Model Questions : SSC Combined Graduate Level Exam

SSC Combined Graduate Level Exam: 2012 (Tier-2)

Paper – I (Held On 16.09.2012)

Quantitative Abilities

1. There are 200 questions on a 3 hour examination. Among 200 questions, 50 are Science. He spent twice, as much time on each Mathematics questions as for each other question. How many minutes did he spend on Mathematics questions?
  1. 100
  2. 60
  3. 36
  4. 72
2. The remainder when 919 + 6 is divided 8 is
  1. 5
  2. 7
  3. 2
  4. 3
3. The least five-digit perfect square number which id divisible by 3, 4, 5, and 8 is
  1. 10800
  2. 10201
  3. 14400
  4. 32400
4. Which of the following numbers does not fit into the series?
14, 19, 29, 40, 44, 51, 59, 73
  1. 44
  2. 29
  3. 59
  4. 51
5. What will be the remainder when 19100 is divided by 20?
  1. 3
  2. 1
  3. 19
  4. 20
6. A toy factory manufactured a batch of electronic toys. If the toys were packed in boxes of 115 each, 13 boxes would not be filled completely. If the boys were packed in boxes of 65 each, 22 such boxes would not be enough to pack all of them. Coincidentally, in the end, the toys were packed n in boxes containing n toys each, without any remainder. The total number of toys was
  1. 1444
  2. 1454
  3. 1424
  4. 1434

8. Complete the series: 7, 26, 63, 124, 215, 342, __?__
  1. 391
  2. 421
  3. 481
  4. 511

9. A woman sells to the first customer half her stock of apples and half an apple, to the second customer half an apple and half of her remaining stock and so also to a third and to a fourth customer. She finds that she has now 15 apples left. How many had she at first?
  1. 125
  2. 255
  3. 250
  4. 155
10. A and B can complete a job in 24 days 1 working together. A alone can complete it in 32 days. Both of them worked together for 8 days and them A left. The number of days B will take to complete the remaining job is
  1. 64
  2. 128
  3. 16
  4. 32
11. In a factory, there are equal number of women and children. Women work for 6 hours a day an children and 4 hours a day. During festival time, the work load goes up by 50%. The government rule does not allow children to work for more than 6 hours a day. If they are equally efficient and the extra work is done by women, then extra hours of work put in by women every day are
  1. 4
  2. 9
  3. 5
  4. 3
12. A and B each working alone can do a work in 15 days and 25 days respectively. They started the work together, but B left after some time and A finished the remaining work in 7 days. After how many days from the start did B leave?
  1. 7
  2. 9
  3. 3
  4. 5
13. A and B started a business with Rs. 20,000 and Rs. 35,000 respectively. They agreed to share the profit in the ratio of their capital C joins the partnership with the condition and lays Rs. 2,20,000 as premium for this, be shared between A and B. This is to divided between A and B in the ratio of

  1. 9 : 10
  2. 10 : 9
  3. 10 : 1
  4. 1 : 10
14. A can complete a work in 20 days and B 30 days. A worked alone for 4 days and the B completed the remaining work along with C in 18 days. In how many days can working alone complete the work?
  1. 72
  2. 90
  3. 12
  4. 68
15. A pipe can fill a cistern in 12 minutes and another pipe can fill it in 15 minutes, but third pipe can empty it in 6 minutes. The first two pipes are kept open for 5 minutes in the beginning and then the third pipe also opened. Number of minutes taken empty the cistern is
  1. 42
  2. 45
  3. 38
  4. 22
16. Brothers A and B had some savings in the ratio 4 : 5. They decided to buy a gift for their sister, sharing the cost in the ratio 3 : 4. After they bought, A spent two-third of his amount while B is left with Rs. 145. Them the value of the fit is
  1. Rs. 140
  2. Rs. 175
  3. Rs. 70
  4. Rs. 105
17. The taxi charges in a city contain fixed charges and additional charge.km. The fixed charge is for a distance of upto 5 km and additional charge/km thereafter. The charge for a distance of 10 km is Rs. 350 and for 25 km is Rs. 800. The charge for a distance of 30 km is
  1. Rs. 900
  2. Rs. 950
  3. Rs. 800
  4. Rs. 750
18. The marks of 3 students A, B and C are in the ratio 10 : 12 : 15. If the maximum marks of the paper are 100, then the marks of B cannot be in the range of
  1. 70 – 80
  2. 80 – 90
  3. 20 – 30
  4. 40 – 50
19. The average of the test scores of a class of ‘m’ students is 70 and that of ‘n’ students is 91. When the scores of both the classes are combined, the average is 80. What is n/m?
  1. 10/13
  2. 10/11
  3. 11/10
  4. 13/10
20. The average salary per head of all workers of an institution is Rs. 60. The average salary per head of 12 officers is Rs. 400. The average salary per head of the rest is Rs. 56. Then the total number of workers in the institution is
  1. 1062
  2. 1060
  3. 1030
  4. 1032
21. A cricketer played 80 innings and scored an average of 99 runs. His score is in the last inning is zero run. To have an average of 100 at the end, his score in the last innings should have been
  1. 60 runs
  2. 80 runs
  3. 10 runs
  4. 1 run
22. A man spends an average of Rs. 1,694.70 per month for the first 7 months and Rs.1,810.50 per month for the next 5 months. His monthly salary if he saves Rs. 3,084.60 during the whole year is
  1. Rs. 1,000
  2. Rs. 2,000
  3. Rs. 2,400
  4. Rs. 3,000
23. A and B undertake to do a piece of work for Rs. 2,200. A alone can do it in 8 days, while B can do it in 6 days. With the help of C, they complete it in 3 days. Find C’s share.
  1. Rs. 150
  2. Rs. 100
  3. Rs. 450
  4. Rs. 300
24. By selling an article at 80% of it marked price, a trader makes a loss of 10%. What will be the profit percentage if he sells it at 95% of its marked price?
  1. 5.9
  2. 12.5
  3. 6.9
  4. 5
25. By selling an umbrella for Rs. 30, a shopkeeper gains 20%. During a clearance sale, the shopkeeper allows a discount of 10% of the marked price. He gain during eh sale season is
  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 7
  4. 7.5
26. What is the maximum percentage discount (approximately) that a merchant can offer on his marked price so that he ends up selling at no profit or loss, if he initially marked his goods up by 40%?
  1. 33.5%
  2. 28.5%
  3. 60%
  4. No discount
27. A shopkeeper marks the prices at 15% higher than the original price. Due to increase in demand, he further increase the price by 10%. How much percentage profit will he get?
  1. 20
  2. 24.5
  3. 25
  4. 26.5
28. From a vessel containing 100 l of wine, 10 l are drawn out and an equal amount of water is added. From the mixture, 10 l is again drawn out and same quantity of water is added. What is the final ratio of wine and water?
  1. 91 : 9
  2. 81 : 19
  3. 80 : 20
  4. 90 : 10
29. From each of two given numbers, half the smaller number is subtracted. After such subtraction, the larger number is 4 times as large as the smaller number. What is the ratio of the numbers?
  1. 4 : 1
  2. 4 : 5
  3. 5 : 2
  4. 1 : 4
30. Men, women and children are employed to do a work in the proportion of 3 : 2 : 1 and their wages as 5 : 3 :2. When 90 men are employed, total daily wages of all amounts to Rs. 10,350. Find the daily wage of a man.
  1. Rs. 115
  2. Rs. 75
  3. Rs. 45
  4. Rs. 57.50
31. A sells an article to B making a profit of 1/5 of his outlay. B sells it to C, gaining 20%. If C sells it for Rs. 600 and incurs a loss of 1/6 of his outlay, the cost price of A is
  1. Rs. 720
  2. Rs. 800
  3. Rs. 600
  4. Rs. 500
32. A man had a certain amount with him. He spent 20% of that to buy an article and 5% of the remaining on transport. Then he gifted Rs. 120. If he is left with Rs. 1,400, the amount he spent on transport is
  1. Rs. 95
  2. Rs.80
  3. Rs. 76
  4. Rs. 61
33. The population of a town is 3,11,250. The ratio between women and men is 43 : 40. If there are 24% literate among men and 8% literature among women, the total number of literature persons in the town is
  1. 56,800
  2. 99,600
  3. 41,800
  4. 48,900
34. In an examination, 52% of the candidates failed in English and 43% failed in Mathematics. If 17% failed in both the subjects, then the percentage of candidates, who passed in both the subjects, was
  1. 25
  2. 22
  3. 23
  4. 21
35. In a election there were only two candidates. One of the candidates secured 40% of votes and is defined by the other candidate by 298 votes. The total number of votes polled is
  1. 1490
  2. 1500
  3. 745
  4. 1460
36. P and Q are 27 km away. Two trains with speeds of 24 km/hr and 18 km/hr respectively start simultaneously from P and Q and travel in the same direction. They meet at a point R beyond Q. Distance QR is
  1. 48 km
  2. 36 km
  3. 126 km
  4. 81 km
37. A boat covers 12 km upstream in 3 hours, while it covers 36 km upstream and 24 km downstream in hours. What is the speed of the current?
  1. 2 km/hr
  2. 2.5 km/hr
  3. 1.5 km/hr
  4. 1 km/hr
38. Average rainfall on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday is 420.5 cm and average on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday is 330.5 cm. If the ratio of rainfall for Monday and Friday is 20 : 21, find the rainfall in cm on Monday and Friday.
  1. 1700, 1740
  2. 1682, 1762
  3. 1800, 1890
  4. 1600, 1680
39. The average of 5 consecutive integers starting with ‘m’ is n. What is the average of 6 consecutive integers starting with (m + 2)?

40. A manufacture sells an article to a wholesale dealer at a profit of 10%. The wholesale dealer sells it to a shopkeeper at 20% profit. The shopkeeper sells it to a customer for Rs. 56,100 at a loss of 15%. Then the cost price of the article to the manufacture is
  1. Rs. 50,000
  2. Rs. 55,000
  3. Rs. 25,000
  4. Rs. 10,000
41. A loss of 19% gets converted into a profit on 17% when the selling price in increased by Rs. 162. The cost price of the article is
  1. Rs. 360
  2. Rs. 540
  3. Rs. 450
  4. Rs. 600
42. A man purchased 150 pens at the rate of Rs. 12 per pen. He said 50 pens at a gain of 10%. The percentage gain at which he sell the remaining pens so as to gain 15% of the whole outlay is

43. A dealer sold two types of goods for Rs. 10,000 each. On one of them, he lost 20% and the other he gained 20%. His gain or loss percent in the entire transaction was
  1. 4% gain
  2. 4% loss
  3. 2% loss
  4. 20% gain
44. The cost price of 40 articles is the same at the selling price of 25 articles. Find the gain %
  1. 15%
  2. 75%
  3. 65%
  4. 60%
45. Water flows at a rate of 10 meters per minute from a cylindrical pipe 5 mm in diameter. How long will it take to fill up a conical vessel whose diameter at the base is 40 cm and depth is 24 cm?
  1. 48 mins 15secs
  2. 55 mins
  3. 51 mins 12 secs
  4. 52 mins 1 sec
46. The three perpendicular distances of three sides of an equilateral triangle from a point which lies inside that triangle are 6 cm, 9 cm and 12 cm respectively. The perimeter of the triangle is
  1. 55 Ö2 cm
  2. 53 Ö3 cm
  3. 42Ö2 cm
  4. 45 Ö3 cm
47. The area of aright-angled triangle is 34 cm2 and one of the sides containing the right angle is 6 cm. The altitude on the hypotenuse is
  1. 5.2 cm
  2. 12 cm
  3. 3.6 cm
  4. 4.8 cm
48. A cost of cultivating a square field at a rate of Rs. 135 per hectare is Rs. 1,215. The cost of putting a fence around it at the rate of 75 paise per metre would be
  1. Rs. 900
  2. Rs. 1,800
  3. Rs. 360
  4. Rs. 810
49. The area of a trapezium is 384 cm2. IF its parallel sides are in the ratio 3 : 5 and the perpendicular distance between them is 12 cm, the smaller of the parallel sides is
  1. 30 cm
  2. 36 cm
  3. 20 cm
  4. 24 cm
50. The perimeter of the triangular base of a right prism is 60 cm and the sides of the base are in the ratio 5 : 12 : 13. Then its volume will be (height of the prism being 50 cm)
  1. 5400 cm3
  2. 9600 cm3
  3. 6000 cm4
  4. 6600 cm3

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