INSTRUCTIONS Maximum Marks: 180

A. General

1. This booklet is your Question Paper. Do not break the seal of this booklet before being instructed to do so by the invigilators.

2. The question paper CODE is printed on the left hand top corner of this sheet and on the back cover page of this booklet.

3. Blank space and blank pages are provided in the question paper for your rough work. No additional sheets will be provided for rough work.

4. Blank papers, clipboards, log tables, slide rules, calculators, cameras, cellular phones, pagers and electronic gadget of any kind are NOT allowed inside the examination hall.

5. Write your name and roll number in the space provided on the back cover of this booklet.

6. Answers to the questions and personal details are to be filled on an Optical Response Sheet, which is provided separately.

The ORS is a doublet of two sheets – upper and lower, having identical layout. The upper sheet is a machine-gradable Objective Response Sheet (ORS) which will be collected by the invigilator at the end of the examination. The upper sheet is designed in such a way that darkening the bubble with a ball point pen will leave an identical impression at the corresponding place on the lower sheet. You will be allowed to take away the lower sheet at the end of the examination

(see Figure-1 on the back cover page for the correct way of darkening the bubbles for valid answers).

7. Use a black ball point pen only to darken the bubbles on the upper original sheet. Apply sufficient pressure so that the impression is created on the lower sheet. See Figure -1 on the back cover page for appropriate way of darkening the bubbles for valid answers.

8. DO NOT TAMPER WITH / MUTILATE THE ORS SO THIS BOOKLET.

9. On breaking the seal of the booklet check that it contains 28 pages and all the 60 questions and corresponding answer choices are legible. Read carefully the instruction printed at the beginning of each section.

B. Filling the right part of the ORS

10. The ORS also has a CODE printed on its left and right parts.

11. Verify that the CODE printed on the ORS (on both the left and right parts) is the same as that on the this booklet and putyour signature in the Box designated as R4.

12. IF THE CODES DO NOT MATCH, ASK FOR A CHANGE OF THE BOOKLET / ORS AS APPLICABLE.

13. Write your Name, Roll No. and the name of centre and sign with pen in the boxes provided on the upper sheet of ORS. Do not write any of this anywhere else. Darken the appropriate bubble UNDER each digit of your Roll No. in such way that the impression is created on the bottom sheet. (see example in Figure 2 on the back cover)

C. Question Paper Format

The question paper consists of three parts (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics). Each part consists of two sections.

14. Section 1 contains 10 multiple choice questions. Each question has four choices