Chennai Sahodaya Schools Complex.

Common Pre-Board Examination 2018 Class X

Subject: SCIENCE SET - I Time: 3 hrs
Code: 086 Marks: 80

General Instructions:
i. The question paper comprises two sections, A and B. You are to attempt both the sections.
ii. All questions are compulsory.
iii. All questions of Section-A and B are to be attempted separately.
iv. There is an internal choice in three questions of 3 marks each and two questions of 5 marks.
v. Question numbers 1 and 2 in Section-A are one mark question. They are to be answered in one
word are in one sentence.
vi. Question numbers 3 to 5 in Section-A are two marks questions. These are to be answered in 30
words each.
vii. Question numbers 6 to 15 in Section-A are three marks questions. They are to be answered in
about 50 words each.
viii. Question numbers 16 to 21 in Section-A are 5 marks questions. These are to be answered in 70
words each.
ix. Question numbers 22 to 27 in Section-B are based on practical skills. Each question is a two
marks question. These are to be answered in brief. There is one question with internal choice.

SECTION-A

1) How reproduction through spores benefits an organism? (1)

2) Define assimilation. (1)
3) Explain why (2)
i) All the elements of a group have similar chemical properties
ii) All the elements of a period have different properties.
4) An object is placed at a distance of 15 cm from a convex mirror of focal length 30cm. Find the
position and the nature of the image. (2)
5) Why should we harness solar energy? Name two devices used for harnessing solar energy. (2)
6) a) What is a solenoid? (3)
b) List two factors on which the strength of magnetic field produced by it depends.
c) How can it be used as an electromagnet?
OR
a) State the rule to find the direction of magnetic field around a current carrying straight
conductor.
b) Draw a neat diagram to show the pattern of magnetic field lines around the conductor.
c) On what factors the intensity of magnetic field around the conductor depends.
7) Calculate the i) current through the arms AB and CDE (3)
ii) potential difference across CD and DE in the following circuit.

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8) a) Why is it necessary to balance a chemical equation? (3)
b) Balance the following chemical equations:
i) KClO3 KCl + O2
ii) NaOH + H2SO4 Na2SO4 + H2O
9) An element “X”has mass number 35 and number of neutrons 18. Write atomic number and
electronic configuration of “X”. Also write group number, period number and valency of “X”.
Write the formula of the compound formed when “X”reacts with hydrogen. (3)
10) A family of three (husband, wife and child) was found to have frequent health problems. All the
three were found to have been victims of AIDS. It was further found that the male parent has
transmitted the disease to his wife and child.
Now answer the following questions:
a) How the male parent as referred above could have avoided AIDS.
b) What is the causative organism of AIDS?
c) Name two bacterial sexually transmitted disease. (3)
11) How lungs are designed in human beings to maximize the area for exchange of gases?
OR
Give reason:
a) Capillaries have walls with one cell thickness.
b) Leak in the blood vessel should be arrested immediately.
c) Transpiration process is essential for plants. (3)
12) Two students A and B observed the image of a candle flame using a spherical lens of focal length
10cm. Student A observed an inverted magnified image on a screen placed 25cm on the other side
of the lens and student B observed an inverted image of the same size on the screen. What should
be their corresponding object distances? Draw ray diagram to show the image formation by
student A or B. (3)
13) a) Write the chemical formula of washing soda and state two important uses. (3)
b) Name the constituent of baking powder.
OR
What is the common name for Calcium Sulphate hemi hydrate? How is it prepared? Write
the chemical equation involved. Mention any one use of this compound.
14) Sex is genetically determined in human beings. Justify. (3)
15) a) From this picture identify the process and explain. (3)

b) How fossil study on Dinosaur’s feather acts as an evolutionary evidence?

16) a) State Fleming’s right hand rule. (5)
b) Name the device which converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
c) Explain the principle on which it works.
d) Write two differences between alternating current and direct current.
17) a) Why are covalent compounds generally poor conductors of electricity? Give the structure of
ethane. Name the compound formed when ethanol is heated with ethanoic acid in the presence of
concentrated H2SO4.
b) Complete the following equations:
i) CH4 + Cl2 sunlight
ii) C2H5OH + O2
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 a) Write the number of covalent bonds in the molecule of Propane (C 3H8).
b) What is meant by homologous series of carbon compounds?
c) Classify the following carbon compounds into two homologous series and name them:
C3H4, C3H6, C4H6, C4H8, C5H8,C5H10 (5)
18) a) Draw a neat diagram of human brain and mark
i) The part which controls blood pressure.
ii) The part which maintains posture and balance.
iii) The part which controls voluntary action.
b) How do auxins promote the growth of a tendril around a support? (5)
19) a) A person uses lens of power +2D. Name the defect of vision he is suffering from.
b) List two causes of the defect.
c) Draw diagrams to show the image formation in this case by the defective eye and correction
made by the lens.
d) Two thin converging lenses of focal lengths 15 cm and 30 cm are held in contact. Calculate the
power and focal length in combination. (5)
20) a) Explain the following terms by giving an example of each:
i) mineral
ii) ore
iii) Gangue
b) What is an amalgam?
c) Why do we apply oil on iron tools kept in storage? (5)
21) a) Why reuse is better than recycle?
b) Name the pollutant in Ganges water. What does it indicate?
c) How is ozone formed and what is its function?
d) Explain 10% flow of energy using a food chain.
OR
a) Why should we preserve Bio diversity?
b) Write 2 ways by which bio degradable waste affect the environment
c) What is ozone? How is it getting depleted?
d) Explain bio-magnification using a food chain. (5)

SECTION- B
22) Given below are the pH values of four different liquids (2)
7.0, 14.0 ,4.0, 7.0
Which of these could be that of
a) Lemon juice c) Sodium hydroxide solution
b) distilled water d) Sodium Chloride Solution
23) List out your observations when an iron nail is put into aqueous copper sulphate solution. (2)
24) What is the significance of asexual reproduction? (2)
25) Write two precautions to be taken while identifying different parts of an embryo of a dicot seed. (2)
26) In the circuit given below, the instrument B reads 0.93 and the instrument A reads 1.86 in their
respective SI units. (2)
a) Identify the instruments A and B.
b) Calculate the value of unknown resistance.

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 OR
In an experiment to study the dependence of current on potential difference across a resistor, a
student obtained the graph as shown in the diagram. Find the value of resistance. List two factors
on which the resistance of a conductor depend.

27) In an experiment with a rectangular glass slab, a student observed that a ray of light incident at an
angle of 55° with the normal on one face of the slab, after refraction strikes the opposite face of
the slab before emerging out into air making an angle of 40° with the normal. Draw a labelled
diagram to show the path of the light ray. What value you assign to the angle of refraction and
angle of emergence? (2)

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