Azim Premji University Entrance Exam Sample Paper

• Azim Premji University provides an admission test sample paper for undergraduate programs.
• The test duration is 90 minutes.
• Negative marking exists in the English language and Quantitative Reasoning sections.
• Two marks are awarded for each correct answer.
• One mark is deducted for each wrong answer.
• Zero marks are given for unattempted questions.
• The provided questions are indicative and for practice purposes.
• The actual entrance test may vary in difficulty and number of questions.

Rural Electrification in India

• After 65 years of independence, over a million Indian families live without electricity after sunset.
• These families lack electricity connections and the financial means for alternative energy sources like solar power.
• Nearly half of rural India struggles with irregular electricity supply despite having connections.
• Kerosene is used to compensate for power needs.

Government Initiatives (2000-01)

• The government launched a subsidized program that offered solutions.
• The Remote Village Electrification Programme (RVEP), via the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, offers a solar home lighting system (SHS).
• A SHS consists of one or two CFL bulbs, a solar panel, a battery, and a solar charge regulator.
• The SHS saved people from regular kerosene expenses.
• The program aimed to reach 18,000 households.
• As of 2013, nearly 9,000 villages were covered.
• Implementation faces issues, notably poor after-sale service and malfunctioning batteries/bulbs.

Other Organizations

• NGOs and private organizations help unelectrified households through lighting options and financial aid.
• RVEP is seen as a temporary solution and not the only one.
• Mini-solar power connection systems must be considered on a large-scale.

Muni and the Shopman

• Muni sat below the shop's platform.
• Muni tried to please the shopman by clearing his throat, coughing and sneezing.
• Muni laughed at the shopman's jokes to try and please him.
• Pleasing the shopman was done to ask for food items on credit.
• Muni mentions his daughter sending money for his fiftieth birthday.
• The shopman refers to Muni as a "young man".

Quantitative Reasoning

• A statement is false if a counterexample exists.
• Example: "All human beings are Indian" is false because Chinese people are not Indian.

Statements and Counterexamples

• Statement: All animals are insects.
• A dog is an animal that is not an insect, so it is a counterexample and the statement is false.

Temperature of Cities Graph

• The graph plots temperature over 15 years for cities.
• The true statement is: all cities became warmer over 15 years.

Class Survey

• In a class of 100 students, 80 like mangoes and 60 like apples.
• The minimum number of students who like both apples and mangoes is 40.

Direction Problem

• Facing east, turning 90 degrees clockwise then 45 degrees anticlockwise results in facing North East.

Train Problem

• A train travels at 36 km per hour and is 100 meters long.
• It takes 10 seconds for the train to pass a pole on the side of the track.

Car Travel Problem

• A car travels from Bangalore to Mysore (144 km) at 72 km/hour, and returns at 36 km/hour.
• Average speed for the total journey is not listed in the possible answers.

Town Map Problem

• The town has streets spaced 100 meters apart in perpendicular directions.
• A taxi travels from (1m, 1c) to (3m, 3c) along main roads and cross roads.
• The shortest possible journey length is 400 meters.

Routes Problem 1

• The number of different routes with this minimum length is 6.

Routes Problem 2

• Ram and Shyam start at the same point and finish at the same point.
• The amount of routes available to Shyam, so the two routes do not meet except at the beginning and end is one route.

Geometric Shape Variations

• A figure shows an irregular geometric shape (a) changed in different ways (b, c, d, e).
• (a) and (b) are related by reflection in a vertical mirror.

Farmer and Land

• A farmer has a rope of 400 meters to declare the boundary of a rectangular field.
• The maximum area of land is 10000 square meters.

Odd Integer

• An even integer is in the form 2x, where x is an integer.
• The expression for an odd integer is 2x - 1.

Sets

• A set is a collection of objects.
• Sets can be visually shown and can display the relationship between them.

Crows, Birds and Dogs

• The correct diagram would have crows inside birds because crows are birds.
• Dogs are not birds and thus have no relation.

Plants, Animals, Living Things

• Living things includes plants and animals.

Sweet Shops Problem

• Two sweet shops start with the same material to make spherical laddoos.
• The first shop makes 270 small laddoos (2cm diameter).
• The second shop makes big laddoos (6cm diameter).
• Both shops cover laddoos with silver foil.

Laddoo Calculation

• The number of big laddoos made by the second shop is 10.
• The expense on covering the big laddoos with silver foil is 30.

Expression Terms

• (a + b)² = a² + 2ab + b² has three terms.
• (a + b + c)(a + b + c)(a + b + c)(a + b + c) has 15 terms after like terms are collected.

Cake Division

• A cake is a triangle (ABC) and cut along lines AD and AE.
• If CAD = DAE = EAB, then the portions are equal in area.