UCEED 2018 Part A question paper

85 questions · 300 marks · 180 minutes · each section marked as below

Numerical answer: +4 for a correct answer, no negative marking.
Multiple select: +4 when you tick every correct option and no wrong one; 0 otherwise. No partial marks.
Multiple choice: +3 for a correct answer, -1 for a wrong one.

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Numerical answer

20 questions

1 $How many different types of characters appear in the figure given below?$
2 $Given below is a series of numbers. Which number will replace the question mark? 101, 103, 107, 109, ?, 127, 131, 137, 139, 149, 151, 157, 163$
3 $How many lines are there in the image given below?$
4 $How many configurations of blocks appear only once in the figure given below?$
5 $What is the number of fonts used in the words given below?$
6 $What is the maximum number of whole cuboids of length = 2 cm, breadth = 1 cm and height = 1 cm that can be packed into a larger cuboid of length = 3 cm, breadth = 3 cm and height = 11 cm?$
7 $Prof. Paittiyam, in an attempt to create the world’s most delicious dish, managed to merge a cylindrical Idli (diameter = 17 cm, height = 6 cm) with a torus shaped medu wada (inner hole diameter = 2 cm, outer diameter = 16 cm, and tube diameter i.e height of torus = 7 cm) such that the medu wada is parallel to the base of the Idli and the centeroids of the two solids coincide. How many surfaces does the resulting solid contain?$
8 $What is the maximum number of equilateral triangles (side 3 cm) that can be placed in a square of side 6.8 cm without overlapping each other?$
9 $How many triangles are there in the figure shown below?$
10 $Count the number of stacked triangular pieces in the image shown below.$
11 $Shown below is a combination of fixed pulleys. If the triangular load moves down, how many pulleys will rotate in the same direction as the smallest pulley (including itself)? The overlapping paths do not interfere with each other.$
12 $The current time is 10 minutes past 3 in the afternoon. What will the angle be between the hour hand and the minute hand of the clock, 4 hours and 40 minutes from now?$
13 $The word ‘Ape’ is an anagram of ‘Pea’. How many of the following words are anagrams of animals? Glow, flow, loin, sit, balm, bare, god, lane, act, tab, bit, tar, reef$
14 $Privacy of a space depends on the level of closure it has from its surroundings i.e. the difficulty of accessing that space from outside the house. The figure below shows the plans of four houses at a village street junction. Which is the most private room amongst all the rooms across all the houses?$
15 $The figure below shows the layout plan of the conservative Themmalwadi village which consists of a cluster of houses. Black lines represent walls and the openings in those walls represent either windows or doors. Also marked are the houses of Riya (who lives with her family) and Barkya, who are in love and having an affair. So, hidden from the eyes of the villagers, they regularly meet at night in Barkya’s house. Themmalwadi is so conservative that even the sight of women on the street at night raises eyebrows. If Riya takes the path that has the least number of openings, what is the number of openings that she will have to pass by to get to Barkya’s house?$
16 $Shown in the figure is a pyramid with a square base, formed by vertices EFGH and a top vertex I. The diagonally opposite vertices, EG and FH are connected to form the vertex J at their intersection. The vertices I and J are also connected as shown. How many triangles are formed by all these vertices?$
17 $The length and breadth of the white rectangle are 6 and 4 respectively. The proportions of the outer black, middle red and inner white rectangles are the same. What is the length of the hypotenuse of triangle ABC?$
18 $Meethapur works on a barter system. Each person there loves different sweets. Mukund is willing to exchange 2 toffees for a lollypop and 3 ice creams for a toffee. Ranjana is willing to exchange one ice cream for 2 lollypops and 3 toffees for a lollypop. Mukund and Ranjana don’t know each other, but both of them know Sita who loves toffees. Sita has one lollypop. She can meet Ranjana and Mukund only once (not necessarily in that order). What is the maximum number of toffees that Sita can get?$
19 $Atul has nine cats that always fight with each other. He puts all of them into a square box. What is the least number of square partitions he must use to keep all the cats separated from each other? You may use any size of square partitions.$
20 $How many differences are there in the two images shown below?$

Multiple select

25 questions

21 $On the left is a photograph. Which option(s) is/are part(s) of that photograph?$
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22 $If spaces and special characters are ignored in the following text, which country/countries is/are hidden in the text shown below? I think the earth’s ecosystem will collapse very soon. Natural resources have been exploited for far too long at the cost of the wellbeing of humankind, I am afraid. I don’t want to stir another controversy but I ardently feel that the time has come for us to take urgent actions to save our planet from manmade disasters.$
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23 $The CBI is investigating a dangerous gang of three criminals. The criminals are Donga, Tirudan and Daaku. The investigation team consists of Pradyuman, Daya, Fredricks, Salunkhe, Tarika and Purvi. Each criminal is to be investigated by exactly two investigators, and each investigator investigates exactly one criminal. The investigation is to be conducted subject to the following constraints: Pradyuman and Daya do not investigate the same criminal. Fredricks and Salunkhe investigate the same criminal. If Fredricks investigates Tirudan, then Tarika must investigate Daaku. Given these constrains, which of the following could be the acceptable assignment(s) of investigators to potential criminals?$
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24 $If, 9 + 8 means 9 is the child of 8, and 7 * 6 means that 6 is the wife of 7, then which of the following statements can be derived from 2 + 3 * 1 + 4 * 5?$
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25 $30 circles are given below, with a set of rules: 1. The bigger the circle, the farther away it is from us. 2. The thinner the line of the circle, the closer it is to us. 3. The red circles are farther away from us as compared to the blue circles. Which of the options given below is/are TRUE?$
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26 $Which concept does this image by Escher illustrate?$
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27 $Read the passage given below, written by Nick Hughes: “We tend to treat power as though it is intrinsically valuable. We seek it out and covet it, quite irrespective of how we might wield it and what it might get us. One need only look at the history of totalitarian politics to recognise this tendency in its most grotesque form. But power isn’t intrinsically valuable, it’s only instrumentally valuable - valuable as a means to an end. And whether or not they are objectively valuable, the ends that matter to us, the things that we care about most - our relationships, our projects and goals, our shared experiences, social justice, the pursuit of knowledge, the creation and appreciation of art, music and literature, and the future and fate of ours and other species - do not depend to any considerable extent on our having control over a vast but largely irrelevant Universe. We might be distinctly lacking in power from the cosmic perspective, and so, in a sense, insignificant. But having such power and such significance wouldn’t make much of a difference anyway. To lament its lack and respond with despair and nihilism is merely a form of narcissism. Most of what matters to us is right here on Earth.” Which of the statements is/are TRUE of the paragraph above:$
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28 $Which option(s) is/are simple rotations of the figure given below?$
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29 $Read the statements below: All female and male natives in their country are strong. Some men in their country are migrants. All migrants in their country are not strong. Not all migrants are women. Based on the above, which conclusion(s) stated in the options is/are valid?$
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30 $Which of the following words are similar in meaning?$
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31 $Which of the following words is/are similar in meaning to ‘Centre’?$
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32 $Consider this poem: Now, marriages happen in halls They used to happen at home Honeymoon too Before they wandered into halls Stage. Actors. Audiences from afar. Receptions never really took place Yet they would go on for days. Now, receptions include Those who don’t really figure. Show face, shove envelope (gifts not accepted) Grin for the camera. Get out. Not all that bad. Quick and efficient. No one really cares. Which mood(s) does the poem evoke?$
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33 $Goethe said, “Doubt grows with knowledge”. From this perspective, who would a knowledgeable person be?$
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34 $Theory is already existing knowledge and Practice is knowledge that comes by ‘doing’. Based on this statement which of the following is/are TRUE?$
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35 $Which of the following quotes celebrate(s) technology?$
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36 $Consider the drip irrigation system in villages on hilly terrain. Which of the following statements is/are correct?$
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37 $Six pacmen have joined hands to take revenge from an evil ghost. They are standing around in a circular formation. Lo and behold, a white star full of pure light emerges in the centre. In complete disbelief, the pacmen are mesmerized. Which of the gestalt laws of perception explain(s) the appearance of the star in the centre?$
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38 $If the black lines represent cutting lines and dotted pink lines are folding lines, which of the options correctly represent(s) the opened up surfaces of the solid shown?$
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39 $Which of the following images belong(s) to Ajanta?$
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40 $Based on the paintings below, which of the following statements is/are TRUE?$
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41 $Which of the following is/are greenhouse gas(es)?$
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42 $Which of the options represent(s) correctly the opened up surfaces of the solid shown?$
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43 $Consider the following text by Edward Shanken: “By 2000, it had become increasingly apparent that the exclusion and ghettoization confronting the practice and criticism of new media art and the larger historiography of art and technology required an explicit suturing strategy. In ‘Art in the Information Age’ (2001) I argued that by ‘interpreting conceptual art and art-and-technology as reflections and constituents of broad cultural transformations during the information age’ categorical distinctions can be relaxed, allowing parallels to be drawn between seemingly diverse theory of systems aesthetics and the notion of software as a metaphor for art. My analysis of works by Levine, Haacke and Kosuth in ‘Software’ led to the conclusion that in the information age, ‘meaning and value are not embedded in objects, institutions or individuals so much as they are abstracted in the production, manipulation and distribution of signs and information’. Finally, I implicitly applied Burnham’s systems approach to analyse the system by which art history is written. Using Haacke and Ascott as examples, I claimed that the historicization of an artist’s work as conceptual art or art and technology ‘says less about their work than it does about the institutional mechanisms that have created and reinforced categorical distinctions...at the expense of identifying continuities between them.” Which of the statements is/are TRUE of the paragraph above?$
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44 $The following diagram shows the distribution of population in an apartment building as per the profession of its residents. Which of the following is/are correct?$
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45 $In which of the following applications is a convex lens used?$
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Multiple choice

40 questions

46 $Who is the woman in this painting by Raja Ravi Varma?$
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47 $Which option arranges the states in an ascending order in terms of area?$
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48 $Shown below is a map of a city with names of prominent localities. A man starts walking from Hampalkatte towards the west, takes the second right, second left, first left, third right, second left, and walks on straight to the end of the street. Where does he reach?$
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49 $The door height of entrance of an Indian Public Hall is to be finalised. Which of the following should be considered to decide the height of the door frame?$
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50 $Two different views of a sphere are shown below. Select the correct digital image that is mapped on the sphere.$
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51 $Which of these is an example of traditional embroidery from Punjab?$
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52 $Given below is a sequence of drawings from the animation of a cricket batsman performing a pull shot, with one missing drawing represented by a question mark. Which option would best replace the question mark?$
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53 $Which option will replace the question mark?$
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54 $Shown below is a flower. Which is the leaf of the plant to which the flower belongs?$
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55 $The word shown below s a specific font. From the options choose the letter that belongs to the same font.$
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56 $Which option will replace the question mark?$
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57 $If the following operations were performed in the given sequence on the figure shown in the box, what would the resultant figure be? i. Rotate the figure clockwise by 90 degrees. ii. Flip along the vertical axis passing through its centre. iii. Flip along the horizontal axis passing through its centre.$
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58 $In the left column are names of some National Parks. In the right column are the names of the states in which they are located. Which option contains all correct pairs? National Park State i. Jim Corbett A. Rajasthan ii. Ranthambore B. Assam iii. Kaziranga C. Uttarakhand iv. Kanha D. Madhya Pradesh$
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59 $Figure 1 is unfolded into Figure 2 and individual letters are written on each face. Which option is the correct representation when it is folded back?$
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60 $The image below shows four different dance forms. Which states do these dance forms belong to?$
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61 $A paper is folded in the sequence shown in the image below. Blue patches are the areas that are cut out. What would the resultant figure be when the paper is unfolded?$
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62 $If the heptagon with the triangle is mirrored along the common edge (depicted by a dotted line) between two consecutive shapes, what would the resultant figure be?$
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63 $Which of the following compositions is possible by rearranging pieces of Tangram puzzle (Sample given on the left)? Rotation of the pieces is allowed but flipping and scaling are not allowed.$
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64 $Consider the poem below: Drip drip Drip Drip Dripdripdripdrip Painters far away Fishermen in oceans of colour Who or what from the options, drip?$
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65 $Which of the following crawl on a surface?$
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66 $Read the following lines from a poem: Lad Bazaar gallis . Thin and crooked. On the prime prized precincts Sat sleeves rolled Ali Sipping sweet suleimani Props ready, goods ready Theatre of give and take What profession could be attributed to Ali?$
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67 $Read the following lines and answer the question given below: Pleading farts and ponderous burps Upset the silence of dignified insides, Sounds of occupation and exile. What makes up dignified insides?$
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68 $The hour hand of a particular clock moves at half the speed, and the minute hand at 6 times the speed of a regular clock. If this strange clock matches time with the regular clock at 12 noon, what is the actual time when the strange clock next looks as shown below?$
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69 $Count the number of people with a moustache in the picture below:$
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70 $Which of the following is the correct logo of Apple Computers?$
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71 $What does a camera use to form an image?$
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72 $The picture shows a man holding a traditional product in his hands. What is it used for?$
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73 $Which of the options closely match the Avatars with their associations? Avatar Association P Kurma 1 Karma Q Parashurama 2 Dharma R Rama 3 Complex S Krishna 4 Amphibian T Kalki 5 Destruction$
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74 $Which of the options correctly match the paintings with corresponding art movements? 1.Expressionism 2.Realism 3.Pop Art 4.Pointilism 5.Op Art 6.Surrealism$
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75 $If the following self portraits by Picasso are arranged in chronological order starting with the earliest painting, which one of these options is correct?$
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76 $Where is this famous painting from?$
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77 $Two men start at the same point, walk in opposite directions for 4 meters, turn left and walk another 3 meters. What is the distance between them?$
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78 $Which is the appropriate option that can replace the question mark to complete the series?$
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79 $Which is the appropriate option that can replace the question mark to complete the series?$
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80 $Which of the following options is related to the phrase 'Easy to understand'?$
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81 $Which of the following options helps in establishing interchangeability of products?$
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82 $The figure shows a solid formed by the union of two solids. The first is an elliptic cylinder (cylinder with an elliptical cross-section) of shorter width 4 inches, larger width 5 inches, and height of 11 inches, and the second is a cuboid of 8 inches x 5 inches x 6 inches. The centre of the extruded ellipse is aligned with the edge of the cuboid as shown in the figure. If the resultant solid is cut by a plane (shown by the red dotted line), what will be the cross section of the resulting face as viewed from an angle perpendicular to the face?$
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83 $A matrix sequence is shown on the left. Which of the options given on the right can replace the matrix with question marks?$
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84 $What does “carbon footprint” refer to?$
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85 $Which is the correct top view for the solid shown?$
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