FLAME FEAT · Paper 8

Identify the error in the given sentence.

Lisa chose to go to London for higher studies, as she found life in London to be vibrant and exciting.

Choose the word most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word.

Despite repeated advice, he remained obstinate about driving through the storm.

Choose the pair of words that correctly fills the blanks.

The manager was ______ about the layoffs, telling only the people affected, and she split the remaining work into small, ______ tasks.

Choose the word that best fills the blank.

The scientist's claims were met with ______ by her colleagues, who demanded to see the raw data before accepting any of her conclusions.

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

1. Owls, however, fly almost silently, which lets them surprise their prey.

2. Engineers have borrowed this design to make quieter fans and wind-turbine blades.

3. Most birds make a clear whooshing sound when they flap their wings.

4. The secret lies in their flight feathers, whose soft, comb-like edges break up the flow of air.

Choose the best replacement for the underlined part.

The prize money was divided equally between my brother and I.

Read the passage and answer the question.

For most of the twentieth century, the Asiatic lion survived in the wild only in and around the Gir forest of Gujarat, and in the early 1900s only a small number remained. Protection of the forest, a ban on hunting and the cooperation of the Maldhari herders who share the land with the lions helped arrest the decline. The population has grown steadily since then, and lions now wander well beyond the old forest boundary, into farmland and even along the coast. Their success has created a new challenge: keeping both people and lions safe as the two increasingly cross paths.

As used in the passage, the word 'arrest' most nearly means

Read the passage and answer the question.

Lightning and thunder are produced at the same moment, yet we almost always see the flash before we hear the rumble. The reason is the difference in speed: light travels nearly a million times faster than sound in air. Sound covers roughly one kilometre in three seconds, so counting the seconds between flash and thunder and dividing by three gives a rough distance to the storm in kilometres. Weather services advise people to go indoors if the gap is shorter than thirty seconds, because the storm is then close enough for the next strike to reach them.

According to the passage, why do we usually see lightning before we hear thunder?

If all apples are fruits and all fruits are edible, which of the following is true?

Every student who scored above 90 in the entrance test was offered a scholarship. Some students who were offered a scholarship also received a hostel room. Riya was not offered a scholarship.

Which of the following must be true?

Six friends, Gita, Hari, Imran, Jaya, Kunal and Leena, sit in a row of six chairs, all facing north.

- Hari sits at the right end of the row.

- Jaya sits immediately to the left of Hari.

- Gita sits second from the left end.

- Imran does not sit next to Gita.

- Kunal sits somewhere to the right of Leena.

Who sits between Gita and Imran?

After a town opened a bypass road to take lorries away from its main street, the number of vehicles on the main street fell sharply. Yet over the next year, the number of accidents on the main street rose.

Which of the following, if true, best explains this?

Find the product of $10.2 \times 10^{4}$ and $1.3 \times 10^{6}$.

In triangle ABC, side AC is produced beyond C, and the angle marked at C is the exterior angle between CB and the produced side. If angle A measures $50^\circ$ and angle B measures $25^\circ$, what is the measure of the marked angle at C?

A bag contains 10 toffees, 5 chocolates and 5 candies. If an item is taken out of the bag at random, what is the probability that it will be a toffee?

Ravi's salary is 25% more than Sunil's. By what percentage is Sunil's salary less than Ravi's?

Which team won the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2026, beating England in the final at Lord's, London, in July 2026?

The Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2015 was awarded to

The International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, has its seat in which city?

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries underpinning which technique?