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MONTHLY CLASSROOM TEST

Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT)
TEST DATE : 11 / 09 / 2023
C
Time Allowed: 1:15 hrs Maximum Marks: 125

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1. A car owner buys petrol at ` 8.50, ` 9 and ` 10 decreases by 0.5% then, percentage increase in
per litre for three successive years. What population after 2 years will be:
approximately is the average cost per litre of (a) 10% (b) 10.25%
petrol if he spends ` 6000 each year? (c) 10.5 (d) None of these
(a) 9.13 (b) 9.92
8. A vessel contains 50 litres of water, if 5 litre
(c) 10.92 (d) None
water is taken out and replaced with 5 litres of
2. In a certain store, the profit is 220% of the cost. alcohol and this process is repeated two more
If the cost increased by 15% and the selling price times then ratio of water remain to the water
remains constant, approximately what initially
percentage of the selling price will be the profit? (a) 81:100 (b) 1000:729
(a) 64 (b) 65 (c) 729:1000 (d) 81:90
(c) 68 (d) 70
9. If the average weight of 11 persons is 35 kg and
3. Rohit spends 20% of his monthly income on food average weight of first 6 persons is 35 kg and,
articles, 30% of the remaining on conveyance that of last 6 persons is 38 kg then, weight of 6 th
and on cloths 50% of the remaining. If his person is:
monthly salary is ` 16200, how much money (a) 36 kg (b) 63 kg
does he save every month?
(c) 53 kg (d) None of these
(a) 4236 (b) 4536
(c) 4836 (d) None 10. Two buckets have 720 apples. If 1/5th apples
from 1st bucket is transferred to the 2nd one, then
4. 605 sweets were distributed equally among
number of apples becomes equals in both
children in such a way that the number of sweets
buckets then number of apples in 2nd bucket is:
received by each child is 20% of the total number
(a) 220 (b) 400
of children. How many sweets did each child
(c) 300 (d) 270
receive?
(a) 9 (b) 10 11. A seller has to mix a tea of worth ` 75/kg with
(c) 11 (d) None ` 100/kg tea so that he would have an overall
rate of ` 90/kg. The required ratio will be:
5. If a person sold ‘x’ number of pens at a rate of
(a) 2 : 1 (b) 2 : 3
‘a’ rupees per pen, and ‘y’ number of pens at
(c) 3 : 1 (d) 4 : 1
the rate of ‘b’ rupees per pen. Then average price
of a pen will be: 12. In a mall, one T-shirt is free on buying 3 T-shirts.
ax  by ax  by What is the rate of discount?
(a) (b) (a) 20% (b) 25%
x y x y
ax  by 1
(c) (d) None of these (c) 33 % (d) 10%
x y 3
6. In a examination, A student has to get 30% 13. Population of a city decreased by 10%. If
marks in order to pass the examination. ‘A’ population would be 5000 more. There would
secured 20% marks but failed by 30 marks so, be an increase of 10% in population. What was
in order to pass that exam how many marks the initial population of the city?
should ‘B’ get? (a) 25000 (b) 20000
(a) 70 (b) 80 (c) 10000 (d) 30000
(c) 90 (d) None of these
14. By selling a watch at ` 450 a man losses by 10%.
7. Population of a country increases annually by Then, in order to get 20% profit he should sell
5.5%, but due to emigration rate annually the watch at:

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(a) 500 (b) 550 10 chairs. If one wants to buy 1 table and 1 chair,
(c) 490 (d) 600 how much does he need to pay?
(a) Rs. 950 (b) Rs. 1050
15. P and Q start a business and they invest in ratio
(c) Rs. 1040 (d) Rs. 940
of 2 : 3. After 6 months P quits from business.
There investment and profit sharing was in ratio 23. A person sells an article at 20% profit. If he sells
of 1 : 3. Then, investment period of Q is: it at twice the price he sold earlier, his profit %
will be
(a) 4 months (b) 8 months
(a) 100% (b) 140%
(c) 12 months (d) 9 months (c) 40% (d) 50%
a b c abc 24. Rohit’s salary is Rs 60,000. He spends 1/3rd of
16. If   , then ?
3 4 7 c his salary on rent and 15% of the remaining
(a) 2 (b) 2 amount on food. He invests 20% of his salary in
1 mutual funds. He gives 1/2 of the remaining
(c) 7 (d)
7 amount to his parents. Find out the left over
17. A grocer has a sale of `6435, `6927, `6855, `7230 amount?
and `6562 for 5 consecutive months. How much (a) Rs 11000 (b) Rs 9500
sale must he have in the sixth month so that he (c) Rs 13500 (d) Rs 10000
gets an average sale of `6500?
25. The average height of 30 boys was calculated
(a) `5000 (b) `4991
to be 150 cm. It was detected later that one value
(c) `4800 (d) `5004
of 165 cm was wrongly copied as 135 cm for the
18. X and Y invest Rs.21000 and Rs.17500 computation of the mean. Find the correct mean.
respectively in a business. At the end of the year, (a) 151 cm (b) 150 cm
they make a profit of Rs.26400. What is the share (c) 155 cm (d) 152 cm
of X in the profit? 26. P is a working and Q is a sleeping partners in a
(a) Rs. 12000 (b) Rs. 12500
business. P puts in ` 10,000 and Q puts in
(c) Rs. 26400 (d) Rs. 14400
1
19. If 20% of a = b, then b% of 20 is the same as: ` 12,000. P receives 12 % of the profit for
2
(a) 20% of a (b) 4% of a
(c) None of these (d) 10 % of a managing the business and rest is divided in
proportion to their capital. What does each get
2 out of a profit of ` 1760?
20. A businessman sold of his stock at a gain of
3 (a) P 920, Q 840 (b) P 840, Q 920
20% and rest at a gain of 14%. The percentage (c) P 880, Q 880 (d) None
of gain to the businessman is :
(a) 12% (b) 17% 27. A batsman makes a score of 90 runs in the 15th
(c) 18% (d) 20% inning and thus his average score has increased
by 3. Find the average after 15th inning.
21. Sachin took a loan of `1400 with simple interest
for as many years as the rate of interest. If he (a) 39 (b) 48
paid `686 as interest at the end of the loan
(c) 52 (d) None
period, what was the rate of interest?
(a) 6% (b) 8% 28. Two bus tickets from city P to Q and three tickets
(c) 7% (d) 4% from city P to R cost ` 94 but three tickets from
22. The price of 3 tables and 4 chairs is Rs. 3300. city P to Q and two tickets from city P to R cost
With the same money one can buy 2 tables and ` 86. What are the fares for city Q and R from P?

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(a) ` 10, ` 15 (b) ` 14, ` 22 (a) x > y

(b) x < y
(c) ` 25, ` 16 (d) None
(c) x = y
29. A, B, C, D and E play a game of cards. A says to (d) Can’t be determined
B if you give me three cards, you will have as
many as E has and if C gives you three cards, 35. A man had a certain sum. He donated half of
you will have as many as D has. A and B the sum to his son. 2/5th of the remaining sum
together have 10 cards more than what D and E he given to his daughter after that 4/5th of the
remaining he given to his wife. Now, he left with
together have. If B has two cards more than what
600. The total sum was:
C has and the total number of cards be 138. How
many card does B have? (a) 12,000 (b) 12,500
(a) 23 (b) 24 (c) 10,000 (d) None of these
(c) 25 (d) 26 36. In a town, population ratio of male and female
30. In an exam 30% of students passed in math, 40% is 4 : 3. In Lok Sabha election 50% of male and
40% of female used their voting right. Then,
in physics and 50% failed in both subjects. If
ratio of male and female who didn’t vote:
number of students passed in both subjects was
300. Then, total number of students in the class (a) 9 : 10 (b) 10 : 9
was: (c) 8 : 9 (d) 9 : 8
(a) 1200 (b) 1500 37. Average of n numbers is x. If 3 is added to first
(c) 1300 (d) None of these number. 9 is added to 2nd and similarly 27 is
added to the third number and numbers are
31. A man sells an article at rupees 80 and earn
proceeding in similar way. New average of
33.33% profit. If he sells it at 40 then he has same
numbers is:
% of loss. Then the cost price of article is:
(a) 50 (b) 70 3
(a) x  (3n  1)
(c) 60 (d) None of these n

32. In a class test of mathematics, average marks 3 n

(b) x (3  1)
secured by class A was 50 and that of class B 2n
was 70. If overall average marks of both the class
1 n
was 62 and in class A there are 20 students then (c) x (3  1)
number of students in class B:
2n
(a) 25 (b) 25 (d) None of these
38. P and Q start a business and they invest in ratio
(c) 40 (d) 30
of 2 : 3. After 6 months P quits from business.
33. A and B are two friends, 5 years ago ratio of Their investment and profit sharing was in ratio
their ages was 3 : 4 and 5 years from present of 1 : 3. Then, investment period of Q is:
ratio of ages will be 5 : 6 then ratio of their (a) 4 months (b) 8 months
present ages is: (c) 12 months (d) 9 months
(a) 5 : 4 (b) 4 : 5
39. X sold a hat to Y at 25% profit and Y sold it to Z
(c) 5 : 7 (d) None of these
at 20% loss. Then, at what rate Z should sell such
34. If x = (20% of P) + (30% of Q), y = (40% of P) + that he would gain 20%. If cost price for Z was
(40% of Q) then, which of the following 700.
statements will definitely true? Where if is given (a) 800 (b) 820
that P > Q, P and Q are natural numbers. (c) 890 (d) 840

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40. One type of sugar is selling at Rs. 3.20 per kg on 46. A shopkeeper has a few 100 gm weights and a
20% loss and another is selling at Rs. 6 per kg few 500 gm weights. He can weigh a maximum
on 20% gain. If both are combined with same of 8 kg in one weighing. If he has 20 pieces of
quantity and sold at Rs. 4.50 per kg then what weights, what is the maximum weight that he
is the profit or loss. can weigh with only 100 gm weights?
(a) 20% profit (a) 800 gm (b) 600 gm
(b) 20% loss (c) 450 gm (d) 500 gm
(c) no loss or no gain 47. Classes A and B have 35 students each. If seven
(d) none of these girls shift from class A to class B, then the
number of girls in the classes would
41. Two numbers when divided by a certain divisor
interchange. If four girls shift from class B to
give remainders 4 73 and 298, respectively.
class A, then the number of girls in class A
When their sum is divided by the same divisor,
would be twice the original number of girls in
the remainder is 236. Find the divisor.
class B. What is the number of boys in Class A
(a) 520 (b) 499
and in Class B?
(c) 65 (d) 252
(a) 18 and 11 (b) 24 and 17
42. How many numbers up to 300 are divisible by (c) 18 and 27 (d) 17 and 24
5 and 7 together?
48. The sum of squares of two numbers is 68 and
(a) 10 (b) 9
the squares of their difference is 36. The product
(c) 8 (d) 13
of the two numbers is
43. In a division sum, the divisor is 10 times the (a) 16 (b) 32
quotient, and five times the remainder. What is (c) 58 (d) 104
the dividend, if the remainder is 46?
49. A two digits number is seven times the sum of
(a) 5636 (b) 5536
its digits. If each digit is increased by 2, the
(c) 5336 (d) 5436
number thus obtained is 4 more than six times
44. The digits indicated by* in 3422213 ** so that the sum of its digits. Find the number.
the whole number is divisible by 99 are (a) 42 (b) 24
(a) 1, 9 (b) 3, 7 (c) 48 (d) data inadequate
(c) 4, 6 (d) 5, 5
50. In t minutes from now, the time will be noon.
45. A fraction is such that the numerator is five less 44 minutes ago, the time was 7t minutes past
than the denominator. Also four times the 9 a.m. Find the present time.
numerator is one more than the denominator. (a) 11.43 (b) 11.36
Find the fraction. (c) 11.52 (d) None of the above
(a) 4/9 (b) 3/8
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