FLAME FEAT · Paper 10

Fill the gap in the short passage with the most appropriate word or phrase.

The first hallmark of moralization is that the rules it invokes are felt to be universal. Prohibitions of theft and murder, ______, are felt not to be matters of local custom but to be universally and objectively warranted.

The word 'sanction' can mean both 'approval' and 'a penalty'. In which of the following sentences does it mean 'a penalty'?

Choose the phrasal verb that best fills the blank.

The meeting had to be ______ until Friday because the chief guest's flight was delayed.

Identify the part of the sentence that contains a grammatical error. If there is no error, choose 'No error'.

Hardly had the match begun / than it started / to rain heavily.

Choose the best replacement for the underlined part.

The new manager is known for her punctuality, her honesty and for being willing to listen.

Arrange the following sentences in a logical order to construct a coherent paragraph.

1. For decades, the Indian rupee had no symbol of its own and was usually written as 'Rs' or 'INR'.

2. The winning design, adopted in 2010, was created by D. Udaya Kumar and blends the Devanagari letter 'ra' with the Roman capital 'R'.

3. To give it one, the government held an open public competition.

4. Its two horizontal lines are also said to recall the national flag.

Read the passage and answer the question.

In autumn, the leaves of many trees turn yellow, orange or red before they fall. These colours are not painted on at the end of the year. The yellow and orange pigments, called carotenoids, are present in the leaf all summer, but they are hidden by the far larger amount of green chlorophyll. As days shorten and nights grow cool, trees stop making chlorophyll and break down what remains, and the hidden colours show through. Reds are different: many trees actively produce red pigments in autumn, and a run of sunny days followed by cool nights tends to make these reds especially bright.

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

Read the passage and answer the question.

Many people assume that the best way to remember a lecture is to type every word the speaker says. Studies comparing laptop and handwritten notes suggest otherwise. Because most people write more slowly than they type, students taking notes by hand cannot copy everything and are forced to choose, summarise and rephrase. That extra mental work seems to help: in several experiments, hand-writers answered conceptual questions about the lecture better than typists, even though the typists had recorded far more words.

With which of the following statements would the author most likely agree?

A committee of three is to be chosen from five students, P, Q, R, S and T, according to these rules:

- If P is chosen, Q must also be chosen.

- R and S cannot both be chosen.

- If S is not chosen, T must be chosen.

Which of the following must be true of every committee that follows the rules?

An online poll on a popular gaming website found that 85% of the people who answered believe video games improve problem-solving skills. The website's editor concluded that most people in the country hold this belief.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the editor's conclusion?

A student can join the advanced robotics course only if she has passed the basic robotics course. Tanya has joined the advanced robotics course.

Which of the following must be true?

Six runners, U, V, W, X, Y and Z, finished a race with no ties.

- Y finished after X but before W.

- Exactly two runners finished between X and W.

- Z finished immediately after U.

- U finished before X.

- V was neither first nor last.

Who finished last?

If two times x is less than $-10$ but greater than or equal to $-18$, then

If three fair coins are tossed one after another, what is the probability that we get exactly two heads?

The table below gives the sales of gas turbines in the first five months of 2006.

State: January, February, March, April, May

Maharashtra: 23, 18, 33, 22, 20

Karnataka: 18, 16, 22, 15, 12

Punjab: 17, 15, 17, 14, 13

Gujarat: 12, 10, 16, 12, 9

Total sales: 70, 59, 88, 63, 54

What percentage of the overall total was sold to Punjab?

A rectangular lawn 30 m long and 20 m wide has a path 2 m wide running all around it on the outside. What is the area of the path?

In October 2026, India's men's hockey team retained its Asian Games title, and with it a direct place at the LA 2028 Olympics, by beating which country 5-1 in the final?

Who won the men's singles title at Wimbledon in July 2026, defending the title he had won in 2025?

The Battle of Plassey (1757) was fought between the British East India Company, led by Robert Clive, and the Nawab of Bengal. Who was that Nawab?

In September 2026, the National Film Awards ceremony moved out of Delhi for the first time in decades. Where were the 72nd National Film Awards presented?