VELAMMAL NEXUS GROUP OF SCHOOLS,

CHENNAI - 37
(MAIN SCHOOL, AYANAMBAKKAM, PARUTHIPATTU, ANNEXURE, ALAPPAKKAM)
NTSE STAGE – I 2021-22
CLASS : X GT – 7 MARKS : 100
DATE : TIME : 120mins

MAT

1. Select the correct number that is missing in the number series given
below:
23, 40, 75, 146, 289, ?
1) 576 2) 577 3) 432 4) 572
2. Select the correct alphabet number that is missing in the alphabet
number series given below :
AB2, DD16, GG49, ?, MP208
1) JK100 2) JJ100 3) JK110 4) JL120
3. Ajay said to a lady sitting on a scooter, “The only daughter of the
brother of my wife is the sister-in-Law of the brother of sister”. How
the husband of the lady is related to Ajay?
1) Maternal uncle 2) Uncle
3) Father 4) Son-in-Law
4. In N means to ‘add’ L means to ‘subtract’, K means to ‘divide’, M
means to ‘multiply’, then 20 M
5 N 200 K 10 L 25 M 4 = ?
1) 20 2) 180 3) 80 4) 60

5. If '' means’ ‘>’, '' means ‘+’; ‘+’ means ' '; ‘-‘ means ‘=’; ‘>’ means
''; ‘=’ means, ‘<’; and ‘<’means ‘-‘; then which of the following
alternatives is correct?
1) 5>2<1-341 2) 5<21+3>41
3) 5>21-3>4<1 4) 5+21=3+4>1
6. Find the correct letters on place of “?” in the following series:
D, F, I, N, ?
1) X 2) U 3) O 4) T

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1) 9 2) 36 3) 81 4) 121
8.

1) 14 2) 90 3) 28 4) 46
9. From the following positions of dice, find which number will come in
place of “?”

1) 4 2) 5 3) 2 4) 3
Direction (10-11) Each of the following questions has a problem
followed by a few numbered statements. Decide which of the
statements are sufficient for answering the problem and choose
answer from the alternatives
10. What is the monthly salary of Nitesh?
I. Nitesh earns Rs. 1200 more than Aman.
II. The ratio between Aman’s and Sunil’s monthly salary is 5 : 3
III. Sunil earn Rs. 1000 less than Aman
1) Only I and II are required
2) Only I and III are required
3) Any two of I, II and III are required
4) All I, II and III are required
11. What is the average monthly income per family member?
I. Each male earns Rs. 12500 a month and each female earns
Rs. 10,500 a month.
II. Ratio of male to female in the family is 3 : 2
1) Only I statement required
2) Both the statements I and II are required
3) Only statement II required
4) Question cannot be answered even with the information in all two
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12. What will be the cost of second product?
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I. The cost of the first product is more than the second and cost of
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third is more than the second. The total cost of all the three
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products is Rs. 1, 49,000
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II. The cost of first product is more than the second. The cost of
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the third product is the least and total cost of all the three product
is Rs. 1,40,000
1) Statement I alone is sufficient but II alone not sufficient
2) Statement II alone is sufficient but I alone is not
3) Both the statements together are sufficient, but neither of
statements alone is sufficient
4) Statements I and II together are not sufficient
13. Find the missing number of the following series
4731, 4219, 3876, 3660, ?
1) 3589 2) 3420 3) 3535 4) 3596
14. Find the members which can replace the ‘?’
0, 2, 2, 1, 4, 5, 2, 7, 8, 3, 11, ?, ?
1) 4, 5 2) 11, 4 3) 11, 15 4) 15, 11
15. If ZXY stands for ACB; what will YZW stands for
1) ABD 2) EAC 3) SAD 4) BAD
16. JUNE is coded as NXPF, how will STAY be coded in the same
manner?
1) WWCZ 2) WVCZ 3) WWDB 4) VMZC
Direction (17-20) Study the information and answer the following
questions.
In a certain code language
‘economics is not money’ is written as ‘ka la ho ga’
‘demand and supply economics’ is written as ‘mo ta pa ka’.
‘money makes only pat’ is written as ‘zi la ne ki’.
‘demand makes supply economics’ is written as ‘zi mo ka ta’
17. What is the code for ‘money’ in the given code language?
1) ga 2) mo 3) la 4) ta
18. What is the code for ‘makes’ in the given code language?
1) pa 2) zi 3) ho 4) he
19. What may be the possible code ‘demand only more’ in the given code
language?
1) xi ne mo 2) mo zi ne 3) ki ne mo 4) mo zi ki
20. What may be the possible code ‘work and money’ in the given code
language?
1) mo la pa 2) pa la ne 3) pa la lu 4) lu la ga
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21. Four boxes P, Q, R and S, three files A, B and C are kept on a table
one after the other in a row from left to right. File C has as many
items to its left as to its right. No box is at any extreme end of
the row. Box P is kept to the immediate right of A, while file C is kept
to the immediate left of the box R. What is kept third from the right
end of the row on the table?
1) C 2) R 3) S 4) D
22. K. L, M, N, O and P are six trees in a garden. Neither M nor N is the
tallest tree. Tree L taller than P but shorter than tree K, tree O is as
tall as P but taller than M. Which of the following tree is the
tallest?
1) O 2) L 3) M 4) K
Direction (23-26) P, Q, R, S, T and U are six post offices, in each of
which, one postman out of A, B, C, D, E and F works. No postman
works in two post offices. A works neither in post office P nor in S,
while B works neither in post office T nor U. C works neither in post
office Q nor in R but D works in T and A works in Q.
23. If B works in the post office P and C does not work in post office U,
then E works in
1) S 2) R 3) R 4) R or U
24. If ‘C’ and ‘E’ works in ‘S’ and ‘U’, then which of the following is
definitely FALSE?
1) B works in P 2) R works in R
3) B works in R 4) None of these
25. Who work in post office ‘U’?
1) B or C or F 2) C or D or F
3) C or E or F 4) B or C or D
26. In which of the following post office can ‘C’ work?
1) R or S or P 2) S or P or U
3) R or S or T 4) P or Q or R or S or U
27. What day of the week on the day which is 23 days before to the day
which is 55 day which is 55 days after Monday?
1) Wednesday 2) Thursday
3) Saturday 4) None of these
28. Which of the following Venn Diagram correctly represents WATER,
ATMOSPHERE and HYDROGEN

1) A 2) B 3) C 4) D
29. Find the next number of the series:
7, 8, 18, 57, ?
1) 175 2) 231 3) 232 4) 176

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30. While facing East Rahul, turns to his right hand walks 20 meters,
then turn left and walks 20 meters. Now he turn 45° towards his
right and walks straight to cover 35 meters. In which direction
is he walking now?
1) South – East 2) South
3) North – East 4) North – West
31. Soni, who is sharma’s daughter, says to Priya, “your mother Sarika is
the youngest sister of my father”. Sharmas’s father’s child is Sanjay.
How Sanjay related to Priya?
1) Father 2) Uncle
3) Father-in-Law 4) Niece
Direction (32-35) Observe the diagram carefully and then answer the
following questions. Here rectangle represents males, triangle
represents Ph.D, Circle represents urban and Pentagon represents
civil servants

32. How many urban male civil servants are there?

1) 8 2) 26 3) 11 4) 39
33. How many urban male PhD civil servants are there?
1) 26 2) 10 3) 39 4) None of these
34. How many urban female civil servants are there?
1) 5 2) 3 3) 7 4) 2
35. How many urban male PhD are there?
1) 17 2) 36 3) 27 4) 13
36. Ravi and Mona are ranked 7th and 11th respectively from the top in a
class of 41 students. What will be their respective rank from the
bottom in the series?
1) 30th and 34th 2) 34th and 30th
3) 35th and 31st 4) 36th and 32nd
Direction (37-38) Certain blank spaces are left in the following series.
Which is the group of letters given below, if put in the blank spaces
in sequence, will complete the series?
37. c_bba_cab_ ac_ab_ac
1) caacc 2) accbc 3) babca 4) acbcb
38. mn_p_opm_ _ mnpm_o
1) pomnm 2) onpom 3) onopn 4) nmopm

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39. Insult : Humiliate : : ?
1) Shoot : Kill 2) Injury : Pungent
3) Dog : Bark 4) Abuse : Disrespect
40. Eyes : Tears : : ?
1) Sea : Water 2) Hunger : Food
3) Heart : Artery 4) Valcano : Lava
41. The sum of two numbers is 80. If the larger number exceeds four
times the smaller one by 5, then the smaller number is
1) 5 2) 15 3) 21 4) 26
42. A bag contains Rs. 216 in the form of one rupee, 50 paise and 25
paise coins in the ratio of 2 : 3 : 4. The number of 50 paise coins is
1) 144 2) 142 3) 96 4) 28
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43. th of the population in village is male. If 30% of the male are
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married, then the percentage of unmarried female in the total
population is
9 9 7 5
1) 27 % 2) 72 % 3) 27 % 4) 5 %
7 7 9 9
44. What will be the time in the mirror image of the given clock?

1) 5 : 40 2) 6 : 40 3) 5 :50 4) 6 : 50
45. Which of the following expression will be true, if the expression
R > O = A > S < T is definitely true?
1) O > T 2) S < R 3) S = O 4) R = S
46. The unit digit of
103 104 110 111
101102  102103  108109  109110 is
1) 1 2) 6 3) 4 4) 8
47. A and B can do a job in 15 days and 10 days, respectively. They
began the work together but A leaves after some days and B finished
the remaining job in 5 days. After how many day did A leave?
1) 2 days 2) 3 days 3) 7 days 4) None of these
Direction (48-49) In each of the question below are given three
statements followed by the conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV, you
have to take the given statements to be true and then decide which of
the given conclusions logically follow from the given statements

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48. Statements :
A. Some pots are buckets B. Some buckets are bags
C. Some bags are purses
Conclusions :
I. Some purses are buckets II. Some bags are pots
III. Some purses are pots IV. Some pots are bags
1) All follow 2) None follow
3) Only I and III follow 4) Only II and IV follow
49. Statements :
A. All papers are books B. All bags are books
C. Some purse are bags
Conclusions :
I. Some papers are bags II. Some books are papers
III. Some books are purses
1) Only I follow 2) Only II and III follow
3) Only I and III follow 4) Only I and II follow
50. My office is to the East of my house, my father’s office is to the
South-West of my office. A park is to the South of my office, towards
which direction is my house located with respect to the park?
1) South – West 2) North-West
3) North 4) West
51. In a certain code language, “COMPUTER” is written as “PMOCRETU”.
How will be “JACKPOTS”. written in that code language?
1) KCASJOTP 2) KCAJSTOP
3) CPKOSJTA 4) KCJASTOP
52. Raj is 7 ranks a head of Sanjay in a class of 39. If Sanjay’s rank is
17th from the last, what is Raj’s rank from the top?
1) 11th 2) 12th 3) 14th 4) 16th
53. The next term in the following series is
81, 192, 375, 648
1) 928 2) 1029 3) 1148 4) 1048
54. Which set of letters when sequentially placed at the gaps will
complete the series?
ac_bd_ce_df_egh
1) dfge 2) bdca 3) dgfe 4) defg
Direction (55-57) Study the following arrangement carefully and
answer the questions given below:
M£5TRE3$PJ17DI2NA4FH6*U9#VB@W
55. How many such numbers are there in the above arrangement, each
of which is immediately preceded by a vowel and immediately
followed by a consonant?
1) None 2) One 3) Two 4) Three
56. Which of the following is the fifth towards right of the seventh from
the right end?
A) $ B) 4 C) * D) 7

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57. How many such consonants are there in the above arrangement each
of which is immediately preceded by a symbol but not immediately
followed by a number?
1) None 2) One 3) Two 4) Three
58. The missing term is

1) 93 2) 95 3) 39 4) 59
Direction (59-61) Study the following information and answer the
questions
Five girls Mansi, Anuja, Kanika, Radhika and Stuti are married to
Manas, Yugank, Raj Manav and Gaurav but not in the same order
(i) First letter of the names of couples are not the same.
(ii) Anuja and Kanika are not married to Yugank, Stuti is not married
to Manav
(iii) Yugank and Gaurav are not Stuti’s or Mansi’s husband.
(iv) Kanika’s and Radhika’s husband names do not start with M.
59. Who is Raj’s wife?
1) Stuti 2) Mansi 3) Anuja 4) Radhika
60. Who is Anuja’s husband?
1) Manav 2) Manas 3) Yugank 4) Raj
61. Which of the following statement is wrong?
1) Gaurav is married to Kanika
2) Stuti is not Manav’s wife
3) Anuja is not Raj’s wife
4) Radhika is not Yugank’s wife
62. Pointing towards a girl, a teacher said, “She is the only daughter of
the only son of the wife of the father in law of my wife”. How is the
girl related with the teacher?
1) Daughter 2) Niece
3) Sister 4) Daughter-in-Law
63. Mohit walks 10 km East, turns South-West and walks another
10 km. He again takes a turn towards North-West and walks another
10 km. In which direction from his starting point is the standing
now?
1) North-East 2) West
3) East 4) South-East

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 Direction (64-66) Read the following information carefully and answer
the questions that follow:

64. Find    4, 5  ,   4,5  

1) 4 2) 3 3) 5 4) 0
     3  2 ,  2  3   
65. Find   
   2  1 
1) -3 2) 2 3) 0 4) 1
66. Find  0,  0,   0,1
1 1 1
1) 2) 3) 4) -1
4 2 3
Direction (67-69) Five brothers, Adam, Bob, Cane, Daniel and Eric
have different weights.
(i) Adam weighs twice as much as Bob.
(ii) Bob weighs four and half times as much as Cane
(iii) Cane weighs half as much as Daniel
(iv) Daniel weighs half as much as Eric.
(v) Eric weighs less than Adam and Bob.
67. Eric is lighter in weight than which of the other two?
1) Adam and Cane 2) Daniel and Cane
3) Adam and Bob 4) Daniel and Bob
68. Which of the following is heaviest in weight?
1) Adam 2) Bob 3) Cane 4) Daniel
69. Eric is heavier than which of the following two brothers?
1) Adam and Cane 2) Daniel and Cane
3) Daniel and Bob 4) Adam and Bob
70. Select the set of conclusions which logically follows the given
statements
Statements :
(i) All donkeys are plates. (ii) Some plates are socks.
(iii) All socks are shoes (iv) Some shoes are monkeys
Conclusions
(i) Some monkeys are socks (ii) Some shoes are plates
(iii) Some plates are donkeys (iv) Some shoes are donkeys
1) Only I and II follow 2) Only II and III follow
3) Only I, II and III follow 4) All follow

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71. Two trains start at the same time from A and B respectively and
travels towards each other at a speed of 50 km/hr and 75 km/hr
respectively. By the time they meet, second train has travelled
40 km more than the first. Find the distance between A and B.
1) 160 km 2) 80 km 3) 200 km 4) 140 km
72. The angle between the minute hand and the hour hand of a clock
when the time is 8 : 30
1) 80° 2) 75° 3) 105° 4) 60°
73. rd
The day of 3 May, 1999 was
1) Monday 2) Tuesday 3) Wednesday 4) Thursday
74. A man sold one refrigerator and one TV for Rs. 20,000 each. On
refrigerator, he had a profit of 10% and on TV he had a loss of 10%.
Find his net gain or loss percent.
1) 1% gain 2) No gain, No loss
3) 10% 4) 1% loss
Direction (75-77) Monica paint of cubical box with three different
colours orange, yellow and blue with instructions that two opposite
faces must have the same colour. She was asked to cut this box into
twenty seven small cubes of equal size.
75. How many cubes will be there with all the three colours on them?
1) 3 2) 5 3) 8 4) 4
76. How many cubes will be there with only one face painted in blue?
1) 2 2) 4 3) 6 4) 3
77. How many small cubes will be there with no face painted at all
1) 2 2) 1 3) 4 4) 8
78. Choose the odd number pair in the question given below:
1) 99 – 81 2) 89 – 37 3) 75 – 9 4) 64 - 1
79. The missing number is

1) 3 2) 5 3) 0 4) 1
80. The next term in the series is
3, 6, 17.5, 64.75, ?
1) 279.25 2) 215.875 3) 295.875 4) 228.25
81. In a certain code language ‘come again’ in written as ‘ho na’, come
over here’ is written as ‘pa na ta’ and ‘over and above’ is written as
‘ki ta ja’. How is ‘here’ written in that code language?
1) pa 2) na 3) ta 4) ho

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82. Saurav who is fifteenth from the left end of the now, is fifth to the left
of Seema. Now Seema is shifted to here right by four places and
becomes eighteenth from the right end of the row. If all the children
are facing towards North, how many children are there in a row?
1) 39 2) 38 3) 42 4) 41
83. In what time (in minutes) between 3 O’clock and 4 O’ clock both the
needles will coincide each other?
1" 4" 4" 4"
1) 5 2) 16 3) 13 4) 12
11 11 11 11
84. ‘A’ alone can complete a work in 15 days and ‘B’ alone in 20 days.
Starting with ‘A’, they work on alternate days. The total work will be
completed in how many days?
1) 15 days 2) 16 days
3) 17 days 4) 13 days
85. The missing number is

1) B 2) T 3) P 4) D
86. Select the correct alternative which follow same pattern.
14 : 25 : : 23 : 8 : : 30 : 43 : : 52 : ?
1) 82 2) 35 3) 106 4) 122
87. How many days are altogether in 2m weeks and 4n days?
1) (2m + 4n) days 2) (14m + 4n) days
3) (7m + 4n) days 4) 14mn days
88. In a certain code, if PENCIL is coded as M3DO2Q and ERASER is
coded as S2T1S2, then how will be RULER coded as ?
1) S5M2S 2) S2M5S 3) SVMFS 4) SFMVS
Direction (89-90) Read the following information and answer the
question below:
(i) A + B means B is the father of A.
(ii) A – B means B is the mother of A.
(iii) A  B means B is the brother of A.
(iv) A  B means B is the sister of A.
(v) A * B means B is the son of A.
(vi) A # B means B is the daughter of A.
89. How is P related to U in the given expression?
U+T*SR–QP
1) Father 2) Paternal uncle
3) Maternal uncle 4) Grandfather

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90. How is P related to U in the given expression?
U-T#SR+QP
1) Mother 2) Paternal aunt
3) Maternal uncle 4) Sister
91. How many squares are there in the following figure:

1) 22 2) 18 3) 14 4) 10
92. Figure (X) is embedded in any one of the four alternative figures. Find
the alternative which contains figure (X)

1) A 2) B 3) C 4) D
93. Figure (X) is embedded in any one of the four alternative figures. Find
the alternative which contains figure (X)

1) A 2) B 3) C 4) D
94. Choose the alternative which most closely resembles the water image
of the given figure (X).

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

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95. Choose the alternative which most closely resembles the water image
of the given figure (X).

1) A 2) B 3) C 4) D
96. In the following sequence, three figures (X), (Y) and (Z) shown a
sequence of folding a paper are given. The figure depicts the cut
made on the folded paper. Select the answer from the alternatives
which most closely resemble the third figure when unfolded.

1) A 2) B 3) C 4) D
97. In the following sequence, three figures (X), (Y) and (Z) shown a
sequence of folding a paper are given. The figure depicts the cut
made on the folded paper. Select the answer from the alternatives
which most closely resemble the third figure when unfolded.

1) A 2) B 3) C 4) D
98. The first figure in the first unit of problem figure bears a certain
relationship to the second figure. Similarly one of the answer figures
bears the same relationship to the second figures in the second
unit of the problem figures. Locate the figure which would fit in the
question mark.

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

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99. The first figure in the first unit of problem figure bears a certain
relationship to the second figure. Similarly one of the answer figures
bears the same relationship to the second figures in the second
unit of the problem figures. Locate the figure which would fit in the
question mark.

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

100. The number of triangle in the given figure is:

1) 20 2) 30 3) 14 4) 28

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