Punjab GrouP of ColleGes

ECAT
Pre-1st Year 2020
Entry Test - Session II
Time Allowed:100 Min.
Marks:400

PHYSICS
1. A 150 m long train is moving with a uniform velocity of 45 km h-1. The time taken by the
train to cross a bridge of length 850 m is:
A. 56 s B. 80 s
C. 68 s D. 92 s
2. A ball of mass 5 kg is dropped from height of 78.4 m, the time taken by the ball to hit the
ground is:
A. 2 s B. 8 s
C. 4 s D. 16 s
3. A mass accelerates uniformly when the resultant force acting on it:
A. Is zero
B. Increases uniformly with respect to time
C. Is constant but not zero
D. Is proportional to the displacement of the mass from a fixed point
4. A fan rotates at constant angular velocity of 10 rad s-1. The torque acting on it is:
A. Maximum B. Zero
C. Minimum D. Negative
5. Torque will not be zero if:
A. Moment
 
arm is zero B. Force passes through pivot
C. r and F are perpendicular D. All of these
6. The direction of torque in earth considering it to be an inertial frame of reference is:
A. Anti-clockwise B. Clockwise
C. Along axis of rotation D. Has no torque



 ˆ 
7. The line of action of force F  i  2j N passes through the point whose vector is ˆj  kˆ 
m. The moment of F about the origin in N m is:
A. 2i  j B. ˆi  ˆj  kˆ
C. 2iˆ  ˆj  kˆ D. ˆi  2ˆj  kˆ
8. Why it is better to use longer spanner rather than to short one to tighten a nut on a bolt?
A. Less friction is present
B. Less force is to be exerted
C. Less turning effect is required on the spanner
D. None of these
9. Torque is counter part of ___________ for rotational motion:
A. Moment of inertia B. Linear momentum
C. Force D. Angular momentum

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3  
10. The torque in a body will be times of maximum value if “” between r and F is:
2
A. 45 B. 60
C. 30 D. 90
11. A body is said to be in equilibrium if it is:
A. At rest B. Moving with uniform velocity
C. Moving with variable velocity D. Both “A” and “B”
12. Essential characteristic of equilibrium is:
A. Momentum equals to zero B. K.E equals to zero
C. Acceleration equals to zero D. Velocity equals to zero

13. Torque due to centripetal force is:

A. Zero B. Infinity
C. Negative D. Positive
14. A body will be in translational equilibrium if:
A.    0 B.  F  0
C.  Fx  0 D.  Fy  0
15. A force F is applied to a beam at a distance d from a pivot. The force acts at an angle  to
a line perpendicular to the beam:

Which combination will cause the largest turning effect about the pivot?

F d 
A. Large Large Large
B. Large Large Small
C. Small Small Large
D. Small Large Small
16. Magnitude of torque acting on a body determines:
A. Linear acceleration B. Momentum
C. Mass of body D. Angular acceleration
1  
17. Torque acting on a body will be times the maximum torque if angle between r and F
2
is:
A. 30o B. 60o
C. 90 o D. 45o
18. When the direction of both “r” and “F” is reversed then?
A. Direction of torque changes
B. Magnitude of torque changes
C. Torque does not change
D. Both direction and magnitude of torque changes

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19. When both moment arm and force are halved the torque will become:
A. Four times B. Quarter
C. Half D. Double
20. What is the ratio of 1 Gm/1 m?
A. 10-3 B. 10-18
C. 10 -7 D. 1015
21. The measurement of physical quantity may be subject to random errors and to systematic
errors. Which statement is correct?
A. Random errors are always caused by the person taking the measurement
B. Systematic error cannot be reduced
C. Random errors can be reduced by taking the average of several measurements
D. Systematic errors can be reduced by taking the average of several measurements
22. The most basic quantities that can be used to describe the physical world are:
A. Force, Length, Time B. Current, Temperature, Mass
C. Mass, Length, Time D. Temperature, Mass, Length
23. Which set of the prefixes gives values in increasing order?
A. Pico, Mega, Kilo, Tera B. Tera, Pico, Micro, Kilo
C. Pico, Micro, Mega, Giga D. Giga, Kilo, Milli, Nano
24. In an experiment, the uncertainty in the value of a frequency is 2%. Furthermore, the
uncertainty in the wavelength of wave is 1%. The uncertainty in wave speed is:
A. 3% B. 5%
C. 4% D. 6%
25. The factor 10-9 may be expressed as:
A. 10-3n B. 103k
6
C. 10 a D. 10-6m
    
26. For torque   A  B , now if A is along –Y-axis and B along –X-axis then direction of
torque must be along:
A. Z-axis B. –Z-axis
C. X-axis D. Y-axis
27. Two forces, each of 10N, act at a point P as shown. The angle between the directions of
the forces is 120.
10 N

120
10 N
P
What is the magnitude of the resultant force?
A. 5N B. 10N
C. 17N D. 20N

28. When we have a vector A  2iˆ  3jˆ then:
A.    B.   180  
C.    D. Both “A” & “B”

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    
29. Two vectors A and B are added to give vector R  A  B . The relation to find magnitude

of vector R is:
A. R  A  B B. R  A  B
C. R  A 2  B2 D. R  A 2  B2  2ABcos 
30. When two vectors to be added have minimum angle then their resultant can be written as
________ and is a ___________.
A. R  A  B, minimum B. R  A  B, maximum
C. R  A  B, maximum D. R  A  B, minimum

Mathematics
31. If two square matrices A and B of same order are such that A  O and B  O . Then:
A. AB  O B. AB  O
C. AB  O D. AB may be null matrix
 
10
2 3 1    28 
32. If A    and B   1  . Given that AB    . Find the values of P and W :
1 w 2  p  24 
 
A. 5, 4 B. 5, 4
C. 5,4 D. 5, 4
33. Find the value of  for which the following system does not possess a unique solution
x1  4x2   x3  2 ; 2x1  x2  2 x3  11 and 3x1  2x2  2x3  16 :
A.   6 B.   6
C.   6 D.   0
34. Use Crammer’s rule to find x2 if 3x1  x2  x3  4 ; x1  x2  2x3  4 and
x1  2x2  x3  1 . Then:
A. x2  1 B. x2  1
C. x2  2 D. x2  2
35. The solution of the quadratic equation x  7 x  10  0 is:
2

A. 3, 4 B. 3, 4

C. 2,5 D. 2, 5
36. The homogeneous system of linear equation x1   x2  0 and x1  x2  0 has non-trivial
solution if:
A.   0 B.   1
C.   1 D.   0
37. Find the set of values of x for which  x  6   x :
2

A. 4  x  9 B. x  4 or x  9
C. 4  x  5 D. 4  x  9

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38. The solution of the equation 22 x  2  5  2 x   1 :
A. 0, 2 B. 0
C. 2 D. 1, 2

4x 24 x
39. Solve the equation 5 x  3 x :
2 8
A. x  2 B. x  7
C. x  7 D. x  2
1 1
40. Solve the equation x 2  x 4  6  0 :
A. 16 B. 81
C. 16,81 D. 16,9
1 x 1 x
41. Solve the equation 4 4  10 :
 1 1
A.   ,  B. 2,2
 3 3
 1 1
C.   ,  D. 3,3
 2 2
1  2x
42. Solve the double inequality 2   1, x  R :
3
A. 1  x  3.5 B. 1  x  3
C. x  1 or x  3.5 D. x  3.5

43. The equation 2 x 4  3 x 3  4 x 2  3 x  2  0 remains unchanged when x is

replaced by:
1
A.  x B.
x
1
C. 2x D. 
x
44. The trivial solution of the system x1  x2  0, x1  x2  0 :
A. 1,0 B.  0,1
C. 1,1 D.  0,0 
45. The roots of the equation x  2 x  2  p will real and distinct if:
2

A. p  1 B. p  1
C. p  1 D. p  1
46. The three roots of x3  7 x 2  4 x  12  0 are:
A.  1, 6, 2  B.  1, 2, 6
C.  1, 2, 6  D.  1, 2, 6 

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47. The values of a and b if f  x   2 x  ax  bx  9 has a factor x  3 but leaves a
3 2

remainder of 8 when divided by x  1 are:

A.  1, 18 B.  1, 18
C.  1, 18 D.  1, 18
48. For what value of k , 2 x  4 x  k  0 has exactly one root:
2

A. k  2 B. k  2
C. k  1 D. k  1
49. Find h, if the roots of the equation x  hx  10  0 differ by 3 :
2

A. h  4 B. h  7
C. h  1 D. h  3
1 1
50. If ,  are the roots of 4 x 2  5 x  6  0 . Then 2  2 
 
23 25
A. B.
36 36
13 23
C.  D. 
36 36
3 3
51. If ,  are the roots of 5 x 2  x  2  0, form the equation whose roots are and :
 
A. 2 y 2  3 y  45  0 B. 2 y 2  3 y  45  0
C. 2 y 2  3 y  45  0 D. 2 y 2  3 y  45  0
52. The sum of the roots of the equation 𝟐𝒙𝟐 + 𝒌𝒙 − 𝟑 = 𝟎 is:
A. −𝑘 B. 𝑘
C. D. −

53. If  ,  are the roots of the equation x 2  kx  12  0 such that     1, the value of k is:
A. 0 B. 5
C. 1 D. 7
54. Solve the system 3x  y  4, 3x  y  52 :
2 2

A. 1,1 ,  3, 5  B. 1,1 ,   1, 7 
C. 1,1 ,  3, 5  ,  1, 7  D.  3, 5  ,  1, 7 
55. The length of a rectangle is 4cm more than its breadth. If area of the rectangle is 45cm 2 .
Find its sides:
A. L  5, B  9 B. L  4, B  8
C. L  9, B  5 D. L  11, B  7

56. To complete a job, A and B take 4 days working together. A alone takes twice as long
as B alone to finish the same job. How long would each one alone take to do the job
respectively:
A. 12 days, 6 days B. 6 days, 12 days
C. 4 days, 8 days D. 8 days, 4 days

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57. A number consist of two digits whose product is 18 . If the digits are interchanged, the
new number becomes 27 less than the original number. Find the number:
A. 72 B. 63
C. 36 D. 45
x
4
58. Solve the simultaneous equations y
 1024 and 32 x  9 y  243 :
256
1 1
A. x  3, y   B. x  3, y  
2 2
1 1
C. x  3, y   D. x  3, y 
2 2

The augmented matrix to the echelon form of a system of linear equations is given:
1 0 0  2 
0 1 0  1
0 0 0  2 
Answer the following TWO questions:

59. The rank of augmented matrix is:

A. 1 B. 2
C. 3 D. 0
60. The system of linear equations has:
A. Infinite number of solutions B. Finite number of solution
C. No solutions D. Unique solutions

CHEMISTRY
61. J.Berzellius determined the __________ of the elements
A) Atomic Number B) Atomic mass
C) Atomic volume D) Atomic size
62. Which one has highest atomicity?
A) Ozone B) Sulphur
C) White Phosphorus D) Oleum
63. All are macromolecules EXCEPT
A) Starch B) Hemoglobin
C) Cellulose D) Sucrose
64. How many times hemoglobin is heavier than hydrogen gas
A) 68000 B) 17000
C) 34000 D) 16000
65. More convenient method used for filtration is
A) Ordinary filter paper B) Fluted filter paper
C) Gooch crucible D) Sintered glass crucible
66. During paper chromatography stationary phase is
A) Paper B) Glass
C) Alumina D) Water

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67. Chromatography is classified into partition and adsorption chromatography on the basis
of
A) Solvent B) Solute
C) Stationary phase D) Mobile phase
68. Repeated extraction using small portion of solvent is more
A) Rapid B) Reliable
C) Efficient D) Convenient
69. Unit of retardation factor is
A) m-1 B) cm
C) mm D) No unit
70. Identify isoelectronic species
A) H+1, He+2, Li+2 B) Li+1, Na+1, K+1
-1 +1
C) F , Na , Cl -1 D) S-2, K+1, Cl-1
71. Which one is true about number of isotopes
A) Ca = 6 B) Cd = 11
C) Sn = 9 D) Ni = 3
72. The number of elements that form 50%of earth crust
A) 4 B) 5
C) 6 D) 8
73. In mass spectrometer strength of current which appears in electrometer gives
information about
A) Relative atomic mass B) Relative abundance of isotopes
C) Number of isotopes D) All of these
74. Which element has highest %age of oxygen?
A) CH3OH B) H2O
C) CO D) CH2O
75. Absorption of H2O and CO2 in Mg(ClO4)2 and 50% KOH are_____and ____process
A) Physical, Physical B) Physical, Chemical
C) Chemical, Physical D) Chemical, Chemical
76. 6 g sample of organic compound produces 2g CO2 and 1g H2O during combustion. What
is the %age of carbon
A) 40% B) 33%
C) 9% D) 15%
77. Choose the correct one to find empirical formula (E.F) of a compound
A) n × M.F B) n × E.F
E.F M.F
C) D)
n n
78. In a mass spectrometer, which ion will fall at maximum distance
A) 32S+ B) 33S+
C) S34 + D) 36S+
79. At constant electric field, if strength of magnetic field increase in mass spectrometer
then radius will
A) Increase B) Decrease
C) Remain same D) Unpredictable
80. 20.18 amu mass of Neon is called as
A) Average atomic mass B) Relative isotopic mass
C) Average molecular mass D) Relative molecular mass

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81. Most common solvent used for solvent extraction is
A) Carbon tetrachloride B) Chloroform
C) Water D) Ether
82. Mathematically, Boyle’s law can be represented as
1
A) P1V1 = P2V2 B) V 
P
C) PV = K D) All of these
83. In dm3 atm K–1mol–1 the numerical value of general gas constant R is
A) 1.989 B) 8.314
C) 0.0821 D) 62400
84. If the pressure and absolute temperature of 3 dm3 of a gas are doubled, its volume
would be
A) 2 dm3 B) 3 dm3
C) 6 dm 3 D) 12 dm3
85. The total pressure of a mixture of gases (non-reacting) is equal to the sum of the partial
pressures of all the gases present in same container is
A) Graham’s law B) Dalton’s law
C) Avogadro’s law D) Charle’s law
86. A container contains a gas at 1atm pressure, compressed to 1/3rd of its initial volume,
the pressure applied is
A) 1atm B) 2atm
C) 3atm D) 6atm
87. Out of the following pairs of gases, which will diffuse through a porous plug with the
same rate of diffusion?
A) NO, CO B) CH4, O2
C) NO2, CO2 D) NO, C2H6
88. 8g of methane and 2g of hydrogen are mixed and kept at 760 mm pressure at 273 K, the
total volume occupied by the mixture will be
A) 11.2 dm3 B) 22.4 dm3
C) 33.6 dm 3 D) 44.8 dm3
89. Which of the following gas will have the lowest rate of diffusion?
A) H2 B) N2
C) F2 D) O2
90. Under similar conditions which of the following gas will diffuse four times as quickly as
oxygen?
A) He B) H2
C) N2 D) SO2

ENGLISH
"This is the way, Jess," said my father, pointing with his cane across the deep valley below us. "I want
to show you something you've not seen for many years!" "Isn't it too hot for you to do much
walking?" I wiped the streams of sweat from my face to keep them from stinging my eyes.
I didn't want to go with him. I had just finished walking a half mile uphill from my home to
his. I had carried a basket of dishes to Mom. There were two slips in the road and I couldn't drive
my car. And I knew how hot it was. It was 97 in the shade. I knew that from January until April my
father had gone to eight different doctors. One of the doctors had told him not to walk the length
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of a city block. He told my father to get a taxi to take him home. But my father walked home five
miles across the mountain and told Mom what the doctor had said.
Forty years ago a doctor had told him the same thing. And he had lived to raise a family of five
children.
He had done as much hard work in those years as any man.
I could not protest to him now. He had made up his mind. When he made up his mind to do
a thing, he would do it if he had to crawl. He didn't care if it was 97 in the shade or 16 below zero.
I wiped more sweat from my face as I followed him down the little path between the pasture and
the meadow.
Suddenly he stopped at the edge of the meadow, took his pocket knife from his pocket, and
cut a wisp of alfalfa. He held it up between him and the sun.
"Look at this, Jess!" he bragged. "Did you ever see better alfalfa grow out of the earth?"
"it's the best looking hay I've ever seen any place," I said, "I've not seen better looking alfalfa even
in the Little Sandy River bottoms!"
"When I bought this little farm everybody around here said I'd end up with my family at the
country poor farm if I tried to make a living here," he bragged again. "It took me thirty years to
improve these old worn-out acres to make them do this!"
"I like these woods, Jess," my father said. "Remember when we used to come here to hunt for
squirrels? Remember when we sat beneath these hickories and the squirrels threw green hickory
shells down at us? The morning wind just at the break of day in August was so good to breathe. I
can't forget those days. And in October when the rabbits were ripe and the frosts had come and
the hickory leaves had turned yellow and when the October winds blew they rustled the big leaves
from the trees and they fell like yellow rain drops to the ground! Remember," he said, looking at me
with his pale blue eyes, "How our hounds, Rags and Scout, would make the rabbits circle! These
were good days, Jess! That's why I remember this mountain."
"Is that what you wanted to show me?" I asked.
"Oh, no, no," he said as he began to climb the second bluff that lifted abruptly from the flat
toward the sky. The pines on top of the mountain above us looked as if the fingers of their long boughs
were fondling the substance of a white cloud. Whatever my father wanted me to see was on top of
the highest point of my farm. And with the exception of the last three years, I had been over this point
many times. I had never seen anything extraordinary upon this high point of rugged land. I had seen
the beauty of many wild flowers, a few rock cliffs, and many species of hard and soft-wood trees.
Only twice did my father stop to wipe the sweat from his eyes as he climbed the second steep bluff
toward the fingers of the pines. We reached the limbless trunks of these tall straight pines whose
"branches reached toward the blue depth of the sky, or the white cloud was now gone. I saw a clearing,
a small clearing of not more than three-fourth of an acre in the heart of this wilderness right on the
mountain top.

91. Which of the following can be a suitable title of the passage?

A. A lunatic old man B. How to punish an unruly son
C. A passionate old man D. A farmed land
92. The day when the father and son visited the clearing was
A. Hot B. Pleasant
C. Rainy D. Unpredictable
93. How many years ago did the doctor advise the old man to take rest?
A. Ten B. Twenty
C. Thirty D. Forty
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94. What did the old man cut with his pocket knife?
A. A sapling B. A flower
C. A wisp of alfalfa D. A tomato
95. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. Jess's father was retired from Army.
B. The old man followed his doctors' advice all his life.
C. The old man asked his son for help in plantation.
D. Thirty-years labour of the old man proved fruitful.

PASSAGE# 02
He got up from the stump and wiped the raindrops of sweat from his red-wrinkled face with
his big blue bandanna.
"And something else, Jess," he said, motioning for me to follow him to the upper edge of the
clearing, "you won't understand until you reach three score and ten! After these years your time is
borrowed. And when you live on that kind of time, something goes back. Something I cannot
explain. You go back to the places you knew and loved. See this steep hill slope." He pointed down
from the upper rim of the clearing toward the deep valley below. "Your mother and I, when she
was nineteen and I was twenty-two cleared this mountain slope together. We raised corn, beans,
and pumpkins here," he continued, his voice rising with excitement - he talked with his hands, too.
"Those were the days. This wasn't the land one had to build up. It was already here as God had made
it and we had to do was to clear the trees and burn the bush. I ploughed this mountain with cattle
the first time it was ever ploughed. And we raised more than a barrel of corn to the shock. That's
why I came back up here. I went back to our youth. And this was the only land left like that was."
"And, Jess," he bragged, "regardless of my threescore years and ten, I ploughed it. Ploughed it with
a mule! I have, with just a little help, done all the work. It's like the land your mother and I used
to farm here when I brought my gun to the field and took home a mess of fox squirrels every
evening."
I looked at the vast mountain slope below where my mother and father had farmed. And I could
remember, years later, when they farmed this land. It was on this steep slope that my father once
made me a little wooden plough. That was when I was six years old and they brought me to the field
to thin corn. I lost my little plough in a furrow and I cried and cried until he made me another
plough. But I never loved the second plough as I did the first one.
Now, to look at the mountain slope, grown up with tall trees, many of them big enough to
have sawed into lumber at the mill, it was hard to believe that my father and mother had cleared this
mountain slope and had farmed it for many years. For many of the trees were sixty feet tall and
the wild vines had matted their tops together.
"And, Jess, "he almost whispered, "the doctors told me to sit still and to take life easy. I
couldn't do it. I had to work. I had to go back. I had to smell this rich loam again. This land is not
like the land I had to build to grow alfalfa. This is real land. It's the land that God left. I had to
come back and dig in it. I had to smell it, sift it through my fingers again. And I wanted to taste
yams, tomatoes, and potatoes grown in this land."
From this mountaintop I looked far in every direction over the rugged hills my father and
mother had cleared and farmed corn, maize, and cane. The one slope they hadn't cleared was the
one from which my father had cleared his last, small patch.

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96. Which of the following represents the feelings of the old man regarding his plantation?
A. He considered it a wastage of time.
B. He was proud of his plantation.
C. He wanted to earn money by selling it.
D. He wanted his son to inherit it from him.
97. Why did the son at the age of six cry?
A. He didn’t want to go to the clearing
B. He had lost his toy.
C. He didn’t want to play with the toy plough.
D. His didn’t like to grow plants.

98. Who had cleared the mountain slope?

A. The old man and his wife
B. The old man and his son
C. The slope was already clear
D. The old man alone
99. Why didn't the old man follow the advice of the doctors?
A. Because he wanted to work hard
B. Because he was lazy
C. Because he didn’t believe in doctors
D. Because he had bad past experience with doctors
100. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. The old man took the easy path to go to the top.
B. The old man had firm trust in God.
C. The old man felt relieved on the fruit of his toil.
D. The vegetables that the old man grew in his secret garden.

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