NTSE Practice Sheet

1. Select the one which is different from others.

(1) Book (2) Paper (3) Pencil (4) Pen
2. If ‘DATE' is coded as ' EBUF' how will you code " BRASS"? (1) (2)

(1) CSBTT (2) RQATB (3) CSBTA (4) CBATR

3. If ‘tee see pee’ mean ‘Drink fruit juice’ ‘See kee lee’ means
‘juice is sweet’ and ‘lee ree mee’ means ‘He is intelligent’ (3) (4)
which word in that language means ‘Sweet’ ?
(1) See (2) Kee (3) lee (4) Pee 8. In an examination, a student scores 4 marks for every
4. A and B started from a fixed place. A moves towards North correct answer and loses 1 mark for every wrong answer. If
and after walking 3 km turns to his right and covers 4 km. B he attempts in all 60 questions and secures 130 marks, the
moves towards west and walks 5 km and then turns to his number of questions he attempts correctly, is –
(1) 35 (2) 38 (3) 40 (4) 42
right and walk 3 km. Now how far A and B from each other?
9. Engineer is related to Machine in the same way as Doctor
(1) 5 km (2) 9 km (3) 8 km (4) 4 km is related to –
5. Study the following diagram find out the value of 'X' ? (1) Hospital (2) Body
(3) Disease (4) Medicine
DIRECTIONS (Qs. 10 to 12) : In each group there is some
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relationship. Try to understand that relationship and select correct
X answer.

40 2 5 6 6 7 4 8
8 10. 12 21 ?
4 5 10
4 (1) 22 (2) 30
(3) 32 (4) None of these
(1) 36 (2) 29 (3) 10 (4) 28
3 15
1 3 5 7 2 6
6. Which fraction comes next in the sequence , , , ,? 25 441
2 4 8 16
11. 10 289 ? 13
9 10 11 12 7 12
(1) (2) (3) (4)
32 17 34 35
(1) 25 (2) 125 (3) 156 (4) 625
7. A figure marked as transparent sheet is given and followed
by four answer figures. One out of these four options
resembles the figure which is obtained by folding A2 C4 E6
transparent sheet along the dotted line. This option is your
answer. 12. G3 I5 ?
Transparent Sheet M5 O9 Q14
(1) J15 (2) K8 (3) K15 (4) L10
13. Select from alternatives the figure (X) that exactly fits in
the main figure to complete its original pattern.
Answer Figures

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 19. What is the profession of E ?
(1) Doctor (2) Jeweller
(3) Manager (4) None of these
20. How is A related to E ?
? (1) Brother (2) Uncle
(3) Father (4) Grandfather
(X) 21. Which of the following is one of the pairs of couples in the
family ?
(1) AB (2) AC
(1) (2)
(3) AD (4) Cannot be determined.

22. A man travelled a distance of 50 km on his first trip. On a

(3) (4)
later trip, travelling three times as fast, he covered 300 km.
14. Which of the following meanings of the arithmetical signs Compare the times he took.
will yield the value ‘zero’ for the expression given below– (1) 1 : 2 (2) 2 : 3
200 × 100 + 300 × 200 – 10 ÷ 2 + 40 (3) 3 : 4 (4) 7 : 9
(1) + means –, – means ×, × means ÷, ÷ means + DIRECTIONS (Qs. 23 and 24) : In the following questions, two
(2) + means –, – means ÷, × means +, ÷ means × pairs of similarly related words are given. Select the related word
(3) + means ×, – means –, × means ÷, ÷ means + from the given alternatives and complete the second pair.
(4) + means ÷, – means +, × means –, ÷ means × 23. Mumbai : Mararashtra : : Jaipur : .........
DIRECTIONS (Qs.15 & 16) : Find out the missing number. (1) Kolkatta (2) Gujarat
(3) Rajasthan (4) Kerala
15. 13, 35, 57, 79, 911, ?
24. 3 : 11 : : 7 : ?
(1) 1110 (2) 1112 (3) 1113 (4) 1315
16. 325, 259, 204, 160, 127, 105, ? (1) 34 (2) 39 (3) 46 (4) 51
(1) 94 (2) 96 (3) 98 (4) 100 25. If BOMBAY is written as MYMYMY, how will TAMIL
NADU be written in that code ?
(1) TIATIATIA (2) MNUMNUMNU
17. At a farm, there are hens, cows and bullocks, and the
keepers to look after them. There are 69 heads less than (3) IATIATIAT (4) ALDALDALD
legs; the number of cows and hens is the same and there is DIRECTIONS (Qs. 26 and 27) : ‘A + B’ means ‘A is the son of B’;
one keeper per ten birds and cattle. The total number of ‘A – B’ means ‘A is the wife of B’; ‘A × B’ means ‘A is the brother
hens plus cows and bullocks, and their keepers does not of B’, ‘A ÷ B’ means ‘A is the mother of B’ and ‘A = B’ means ‘A is
exceed 50. How many cows are there ? the sister of B’.
(1) 16 (2) 14 (3) 12 (4) 10 26. What does P + R – Q mean ?
18. In the numbers from 100 to 1000, how many times digit 1 (1) Q is the father of P (2) Q is the son of P
comes at the ten’s place ? (3) Q is the uncle of P (4) Q is the brother of P
(1) 9 (2) 10 (3) 90 (4) 900 27. What does P × R ÷ Q mean?
DIRECTIONS (Qs. 19 to 21) : Read the following information (1) P is the brother of Q (2) P is the father of Q
carefully and answer the questions given below it. (3) P is the uncle of Q (4) P is the nephew of Q
(1) There is a group of six persons A, B, C, D, E and F from a
DIRECTIONS (Qs.28 and 29) : Anita, Mahima, Rajan, Lata and
family. They are physiologist, Manager, Lawyer, Jeweller,
Deepti are five cousins. Anita is twice as old as Mahima. Rajan is
Doctor and Engineer.
half the age of Mahima. Anita is half the age of Deepti and Rajan
(2) The doctor is the grand father of F who is a physiologist.
is twice the age of Lata.
(3) The manager D is married to A.
28. Who is the youngest?
(4) C, the Jeweller is married to the lawyer.
(1) Deepti (2) Rajan
(5) B is the mother of F and E.
(6) There are two married couples in the family. (3) Lata (4) Anita

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29. Who is the eldest?
(1) Deepti (2) Lata
(3) Anita (4) None of these

30. If the first three letters of the word COMPREHENSION are

reversed, then the last three letters are added and then the (1) (2) (3) (4)
remaining letters are reversed and added, then which letter DIRECTIONS (Qs.34 and 35) : Choose the figure which is different
will be exactly in the middle ? from the other.
(1) H (2) N (3) R (4) S
31. Four different positions of the same dice are shown below.
Find the number on the face opposite the face showing 4. 34.

4 3 5 2 (1) (2) (3) (4)

3 2 4 5 1 3 3 1
35.
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(1) 6 (2) 5 (3) 2 (4) 1 (1) (2) (3) (4)
DIRECTIONS (Qs.32 and 33) : Figures A and B are related in a 36. Choose the correct mirror-image of the Fig. (X) from amongst
particular manner. Establish the same relationship between figures the four alternatives (1), (2), (3) and (4) given along with it.
C and D by choosing a figure from amongst the four alternatives,

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which would replace the question mark in fig. (D)
32. PROBLEM FIGURES

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X

A B C D
ANSWER FIGURES
(1) (2) (3) (4)
DIRECTIONS (Qs.37 and 38) : In each of the following questions,
you are given a combination of alphabets and/or numbers followed
by four alternatives (1), (2), (3) and (4). Choose the alternative
which most closely resembles the water images of the given
(1) (2) (3) (4) combination.
37. NUCLEAR
33. PROBLEM FIGURES
(1) (2)
(3) (4)

? 38. BK5 0 RP 6 2
(1)
(3)
(2)
(4)
A B C D DIRECTIONS (Q.39) : Consider the three figures, marked X, Y,
ANSWER FIGURES and Z showing one fold in X, another in Y and cut in Z. From
amongst the four alternative figures 1, 2, 3 and 4, select the one
showing the unfolded position of Z.

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39.

X Y Z
(1) (2) (3) (4)
44. Roshan ranked 11 th from the top and thirty one from the
bottom in a class. How many students are there in the class?
(1) 42 (2) 43
(1) (2) (3) (4) (3) 41 (4) 40
45. In a queue, A is eighteenth from the front while B is sixteenth
40. The figure shows a pile of blocks. When taken apart, how
many blocks would there be ? from the back. If C is twentieth from the front and is exactly
in the middle of A and B, then how many persons are there is
the queue ?
(1) 45 (2) 46
(1) 10 (2) 14 (3) 18 (4) 20 (3) 47 (4) 48
41. What comes in the sequence ?
46. At what time between 7 and 8 o’clock will the hands of a

? clock be in the same straight line but, not together?

(1) 5 min. past 7
2
(2) 5 min . past 7
(A) (B) (C) 11
3 5
(3) 5 min . past 7 (4) 5 min . past 7
11 11
(1) (2) (3) (4) DIRECTIONS (Qs.47 to 50):
42. A figure (X) followed by four alternate figures (1), (2), (3)
and (4) such that fig. (X) is embedded in one of them. Given - T X L
Trace out the alternate figure which contains figure (X) as X T L
its part.
A L T

where L stands for ‘7’.

47. So, X stands for.
(X) (1) 2 (2) 7
(3) 4 (4) 3
48. A L T stands for
(1) 467 (2) 427
(3) 497 (4) 437
(1) (2) (3) (4) 49. T A X is represented by which of the following numbers ?
43. Find out which of the answer figures (1), (2), (3) and (4) (1) 426 (2) 436
completes the figure.
(3) 476 (4) 674
50. What is the third multiple of the sum of the second
row ?
(1) 13 (2) 39
(3) 26 (4) 52

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