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(For Class-IX Students)

MENTAL ABILITY TEST (MAT)

Directions (Q.1 to Q.4) : Read the following information carefully and answer the question given below.
Six members of a family A, B, C, D, E and F are Psychologist, Manager, Advocate, Jeweller, Doctor and Engineer
but not in the same order
(i) Doctor is the grandfather of F, who is a psychologist
(ii) Manager D is married to A and F is son of C
(iii) C, who is a jeweller is married to advocate
(iv) B is the mother of F and E
(v) There are two married couples in the family
1. How is F related to E?
(1) Sister (2) Brother (3) Father (4) Mother
2. How is A related to E?
(1) Father (2) Grandmother (3) Wife (4) Grandfather
3. What is the profession of A?
(1) Manager (2) Engineer (3) Advocate (4) Doctor
4. Who are the two couples in the family?
(1) AD and CB (2) AB and CD (3) AE and DE (4) AC and BD
Directions (Q.5 to Q.9) : Read the following information carefully and answer the question given below.
Five Boys A, B, C, D and E, each having a different weights.
(i) A weights twice as much as B
(ii) B weights four and a half times as much as C
(iii) C weights half as much as D
(iv) D weights half as much as E
(v) E weights less than A but more than C
5. Which of the following is the lightest in weight?
(1) A (2) B (3) C (4) D
6. E is lighter in weight than, which of the other two boys?
(1) A, B (2) B, E (3) D, B (4) D, C
7. Which of the following boy is the heaviest in weight?
(1) A (2) B (3) C (4) D
8. B is heavier than, which of the following three boys?
(1) A, E, D (2) E, D, C (3) A, D, E (4) A, D, C
9. Which of the following represents the descending order of weights of the boys?
(1) A, B, D, E, C (2) B, D, E, A, C (3) C, E, D, A, B (4) A, B, E, D, C
10. A man rides his bike from point N towards North and goes 20 km straight then he takes a 45º turn to his
right and goes 20 2 km. Then he takes a 135º turn to his right and goes 60 km. And at last he takes another
135º turn to his right and goes 20 2 km and reaches the starting point. The area inscribed by the path of
the rider is
(1) 400 km2 (2) 440 km2 (3) 800 km2 (4) 840 km2
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Directions (Q.11 to Q.15) : In each of the following questions choose a correct option to complete the given series.
11. 6, 20, 95, 564, ?
(1) 3672 (2) 2560 (3) 3941 (4) 4244
12. 261 : 27 :: 282 : 64 :: 789 : ?
(1) 125 (2) 512 (3) 216 (4) 343
13. ab__ __ cd __ __ b __ cdab __
(1) cbdabc (2) cdabdb (3) bccdab (4) bcabcb
14. PRESENCE : TFSQDBMD :: LEARNING : ________
(1) BMFHSMFH (2) SBMFHMHF (3) SBFMFMHM (4) BFHMFMSB
15. ABD, DCH, IEL, PGP, __________
(1) YKT (2) UIP (3) UIT (4) WKP
16. Pointing to a photograph, Priya said “She is the only daughter of my mother's father”. How is Priya related
to the person in the photograph?
(1) Aunt (2) Daughter (3) Grandmother (4) Mother
Directions (Q.17 & Q.18) : Choose the odd one, out of the following options.
17. (1) 407 (2) 107 (3) 517 (4) 187
18. (1) MEDICAL (2) CLASSROOM (3) BECAUSE (4) ACTION
19. Rohan is facing towards South. He turns 135° in the clockwise direction and 315° in the anticlockwise direction.
In which direction is he facing now?
(1) East (2) North-East (3) North-West (4) North
20. In a certain code language if WEAR = 47, CUBE = 31, then what will be the code for WORK?
(1) 67 (2) 57 (3) 43 (4) 21
Directions (Q.21 to Q.23) : Six friends Amit, Bhavesh, Chetan, Dheeraj, Ekta and Farhan working in the same office
take different time to reach office. All of them take time in multiples of 5 in such a manner that the one who reaches
office the earliest, reaches in 5 minutes and the one who takes maximum time reaches office in 30 minutes. Dheeraj
takes more time than Ekta but less time than Amit. Amit reaches in 15 minutes. Bhavesh takes less time than
only Farhan.
21. Who amongst the following takes least time to reach the office?
(1) Farhan (2) Chetan (3) Ekta (4) Dheeraj
22. How many people take more time than Dheeraj?
(1) Two (2) One (3) Three (4) Four
23. How much time does Chetan takes to reach the office?
(1) 20 minutes (2) 10 minutes (3) 5 minutes (4) 30 minutes
24. If fourth day of a month is Monday, which of the following will be the fourth day from 23rd of that month?
(1) Monday (2) Tuesday (3) Wednesday (4) Saturday
25. Find the angle between the hands of a clock at 20 minutes past 4.
(1) 0° (2) 10° (3) 20° (4) 30°
26. Find the missing term in the series.
1600, 2400, ?, 5400, 8100
(1) 2800 (2) 3200 (3) 4800 (4) 3600
Directions (Q.27 & Q.28) : Study the following information carefully and answer the following questions
(p  q)
If p # q= and p*q = p2 – q2, then
(p  q)
27. The value of (5 # 3) * (2 # 1)
(1) 3 (2) 5 (3) 7 (4) 10
1
28. The value of (4 * 2) # [ (13 * 12) 2
*4]
(1) 5 (2) 3 (3) 10 (4) 7

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Directions (Q.29 & Q.30) : Find the water image of the following.

29.

(1) (2) (3) (4)

30.

(1) (2)

(3) (4)
Directions (Q.31 & Q.32) : There lives only one married couple in the house with their children and their siblings.
A is the son of C and B is the daughter of D. E is the sister-in-law of C.
31. What is the relation of E with D?
(1) Daughter (2) Mother (3) Wife (4) Sister
32. How many females are there in the family?
(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 1 (4) 4
Directions (Q.33 & Q.34) : In a row of 20 students, Raj is 13th from the left and Rahul is 12th from the right.
33. How many students are between Raj and Rahul?
(1) 7 (2) 5 (3) 3 (4) 4
34. If Raj is shifted 3 places towards right and Rahul is shifted 6 places towards right, then how many students
are in between them now?
(1) 3 (2) 2 (3) 0 (4) 1
35. Count the number of triangles in the given figure?

(1) 16 (2) 26
(3) 14 (4) More than 16 but less than 26
Directions (Q.36 & Q.37) : Find out the answer figure which will complete the blank space of the problem figure.

36.

(1) (2) (3) (4)

37.

(1) (2) (3) (4)

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38. In a certain code language, if red is called white, white is called orange, orange is called green and green is
called blue, then what is the colour of grass?
(1) Green (2) Red (3) White (4) Blue
39. In a certain pattern if 623 = 15, 225 = 9, then 923 = ?
(1) 14 (2) 18 (3) 12 (4) 21
40. Find the next term in the series
26, 36, 54, 60, ?
(1) 30 (2) 50 (3) 0 (4) 20
41. The next term in the following series is
3, 9, 27, 4, 16, 64, 5, 25, 125, 6, 36 ......
(1) 200 (2) 216 (3) 224 (4) 343
42. Which is the wrong term in the following series?
G4T, J10R, M20P, P43N, S90L
(1) G4T (2) J10R (3) M20P (4) P43N
43. The missing letter of the given letter series is
mnonopqop qrs______
(1) mnopqr (2) oqrstu (3) pqrstu (4) qrstuv
44. A man is facing towards west and turn through 45° clockwise, again 180° clockwise and then turns through
270° anti clockwise. In which direction is he facing now?
(1) West (2) North-west (3) South (4) South-west
45. Two positions of a dice are shown below

When two dots are at the top, how many dots will be at the bottom?
(1) 3 (2) 4 (3) 2 (4) 5
46. The age of a father 10 years ago was thrice the age of his son. Ten years later, the father’s age will be twice
that of his son. The ratio of their present ages is
(1) 8 : 5 (2) 7 : 3 (3) 5 : 2 (4) 9 : 5
47. The calendars for 1990 will similar as
(1) 1997 (2) 1999 (3) 2000 (4) 2001
48. If the given changes are made in signs and number, which one of the four equations would be correct?
Given changes : Signs ‘+’ into ‘×’ and vice versa, numbers ‘3’ into ‘7’ and vice versa
(1) 23 + 17 × 73 = 1241 (2) 37 + 73 × 12 = 112 (3) 23 × 17 + 37 = 428 (4) 23 + 17 × 73 = 788
49. If 2*6*8 = 43664
3*4*7 = 91649
then 5*7*9 = ?
(1) 251681 (2) 121614 (3) 356345 (4) 254981
50. If ‘A + B’ means ‘A is the father of B’, ‘A – B’ means ‘A is the wife of B’, A × B means ‘A is the brother of
B’, A  B means ‘A is the daughter of B’ . If P × R  Q which of the following option is true?
(1) P is the uncle of Q (2) P is the father of Q (3) P is the brother of Q (4) P is the son of Q

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