Past Year Questions

Shown below are frames from a film sequence that follow the 180-degree rule in cinematography. Which option will replace the question mark?

Which option will replace the question mark?

Two different views of a sphere are shown below. Select the correct digital image that is mapped on the sphere.

Which option will fold into the pack shown in the image below?

Read the statements on rock-cut architecture and identify which one is true.

What is the internal mechanism for producing the wobbling head movement in the toy shown below? Assume that the toy needs to be mass manufactured.

If you are asked to draw the following four figures with the following constraints: They must be drawn in a single stroke (without lifting the pen from paper), and each line is drawn only once. Which of the options can be drawn?

A strip of stickers is shown in the figure. What is the result after all the stickers have been removed from it?

Three circles of radius 10 cm are drawn inside an equilateral triangle as shown below. The area of the red coloured region (in sq. cm., up to two decimal places) in the figure is ____.

What is the function of these objects?

Shown below is a flower. Which is the leaf of the plant to which the flower belongs?

An interactive space is a common space between entities. It offers scope for communication between those entities. In the figure below, each circular figure represents the plan of a house with a door opening. There are additional walls in some clusters. The house does not have windows. Five clusters (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) of such houses are shown below. If the clusters are arranged in an ascending order (lowest to highest) based on their potential for interactivity and communication within the cluster, which option is correct?

Figure 1 has been constructed by overlapping some alphabets. Assuming the alphabets may be rotated, how many alphabets from figure 2 cannot be overlapped to fit within figure 1?

Read the poem given below and identify the Rasa in it. Ashadha's ending on the mountain found Him weakened, gold ring slipping from his wrist, And mixed his pleasure when a cloud came down So playfully to hug the summit mist, As elephants in heat will butt the ground. In tears withheld he took that fall from grace, From wealth attending on the King of Kings. The otherworld that brimmed in cloudy air Was still discomfort when far longing brings A breath to hold him to that neck's embrace. With now the rainy month stood close at hand, To fresh Kutaja blooms he adds his plea And asks most courteously the cloud bring news Of welfare to his loved-one-words that she, Revived to hear of him, will understand.

Shown below are three thematic population age-sex pyramids of three countries. The horizontal axis represents population in millions and the vertical axis represents age cohorts for both male and female population. Which of the following statements is/are correct?

The image shown below is made up of triangles only, from which the central portion is missing. Identify the missing portion.

What number will replace the question mark?

Consider the configuration in the given figure. If rotating and flipping are not allowed and pieces given in an option need not be placed in the given sequence, which combination would complete maximum number of horizontal black rows?

With reference to the image below showing a ramp with labelled length and height, which of the statement(s) is/are false?

Five persons A, B, C, D and E scored different marks. B scored more marks than D and E only, while C has not scored the highest. Who scored the second highest marks?

Identify the correct representation of lighting for this scene, given that the lightening strike is the only light source.

P shows a basic schematic of how an airbrush works. In the options, the green sections are seals. Of these options, which of the design concepts of an airbrush will work continuously until the liquid in the container is exhausted up to the dotted line?

Two different views of a solid object are shown below. If viewed from a different direction as the arrows suggest, what would the view be?

Perform the following steps: Step 1: Start with x=1, y=2. Step 2: Replace x by x multiplied by y. Step 3: Replace y by y+1. Step 4: If y=5, then go to Step 6, otherwise go to Step 5. Step 5: Go to Step 2. Step 6: Stop. What is the value of x?

Which of the following is NOT a natural fibre?

Shutter speed is one of the parameters by which exposure of the image can be controlled. How does shutter speed control exposure?

A rolled yellow paper cylinder is rotating clockwise direction at a constant rate of 1 revolution / 60 seconds. A pencil is touching the paper cylinder and is moving from T1 to T2 in 10 seconds and stops for 10 seconds. Then it moves to T3 in next 40 seconds (total time=60 seconds) as shown in figure 2. What would be the graph on paper when it is unrolled?

A hollow cylinder is lit by sunlight at 45 degrees as shown on the left. If seen from a fixed point, which option is the closest representation of the lit area inside the cylinder?

Consider the following text by Katherine Hayles: "Nicolas S. Tzannes pointed out that whereas Shannon and Weiner define information in terms of what it is, MacKay defines it in terms of what it does. The formulation emphasizes the reification that information undergoes in the Shannon-Wiener theory. Stripped of context, it becomes a mathematical quantity weightless as sunshine, moving in a rarefied realm of pure probability, not tied down to bodies or material instantiations. When information is made representational, as in MacKay's model, it is conceptualized as an action rather than a thing. Verb-like, it becomes a process that someone enacts, and thus it necessarily implied context and embodiment. The price it pays for embodiment is difficulty of quantification and loss of universality." Based on the above text, which of the following statements is/are TRUE?

A painted solid is shown from two different directions. Which of the options can be the same solid seen from another direction?

The left image below shows Nandu's study room. The image is sliced in 9 equal parts. From the given options, find the correct set of images.

Shown below is a quadrant of a disc with cut-outs. Find the total number of cut-outs in the complete disc.

Shown below are 2 views of the same solid. Through which of the cutouts shown in the options, will the solid pass?

How many of the alphabets using the font shown below when flipped on the horizontal axis, can still be read as capital alphabets in the same font?

The compound interest on Rs 5,000 at 10% per annum for ________ (in years) is Rs 1655.

Shown below is a print roller. Which of the given option(s) is/are partly or fully printed using the roller?

Image P shows a portion of a larger photograph. Some operations have been done on that photograph using an image manipulation software. Image Q shows a portion of the resulting photograph. Identify the option(s) that specifies/specify the correct operations.

A contractor has a set of ceramic tiles of which one tile is shown on the left. Which of the options show(s) the pattern(s) created using this tile?

Which is the correct representation of the posture of a house lizard as it climbs a wall?

Which option represents the data in the pie-chart?

Match the animals (1, 2, 3, 4) with their respective footprints (P, Q, R, S).

A cube is dissected by one plane at 1/6 side length and one plane at 1/2 side length in each of the three dimensions of xy, yz and xz. How many cubes will be formed after dissecting the large cube?

A virus has two variants P and Q. Two treatments L and M were developed against variant P and Q and tested through four independent trials. Treatment L: 44 successes/50 against P, 81 successes/100 against Q, 125/150 total. Treatment M: 94 successes/100 against P, 31 successes/50 against Q, 125/150 total. Assuming both variants are equally prevalent and both treatments cost about the same, but a given patient can be treated with only one treatment, which of the options is/are true?

Given below is a folded sheet of paper with green colour on one side and red colour on the other side. Dotted lines represent the fold lines. Which option shows the correct fold lines when this sheet is unfolded?

Images of traditional products of certain states of India are shown below. Identify the correct set of states to which these belong. Names of the states are in a random sequence. The products are made out of clay, willow/wicker, wood and brass.

Identify the correct profile of the cricketer that corresponds to the given front pose.

When photographs are taken on bright sunny days, there is a possibility of an intense glare appearing in the photograph. Which action(s) can be taken to avoid the glare?

A 12cm x 12cm x 12cm wooden cube is painted and its four views are shown below. This cube is sliced into 64 smaller equal sized cubes of 3cm x 3cm x 3cm. How many of these small cubes will have exactly one green face and exactly one orange face in the same cube?

Five square pyramids are stacked as shown in the figure below with the bottom layer consisting of four pyramids in a 2 x 2 grid. If the bottom layer consists of pyramids in 6 x 7 grid, and they are stacked in a similar manner to its maximum height, how many pyramids will the formation contain?

Tile X was used to create a pattern which is seamless (without gaps) when arranged as shown in Y. Which tile(s) from the options will create a seamless pattern?