NMSE 2020 Sample Paper : National Merit Scholarship Exam

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Announcement : NMSE 2020 Sample Paper
Scholarship Name : National Merit Scholarship Exam NMSE 2020
Applicable For : Grade 5-12
Applicable State/UT : All India
Exam Date : 16th August 2020 (Round 1) | 23rd August 2020 (Round 2)
Last Date : 14th August 2020
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Class V

Science :
1. Which vitamin is present in amla?
(A) Vitamin B
(B) Vitamin C
(C) Vitamin A
(D) Vitamin B12

2. Which of the following contain carbohydrates?
(A) Potato
(B) soybean
(C) Oils
(D) Fiber

3. Which of these given are uses of satellites?
(A) In weather for forecasting
(B) In telecommunication
(C) GPS
(D) All of these

4. Which of the following tools are in the same class as the simple machine shown below?
(A) Ice tongs
(B) Paper cutters
(C) Pulley
(D) All of them

5. Which of these is a sedimentary rock?
(A) Granite
(B) Pumice
(C) Conglomerates
(D) Basalt

Mathematics :
6. Tom left home at 7 : 15 a.m. to go to work. He returned home at 4 : 45 p.m. For how long Tom was away from home?
(A) 7 hours 30 minutes
(B) 9 hours 30 minutes
(C) 3 hours 30 minutes
(D) 8 hours 30 minutes

7. There are 3 rows of strawberry plants. Each row has 6 plants. How many strawberry plants are there in all?
(A) 9
(B) 18
(C) 22
(D) 24

8. There were 3856 trees in a forest. In another forest, there were 4795 trees. How many more trees were there in the second forest?
(A) 930
(B) 939
(C) 1689
(D) 1600

9. The perimeter of the given figure (not drawn to scale) is _____.
A) 35 cm
(B) 27 cm
(C) 38 cm
(D) 42 cm

10. There are ______tens in 36520.
(A) 12
(B) 36
(C) 365
(D) 3652

Class V Sample Paper :
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Class VI

Science :
1. The term ‘Reduce’ is one of the three R’s (reduce, reuse and recycle) to save the environment. An example of the opposite of reducing is over-packaging which is an antienvironment activity. Which of the following packaging activities is anti-environment?
(A) Filling a cereal box completely
(B) Putting an item in a cardboard box, then putting that box in another box
(C) Putting foam packing material around a fragile item
(D) Packing an item in the smallest possible box

2. . _____ is a good conductor of electricity.
(A) Metal
(B) Rubber
(C) Plastic
(D) All of these

3. A small baby plant coming out of a seed is called __________.
(A) Grain
(B) Root
(C) Dispersal
(D) Seedling.

4. We can recycle water by _________.
(A) Reusing the water from washing clothes to cook
(B) Discharging factory waste into canals and seas
(C) Discharging sewage and waste materials into the ocean
(D) None of these

5. Burning of garbage leads to (i)____ . (i)____ can cause deadly diseases such as_____ (ii) and asthma. Which of the following options correctly fills the blanks (i) and (ii)?
(A) (i)-Air pollution, (ii)-Lung cancer
(B) (i)-Water pollution, (ii)-Lung cancer
(C) (i)-Soil pollution, (ii)-Cholera
(D) (i)-Water pollution, (ii)-Typhoid

Mathematics :
6. A vessel has 5 litres 120 millilitres of mango shake. How many glasses each of 40 ml capacity, can be filled with it?
(A) 122
(B) 130
(C) 118
(D) 128

7. Harry had 500 coins in a jar. He sorted the coins into 25 different stacks. Each stack had the equal number of coins. How many coins were in each stack?
(A) 20
(B) 45
(C) 25
(D) 12

8. The cost of flooring a room at Rs 8.50 per square metre is Rs 1,020. If the breadth of the room is 8m, then its length is
(A) 10 m.
(B) 12 m.
(C) 15 m.
(D) 18 m.

9. Cost price of 7 radio sets is Rs. 1050. The cost price of 5 radio sets will be
(A) Rs. 350
(B) Rs. 210
(C) Rs. 35
(D) Rs. 750

Class VI Sample Paper :
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Class VII

Science :
1. Plant whose flower and fruit both are eaten
(A) Sugar beet
(B) Ginger
(C) Sugarcane
(D) Banana

2. Process of loss water through stomata is called
(A) Translocation
(B) Transpiration
(C) Photosynthesis
(D) Transportation

3. We wear woolen clothes in winter because– (A) They produce heat
(B) They are bad conductor of heat
(C) They transform heat
(D) They are conductor of heat.

4. Removal of land surface by water, ice or wind is known as (A) weathering.
(B) deforestation.
(C) erosion.
(D) percolation

5. H2CO3 is a –
(A) strong acid
(B) weak acid
(C) strong base
(D) weak base

Mathematics :
6. Seven Oranges weigh the same as four Apples and five Apples weigh the same as six Guava. Which of the following gives the description of the fruits in increasing order of weights ?
(A) Apple, Orange, Guava
(B) Orange, Apple, Guava
(C) Guava, Orange, Apple
(D) Orange, Guava, Apple

7. The simplest form of 12 – 3[5 + 3{(7 – 9) – 2}] is
(A) 20.
(B) 27.
(C) 33.
(D) 39.

8. The reciprocal of the smallest prime is
(A) 0
(B) 1/2
(C) 1
(D) 2

9. What is the prime factorization of 45?
(A) 23 × 5
(B) 32 × 5
(C) 52 × 3
(D) 52 × 9

Class VII Sample Paper :
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