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Published on: August 12, 2026
PART III: MATHEMATICS
SECTION 1 (Maximum Marks: 28)
• This section contains SEVEN questions.
• Each question has FOUR options
A
, , and and 
B
, will get -2 marks, as a wrong option is also darkened. Which of the following is(are) NOT the square of a 3x3 matrix with real entries ? 
C
and and 
D
. ONE OR MORE THAN ONE of these four options is(are) correct. • For each question, marks will be awarded in one of the following categories : Full Marks : +4 If only the bubble(s) corresponding to all the correct option(s) is(are) darkened. Partial Marks : + 1 For darkening a bubble corresponding to each correct option, provided NO incorrect option is darkened. Zero Marks : 0 If none of the bubbles is darkened. Negative Marks : - 2 In all other cases. • For example, if are all the correct options for a question, darkening all these three will get +4 marks; darkening only will get +2 marks; and darkening 
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(a, b)
|A| 2 cannot be -ve
A and B option cannot be square of matrix
C option is 
D option is 
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