Name of the Organization : Concept Education
Name of the Exam : Concept Brainstorm Scholarship Test
Document Type : Previous Question Paper
Year : 2016
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Concept Brainstorm Scholarship Test :
Instruction :
** Total marks is 64.
** Total time is 120 minutes.
** All questions are compulsory.
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** Answers without explanations will not be evaluated.
** Explanations can be of mathematical, logical or analytical type.
** If you have used extra sheets for explanations get your sheets stapled with your answer boolket before submission.
** Try and make the answer book readable and comprehensible.
Note :
** All questions and their solutions will be explained post exam in the interactive session.
Q.1. Grilled Issue :
Paul’s iron grill was turning brownish. His father told him it was getting rusted. Apparently when iron is kept out in open for a long time, this phenomenon happens. Paul is still not sure what rust is and comes to you for help. You would tell him that rust is………..
(A) an element
(B) a mixture of iron, water vapour and oxygen
(C) a compound
(D) mixture of iron and dust
Q.2. Birthday Blast :
Tia had 8 best friends. They bought her a cake on her birthday and asked her to cut it. She was allowed to make three wishes, one wish after slicing the cake once. Suggest a way she can manage to cut the cake in 8 pieces by three slices?
Q.3. Lily, Not Potter :
Indian ponds are good for lily cultivation. A lily doubles itself every day, until it fills a certain pond on 30th day. How long will it take for two lilies to fill the same pond? (3)
Q.4. Direction Dilemma :
Dhruv is three years old and lives in Guwahati, Assam. One day he was out walking with his grandfather when he saw a travelling bus go past him. When he came back home, he drew the bus. The painting is shown below. Which way was the bus moving?
Q.5. The Burning Sensation :
You have two ropes; each burn for exactly 1 hour. You don’t have a clock or any device to calculate time. How can 45 minutes be accurately calculated using the equipments given to you? There are enough matchsticks but cutting the rope is not permitted. (3)
Q.6. Chemical Menace :
Two chemists walk into a restaurant. The waiter serving them is a student of Chemistry. The chemists are in a mood to flaunt their knowledge. The given conversation follows
Waiter: What will you have, Sir?
Chemist 1: I will have H2O
Chemist 2: I will have H2O too
He then brought their orders to them. On consumption,
Chemist 2 dies but Chemist 1 stays fine
What went wrong? (2)
Q.7. Deathly Hallows Gone Wrong :
An equilateral triangle and a circle share the same centre. Side length of the triangle is 5 units. Radius of the circle is 2 units. X and Y are the area of the shown shaded portions.Find (X – Y). (3)
Q.8. Super Villains :
The Amoeba boys were much more evolved than humans. To get rid of the chaos created by them, Professor X had to create Powerpuff Girls. Why did Professor X think that Amoeba are much more evolved than humans? (5)
Q.9. Sherlocked :
Sherlock is called upon on a crime scene. A woman has been killed and there are only three suspects to the murder, the three people who were present on the scene. Alice, the best friend of the woman, who was present for a night out.
The note was all Sherlock needed to find out who the killer was. Find who the killer was? (3)
Q.10. Project Infinity :
This is an infinite ladder circuit. Find the effective resistance between the points A & B