Ascent International School

Entrance cum Scholarship Test (ECST: 2018-19)

Class-IX
Time: 1 HR Marks: 50

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2. Name of Candidate
3. Father’s Name
4. Current Address
5. Contact No
6. Applying for class
: ______________________________________
: ______________________________________
: ______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
: ______________________________________
: ______ 6. Previous Class : ______

Candidate’s Signature Invigilator’s Signature

Examiner’s Signature Seal of Examination centre

Evaluation Sheet (for Examiner use only)

Part Part-I Part-II Part-III Total

Marks
 PART-I
ENGLISH
This section contains 15 Questions under the sequence of A, B, C, D, & E

A. Rearrange the words to form meaningful sentences. 3M

1. is / good / both / for / and / early / rising / old / adults

2. the / weekend /1 / can / love / down / be /1 / myself / because / and / dress
3. finish / work / early / one / can / go / and / a / for walk / one’s

B. Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions. 3M

4. Ram asked Shyam to give the letter…… his boss.

(a) with
(b) over
(c) to
(d) from
5. Lalit warned his sister to be beware….. that boy.
(a) from
(b) to
(c) of
(d) with
6. The boy was not interested………. studies.
(a) for
(b) in
(c) to
(d) with

C. Fill in the blanks with Present Perfect or Simple Past Tense. 3M

7. The ministry of education …………. some new policies recently, (form)

8. He never….. up till he was alive, (give)
9. The doctors ……… on her successfully on Tuesday afternoon, (operate)

D. Fill in the blanks by choosing the appropriate adverbs. 3M

10. I have heard this ………….

(a) now
(b) before
(c) never
(d) since

11. I have told you ………….

(a) never
(b) twice
(c) seldom
(d) fully
 12. This story is written ………….
(a) surely
(b) certainly
(c) well
(d) once

E. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of degree of the adjectives given in brackets. 3M

13. Nadira was the most……….. girl that Salim had ever seen. (beautiful)
14. These lights are……. than those ones, (bright)
15. Living in Bangalore is …………… than living in Hyderabad.(expensive)

PART-II
MATHEMATICS
This section contains 15 Multiple Choice Questions. Each question has four choices (1), (2), (3) and
(4) out of which ONLY ONE is correct.

1. The dimensions of a photograph are 30 cm× 20 cm. Find the length of the wooden
frame needed to frame the photograph
(1) 600 cm (2) 50 cm (3) 100 cm (4) 500 cm
2. The cube root of 272 is
(1) 27 (2) 9 (3) 3 (4) None
3. In the following options, the measures of three angles are given. Which of these
can form a triangle ?
80
(1) 45º, 61º, 73º (2) 63º, 37º, º
61
(3) 30º, 20º, 125º (4) 59º, 72º, º
4. How many metres of a carpet 60 cm wide will be required to cover the floor of a room
which is 18 metres long and 15 metres broad?
(1) 320 m (2) 360 m (3) 420 m (4) 450 m

5. Which of the following is incorrect?

parallelograms are
(1) All squares are parallelograms. (2) All squares.
rectangles are
(3) All rectangles are trapeziums. (4) All parallelograms.
6. A boat goes upstream and covers the distance between two ports in 4 hours while it
covers the same 7
distance downstream in 113 hours. If the speed of the boat is 18 km/hr in still water, then
the speed

of the stream is
 km/
(1) 8 km/hr (2) 20 hr
km/
(3) 9 km/hr (4) 10 hr
7. If 3x – 3x – 1 = 18, then the value of xx is
(4)
(1) 3 (2) 8 (3) 27 216
8. In the given figure, the value of x° is

D
o
30
x°

40o 20o
B
A

(4)
(1) 60° (2) 80° (3) 70° 90°

9. What is the value of the given expression?

2 + 2(3 + 7) 2 – 3 73 – 9
3

(1) 34 (2) 64 (3) 66 (4) 132

10. D, E, F are mid points of the sides BC, CA and AB respectively of ABC, then area of
parallelogram BDEF is equal to

1 1
ar
(1) 2 ar ( ABC) (2) 4 ( ABC)

1 1
ar
(3) 3 ar ( ABC) (4) 6 ( ABC)

11. A Baseball Park is made up of 4 square baseball fields, each of which has an area of
3,600 square meters.

what is the length of each side of the

park?
 (4) 240
(1) 60 m (2) 120 m (3) 144 m m
12. In 1960, the population of Mumbai was about 3.9 × 106 people. By 2000, the population
had grown
to about 8.2 × 106. By how much did the population
increase?
(1) 43,000 (2) 430,000 (3) 4,300,000 (4) 43,000,000
13. Square of even number is :
(1) (3)
Even (2) odd none (4) (4) both

14. The Smallest prime number:

(1) 1 (2) 0 (3) 2 (4) 3
−x
15. If 4 =16 then find x?
(1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) 4

PART-III
SECTION A: PHYSICS
This section contains 3 Multiple Choice Questions. Each question has four choices (1), (2), (3) and
(4) out of which ONLY ONE is correct.

16. If the area of contact is larger, the pressure is _____

(1) More.
(2) The same.
(3) Can be more or less.
(4) Lesser.
17. The total force applied on the object is called______force.
(1) Resultant
(2) Opposite
(3) Same
(4) Final

18. Ball bearings are used to ________

(1) Increase friction (2) Increase sound

(1)
balan
(3) Decrease friction ce

SECTION B : CHEMISTRY
This section contains 6 Multiple Choice Questions. Each question has four choices (1), (2), (3) and
(4) out of which ONLY ONE is correct.
19. Which metal is stored in kerosene oil?
(1) Na (2) Mg (3) Ca (4) None of these

20. Electrolysis of water is

Chemical
(1) Physical change (2) change
(3) Both 1 and 2 (4) None of these
21. Which gas is evolved when potassium carbonate is treated with dilute HCl?
Sulphur dioxide
(1) Hydrogen (H2) (2) (SO2)
Carbon dioxide
(3) Carbon monoxide (CO) (4) (CO2)
22. Which of the following is a clean fuel
(1) Coke (2) CNG
(3) Petrol (4) Petroleum
23. Two samples X and Y are tested with various indicators. The observations are listed in
the following table.

Sample Phenolphthalein Methyl orange

X Colourless Red

Y Light pink Yellow

What are samples X and Y ?

(1) X is HCl and Y is NaOH
(2) X is NaOH and Y is HCl
(3) X is NaOH and Y is KOH
(4) X is HCl and Y is HNO3
24. Fill in the blanks by choosing the option with correct words.
The process of rusting is _____ change. For rusting, both _________ and ______ are
required. The salts present in sea water make the process of rusting ______
(1) Chemical, Air, Water, Faster
(2) Physical, Air, Water, Slower
(3) Chemical, Air, Water, Slower
(4) Physical, Air, Water, Faster

SECTION C : BIOLOGY
This section contains 7 Multiple Choice Questions. Each question has four choices (1), (2), (3) and
(4) out of which ONLY ONE is correct.
 1. Which of the following is not a vector borne disease?
(1) Common cold (2) Malaria (3) Dengue (4) Sleeping sickness
2. Factor not essential for photosynthesis is
(1) O2 (2) CO2 (3) H2O (4) Chlorophyll

3. Antibiotics can be obtained from

(1) Bacteria (2) Fungi (3) Protozoan (4) Both 1 and 2
4. Choose odd option from the following.
(1) Pitcher plant (2) Sundew plant (3) Venus fly trap (4) Lichen
5. Protein coat of a virus enclosing its genetic material is known as
(1) Vector (2) Capsid (3) Gene (4) None of the above
6. All living beings are made of small components called._______
(1) Cell (2) Tissue
(3) Organ (4) Atoms
7. Malaria is caused by ________
(1) Virus (2) Bacteria
(3) Protozoa. (4) Fungi
 SECTION-C : BIOLOGY
This section contains 7 Multiple Choice Questions. Each question has four choices (1),
(2), (3) and (4) out of which ONLY ONE is correct.

8. Which of the following is not a vector borne disease?

(1) Common cold (2) Malaria (3) Dengue (4) Sleeping
sickness
9. Factor not essential for photosynthesis is

(1) O2 (2) CO2 (3) H2O (4) Chlorophyll

10. Antibiotics can be obtained from

(1) Bacteria (2) Fungi (3) Protozoan (4) Both 1 and 2
11. Choose odd option from the following.
(1) Pitcher plant (2) Sundew plant (3) Venus fly trap (4) Lichen
12. Protein coat of a virus enclosing its genetic material is known as
(1) Vector (2) Capsid (3) Gene (4) None of the
above
13. All living beings are made of small components called._______
(1) Cell (2) Tissue
(3) Organ (4) Atoms
14. Malaria is caused by ________
(1) Virus (2) Bacteria
(3) Protozoa. (4) Fungi

15. If each vowel of the word WEBPAGE is substituted with next letter of the English alphabetical
series, and each consonant is substituted with the letter preceding it, which of the following
letters will appear

thrice?
(1) G (2) F (3) Q (4) V
16. How many numbers amongst the numbers 9 to 54 are there which are exactly divisible
by 9 but not by 3?

(1) 8 (2) 6 (3) 5 (4) Nil

17. In the question given below, use the following

notations: A"B means 'add B to A'

A'B means 'subtract

B from A'. A @ B

means 'divide A by

B'. A * B means

'multiply A by B'.

Now, answer the following question.

The time taken by two running trains in crossing each other is calculated by dividing
the sum of the lengths of two trains by the total speed of the two trains. If the length of
the first train is L1, the length of the second train is L 2, the speed of the first train is V 1
and the speed of the second trains is V 2, which of the following expressions would
represent the time taken?

(1) (L1" L2)* (V1"V2)

(2) (L1"L2) @ (V1"V2)

(3) [(L1"L2)@(V1"V2)]*60
(4) (L1 ' L2) @ (V1'V2)