Class 6-English

Q. The market is open on all days, other than Sundays and holidays. Which of the
words means ''other than''?
A. accept
B. except
C. expect
D. although
Q. Identify the statement which means exactly the SAME as the sentence given
below?
Mary said, ''Deepa, can I please borrow your chess board for a day?''
A. Mary requested Deepa to borrow her B. Mary wondered if Deepa would
chess board for a day.
borrow her chess board for a day.
C. Mary asked Deepa if she could borrow D. Mary told Deepa that she would
her chess board for a day.
borrow her chess board for a day.
Q. Choose the part of the sentence which shows a MISTAKE.

A. The length of my nails

C. to leave them

B. were too long

D. untrimmed

Class 6-Maths
Q: What is the length of the line shown next to the ruler?

A. 2.4 units
C. 3.4 units

B. 3 units
D. 3.6 units

Q: Which of these could be the approximate length of a regular, adult-sized bed?

A. 1000 cm
B. 200 cm
C. 15 m
D. 5 m

Q. The chart below gives the digits used in Hindu Arabic system and the
corresponding digits in Punjabi script.

How will you write three crores nine lakh five thousand and sixty in Punjabi script?
A.

B.

C.

D.

Q. How many crosses in the given figure are NEITHER in the circle NOR in the
triangle?

A. 2
C. 5

B. 3
D. 6

Q. Figures X and Y are drawn on a dot grid as shown here.

If the area of figure X is 1 square unit, what is the area of figure Y?

A. 10 square units
B. 11 square units
C. 12 square units
D. 13 square units
Q. The digit 2 is written as
In the same script, if

in Tibetan script.

which digit is
A. 2
C. 6

and

in Tibetan script?
B. 4
D. 8

Q. A cuboidal block is made up of smaller blocks as shown.

If the shaded blocks are removed, we can say that:

A. 5% of the solid is removed
B. 20% of the solid is removed
C. 25% of the solid is removed
D. 75% of the solid is removed.
Q. What is the length of the dark line next to the ruler below?

A. About 3. 5 units
C. About 4. 5 units

B. About 4 units
D. About 5 units

Q. Amita bought a gift-wrap paper to pack a small gift. She first cut the paper into
two equal pieces. Since the pieces still seemed too big, she cut one of those
pieces into two equal parts again and used one of them.
What decimal fraction of the gift paper did she use?
A. 0.25
B. 0.4
C. 0.3
D. 0.2

Class 6-Science
Rani wants to find out whether the temperature of water makes any difference to
the rate at which salt dissolves. She has planned 6 set ups P, Q, R, S, T and U.

Which TWO set ups above should she use?

A. P and R
C. P and T

B. Q and S
D. S and U

Q.
Which of the above are ANIMALS?
A. only the tiger
C. the tiger, grasshopper and pigeon

B. the tiger and pigeon

D. all five of them

Q. See the water-cycle shown alongside. What is the difference between the
water vapour that evaporates from rivers (P) and the water that evaporates from
the sea (Q)?

A. A
C. C

B. B
D. D

Q. When filtered through a funnel into a flask, a mixture of substances X, Y and Z

get separated as below:

- X stays in the filter
-Y and Z filter through and collect in the flask

What could X, Y and Z be?

A. A
C. C

B. B
D. D

Q. Suresh is growing two plants, placed as shown here in two identical cardboard
boxes.

What is he probably trying to test?

A. Is plant growth affected by the direction of B. How much light do plants need
light?
in order to grow?
C. Is plant growth affected by gravity?
D. Do plants grow better in a

garden or in a container?
Q. The moon revolves around the Earth. This causes
B. the moon to appear bright
A. day and night to be formed
throughout the night
D. the moon's visible shape to
C. seasons to occur on the Earth
change during the month
Q. Our bodies need iron to create haemoglobin. They get this iron from a variety
of food items. Certain foods increase the absorption of iron, while others inhibit
the absorption of iron as shown here:

Q. Which of the following food items is a good source of protein but an iron
absorption inhibitor?
A. Coffee
B. Broccoli
C. Leafy vegetables
D. Soy products

Class 6-Social Studies

Q. Located at the west end of the Rajpath in New Delhi with the India Gate at the
opposite end, this monument is the official residence of the President of India.
Which one of the following is it?

A.

B.

C.

D.

Q. Which of the following is an example of someone being deprived of the basic

facilities that the government should provide?
A. Sheetal lives in a village, they do not
B. Dharam did not study for three nights
have a water connection and the women
because the village shop does not have
in the village have to walk a lot to get
enough supplies of bulbs and tubelights.
water.
D. Rajiv did not get admission in St.
C. Ms. Mehra's milkman does not deliver
Stephen's College, he has to apply to
milk for two days because of the floods,
another college if he wants to continue
so she has to use milk powder instead.
his education.
Q. If you arranged these options in the order they happened, which one would
you put first?
A. Indus valley civilization
B. Akbar becomes emperor
C. Mauryan dynasty established
D. birth of Siddhartha Gautama

| Class 6 | English
1) The market is open on all days, other than Sundays and holidays. Which
of the words means ''other than''?
A. accept
C. expect

B. except
D. although

Correct Answer : B
2) Choose the option which has NO spelling mistake.
A. I have limited expirience in driving a four wheeler.
C. Drivers need to have a year's expierence to work

B. The drive was pleasant and a good exprience for

D. Experience tells us that insurance is a must for a

with us.

vehicles.

Correct Answer : D
3) ''After a huge fight, Neeti and Sheel had a heart-to-heart talk. Soon they
resolved all their misunderstandings.''
Replace the expression ''had a heart-to-heart talk'' with the MOST
SUITABLE option.
A. talked in soft tones with each other for a long time
C. honestly discussed their problems with each other

B. decided to stop fighting and become friends again

D. began to talk about other things to avoid getting a

Correct Answer : C
4) Which of the following sentences reflects the meaning of ''Absence
makes the heart grow fonder''?

A. When Farokh and Tanu are allowed to be absent from B. To keep our heart always healthy and happy, all
school, they feel happy and cheerful.
foods should be absent in our diet.
C. Young people are mostly fond of things that their
D. Manveen and Aasma used to fight, now they liv
friends have, even if they do not have them.
different cities and miss each other greatly.

Correct Answer : D
5) ''There were so many mistakes in my report that I had to start from
scratch!''
What does ''to start from scratch'' mean as used in the sentence above?
A. to start cutting out errors
C. to rewrite the untidy parts

B. to correct all the mistakes

D. to redo something completely

Correct Answer : D
6) Which of these sentences HAS a GRAMMATICAL ERROR?
A. There are many children's parks in our city.
C. We cross the road only at the zebra crossing.

B. The number of buses on the road are high.

D. People like to buy clothes that are fashionable.

Correct Answer : B
7) Complete the sentence given below with the OPPOSITE of ''vanish'' as
it is used here.
I thought that the new detergent would make the stains on my
clothes vanish. But to my dismay, I saw them _________ again once the
clothes were dry.
A. lighter
C. appear

B. strong
D. invisible

Correct Answer : C
8) Which of the following words has the same sound of ''i'' as in ''wrist''?
A. first
C. stick

B. kind
D. fright

Correct Answer : C
| Class 6 | Maths
1) 10 - 4 + 2 equals
A. 4
C. 10

B. 5
D. 14

Correct Answer : A
2) Tapan thinks of a number, doubles it and adds 50 to the answer. He gets the
answer 120. What was Tapan's original number?
A. 290
C. 35

B. 70
D. 20

Correct Answer : C
3)A prime number is a number, which is not completely divisible by any number
except 1 and itself.
Using only the information in the table given here, which of the given numbers
can we say with CERTAINTY, IS NOT a prime?
63

83

A. only 63
C. only 91

91

B. only 83
D. 63 and 91

Correct Answer : D
4) In Vidyamandir School, the duration of each period in the Junior Section is 20
minutes and in the Senior Section it is 35 minutes. Both bells ring together when
School starts at 10:30 am. The next time they ring together is at lunch time. At
what time does lunch break start?
A. 12:50 pm
C. 11:40 am

B. 12 noon
D. 12:30 am

Correct Answer : A
5) The length of each side of each SMALL square in this grid is 4 cm. The area of
this grid (in square cm) will be

A. 4
C. 16

B. 8
D. 64

Correct Answer : D
6) 4160 20 is equal to
A. 28
C. 280

B. 208
D. 2800

Correct Answer : B
7) How much does the box weigh?
A. 2 kg 5 g
C. 2 kg 500 g

B. 2 kg 50 g
D. 3 kg 500 g

Correct Answer : C
8) Prashant cuts a watermelon into 12 equal slices and eats 4 of them. If he was
to have the same portion of the watermelon for himself with the minimum number
of cuts, he should have made
A. three equal slices and taken one.
C. six equal slices and taken two.

B. four equal slices and taken one.

D. five equal slices and taken two.

Correct Answer : A
9) Between 1 and 50 (excluding both these) how many numbers are there which
will leave a remainder 1 when divided by 4?
A. 10
C. 13

B. 12
D. 15

Correct Answer : B
10) One thousandth part of 60 is
A. 0.006
C. 6.00

B. 0.60
D. 0.06

Correct Answer : D
11) 654312 and 76536 are both divisible by 8. Which of the following might NOT
be divisible by 8?

A. 654312 + 76536
C. 654312 x 76536

B. 654312 -- 76536
D. 654312 76536

Correct Answer : D
12) A cuboidal block is made up of smaller blocks as shown.
If the shaded blocks are removed, we can say that:
A. 5% of the solid is removed
C. 25% of the solid is removed

B. 20% of the solid is removed

D. 75% of the solid is removed.

Correct Answer : B
13) This is a special cube, which has numbers from 1 to 6 marked on its six
faces. (Each number is marked on exactly one face.) Also, the sum of each pair
of opposite faces is the same.
The number which can come on the face marked '?' is
A. 4 or 5
C. 2 or 6

B. 2 or 5
D. 4 or 6

Correct Answer : B
14) Two identical mangoes and a 250 g weight balance a 1 kilo weight on the
other pan of a weighing scale. What is the weight of each mango?

A. 375 g
C. 500 g

B. 750 g
D. 250 g

Correct Answer : A
15) A number when rounded to the nearest 100 gives 1200. When rounded to the
nearest 10, it gives 1250. What could the number be?
A. 1205
C. 1247

B. 1242
D. 1265

Correct Answer : C
16) The area of which of these is different from the other three?

A.

B.

C.
D.

Correct Answer : C
17) What symbol comes in the empty box to make the following statement true?
113 + 113 + 113 + 113 + 113 + 113
A. +
C.

113 - 113 = 113 X 4

B. D. none of the above

Correct Answer : B
| Class 6 | Science
1) Which of the following is/are method(s) of preserving food?
1. freezing of vegetables
2. making pickle with mangoes
3. making sauces with tomatoes
4. washing and cutting vegetables
A. only 2

B. only 2 and 3

C. only 1, 2 and 3

D. all of them

Correct Answer : C
2) Ashok took two identical potted plants and kept them in the garden. He
watered one plant regularly, but did not water the second plant at all. He noted all
the changes he observed in both the plants for 15 days.
Ashok conducted this activity to understand
A. if plants need sunlight to grow.
C. if the second plant needed water to grow.

B. if plants need water to grow.

D. if plants need air to grow.

Correct Answer : B
3) Which of the following 'life processes' is seen in animals but not in plants?
A. movement
C. growth

B. reproduction
D. Nourishment

Correct Answer : A
4) Some sharks have the ability to detect blood even in very tiny quantities from
more than a kilometre away.
They use one of the following senses for this. Which of the following could it be?
A. hearing
C. smell

B. sight
D. touch

Correct Answer : C

5) Shyam learnt at school that leaves have pores called 'stomata' on them. On
his way back home, he collected a variety of leaves. But he was unable to see
the pores.
Which of these instruments will help Shyam see the pores?
A
C.

B.
D.

Correct Answer : B
6) The best way to measure the exact length of this irregular solid (around the
edge) is:
A. by using a metre scale.
C. by using a piece of string.

B. by using a formula.
D. by using a piece of string and a metre scale.

Correct Answer : D
7) A box with some heavy objects has to be moved from one place to another.
Which of these would be the easiest way to move the box?

these would be the easiest way to move the box?

A. Pushing
C. Rolling over cylindrical
blocks

B. Pulling
D.carrying

Correct Answer : C
8) The concept that matches the definition 'the amount of matter in a substance'
is
A. weight
C. kilogram

B. mass
D. gravitational force

Correct Answer : B
9) Mohan went to a picnic spot. There was a little lake surrounded by trees. He
found a lot of people boating around in diesel boats. After a joy ride, when he sat
down to relax on the bank of the lake, he observed a lot of dead fish. The MOST
LIKELY reason for the dead fish is
A. The fish were old and therefore died.
C. Fish cannot live in polluted waters.

B. Fish cannot live in places having too many visitors.

D. There was not enough water in the lake for the fish.

Correct Answer : C
10) Bhoomi looked up at the night sky for 30 minutes. She saw something
moving slowly in the sky. At the end of 30 minutes, she could still see this object,
but its position had changed. Which of the following could it be?
1. a shooting star
2. a satellite
3. the Moon
4. a cloud
A. only 1
C. only 2, 3 or 4

B. only 2 or 4
D. all - 1, 2, 3 and 4

Correct Answer : C

11) Which of these is a chemical reaction?

A. Breaking a piece of chalk.
C. Slicing a piece of cork.

B. Dissolving sugar in water.

D. Rusting of iron.

Correct Answer : D
12) Ram gives his dog a piece of bread to eat. The dog picks it up and starts
eating. Which organ system of the dog is in action right now?

A. digestive system
C. nervous system

B. respiratory system
D. skeletal system

Correct Answer : A
13) The volume of the object immersed in water is
A. 10 ml
C. 30 ml

B. 20 ml
D. 40 ml

Correct Answer : A
14) In the simple electric circuit shown, the light will glow when ?in the picture
corresponds to
A. copper
C. cork

B. rubber
D. Plastic

Correct Answer : A
15) Preeti rubs her palms together. She feels them becoming warmer. This
happens because:
A. her palm is a good heat insulator.
C. there is increased blood circulation in the palm.

B. the friction between her palms produces heat.

D. her body is heated.

Correct Answer : B
16) Which of these number plates will still show a valid number when seen in a
mirror?
A. 3081
C. 8011

Correct Answer : C

B. 2901
D. 3663