CLASS-3

ISMO – PRACTICE PAPER

SECTION – I
Mathematical Reasoning
01. Mary built these four number models using base ten blocks.
Which model shows an even number?

1)

2)

3)

4)

02. Vinod, Leela, Roshan and Zahir have made drawings with either straight lines or
curved lines.

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 Vinod Leela Roshan Zahir
Who has used ONLY STRAIGHT LINES
1) Vinod 2) Leela 3) Roshan 4) Zahir
03. Look at the four angles marked on the picture of the house. Which angle is right
angle?
2

3
4

1) Angle 1 2) Angle 2 3) Angle 3 4) Angle 4

04. Which figure has the largest area if each grid is one unit?

A B C
1) A 2) B
3) C 4) All the figures have equal area
05. Pick the odd one out

1) 2) 3) 4)

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 SECTION – II
Mathematics
06. There is only one red marble in each of these bags?

Without looking in the bag, you are to pick a marble out of one of the bags. Which
bag would give you the greatest chance of picking the red marble?
1) The bag with 10 marbles 2) The bag with 100 marbles
3) The bag with 1000 marbles 4) All bags would give the same chance
07. Which is CLOSEST to the amount of water Sirisha is watering through the container
that we can see in the picture?

1) 1 gram 2) 1 litre 3) 1 cup 4) 1 meter

08. Arjun makes a triangular pattern as shown below:

Row 1

Row 2
Row 3
Row 4
Row 5

How many triangular shapes should there be in Row 4 in the pattern made by Arjun?
1) 9 2) 10 3) 11 4) 12

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09. There is a wedding in Malti’s house. She is making flower garlands. She uses 20
flowers to make 1 garland. How many garlands can she make using 225 flowers?

1) 20 2) 15 3) 11 4) 10
10. Observe the following figures A, B, C and D. Which figure shows a line of
symmetry?

A B C D

1) A 2) B 3) C 4) D

11. There is a tree called “deca tree” and it has 10 trunks. On each trunk there are 10
branches. On each branch there are 10 twigs. One day awood cutter came and cut one
branch from the trunk. How many branches are still remaining?
1) 1000 2) 999 3) 990 4) 900
12. Reshma wants to divide her collection of 20 marbles equally into 4 groups. Which
model among the options correctly shows the number of rocks Reshma should put in
each group?

1)

2)

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 3)

4)

13. Two dice are kept in a row; The numbers on the faces A and B add up to 8.
What is the sum of all the numbers on the remaining faces of both dice ?
B
A

1) 55 2) 64 3) 10 4) 18
14. Harinath has placed 4 small boxes of crayons on one side of this balance scale. He
put 2 medium boxes of crayons on the other side to make the balance scale equal.

How many small boxes would Harinath need to balance 3 medium boxes?
1) 2 small boxes 2) 4 small boxes 3) 5 small boxes 4) 6 small boxes
15. There is a small Fair in Chitra’s village. Chitra and Nazim want to put up a stall to
sell lemon drink. They wanted to make a Bucket full of Lemon drink. They were
using two different sizes of glasses to offer the drink. Nazim found that four big
glasses will fill in the Bucket. Chitra found that three small glasses will fill one big
glass. How many small glasses will fill in half of the bucket?
1) 12 2) 6 3) 8 4) 4

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16. One dozen bananas cost 36 rupees. Sunil purchased half a dozen bananas. He got one
banana free in the bargain. What is the price Sunil has paid for Half-Dozen and what
is the gain he has got for that extra banana?
1) Rs.36 and Rs.4 2) Rs.18 and Rs.3 3) Rs.18 and Rs.4 4) Rs. 36 and Rs.3
17. Nikhila drew a shape on paper. She wrote the two sentences below about the shape. It
has 4 sides and it has 4 angles
1) Rectangle 2) polygon 3) Triangle 4) Circle
18. Padma earns 15 rupees per hour cleaning a house. How much does she earn if she
works from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm?
1) Rs. 155 2) Rs. 135 3) Rs. 120 4) Rs. 150
19. Rani started drawing the geometrical figures on a dot paper. But she is unable to
complete the drawing. Help her complete the following figure and name it.

1) Square 2) Rectangle 3) Cube 4) Cuboid

20. Observe the block of wood. Identify the option

which has two figures which are used as the faces of the block of wood shown
above?

1) 2)

3) 4)

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 SECTION – III
HOTS (Mathematics)
21. The pass word of Ram’s Video game application in his computer is a 3-digit number.
The different steps to find out the pass word is as below if his age is 15 years.
Step 1: Add 12 to Ram’s age
Step 2: Reverse the order of digits. These are the first two digits of your pass word
Step 3: Add these two digits to get the third digit.
The pass word is
1) 972 2) 279 3) 729 4) 927
22. Look at the Tables A, B, C and D input and output tables below. If the number 10
was the input which table you would choose to get the greatest output?
Table A Table B Table C Table D
Input Output Input Output Input Output Input Output
8 13 2 18 3 15 21 32
1 6 6 54 5 25 5 16
5 10 9 81 7 35 1 11
21 26 7 63 9 45 8 19

1) Table A 2) Table B 3) Table C 4) Table D

23. Ramana was born on September 4, 2003. Madhu was born exactly 1 year, 3 weeks,
and 4 days later. Given below is the calendar for September 2004.
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30
On what day is Madhu’s birthday?
1) September 13 2) September 22 3) September 25 4) September 29
24. This is the Cost Diary of Sushma for the month of October

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 Diary – October
October 3 Collected Rs. 60
October 7 Bought a broom for Rs. 18
October 12 Bought a phenyl bottle for Rs. 25
October 25 Collected Rs. 27 from the cards we
made
Total money collected is A
Total money spent is B

If A and B denote the total Money collected and spent by Sushma, find the money
left with Sushma at the end of October :
1) 44 2) 70 3) 43 4) 17
25. A Kangaroo jumps 5 steps at a time. If the Kangaroo is at number 4 on the Number
Line then which number will it reach in 4 jumps?

1) 24 2) 25 3) 16 4) 20

CLASS-3
ISMO – PRACTICE PAPER
Answers
1) 3 2) 4 3) 1 4) 1 5) 3 6) 1 7) 2 8) 4 9) 3 10) 4
11) 4 12) 2 13) 1 14) 1 15) 1 16) 2 17) 1 18) 2 19) 3 20) 3
21) 1 22) 1 23) 4 24) 1 25) 1

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