Symbiosis SET · Paper 3

Choose the word nearest in meaning to the word given in capitals.

BENEVOLENT

Choose the option that best expresses the meaning of the underlined idiom.

Losing that job turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because it pushed her to start her own business.

Find the part of the sentence that contains an error. If there is no error, choose 'No error'.

I have seen / that film / last week with my cousins.

Choose the one word for the given phrase.

A person who can speak many languages

Read the passage and answer the question.

Honeybees share the location of food through a 'waggle dance'. A forager returning to the hive runs in a straight line while shaking its body, then loops back and repeats the run. The angle of the straight run, measured from the vertical, shows the direction of the food relative to the sun. The length of the waggle run tells the other bees how far away the food is: the longer the run, the greater the distance.

According to the passage, how do the other bees learn how far away the food is?

Arrange the sentences P, Q, R, S and T to form a coherent paragraph.

P. Each tin passes through several hands on the way, travelling by bicycle, by local train and on foot.

Q. Every working day, Mumbai's dabbawalas carry home-cooked lunches in tin boxes from homes to offices across the city.

R. Yet, despite these many handovers, the tins almost never reach the wrong desk.

S. The secret lies in a simple code of colours and symbols painted on each lid, which tells every handler where the tin must go next.

T. Remarkably, most of the dabbawalas have had little formal schooling, which makes the precision of the system all the more striking.

₹7,200 is divided among Ravi, Sita and Tara in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4. How much more does Tara get than Ravi?

Three bells ring at intervals of 12, 18 and 30 minutes. They all ring together at 8:00 a.m. How many times will they ring together from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., counting both 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.?

In a test of 60 questions, 4 marks are given for each correct answer and 1 mark is deducted for each wrong answer. A student attempts all the questions and scores 130. How many questions did the student answer correctly?

In what ratio must rice costing ₹40 per kg be mixed with rice costing ₹55 per kg so that selling the mixture at ₹54 per kg gives a profit of 20%?

A box holds 6 red and 4 green marbles. Two marbles are taken out at random, one after the other, without putting the first back. What is the probability that both marbles are of the same colour?

Which vitamin does the human body make in the skin when the skin is exposed to sunlight?

In which city is the headquarters of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)?

'Heart Lamp', the short-story collection by Banu Mushtaq that won the International Booker Prize 2025, was translated into English from which language?

India won its first ICC Women's Cricket World Cup in November 2025. In which city was the final played?

Arrange the following battles in the order in which they were fought:

I. Battle of Buxar

II. Battle of Plassey

III. Third Battle of Panipat

IV. Battle of Wandiwash

Three of the following letter groups follow the same pattern. Which one is the odd one out?

In a certain code language:

'sun is hot' is written as 'ka la ma',

'hot tea is good' is written as 'pa ma ka ra', and

'good sun rises' is written as 'ra la ta'.

What is the code for 'tea'?

Pointing to a man, Neha said, 'His mother's only daughter is my mother.' How is the man related to Neha?

Five friends P, Q, R, S and T live on different floors of a five-storey building. The ground floor is numbered 1 and the top floor 5.

S lives on an odd-numbered floor, but not on the top floor.

Q lives on the floor immediately above R.

T lives on a floor above P.

P does not live on the ground floor.

Exactly one floor lies between the floors of S and Q.

Who lives on the floor immediately above Q?