Vedantu Scholarship Admission Test (VSAT) 2018 – Sample Questions

Section A - MAT

1. Jubeda moves eastward and then turns left. Now she moves 10 m and turns right. Which
direction is she facing now?
Options:
(a) East
(b) West
(c) North
(d) South

2. A man is performing yoga with his head down and legs up. His face is towards the west.
In which direction will his left hand be?
Options:
(a) North
(b) South
(c) East
(d) West

3. Solve: aab _ cc _ de
Options:
(a) bc
(b) cb
(c) ac
(d) ca

4. In the given figure follow a logic sequence. Choose the figure from the answer figures,
which follow the same logical sequence.

Options:
(a)

(b)
 (c)

(d)

5. Keyboard : Computer :: ? : ?
Options:
(a) Chapter : Bookmark
(b) Steering : car
(c) Lawyer : law
(d) City : village

6. In a certain code, ‘JUMP’ is written as ‘39%4’, and ‘MEALS’ is written as ‘%2*7@’.

How would ‘PULSE’ be written in that code?
Options:
(a) 493@2
(b) 4*7@2
(c) 479@2
(d) 497@2

7. If ‘FISH’ is written as ‘EHRG’ in a certain code, how would ‘JUNGLE’ be written in that
code?
Options:
(a) ITMFKD
(b) ITNFKD
(c) KVOHMF
(d) TIMFKD

8. My father has two brothers. The youngest has two sons and one daughter, the elder one
has one son and two daughters and the remaining one has three sons. If my father has four
nephews, how many cousins (brothers) have I got?
Options:
(a) 6
(b) 4
(c) 7
(d) 5
9. Eight persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting in two lines facing each other. Each
line has four persons. A is sitting between F and G and facing towards north between D
and B. H is at the just right of G.
Who is sitting just opposite or exactly facing C?
Options:
(a) F
(b) G
(c) A
(d) E

10. Two positions of a dice are shown below. Which number will appear on the face opposite
to the face with the number 5?

Options:
(a) 2/6
(b) 2
(c) 6
(d) 4
 Section B - SAT

11. Two bodies A and B having masses in the ratio 1:2 are in uniform circular motion along
two concentric circular paths. The angular velocity of A is four times that of B. If the
centripetal force on both of them are equal find the ratio of difference in the radii to the
smaller radius.
Options:
(a) 1:2
(b) 6:1
(c) 7:1
(d) 8:1

12. An open pipe of length 12 cm in its fundamental mode vibrates in resonance with the first
overtone of a closed organ pipe of length 13.5 cm, which is filled with some gas. If the
velocity of sound in air is 320 ms 1 , find the velocity of sound in the unknown gas?
Options:
(a) vg  240ms1
(b) vg  350ms1
(c) vg  440ms1
(d) vg  320ms1

13. Write the following steps of an experiment in a sequential order, to establish that a
circular current carrying wire creates a magnetic field around it.
(i) Sprinkle iron filings on the cardboard and switch on the circuit.
(ii) Make two holes on a piece of cardboard covered with white paper. Pass this copper
wire through the two holes of a cardboard.
(iii) Take a copper wire and bend it in the form of a circle.
(iv) Now connect the ends of the copper coil to a battery with a rheostat and a switch in
series.
(v) You observe that the iron filings arrange themselves in concentric circles.
Options:
(a) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv) (v)
(b) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i) (v)
(c) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii) (v)
(d) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i) (v)

14. Which of the following is true?

Options:
(a) In an endothermic equilibrium reaction, activation energy required for a forward
reaction is higher than that for a backward reaction.
(b) To an endothermic equilibrium reaction, activation energy required to forward reaction
is lower than that for a backward reaction.
 (c) Activation energy required for both forward and backward reaction is same in
equilibrium.
(d) No activation energy is required for an exothermic backward equilibrium reaction.

15. Which of the following salts can produce only two types of radicals?
Options:
(a) NaKCO3
(b) CaOCl2
(c) NH 4 HSO4
(d) Na  NH 4  HPO4

16. The weight of an empty China dish is 39 g and when a saturated solution of potassium
nitrate is poured into it, its weight is 108 g at 50 C . After evaporating the solution to
dryness, if the weight of the dish along with the crystals is 72 g then the solubility of
potassium nitrate at 50 C is _____.
Options:
(a) 83.9
(b) 95.6
(c) 91.6
(d) 87.4

17. If the roots of the quadratic equation ax2  bx  c  0 are  and  , then the equation
whose roots are  2 and  2 is
Options:
(a) a 2 x 2   b2  2ac  x  c 2  0
(b) a2 x2  b2 x  c2  0
(c) a 2 x 2   b2  2ac  x  c 2  0
(d) a 2 x 2   b2  2ac  x  c 2  0

18. If log 2
x  log x  log x  ...... upto 7 terms = 1016, the find the value of x.
2 2

Options:
(a) 4
(b) 16
(c) 64
(d) 2
19. Using all the letters of the word PROBLEM how many words can be formed such that the
consonants occupy the middle place?
Options:
(a) 3000
(b) 4200
(c) 720
(d) 3600

20. A bag contains 5 black balls, and 7 green balls. Two balls are drawn simultaneously at
random, what is the probability that both are different in colour?
Options:
(a) 17/33
(b) 35/132
(c) 5/66
(d) 35/66
Answers:
1. (a)
2. (a)
3. (a)
4. (a)
5. (b)
6. (d)
7. (c)
8. (b)
9. (c)
10. (c)
11. (c)
12. (a)
13. (b)
14. (a)
15. (c)
16. (c)
17. (a)
18. (b)
19. (d)
20. (d)