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FOR ADMISSION TO
ALL BACHELOR DEGREE
PROGRAMS 2018
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
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 PART-I (ENGLISH) 5. Many of the new plastic items is made from
petrol.(correct answer is C: it should be are made)
Choose the correct preposition for the following blanks
A B C D
from the given options
Tenses: Fill in the blanks with the sentences with proper
1. Many poor people suffered ____ 30 Questions tense:
cold and hunger 20 Minutes 6. My uncle____________ until he was forty five.
(A) By (A) Was not married (correct answer)
(B) At (B) Was not marrying
(C) With (C) Didn’t get married
(D) From (correct answer) (D) Hadn’t married
Choose the correct option of synonym for the given DIRECT/INDIRECT: Choose a correct answer for the given
words: Direct/Indirect sentences given below:
2. PLENTIFUL 7. He said, “It may rain tonight.”
(A) Obnoxious
(B) Abundant (correct answer) (A) He predicted that it may rain tonight.
(C) Repulsive (B) He hoped that it may rain tonight.
(D) Lowly (C) He said that it might rain that night.
Choose the correct option of antonym for the given (correct answer)
words: (D) He said that it will be raining that night.
3. Calamity
ACTIVE/PASSIVE VOICE: Choose the correct option of
(A) Assess
Active/passive voice for the following sentences:
(B) Misfortune
(C) Calmness
8. He doesn’t break the plate.
(D) Prosperity (correct answer)
(A) The plate broken by him.
Pick the word from the given options with correct spelling:
4. (B) The plate was broken by him.
(A) Necessary (correct answer) (C) The plate has broken by him.
(B) Necasary (D) The plate is not broken by him. (correct
(C) Nacessary answer)
(D) Necaissary

Identify from the underlined word or phrase that needs to

be changed for the sentence to be correct:

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 PART-II (GENERAL KNOWLEDGE) PART-III (GENERAL SCIENCE)
1. The Islamic calendar begins with the
20 Questions 1. The chemical formula of Salt is: 20 Questions
month of:
10 Minutes (A) NaCO 10 Minutes
(A) Ramzan-ul-Mubarak
(B) NaHO
(B) Muharram-ul-Haram(correct answer)
(C) NaCl(correct answer)
(C) Zil Hajj
(D) NaN
(D) Rabi-ul-Awwal
2. Deficiency of Vitamin A causes:
2. Ghulam Muhammad Barrage is also known as:
(A) night blindness(correct answer)
(A) Indus Barrage
(B) Kandyaro Barrage (B) dumbness
(C) Kotri Barrage(correct answer) (C) deafness
(D) Guddu Barrage (D) All of these
3. Which of the following connects Pakistan and 3. The Ozone layer restricts
Afghanistan? (A) Visible light
(A) Khyber Pass(correct answer) (B) Ultraviolet radiation(correct answer)
(B) Bolan Pass (C) Infrared radiation
(C) Zoji La Pass (D) X-rays and gamma rays
(D) Nathu La Pass 4. Unit for measuring the amplitude of sound is:
4. HunzaVally is situated in: (A) Coulomb
(A) Punjab (B) Hum
(B) Balochistan (C) Decibel(correct answer)
(C) Khyber-Pakhtunkhua
(D) Cycles
(D) Gilgit-Baltistan(correct answer)
5. Which of the following is used in pencils?
5. The Capital city of Saudi Arabia is:
(A) Graphite(correct answer)
(A) Riyadh(correct answer)
(B) Silicon
(B) Doha
(C) Manama (C) Charcoal
(D) Muscat (D) Phosphorous
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PART-IV (SIMPLE MATHEMATICS) (A) 2.5%
(B) 25%(correct answer)
x 3x 5 x (C) 20%
1. If    18 , what is (D) 50%
2 2 2
the value of x? 6. Two apples and three mangoes cost Rs.86. Four
(A) 2
20 Questions
15 Minutes apples and one mango cost Rs.112. What is the cost
(B) 6 of an apple?
(C) 8 (A) Rs.35
(D) 4(correct answer) (B) Rs.30
(C) Rs.25(correct answer)
4 (D) Rs.20
2. 3 in decimal form is equal to:
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(D) 3.50

3. If the average of 11, 23 and k is 40, what is the value

of k? PART-V SIMPLE I.Q.
(A) 20
(B) 25 1. What is the missing number in the sequence 4, 8, 14,
(C) 35 22, ?
(D) 86(correct answer) (A) 36
10 Questions
(B) 28
(C) 26 15 Minutes
4. 13  5  16  (D) 32(correct answer)
(A) 3
(B) 5 2. A number that is one half of one quarter of one tenth of
(C) 4 (correct answer) 480 is:
(D) 6 (A) 24
(B) 16
5. A person bought one kilogram of apples for Rs.80 and (C) 12
sold for Rs.100. The percentage of profit of cost price (D) 8(correct answer)
he earned is:

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3. In Sun light, five clothes take one hour to dry. How
many hours it will take to dry ten clothes?
(A) One hour(correct answer)
(B) Two hours
(C) Three hours
(D) Four hours

4. Divide 40 by 1/2and add 5, you get:

(A) 85(correct answer)
(B) 50
(C) 25
(D) 10

5. Logically what will be the next shape?

(A) (B) (C) (D)

(Correct answer is B)

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