The National Talent Search Examination will be conducted for students studying at the Class X level. The examination consists of tests, namely
Mental Ability Test (MAT) and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).

Please find the file attached for the Mental Ability Test Paper for NTSE

Mental Ability Test Paper for NTSE
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(Questions 1-10)
Instruction for Q. No. 1 to 5:
In each of the following questions, four groups of
letters are
given. Three of them are alike in some manner, whil
e one is different. Find the odd-man-out
and mark it on your answer-sheet as directed.
1.
(a) ARYQB (b) CTZSD (c) EVYUF (d) GVZWE
2.
(a) AJNAUO (b) BTMLAE (c) DNLUEO (d) CEKAIO
3.
(a) IRAJS (b) BKTCL (c) UCGNX (d) UDMVE
4.
(a) XECSQ (b) GNUBI (c) PWDKR (d) YFMTA
5.
(a) FKRXD (b) ECGSY (c) JPVBH (d) NTZFL
Instruction for Q. No. 6 to 10:
In each of the following questions, group of number
s are
given. They are alike in some manner, while one num
ber is wrong. Find out the odd-man-out
and mark it on your answer-sheet as directed.
6.
8,14,26,48,98,194,386
(a) 48 (b) 386 (c) 8 (d) 194
7.
3,10,27,4,16,64,5,25,125
(a) 10 (b) 16 (c) 27 (d) 5
8.
529,361,289,171,121,49
(a) 361 (b) 49 (c) 171 (d) 529
9.
336,210,120,62,24,6,0
(a) 62 (b) 6 (c) 210 (d) 24
10.
3,28,9,13,22,18,32,23,42
(a) 3 (b) 18 (c) 9 (d)42


The number of questions, maximum marks and time allowed are as follows:
Test
No. of Questions
Maximum Marks
Time

(i)Mental Ability Test
50
50
45 minutes

Mental Ability Test (MAT)
This test is given to the
candidates to judge their power of reasoning, ability
to think, ability to judge, evaluate or discriminate, ability to visualize in the
space, spatial orientation, etc. A variety of questions
,
for example
:
analogies, classification, series, pattern perce
ption, hidden figures, coding
-
decoding, block assembly, problem solving etc. are used for this purpose.
3
Sample Questions for Mental Ability Test (MAT)
1
In a certain code, MONKEY is written as XDJMNL. How is TIGER written in that code?
1. QDFHS
2. SDFHS
3. SHFDQ
4. UJHFS

2
In a queue Rekha is 9th from the back. Geeta’s place is 8th from the front. Rimya is standing between two. What could be the minimum number of girls standing in the
queue?
1. 12
2. 14
3. 16
4. 18