K.V No.-2 JALAHALLI, BANGALORE – 14
Questions from Question Basket- Classes VI to XII (16 Oct-15 Nov 2014)
Date 15-11-2014
Class VI
English
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What is Dolma going to be when she grows up?
Who trusts Dolma ?
What happens when you have no ways to express your thought?
Who was Samju Sahu ? What did he purchase from Algu?
Why did Jumman's wife treat his mother indifferently?
Hindi
1. ह्यरू ोज कौन थे ?
2. कालपी कहाां है ?
3. डलहौजी कौन थे ?
4. हे लांन केलरकौन थी ?
5. हे लांकेलर कैसे पढ्ती थी ?
6. हे लन केलेर कहाां के रहनेवाली थी ?
MATHEMATICS
Q1. Insert commas correctly according to international system and write
the name of the number
25062083
Q2. Use the digits 7, 6, 0, 5, 9 without repetition to make greatest and the
smallest number of five digits.
Q3. Draw any polygon and shade its interior.
Q4. Draw a number line and represent - 1 + (- 2) + 4 on it.
Q5. Find
35 – ( -20).
Q6. Write all prime numbers between 60 and 70.
Science
1. How can we separate dirt from rain water?
2. How do we make sugar syrup for the preparation of sweets?
3. What name can we give to changes that produce new substances after the
change?
4. Burning of agarbatti and burning of a candle-are there any similarities in
these changes?
5. Are there any chemical changes occurring in human bodies?
6. How many bones are there in the adult human skeleton?
7. Which is the longest bone in our body?
8. Which part is protected by skull?
9. Which part is protected by backbone?
10. What is streamlined body?
11. How are adapted to fly?
Social Studies
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Why do we feel angry, helpless or sad?
Enlist many things that make us what are. What influences these things?
What are the major problems of of the poor people of India?
Why brahami script is not in use nowadays?
Why there are no favourable conditions for human settlement on moon?
Why?
6. Why do we see shadows on the moons?
Class VII
ENGLISH
Q1. What is the best way to approach a prose lesson? What are the steps to
understand and learn a prose lesson?
Q2. It is believed that literature is read for pleasure. Why should we learn about
the authors and poets biography?
Q3. What is the difference between literal meaning and figurative meaning in
poetry?
Q4. What is the meaning of Personification? Give examples.
Q5. What is the difference between “Metaphor “and “Simile”? Give examples
Hindi
1. आश्ववन के बादल बाकी महीनों के बादलों से कैसे अलग है ?
2. इस दोहे को कववता क्यों नहीां कहते हैं ?
3. अलग अलग बोललयों को कसे पहचान पाते है ?
4. कौए और लसयार की कहानी ही हमेशा क्यों उदाहरण के ललए दे ते हैं ?
5. गल्
ु ली डांडा को क्रिकेट के खेल जैसे क्यों नहीां मानते ?
6. फीस के पैसे से हमारी मन पसांद चीजे खरीद सकते हैं क्या ?
Maths
1. If x salary is 20% more than B and B salary is 30% more than C and C
salary is Rs15000.
What is x salary?
2. Can we use unitary method to find percentage?
3. Is there any other method to compare quantities in a very easy way?
4. How to find 12% of it is Rs.1080?
5. How to divide Rs.30 between two people so that they get 20% and 80%
of them?
Social Studies
1. Children are under great pressure nowadays? What is to be blamed for
this?
2. Why do media focus on a particular aspect of a story?
3. How online purchases cheaper than shops?
4. How did the English emerge as the most successful political and
economical power in the subcontinent?
5. How did tribal societies change after being organised into a state?
Class VIII
ENGLISH
Q 1. What is the order of words in a sentence?
Q2. How to change direct into indirect speech?
Q3.what is rhyming scheme?
Q4. What are tenses?
Q5. What is editing?
Q6 .How to write an email?
Q7. What are transitive and intransitive verbs?
Q8. What are active and passive voice?
Q9. How to gain marks in writing section?
Hindi
1. मोटे मोटे शब्द का प्रयोग बच्चों के ललए क्यों क्रकया गया है ?
2. अम्मा क्यों माां के घर क्यों जाना चाहती है ?
3. तनख्वा छिटे बच्चों के ललए क्यों जरूरी है ?
4. क्रफल्म का नाम आलम आरा क्यों रखा है ?
5. मद
ु ाा इांसानकैसेश्जांदा हो सकता है ?
6. लसनेमा में भाषा का बदलाव कैसे आया ?
Maths
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How to show 2xy – 8a + 3 on number line?
Is constant a polynomial?
Is 0 a polynomial?
Can we find 103X90 using identity?
How to find 1.05X9.5 using identities?
Social Studies
1. Why was the wootz steel making process completely lost by the mid
nineteenth century?
2. How did inventions of Spinning jenny and steam engine revolutionize
cotton textile weaving in England?
3. Handloom production did not completely die in India. Why?
4. What is Jamadani weave?
5. Why was Tipu’s sword so special?
Class IX
English
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Does the character like Private Quelch benefit in real life? If yes, then how?
Is it a good thing to put our lives in danger for getting money? Explain.
Why does William Shakespeare compare the life of a person to a play?
Why is the last stage of a person compared to just like a child?
Is it good for a father to hide his occupation from his family? What can be
its effect?
MATHEMATICS
Q1. 7x3x0 +5 is equal to
a) 7
b) 26
c) 5
d) 0
Q2 The ratio of 5m and 1km is
(a) 1:200
(b) 200:1
(c)
(d) 5:10
Q.3 a sport teacher has to spend Rs 1300 when he purchases 10 footballs and 20
hockey sticks from a shop. However, if he purchases 15 footballs and 15 hockey
sticks, the amount spent is Rs.1350.
a) Find the cost per football and per hockey stick.
b) What is the importance of sports activity in our life?
Q4. Show that the diagonals of a rhombus are perpendicular to each other
Q5. Show that the diagonals of a rhombus are perpendicular to each other.
Q6. P and Q are any two points lying on the side DC and AD respectively of
a parallelogram ABCD. Show that ar ( APB) = ar ( BQC) .
Science
1. Name the highest taxonomic category?
2. What is Lichen?
3. Why do bryophytes grow in moist and shady places?
4. Why Blue green algae are classified along with bacteria and placed in
kingdom Monera?
5. Why Pteridophyta are considered as vascular cryptogams?
6. What is the basic unit of classification?
7. What are polyatomic ions?
8. Do atoms in some of the elements have actually fractional mass?
9. Out of atoms and molecules which can exist independently?
10. What do you understand from the statement relative atomic mass of
sulphur is 32.
11. State Law of constant proportion by taking the example of water.
12. What is cation? Give 1 example.
Social Studies
1. Meaning of Poverty Line?
2. How to estimate Poverty?
3. What are Anti-poverty measures?
4. Explain about Rebellion in Bastar.
5. What are the effects of war on Forests?
6. What is burst of monsoon?
7. How does monsoon works?
8. What is scientific forestry?
9. What was the effect of war on the forest?
10.How does jet stream affect the climate of India?
Class X
English
Q1. How to differentiate between present tense and present continues?
Q2. What and how to use idioms?
Q3 what are the important points while writing a story?
Q4 explain the use of tenses?
Q5 what are double parts of speech?
Q6 how to use different forms of verbs?
Q7 justify the title ‘the shady plot’?
Q8 What is Gerund?
Q9 when is advice and advise used?
Q10 where to use have, has and had?
Q11 What is the difference between affect and effect?
Q12 how to pronounce Vaas’s? (either pronounced as Vaas or Vaases)?
Q13 how to do editing?
Q14 what is transitive and intransitive verbs?
Q15 how to gain marks in writing section?
Q16 what is rhyming scheme?
HINDI
1. लेखक इस दे श की लशक्षा प्रणाली को अच्िा क्यों नही मानता?
2. अनथा होने का पढ़ने-ललखने से कोई सांभांध नही है . कैसे?
3. साहस और शश्क्त के साथ ववनम्रता का क्या अथा है ?
MATHEMATICS
Quadratic Equations
1- Solve for x : (a+ b)2x2 + 8(a2-b2)x + 16(a-b)2 = 0
2- Find the value of k for which the roots of the quadratic equation :
(k-4)x2 + 2(k-4)x +2=0
3- Solve for x : 9x2 – 6a2x + (a4-b4) = 0
4- Solve for x : 36x2 – 12ax + (a2-b2) = 0
5- At present Asha’s age (in years) is 2 more than the square of her daughter
Nisha’s age. When Nisha grows to her mother’s present age, Asha’s age
would be 1 year less than 10 times the present age of Nisha. Find the
present ages of both Asha and Nisha.
Arithmetic Progression
1- If Sn denotes the sum of first ‘n’ terms of n A.P., prove that S12 = 3(S8S4)
2- Find the sum of integers between 100 and 200 that are
(i)
Divisible by 9
(ii) Not divisible by 9
[HINT (ii): These numbers will be: Total numbers – Total numbers
divisible by 7]
3- The ratio of the 11th term to the 18th term of an A.P. is 2:3. Find the ratio
of the 5th term to the 21st term, and also the ratio of the sum of the first 5
terms to the sum of first 21 terms.
Science
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Do black holes really move or do they pull the space around them?
How can we hear or see or confirm the presence of Hawkin’s radiation?
What are the various types of fullerenes?
Why a carbon atom cannot share all its valence electrons with another
carbon atom?
5. Why is the incident ray not parallel to the emergent ray in a glass prism?
Social Studies
1. Describe the mode of formation of minerals.
2. Why is it necessary to develop the wind energy to solve the present day
energy crisis?
3. Which is the most abundantly available fossil fuel in India? What are the
four major forms of it?
4. How do minerals clean our teeth?
5. How do all living things need minerals?
Class XI
Biology
1. Explain electron transport system.
2. Chemosmoticsynthesis of ATP in chloroplast.
3. What is the role of endodermis in transport of water & minerals?
4. Explain the stages of Prophase-I of meiosis.
5. Name the natural amides found in plants.
PHYSICS
Q.1 Why moon does not move in elliptical path?
Q.2 Why potential energy of a object can not be determined?
Q.3 Why gravitational potential energy is always negative ?
Q.4Why there is no any preferred direction in the space?
Q.5 Why the object regain its original dimension if it is stretched or
compressed?
Maths
1. One side of an equilateral triangle is 18 cm. The midpoints of its sides are
joint to form another triangle whose mid-points, in turn are joint to form
still another triangle. The process is continued indefinitely. Find the sum
of areas of all triangles
2. A ray of light is sent along the line x-2y-3=0 upon reaching the line 3x2y-5=0, the ray is reflected from it. Find the equation of the line
containing the reflected ray?
Economics
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Give the meaning of dispersion and explain the types of dispersion.
What do you mean by devaluation of rupee?
Explain bilateral and multilateral trade.
What is real per capita income?
Why should government concentrate only on primary education as
primary education is not sufficient for acquiring a job?
Business Studies
1. Compare the status of a minor in Joint Hindu Family Business with that
of a partnership firm
2. In case the insured did not pay full premium and the loss occurs will the
insurance company pay the compensation.
Commerce
1. Define term maturity period.
2. What is difference between provision and reserve?
3. Define prepaid expenses.
COMPUTER SCIENCE
1.Why functions are required in C++?
2.Why default arguments are required?
INFORMATION PRACTICES
1.How can you differentiate between virus and Trojan horse?
2.How to disable a button in net beans?
3.How are query handled in mysql?
Class XII
Biology
1.How are ramsar site different from sanctuaries? Giver the example.
2. How does cultural eutrophication affect the balance in the ecosystem?
3. How is the principle of RNAi used in controlling nematode infection in
tobacco plant?
4. Why are small animals generally not found in polar region?
5. Why is the ecological pyramid found in aquatic ecosystem inverted in shape?
Mathematics
1.Manufecturer can sell x items at a price of Rs(5 −
𝑥
𝑥
100
) each. The cost price
of x items is Rs( + 500). Find the number of items he should sell to earn
5
maximum profit.
2 . A tank with rectangular base and rectangular sides, open at the top is to be
constructed so that
its depth is 2m and volume is 8 m3. If building of tank
cists Rs 70 per sq. metre for the base and Rs 45 per sq. metre for sides, what is
the cost of least expensive tank?
3. Find the area of smaller region bounded by the ellipse
𝑥
𝑥2
𝑦
9
+
𝑦2
4
= 1 and the
line + = 1. At what points will the tangent to the curve y = 2x3 -15x2 +
3
2
36x -21 be parallel to x-axis? Also find the equation of tangents to the curve at
these points.
4. For the curve y = 4x3 – 2x5, find all the points at which the tangent passes
through the origin
5. Express the vector 𝑎
⃗⃗⃗ = 2 𝑖̂ − 2𝑗̂ + 5𝑘̂ as sum of two vectors such that one is
parallel to the vector ⃗⃗⃗
𝑏 = 3 𝑖̂ + 𝑘̂ .and the is perpendicular to 𝑏̂.
CHEMISTRY
1.In spite of long range order in arrangement, why crystals usually are not
perfect?
2Why does table salt sometimes appear yellow in colour?
3.How does sprinkling of slat help in clearing snow covered roads in hilly
areas?
4.Why is alternating current used for measuring resistance of an electrolytic
solution?
5.A galvanic cell has electrode potential of 1.1V, if an opposing potential of
1.1V is supplied to this cell. What will happen to this cell reaction and current
flowing through the cell?
Physics
1.What is dipole antenna ? What should be the length of a dipole antenna?.
2.What is the origin of the word modem?
3.What is current amplification factor of the transistor?
4.What happens to Junction potential barrier in forward bias and in reverese
bias?.
5.Is it necessary to use Satellites for long distance T.V transmission . Why?
6.What is the important role of ionosphere in long distance communication?
7.A radio can tune to any station in 7.5 Mhz to 12 Mhz Band. What is the
corresponding wave length band?.
COMPUTER SCIENCE
1.How to remember the functions in stack and queue?
2.What is the importance of memory leak. How it happen?
3.What is script?
INFORMATION PRACTICES
1. How can you differentiate between virus and Trojan horse?
2. How to disable a button in net beans?
3. How are querys handled in mysql?
Economics
1. What do you mean by narrow and broad money?
2. Is credit creation a function of commercial bank.
3. What is Reverse repo rate?
Business Studies
1. Differentiate between trade mark and brand mark.
2. Is delegation concern with division of work?
3. What is the meaning of SENSEX?
Commerce
1. List of items come under cash and cash equivalent.
2. Differentiate between common size and comparative size statement.
3. Define preliminary expenses.