NSAT Sample Test

1)They __________ (not/go) to the concert tonight. (Present Tense)

A)is not going

B)went
C)will not got
D)aren't going
Correct Option: D

2)Choose the correct possessive form of the noun "child" in the sentence: "The toy belongs
to the _______."

A)childs
B)childs
C)children's
D)childrens'
Correct Option: B

3)Identify the correct sentence that uses a present perfect tense:

A)I will visit my grandparents next weekend.

B)She is baking a cake right now.
C)They have lived in this city for five years.
D)He runs every morning for exercise.
Correct Option: C

4)I __________ (not/understand) what you're saying. (Present Tense)

A)don't understand
B)didn't understand
C)didn't understood
D)not understand
Correct Option: A

5)Which of the following is an example of a comparative adjective?

A)good
B)better
C)best
D)well
Correct Option: B

6)He __________ (not/study) for the test. (Present Tense)

A)was not studying

B)isn't studying
C)am studying
D)studying
Correct Option: B

7)Choose the correct word to complete the sentence: "I _______ a book yesterday."

A)read
B)raeds
C)reading
D)have read
Correct Option: A

8)Identify the correct sentence that uses a past perfect tense:

A)I have finished my homework yesterday.

B)She will complete the project next week.
C)They had already left when we arrived.
D)He is going to the store later.
Correct Option: C

9)Identify the sentence with correct subject-verb agreement:

A)The group of students is going on a field trip.

B)The group of students are going on a field trip.
C)The group of students were going on a field trip.
D)The group of students be going on a field trip.
Correct Option: A

10)Which of the following sentences uses the correct form of the verb "to be"?

A)She don't like coffee.

B)They is going to the park.
C)I am studying for my exams.
D)I am studying for my exams.
E)He have finished his homework.
Correct Option: C

11)The following equation has how many real roots?

(x+1)^2 - x^2 = 0

A)1
B)2
C)3
D)4
Correct Option: A

12)The number of favourable occurrences are divided by the total number of possible
occurrences to calculate the:

A)Probability of an event
B)Total outcomes of an event
C)Sample space of an experiment
D)None of the above
Correct Option: A

13)The number of four-letter words that can be formed using the letters of the word
BARRACK is :
A)144
B)120
C)264
D)270
Correct Option: D

14)Out of 7 men and 3 women, a committee of 3 persons is to be formed. In how many

ways can it be formed selecting exactly 1 woman?

A)15
B)30
C)45
D)63
Correct Option: D

15)The respective ratio of the ages of Vimal and Aruna is 3:5, and the sum of their ages is
80 years. What will be the ratio of their ages in 10 years?

A)3:2
B)3:5
C)2:3
D)1:2
Correct Option: C

16)How is my mother's sister's brother's wife's child related to me?

A)Sister
B)Cousin
C)Daughter
D)Aunt
Correct Option: B

17)Pointing to a woman, Rajesh said,"Her father is the only son-in-law of my

father-in-law". How is Rajesh related to the woman?

A)Son
B)Father-in-law
C)Father
D)Grandson
Correct Option: C

18)In a certain code language:

'Cloud in sky' is written as ' xing tur lang'
'Blue color bench light' is written as 'kang sin phing'
' Sky is blue' is written as 'sin lang moro'

How will 'Sky blue color' be written in this code language?

A)Lang phing sin

B)Lang phing moro
C)moro phing sin
D)lang sin kang
E) Cannot be determined
Correct Option: E

19)I’m a male. If Rahul’s son is my son’s father, what is the relationship between Rahul and
me?

A)He is my brother
B)He is my uncle
C)He is my father
D)He is my sister
Correct Option: B

20)If A % B means that A is the wife of B;

A x B means that A is the mother of B;
A + B means that A is the father of B;
and A - B means that A is the brother B,
then which of the following means that A is the maternal grandmother of B?

A)A x N -S % B
B)A x N x S % B
C)A x S - N % B
D)A x N % S + B
Correct Option: D

21)You are my daughter, but I’m not your mother. Who says that?

A)Sister
B)Brother
C)Father
D)Uncle
Correct Option: C

22)In a certain code language, 'ORGANIZATION' is written as 'INAGRONOITAZ' . How

will 'DELIBERATELY' be written in that code language?

A)EBILEDYLETAR
B)YLETAREBILED
C)EBILDEYLETAR
D)RBILDEYLETAE
Correct Option: A

23)In a certain code language, ‘it be pee’ means ‘dogs are blue’, ‘sik hee’ means ‘large
horses’ and ‘pee mit hee’ means ‘horses are pigs’.
How is ‘large’ written in that code?

A)Hee
B)Sik
C)Pee
D)None of these
Correct Option: B
24)In a certain code language, ‘sea is deep’ means ‘213’, ‘sky is blue’ means ‘514’, and ‘sea
looks blue’ means ‘264’
What number is the code for ‘is’?

A)1
B)2
C)3
D)4
E)5
Correct Option: A

25)In the following questions, one term in the number series is wrong. Find the wrong term.
2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 34

A)8
B)13
C)20
D)34
Correct Option: D

26)Sara lives in a large city on the East Coast. Her younger cousin Marlee lives in the
Mid-west in a small town with fewer than 1,000 residents. Marlee has visited Sara several
times during the past five years. In the same period of time, Sara has visited Marlee only
once.

A)Marlee likes Sara better than Sara likes Marlee.

B)Sara thinks small towns are boring.
C)Sara is older than Marlee.
D)Marlee wants to move to the East Coast.
Correct Option: C

27)Erin is twelve years old. For three years, she has been asking her parents for a dog. Her
parents have told her that they believe a dog would not be happy in an apartment, but they
have given her permission to have a bird. Erin has not yet decided what kind of bird she
would like to have.

A)Erin's parents like birds better than they like dogs.

B)Erin does not like birds.
C)Erin and her parents live in an apartment.
D)Erin and her parents would like to move.
Correct Option: C
28)Ten new television shows appeared during the month of September. Five of the shows
were sitcoms, three were hour-long dramas, and two were news-magazine shows. By
January, only seven of these new shows were still on the air. Five of the shows that
remained were sitcoms.

A)Only one of the news-magazine shows remained on the air.

B)Only one of the hour-long dramas remained on the air.
C)At least one of the shows that was cancelled was an hour-long drama.
D)Television viewers prefer sitcoms over hour-long dramas.
Correct Option: C

29)On weekends, Mr. Sanchez spends many hours working in his vegetable and flower
gardens. Mrs. Sanchez spends her free time reading and listening to classical music. Both
Mr. Sanchez and Mrs. Sanchez like to cook.

A)Mr. Sanchez enjoys planting and growing vegetables.

B)Mr. Sanchez does not like classical music.
C)Mrs. Sanchez cooks the vegetables that Mr. Sanchez grows.
D)Mrs. Sanchez enjoys reading nineteenth century novels.
Correct Option: A

30)The Pacific yew is an evergreen tree that grows in the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific
yew has a fleshy, poisonous fruit. Recently, taxol, a substance found in the bark of the
Pacific yew, was discovered to be a promising new anticancer drug.

A)Taxol is poisonous when taken by healthy people.

B)Taxol has cured people from various diseases.
C)People should not eat the fruit of the Pacific yew.
D)The Pacific yew was considered worthless until taxol was discovered.
Correct Option: C

31)Find the side of the largest possible square slabs which can be paved on the floor of a
room 2 m 50 cm long and l m 50 cm broad. Also, find the number of such slabs to pave the
floor.

A)25, 20

B)30, 15

C)50, 15

D)55, 10

Correct Option: C
32)The least number divisible by 12, 15, 20 and is a perfect square is

A)900
B)400
C)36
D)256
Correct Option: A

33)The HCF of two natural numbers m and n is 24 and their product is 552. How many sets
of values of m and n are possible?

A)1

B)2

C)4

D)NO SET OF M AND N IS POSSIBLE SATISFYING THE GIVEN CONDITIONS

Correct Option: D

34)There are 48 cricket balls, 72 hockey balls and 84 tennis balls and they have to be
arranged in several rows in such a way that every row contains the same number of balls of
one type. What is the minimum number of rows required for this to happen?

A)12

B)16

C)17

D)19

Correct Option: 17

35)Two numbers are less than a third number by 30% and 37% respectively. How much
percent is the second number less than the first?

A)7%
B)10%
C)4%
D)3%
Correct Option: B

36)A town has population of 50,000 in 1988. In one year i.e. by 1989 it increased by 25%.
Next year i.e. in 1990, it decreased by 30%. The next year in 1991 there was an increase of
40%. What is the population at end of 1991?
A)60250
B)62250
C)66550
D)61250
Correct Option: D

37)The ratio of the incomes of A and B is 3 : 5, whereas the ratio of their expenditures is 4 :
7 respectively. If A and B save Rs. 16,000 and Rs. 26,000, respectively, then what is the
difference (in Rs.) between their expenditures?

A)5000
B)6000
C)5400
D)6800
Correct Option: B

38)How many words with seven letters are there that start with a vowel and end with an A?
Note that they don’t have to be real words and letters can be repeated.

A)45087902
B)64387659
C)12765800
D)59406880
Correct Option: D

39)A head boy, two deputy head boys, a head girl and 3 deputy head girls must be chosen
out of a student council consisting of 14 girls and 16 boys. In how many ways can they are
chosen?

A)98072
B)27384
C)36428
D)44389
Correct Option: B

40)In how many ways can 3 men and 2 women be seated in a row of 5 chairs?
A)60
B)20
C)120
D)720
Correct Option: C