SAMPLE Paper 1

3 hrs.
TimeAllowed: [Easy Concept]
General Instructions:
Maximum Marks: 800
auestion
()The question paper comprises four
paper. All questions are compulsory.sections A, B, C and D.
There are 36
() tion-A -questio no. I to 20
Section-A question questions in the
question
all
questions contain
multiple choice questions and parts thereof
questions (MCQs), very short
eason type questions. Answers to these of one mark each. are
These
should be answer questions and assertion
Section-B question no. 21 to 26 are short
-
given in one word or one
sentence.
to these questions should in the
answer
range of 30 to 50 type questions, carrying 2 marks each. Answers
al Section-C question no. z/ 33 are short answer words.
these questions should in to type
to 80 words.questions, carrying 3 marks each. Answers
to
the range of 50
Section-D
() question
-
no. 34 to 36 are
-
to these questions should be in the long answer type questions carrying
range of 80 to 120 words.
5 marks each. Answer
s There is overall choice. However,
no
student has to attempt only one of the internal choices have been provided in some
( alternatives in such questions. A
Wherever necessary, neat and
properly labeled diagrams questions.
should be drawn.
SECTION-A
1. Name a device that helps to maintain a potential difference
Or
across a conductor.
Why is the series arrangement not used for
2. What is the
domestic circuits?
3. Which one of
magnification of the images formed by plane mirrors and
the following will why?
(a) Mango seed
undergo fastest bio-degradation?
(b) Wood (c) Mango peel
4. Out ofLi and K, which have stronger metallic (d) Mango pulp
5. Write suitable character and
why?
conditions necessary for seed
6. What is
emulsification? germination.
Or
Which pancreatic
enzyme is effective in digesting proteins?
7. Which enzyme present in saliva breaks
down starch?
8. Write two characteristics associated
9. Urine is with rancid food.
yellow in colour. Why?
Or
Why does bread taste sweet on
mastication?
0. What type of lens is an air bubble
11. inside water?
What is the role of decomposers in the environment.
nt?
Or
Why is it ssary to conserve our environment?
12. In
which part of alimentary canal
digestion does not occur?
Or
What is
alimentary canal?
ne
of our eyes that
part helps us to focus near and distant objects simultaneously.
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For question numbers 14, 15 and 16, two statements are given- one labeled Assers
labeled Reason (R). Select the correct answer to these questions from the
codesertion
fo(a), (A) and
given below: o), le) andut
(a) Both A and R are true, and R is correct explanation of the assertion.
(b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of the assertion.
() A is true, but R is false.
(d) A is false, but R is true.
14. Assertion: Iron displaces copper from copper sulphate solution.
Reason: Iron is more reactive than copper.
15. Assertion: Blind
spot is a small area of the
retina which is insensitive to
leaves th2 eye. light where the antic
ptic te .
Reason: There are no rods or cones present at the junction of optic nerve and retina in
16. Assertion: The maleness of
the eve
a child is determined by the Y' chromosome in
Reason: Human zygote.
offspring's sex is determined through father's sex chromosomes.
Or
Assertion: Human, frog and bird have
a common
ancestor.
Reason: Limbs of human, bird and frog are
Answer Q. No 17 20 contain five
homologous.
questions. sub-parts each. You are
expected to answer
any four sub-parts in thex
17. Read the
following and answerany four questions from 17
Mendel's experiments on () to 17 (v).
inheritance of traits.
Mendel used a number of visible contrasting
characters of garden x
pea like round/wrinkled
seeds, tall/short plants, RR
(round, green) (wrinkled, r YY
He made
white/violet flowers, etc. yellow
crosses between pea plants with different
characters; there were no halfway
characters. Only one of the
or
intermediate
in the parental traits appeared
F, generation. When the
F, plants were F1
self-pollinated, the F2 (round, yellow)
with both the traits. progeny consists of plants
When a cross is made
between a tall plant with F1
round seeds, with a short
the F,
plant with wrinkled seeds,
progeny plants were all tall with round
plants. When the F, plants are
F progeny consisted of some tallself-pollinated,
the F2
plants with round RRYY RRYyRYYRrYy
seeds and some short
plants with wrinkled seeds;
these two are the
parental types of combinations RRYy RRyyRyRry
of traits. 315 round, yellow
RrYY RYyY 108 round, green O
There were also some new combinations like talI
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plants with wrinkled seeds and short plants with wrinkled, yellow
RYy RYyy| Yy 32 wrinkled. greean 03
round seeds.
Independent inheritance of two separate556 seeds 16
traits, shape and colour of seeds
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 i) Which of the following type ot trait
(a) Dominant
appeared in F, generation?
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(b) Recessive
(d) None of these
which of the following type of trait remained hidden in
(a) Dominant F, generation?
(6) Recessive
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
which of the following trait you observed in F, progeny, when
(a) Dominant
F, plants were self pollinated?
b) Recessive
(c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None of these
Which of the following ratio of both traits obtained in F,
progeny?
(a) 9 : 3 : 3 : 1
6) 3:1
() 2:2 (d) None of these
()Which of the following genetic material is responsible for the inheritance of traits?
(a) Gene (b) DNA
(c) RNA (d) None of these
18. Read the following and answer any four questions from 18 (i) to 18 (v).
Study the table related to the values of electrical resistivities of some substances, in ohm-metre, at
20 °C are given as follows:
Iron Nichrome
Silver Copper Tungsten Mercury
1.60x 10 1.62x 10*5.2x10 94x10 10x10 10x10
substance is preferred to be used for electrical transmission lines?
) Which of the following
(a) Silver 6) Copper
() Tungsten (d) Iron
resistivity (p), resistance
between electrical
(7) Which of the following represent correct relationship
(R), area of cross-section (A) and length ()?
(a) p = RA (6) p = RA
pR
(d) A =
(c)p= IRA
metallic wire depends upon
u Electrical resistivity of a given
(b) its thickness
(a) its length of the material
(d) nature heating
(c) its shape use in the
heater element of electric
would advice to
material that vou
ichrome is the
device because
(a) It is an alloy of metals metals
s
resistivity is higher than that of its constituent temperature
burn easily at high
t neither gets oxidised nor
use in electrical wire
for
(d) All of these. will you prefer to
following
ut Cu, Fe, W and Hg which one of the
domesti
domestic use? (b) Fe
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(c) W
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a n s w e r
any
interschool
his inter
competition on
he pra
the practical
and in his
the
following
d i s c u s s i o n
his s c h o o l . On
that very ening, sis fah
curve plafaxther
Read a group for
19. in award
participated
to w o n
the
m o m e n t , Shyam
observed in a
Shyam happy p a r tticular
icular
light
and w a s
very
family
d i n n e r .
At a
side.
P e r s o n ' s
mobile
The na
e person d te
a his back about this.
day with
the
mobile
sitting
on
and
informed
th ankfiul to h
a person's
about it. Shyam
went to the
person
following
side ot
the plate Shyam
observed
this incident?
From
which one of the (6) South
(d) Inward curve
(a) North
C) Outward curve
like w h i c h of
the following tvna
plate was acting mirror?
part of the
curve
The
(b) Concave
()
(a) Convex
(d) None of these
(c) Plane
nature and size of image
formed by this mirror
the following
(in) Which of diminished 6) Real, erect, diminished
(a) Virtual, erect, diminished (d) None of these
(c) Inverted, erect, convex mirror of
An object is placed at a large distance in tront ot a adius of cunve
radiue e
(iv) behind the mirror?
How far is the image
(6) 40 cm
(a) 20 cm
(d) 80 cm
(c) 60 cm
at a distance of +15 cm is slowly moved towards the pole of a com
() An object
image will get
shortened and real (b) enlarged and real
a)
c) enlarge and virtual (d) diminished and virtual
20. Read the following and answer any four questions from 20 () to 20 (v).
A student fixes a sheet of white paper on a drawing board. He place a bar maget a
the 2
He sprinkles some iron filings uniformly around the bar magnet. Then he taps Dul
observes that the iron filings arrange themselves in a particular patterm.
) Inside the magnet, the field lines moves
(a) from north to south from south to north
(6)
(c) away from south pole (d) away from north pole
field?
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() Which of the following statement is not correct about the magnc
a) Magnetic field lines form a continuous closed curve.
6) Magnetic field line do not interest each other.
curve
(c) Direction of tangent at any point agnetic field line
on the magnetic e
magnetic field at that point. o r t h

pole
oft t
(4) Outside the magnet, magnetic field lines go from >o
th to
North dir
direc
North
(i) A current through a horizontal power line flows from to outh
magnetic field line 0.5m above it is sou
(a) North (6) South
(c)West (d) East
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aP produce magnetic field17
Which of
(iy)
(a) Bar magnet (6) Straight wire carrying current
coil carrying current (d) All of these
(c) Circular
is correct property of magnetic field lines?
Which of the following
field lines never intersect each other
(a) The magnetic
field lines are closed curve
(b) Magnetic
lines have both direction and magnitude
(c) Magnetic field
All of these
(b)
SECTION-B
solutions A, B and C have pH=0, 3 and 5 respectively.
(a) Three acidic
has the highest concentration of H* ions?
) Which solution ions?
has the lowest concentration of H"
(iü) Which solution Describe the process.
How sulphuric acid be diluted?
can concentrated
(b) Or
State reason for the following statements:
distilled water does not.
conducts electricity whereas hydrochloric acid does.
(a) Tap water turn blue litmus red
whereas dilute
chloride gas does not
(6) Dry hydrogen
What is their role in respiration?
far is the object placed
. What are stomata? forms an image 10 cm
from the lens. How
focal length 15 cm
. A concave lens of
from the lens?
Or mirrors.
formed by convex
of the images of
the object
LIst four specific characteristics are the properties
of elements placed
elements ? Why
of properties of
* What is meant by periodicity table similar?
in the same group of the periodic
S. (a) Why is carbon tetravalent? maximum extent and why?
to
exhibits the property of catenation
Which element
the generation?
26. (a) What is F generation? cannot be passed on to
next
knowledge
intelligence and
w h y traits such as
least two, that
SECTION-C
including at
label any six parts
heart and
27. Draw front view of
human
a
diagramof the to the heart
muscles.
Oncerned with arterial blood supply
Or
and label the
following parts
the structure of a nephron
Glomerul
28. (a)
Bowman's capsule, Renal artery.
statement:
metal is basic.
Give Suitable reason to justify the following solution Na
than .
but
neutral an aqueous than 7, less
Ar Solution of NaCI is
salts as 7, more
(6) Mensus solution of the following
n the pH aqueous
KCI, Na,CO,
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