MODEL PAPER 1: SAINIK SCHOOL ENTRANCE EXAMINATION

1. There were two candidates in an election. The first candidate got 248312 votes. The second
candidate got 143887 votes more than the first candidate. How many votes did the second candidate get?
What is the total number of votes cast?

2. Change the following into mixed numbers:-

(a) 28/3 (b) 49/8

3. Simplify 3 1/7 + 2 3/14 + 1 5/28.

4. Paul bought 4 L of milk in the morning. During the day 2 ¾ L milk was used. How much of milk is left
in the evening?

5. Divide 688.8 by 41.

6. A girl athlete runs a race of 1600 m around a rectangular field, the length of which is 120 m and
breadth is 80 m. How many times the girl run around the field to complete the race?

7. (a) Find 20% of 45.

(b) Find percentage: 0.03 = ______ %

8. Cost price = Rs 100; selling price = Rs 95, then loss = ______.

9. Find the average of first five counting numbers.

10. If 36 bags of wheat can be loaded in a truck. In how many trucks can 3456 bags of wheat be loaded?

11. A tank is 5 m long, 4 m wide and 3 m high. How much water can it hold?

12. Find the interest paid on Rs 600 for 3 ½ yr at 5% per annum.

13. A boy spends 1/3 of his money in a shop, then he goes to another shop and spends ½ of what was
left. He is left with Rs 15. Find out how much total money did he have?

14. 1.25 m of cloth is required for a shirt. How many such shirts can be made from a piece of cloth 75 m
long?

15. Which of the two speeds is greater: 20 m/s or 90 km/h?

16. Find the angles of a triangle which are in the ratio of 1: 2: 3.

Directions. (Q No 17-19) Fill in the blanks.

17. (a) Selling price = Cost price + _________.

(b) Cost price = __________ + loss.

 (c) Cost price = Selling price - _________.
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18. (a) The largest chord of a circle is the __________.

(b) The diameter of a circle passes through the __________.

19. (a) Sum of two complementary angles is ___________.

(b) Sum of two supplementary angles is ____________.

20. Simplify :-

(a) 15abx – 8abx (b) 9a2 - 7a2 + 9b2 - 7b2

21. Find the side of a square whose area is 44 cm2. Also calculate its perimeter.

22. Convert the following Celsius temperatures into Fahrenheit temperatures:-

(a) 300C (b) 600C (c) 900C

23. Find the simple interest on Rs 600 for 8 year at the rate of 5% per annum.

24. A train runs for 4 h at a speed of 57 km/h and for next 3 h at a speed of 64 km/h. Find the average
speed of the train for the train for the seven hours journey.

25. A courtyard 22 m long and 14 m broad is to be laid with bricks of length 25 cm and breadth 16 cm.
Find the number of bricks required.

26. Find the cost of fencing a rectangular park of length 300 m and breadth 200 m at the rate of Rs 24
per metre.

27. Suresh bought 96 eggs for Rs 56.00, out of them 16 were found broken. He sold the remaining eggs
as such a price that he got a gain of Rs 4.00. Find the selling price of an egg.

28. If a kg of milk has 0.372 kg of fat, how much fat is there in 11.75 kh of milk?

29. An alloy contains 40% zinc and the rest silver. In 50 kg of alloy, what is the amount of silver?

30. Mamta bought the following items. Make a bill for her.

(a) 10 oranges at the rate of Rs 1.30 each.

(b) 2 dozens of bananas at the rate of Rs 15 per dozen.

(c) 5 kg of mangoes at the rate of Rs 23 per kg.