SAMPLE PAPER SYLLABUS 2021-22 CLASS

Total Questions : 50
9 Time : 1 hr.
PATTERN & MARKING SCHEME
(1) General (2) Current (4) Achievers
Section Affairs (3) Life Skills
Awareness Section
SOF INTERNATIONAL GENERAL No. of Questions 30 10 5 5
KNOWLEDGE OLYMPIAD
Marks per Ques. 1 1 1 3

SYLLABUS
Plants and Animals, Our Environment, Science and Technology, India and the World, Social Studies, Language, Literature and Media, Sports, Quantitative
Aptitude and Logical Reasoning, Current Affairs, Life Skills (Empathy, Effective Communication, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Coping with Stress,
Decision Making, Problem Solving, Interpersonal Skills, Managing Emotions, Self-awareness).
Achievers Section : Higher Order Thinking Questions from the above given Syllabus.

1. SAARC is a regional intergovernmental (A) Doing badly

organisation and geopolitical union of (B) Doing well
nations in South Asia. Which of the following (C) A metal company
countries is not a member state of SAARC? (D) A small company.
(A) India
6. The “Western Ghats” in Maharashtra are also
(B) Nepal
known as ________.
(C) Maldives
(A) Nilgiris
(D) Myanmar
(B) Sahyadri Hills
2. Abuja is the capital city of _________. (C) Cardamom Hills
(A) Nigeria (D) None of these
(B) Mali
(C) Chad 7. Which of the following Sony products was
(D) Morocco originally sold in Britain under the name
‘Stowaway’?
3. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar won the Nobel (A) Compact disc
prize in 1983.What was his field of study? (B) Walkman
(A) Evolution of apes (C) Playstation
(B) DNA structure (D) TV
(C) Micro financing
(D) Evolutionary stages of massive stars 8. When you are the captain of a teamsport such
as soccer, it is important ______.
4. ‘Lord of the Flies’ is a Nobel prize winning (A) To tell the team about your credential and
English novel written by William Golding. What establish your leadership position early on
is the book Lord of the Flies about? (B) To take full advantage of good qualities
(A) School boys on the desert island of teammates so that the team performs
(B) A girl falling through a rabbit hole into a
consistently
fantasy world.
(C) To make promises of rewards, later tweak
(C) A round trip around the world
team rules to explain why the promises
(D) None of these
cannot be kept
5. If you are buying a stock (or equity) of a (D) That you respond to expectation of
company at a premium to face value it means teammates and express positive expectation
the company is from them

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9. Bacteriophage is a virus that infects and kills Ratna award (1996-1999), Arjuna award
various bacteria. How are they going to be useful (1990) and Padma Shri award (2001).
to us in future? ‘Y’ is the youngest Grand Slam Champion of
(A) They are being tried as an agent to
all time and won women’s doubles title at the
strengthen the ozone layer.
age of 15 years and 9 months. Together they
(B) They are being tried as an alternative
source of fuel. won the 2015 Wimbledon mixed doubles title.
(C) They are being tried as a therapy against Identify ‘X’ and ‘Y’ respectively.
drug resistant strains of bacteria. (A) Leander Paes and Martina Hingis
(D) They are being tried as a lubricant. (B) Leander Paes and Martina Navratilova
10. ‘ X ’ i s t h e r e c i p i e n t o f I n d i a ’s h i g h e s t (C) Roger Federer and Cara Black
sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel (D) Roger Federer and Elena Vesnina

SPACE FOR ROUGH WORK

ANSWERS
1. (D) 2. (A) 3. (D) 4. (A) 5. (B) 6. (B) 7. (B) 8. (D) 9. (C) 10. (A)

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