
film temperature is 60C. If the friction coefficient on the plate is found as 3.68 10 -3 for one
side, determine the average convective heat transfer coefficient ________ in W/m2K.
1.334
Cs 0.5
Re
43. At a sudden enlargement of water pipe the diameter changes from 0.2m to 0.4m. The
hydraulic gradient rises by 0.9cm. The velocity of flow at exit section of enlargement is
_______ m/sec.
44. Air at 40C is flowing along a heated flat plate at 100C at a velocity of 5 m/sec. The plate is 5
m long and 3 m wide. The skin friction coefficient at 80 cm from the leading edge will be
0.664
____.(Take kinematic viscosity of air at 40C to be 15.06 x 10-6 m2/s). Cfx
Re x
(A) 1.2910-3 (B) 2.3210-3 (C) 3.4310-3 (D) 0.2310-3
45. Full load is supplied by the turbine shaft when the diameter of jet issuing from the nozzle is
150mm. If the load suddenly drops to 36% of the full load, what diameter (in mm) of the jet
should be attained by regulating the spear rod?
46. In the P-V diagram given below, which statement is correct for work (abcdea)?
P bar
d c
10
6 b
5
a
2 e
1 4 10 V(m3 )
(A) Work done by system is 2.25 MJ (B) Work done on system is 2.75 MJ
(C) Work done by system is 2.75 MJ (D) Work done on system is 2.25 MJ
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47. A jet of water 8cm in diameter moving with a velocity of 20m/sec is impinging on a flat plate
in the normal direction to the plate. The force exerted on the plate for maximum efficiency
condition is ________________ N.
48. Air at 27oC flows over a flat surface with a velocity 1.5 m/s . Assume the flow to be laminar
throughout the plate; L is the length of the plate. At what distance from the leading edge of the
plate the local shear stress will be equal to average shear stress?.
L L L L
(A) (B) (C) (D)
4 8 2 2
49. A diesel engine working on the limited pressure cycle has a compression ratio of 14 and ratio
of maximum to minimum pressures is 65. The amount of heat added at constant pressure is 1.5
times the heat added at constant volume. If temperature of the working fluid at the beginning
of compression is 300K, the air standard efficiency in percentage is ___________.
50. The product structure of an automobile component has two parts namely blank shaft and
connecting rod which they manufacture. The single component consists of 2 blank shafts and
one connecting rod. Each blank shaft consists of 4 square nuts and 10 washers. And each
connecting shaft consists of 3 couplers to be attached. The part inventory data is given below.
Part Code Part Available number of Inventory

CBS Blank Shaft 4
CR Connecting rod 10
SN Square Nut 15
W Washer 30
CP Couplers 16
What is the number of additional square needed if it so required to make 15 automobile

component?
51. Annual demand for a product is 12,000 units. Production capacity of the plant is 4,000 units
per month, the set up cost is Rs. 600 and holding cost per month is Rs. 10. The maximum
inventory level will be ______units.
52. In the arrangement of infinite number of boxes, A boy throws a ball with 5 m/s velocity
making projection angle 60 as shown in figure. The ball will fall in box number (Take g= 10
m/s2)
3
2
1 1 2 3
A
1
1
1
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) None of these
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53. Increasing the sheet thickness by 2 times and reducing the yield strength of the sheet by half,
the bending force
(A) Doubles (B) Increases by 4 times
(C) Decreases by 0.5 times (D) doesnt change
54. A plate of 150mm wide and 10mm thick is welded to another plate by means of double
parallel fillet weld, employing arc welding. The allowable shear stress is 100N/mm2, density
of metal is 8.00 g/cc, and welding current supplied is 250A.
Weld deposition rate of electrode is 10g Amp hr . If area of weld is 1.2cm2 (Length of the
weld is 5.3cm), the welding time is_______.
(A) 1.22 min (B) 1.6 min (C) 0.57 min (D) 0.27 min
55. The area of the triangle on the argand diagram formed by the complex numbers z, iz & z + iz
is __________.
2 2 2
2 z z z
(A) z (B) (C) (D)
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Q. No. 6- 10 Carry Two Marks Each

1. The system of equations x + y + z = 0, 2x + y - 2z = 0 and x + 2y - 3z = 0 has trivial

6. Universal testing machine (UTM) can be used to perform

(A) 20 N (B) 25 N (C) 30 N (D) None of these

9. What is damping factor for un damped system?

10. Efficiency of a riveted joint is the ratio between

13. In a thermodynamic system, a non-flowing fluid kept in vessel at a height of 10 m has a

18. Component demand is calculated from master production schedule using

19. Which of these is called as chase plan?

23. Cooling curve for a binary eutectic alloy is shown below:

The region BC is termed as

Q. No. 26 to 55 Carry Two Marks Each

(A) 405 (B) 2 (C) (D) 0

(A) 1.5m / s2 (B) 3 2m / s2 (C) 1.5 2m / s2 (D) 2 2m / s2

Part Code Part Available number of Inventory

What is the number of additional square needed if it so required to make 15 automobile

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