JEE Scholarship Test

Sample Paper
Time: 60 Minutes Maximum Marks: 200

1. All questions carry equal marks.

2. There are 50 questions in the test. For each question you will be awarded 4 marks for the correct answer and
zero mark for unattempted questions. In all other cases, minus one (–1) mark will be awarded.

1. Find the odd-one out of the following terms: 6. Which of the following alternatives will fit in place
EF22, JK42, GH24, VW90, IJ38 of ‘M’?
(a) EF22 (b) GH24 7 3 6 2
(c) IJ38 (d) VW90
2 8 5 4

2. Choose the conclusions which logically follow from 1 1 2 4

the given statements.
St at em en t : 4 2 1 M
All the pens are papers (a) 6 (b) 5
All the papers are boats (c) 4 (d) 3
Some birds are boats.
Con cl u si on s: 7. If ‘’ means ‘X’, ‘’ means ‘’, ‘’ means ‘+’ and ‘’
(A) Some boats are pens means ‘–’ then evaluate the following expression
(B) Some birds are papers using standard operator precedence.
56(68)41
(C) None of the pens are birds
(a) 52 (b) 24
(a) Only A and B (b) Only A
(c) 15 (d) 43
(c) Only C (d) Only A and C
8. With what operators, should the symbols @ and <
3. How many quadrilaterals are there in the given
be replaced so that the following expression is
figure? valid.
100 – 81  27 @ 3 < 6 = 115
(a) + and – (b) × and 
(c) + and × (d)  and –
(a) 10 (b) 11
9. x is an integer such that it leaves a remainder of 2
(c) 12 (d) 13
when divided by 3, leaves a remainder of 3 when
divided by 5, and leaves a remainder of 5 when
4. Which of the following alternatives will fit in place
divided by 7. What could be a possible value of x
of ‘M’?
from among the following options?
255, 3610, 4915, M, 8125
(a) 53 (b) 68
(a) 5100 (b) 5420
(c) 74 (d) 83
(c) 6420 (d) 6422
10. In how many ways can you distribute 10 identical
5. Which of the following alternatives will fit in place
balls into two non-identical boxes so that none are
of ‘M’?
empty?
L6, O8, R11, M, X25, A42, D75
(a) 2 (b) 8
(a) U15 (b) U16
(c) 9 (d) 10
(c) W14 (d) U14

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 11. One line forms two regions in a plane. Similarly, •Hindi is taught in the last period.
two lines in a plane can form a maximum of four 15. Which of the following statements is necessarily
regions. These are shown in the figures below: true?
Region 2
(a) Third period is of Hindi taught by B
(b) Second period is of Physics taught by C
Region 1
(c) Fourth period is of Mathematics taught by A
Region 1 Region 2
Region 3 (d) Fifth period is of Biology taught by D

Region 4
16. Which subject is taught by B?
(a) Physics (b) Chemistry
What is the maximum number of regions that can
(c) Biology (d) Hindi
be formed by 4 lines in a plane? Lines need not be
concurrent.
17. A solid metallic cylinder of radius 12 cm and height
(a) 7 (b) 8
175 cm is melted and moulded into another solid
(c) 10 (d) 11
cylinder of height 63 cm. What is the radius of the
12. You need to take n arbitrary points on or inside a new cylinder?
square of side 2 cm such that there will always be (a) 14 (b) 4
(c) 20 (d) 5
a pair of points at a distance of not more than 2
cm. What is the minimum value of n? 18. Choose the option which shows the correct mirror
(a) 2 (b) 4
image of the characters given below.
(c) 5 (d) 8
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13. The following facts are known about an unknown (a)
number X: (b)
I : The sum of digits of X is 15. (c)
I I :The unit’s digit of X is 6. (d)
Then which of the following statements is certainly
true about X? D i r ect i on s (Q. 19-20) : There are 150 students in a
(a) X is divisible by 3 but not by 6 class. 20 students play both hockey and kabaddi. The
(b) X is divisible by 6 but not by 9 same numbers of students play only football. 35
(c) X is not divisible by 6 but divisible by 9 students play both hockey and football but not kabaddi.
(d) X is divisible by both 6 and 9 25 play both football and kabaddi but not hockey. The
number of students who play only hockey is the same
14. The average age of A, B and C is 43 years. Which as the number of students who do not play any of three
of the following statements are required to find mentioned games and the number of students who play
the eldest among them? only hockey is half of the number of students who play
St at em en t s: only football.
I : Age of C is 65 years.
I I : Age of A is 25 years.
19. How many students play only kabaddi?
(a) I is sufficient
(b) Both I and II are required (a) 10 (b) 20
(c) I and II together are not sufficient (c) 30 (d) 40
(d) II is sufficient
20. How many students play only hockey?
D i r ect i on s (Q. 15-16) : A class is to be taught five (a) 10 (b) 15
subjects_Hindi, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and (c) 20 (d) 25
Mathematics by five different teachers—A, B, C, D and
E in five periods (1 to 5). A teacher can teach in only 21. What will be the number in the blank box?
one of the periods. The following details are available
1 3 4 6 7 9
about the teaching.
•A teaches Mathematics which is not taught in the first 2 14 5 77 8
period. (a) 98 (b) 128
•Physics is taught by D in an even numbered period. (c) 189 (d) 194
•Chemistry is taught in an odd period, and it precedes
Mathematics period.
•E teaches in the first period.
•C teaches Chemistry but not in the first or the last
periods.
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22. What is the total number of circles in the figure (a) ‘X' = cuprous sulphide, ‘Y' = cuprous oxide
given below? (b) ‘X' = cupric sulphide, ‘Y' = cupric oxide
(c) ‘X' = sodium sulphide, ‘Y' = sodium oxide
(d) ‘X' = calcium sulphide, ‘Y' = calcium oxide

27. Which one of the following statement is incorrect

about graphite and diamond ?
(a) Graphite is smooth and slippery.
(a) 13 (b) 14 (b) Diamond is good conductor of heat.
(c) 15 (d) 16 (c) Graphite is a good conductor of electricity.
(d) Physical and chemical properties of graphite
23. A bucket contains milk mixed with water, of which and diamond are different.
3 parts are water and 5 parts are milk. A part of
the mixture is removed from the bucket and is 28. The functional groups present in the following
replaced by water. What portion of the mixture compound are—
O
should have been removed so that the new mix
contains milk and water is equal proportion? C—OH
1 1
(a) (b)
3 4 O—C—CH3
1 1
(c) (d) O
5 6 (a) alcohol, ketone and ester
(b) ester and carboxylic acid
24. You need to colour the circles in such a way that (c) carboxylic acid and ketone
no two circles connected by a line get the same (d) ester and alcohol
colour. What is the minimum number of distinct
colours needed to colour all the circles in the 29. A part of the modern periodic table is presented
figure? below in which the alphabets represent the symbols
of elements.
Tabl e

Group
 1 2 14 15 16 17
Period 
(a) 4 (b) 5 2 M Q
(c) 6 (d) 7
3 A J R
4 E L T
25. From each box you can move only to the immediate
right box or the immediate top box. You cannot 5 G X
move into or through a shaded box. How many
ways are there to move from the box marked S to Consult the above part of the periodic table to
the box marked D? predict which of the following is a covalent
compound.
D (a) RQ2 (b) AT
(c) JQ (d) JX2

30. A compound ‘X' reacts with a compound ‘Y', to

produce a colourless and odourless gas. The gas
turns lime water milky. When ‘X' reacts with
S
methanol in the presences of concentrated H2SO4,
(a) 8 (b) 10 a sweet smelling substance is produced. The
(c) 12 (d) 14 molecular formula of the compound ‘X' is-
(a) C2H4O
26. A metal ‘M' of moderate reactivity is present as (b) C2H4O2
its sulphide ‘X' . On heating in air, ‘X' converts (c) C2H6O
into its oxide ‘Y' and a gas evolves. On heating ‘Y' (d) C2H6O2
and ‘X' together, the metal ‘M' is produced. ‘X' and
‘Y' respectively are—

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31. The schematic diagram is given below. 34. The velocity-time graph of an object moving along
A
Heat
B + HCl
a straight line is shown below:
(Solid) Cool (Vapour) (Vapour)

Heat NaOH (aq)

conc.

Velocity
HCl H2O E (aq)
C D (acidic
(Gas) Shake well solution)
Which of the following is an incorrect statement ?
(a) A and E are chemically same. 0 1 2 3
(b) A and D are chemically same. Time
(c) D and E are chemically same. Which one of the following graphs represents the
(d) C and E are chemically same. acceleration (a) - time (t) graph for the above motion?

32. Which of the following is a feasible reaction ?

(a) Ba(s) + K2SO4(aq)  BaSO4(aq) + 2K(s)
(b) Zn(s) + 2AgNO3(aq)  Zn(NO3)2 (aq) + 2Ag(s) a
(c) Mg(s) + Na2SO4(aq)  MgSO4(aq) + 2Na(s)
(d) Cu(s) + MgSO4 (aq)  CuSO4 (aq) + Mg(s)
(a) 0
1 2 3. t
33. Some ice pieces kept at a temperature –5°C are
heated gradually to 100°C in a beaker. The
temperatures of the contents are plotted against
time. The correct plot is-
a
100 °C
(b)
Temperature (°C)

0
(a) 4°C
1 2 3 t
0°C
–5°C
Time
a
100 °C
(c)
Temperature (°C)

0
(b) t

0°C
–5°C
Time
a
100 °C
(d)
Temperature (°C)

0
1 2 3 t
(c)
0°C
–5°C
35. To read a poster on a wall, a person with defective
Time vision needs to stand at a distance of 0.4m from
the poster. A person with normal vision can read
100 °C the poster from a distance of 2.0 m. Which one of
Temperature (°C)

the following lens may be used to correct the

defective vision ?
(d) (a) A concave lens of 0.5 D
0°C (b) A concave lens of 1.0 D
–5°C (c) A concave lens of 2.0 D
Time
(d) A convex lens of 2.0 D

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36. A ball released from rest at time t = 0 hits the 40. An object falls a distance H in 50 s when dropped
ground. It rebounds inelastically with a velocity 5 on the surface of the earth. How long would it
m s–1 and reaches the top at t = 1.5 s, What is the take for the same object to fall through the same
net displacement of the ball from its initial position distance on the surface of a planet whose mass
after 1.5s? (g = 10 m/s-2) and radius are twice that of the earth ? (Neglect
t=0 air resistance.)
(a) 35.4 g (b) 50.0 s
(c) 70.7 s (d) 100.0 s
t = 1.5 s
41. A source produces sound waves under water.
Waves travel through water and then into air.
Which of the following statements about the
(a) 1.25 m (b) 3.75 m frequency (f) and the wavelength () is correct and
(c) 5.00 m (d) 6.25 m sound passes from water to air?
(a) f remains unchanged but  decreases.
37. A horizontal jet of water is made to hit a vertical (b) f remains unchanged but  increases.
wall with a negligible rebound. If the speed of (c)  remains unchanged but f decreases.
water from the jet is ‘v', the diameter of the jet is (d)  remains unchanged but f increases.
‘d' and the density of water is ‘', then the force
exerted on the wall by the jet of water is- 42. The diameter of a wire is reduced to one-fifth of
 2  2 2 its original value by stretching it. If its initial
(a) d v (b) d v resistance is R, what would be its resistance after
4 4
 2 2  2 2 reduction of the diameter ?
(c) d v (d) d v R R
8 2 (a) (b)
625 25
(c) 25 R (d) 625 R
38. Two blocks A and B of masses 8 kg and
2 kg respectively, lie on a horizontal frictionless 43. An object of mass ‘m’ moving along a straight line
surface as shown in the figure. They are pushed with a velocity ‘u’ collides with a heavier mass ‘M'
by a horizontally applied force of 15 N. The force and gets embedded into it. If the compound system
exerted by B on A is of mass (m + M) keeps moving in the same
direction then which of the given options is true ?
A
8 kg (a) The kinetic energies before and after collision
15 N B
2 kg are same.
(b) The kinetic energy after collision is
(a) 1.5 N (b) 3.0 N
(c) 4.5 N (d) 6.0 N 1
 M  m  u2 .
2
39. A beaker half-filled with water is put on a platform (c) There will be a loss of kinetic energy equal to
balance which is then set to zero. A 800 g mass is
immersed partially in water using a spring balance 1 m 2u 2
as shown in the figure. If the spring balance reads 2 ( M  m)
300 g, what will be the reading on the platform (d) There will be a loss of kinetic energy equal to
balance ? 1 Mm
u2
2 ( M  m)

44. A vessel is filled with oil as shown in the diagram. A

ray of light from point O at the bottom of vessel is
incident on the oil-air intergace at point P and grazes
the surface along PQ. The refractive index of the oil
is close to
(a) 1.41
air p Q
(b) 1.50
(c) 1.63
(d) 1.73 oil 17 cm

(a) 200 g (b) 300 g

(c) 500 g (d) 800 g O
12 cm

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45. A charged particle placed in an electric field falls 47. The sum of all the possible remainders, which can
from rest through a distance d in time t. If the be obtained when the cube of a natural number is
charge on the particle is doubled, the time of fall divided by 9, is
through the same distance will be (a) 5 (b) 6
(a) 2t (b) t (c) 8 (d) 9
t t
(c) (d) 48. When a polynomial p(x) is divided by
2 2 x –1, the remainder is 3. When p(x) is divided by x
– 3, the remainder is 5. If
46. AB is a long wire carrying a current I1, and PQRS r (x) is the remainder when p (x) is divided by (x –
is rectangular loop carrying current I2 (as shown l) (x – 3), then the value of r (–2) is
in the figure). (a) –2 (b) –1
B
Q R (c) 0 (d) 4

49. For what value of p, the following pair of linear

equations in two variables will have infinitely
l2 many solutions?
l1 px + 3y – (p – 3) = 0
12x + py – p = 0
P S (a) 6 (b) –6
A
(c) 0 (d) 2
Which among the following statements are correct?
(a) Arm PQ will get attracted to wire AB, and the 50. Two quadratic equations x2 – bx + 6 = 0 and x2 – 6x
arm RS will get repelled from wire AB. + c = 0 have a common root. If the remaining
(b) Arm PQ will get repelled from wire AB and roots of the first and second equations are positive
arm RS attracted to weir AB. integers and are in the ration 3 : 4 respectively,
(c) Forces on the arms PQ and RS will be unequal then the common root is
and opposite. (a) 1 (b) 2
(d) Forces on the arms QR and SP will be zero. (c) 3 (d) 4
(a) only (a) (b) (b) and (c)
(c) (a) and (c) (d) (b) and (d)

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