MBBS 2013

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SAMPLE APTITUDE TEST PAPER 2013
MBBS
Section I
English
Time allowed: 1 hour 15 minutes
Candidate’s Name:
Application No:
INSTRUCTIONS
Please read the following instructions carefully.
1.
Make sure that you write your name and application number in the space above and on the
given answer sheet.
2.
Mark ONLY ONE answer to each MCQ. No credit will be given for multiple answers.
3.
There are two sections with four questions;
Reading Comprehension Section
Question 1 is in two parts and tests semantic and syntactic inference.
Question 1a
(10 MCQs)
Question 1b
(10 MCQs)
Question 2 calls for skimming and scanning for information.
Question 2
(10 MCQs)
Writing Section
Question 3 calls for a short piece of expository writing.
Question 3
6 Marks
Question 4 calls for the construction of an argument from given information.
Question 4
12 Marks
3.
Answer Questions 1 and 2 on the multiple choice answer sheet provided.
4.
Answer Questions 3 and 4 on the essay answer sheet provided.
Question 1 has two parts with a total of 20 items. In both parts, you are given a passage with numbered
gaps. For each numbered gap, choose the best answer A, B, C, or D from the choices given. In the test
itself you must remember to record your answers on the Answer sheet provided.
Here is an example of the type of passage you will find in both parts of Question 1:
(Total 20 Marks)
Q.1.
This section has two reading passages. Each
passage is followed by ten multiple choice
questions.
2. A.
B.
C.
D.
even as those who are
even though the schools are
even they are
even if they are
Answer: D
Read the following passage carefully. For each
numbered gap in the text choose the best answer
from the possible choices (A, B, C, or D) given.
Remember to record your answers on the
Answer sheet provided. Do NOT write in this
booklet.
3. A.
B.
C.
D.
a widespread presence
an unrealistic alternative
realistic enigmas
a sadly restricted option
Answer: A
Passage
Public and Private Primary Education in
Pakistan
A recent World Bank report calls for a reevaluation of education polices in the context of
a dramatic increase in the number of private
schools in primary education in Pakistan. The
report says that the quality of education at public
schools …..(1)……., and children at private
schools score significantly higher than those at
public schools, …….(2)……… from the same
village.
The World Bank report presents facts and
figures from a comprehensive survey of public
and private schools in 112 villages in Pakistan,
and lays out important policy options to
facilitate evidence-based policy making.
For-profit private schools have become
…..(3).….. in both urban and rural areas and
they provide parents with an alternative option
……(4)……. their children's education, the
report says.
1. A.
B.
C.
D.
was lacked
is lacking
lacks
has been lacking
Answer: B
4. A.
B.
C.
D.
to invest
to invest for
for investing in
by the investment of
Answer: C
Question 2 asks you to skim and scan the following information to find the answers to the questions
below. Here is an example:
(10 Marks)
Q.2.
You are advised to read all the questions below BEFORE searching for the answers in the passages
which follow. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each question. Remember to record your
answers on the Answer sheet provided. Do NOT write in this booklet.
5.
The land border between Malaysia
and Brunei extends for:
A.
B.
C.
D.
6.
2, 699 km.
2, 607 km.
381 km.
506 km.
Life expectancy for men in Malaysia
is
A.
B.
C.
D.
Answer: C
just under 70 years
just over 70 years
76.5 years
Less than 65 years
Answer: A
Geography of Malaysia
Location:
Coordinates:
Area:
Area comparative:
Land boundaries:
Coastline:
Maritime claims:
Climate:
Terrain:
Elevation extremes:
Natural resources:
Natural hazards:
Environment current
issues:
Geography - note:
South-eastern Asia, peninsula and northern one-third of the island of Borneo,
bordering Indonesia and the South China Sea, south of Vietnam
2 30 N, 112 30 E
total: 329,750 sq km
water: 1,200 sq km
land: 328,550 sq km
slightly larger than New Mexico
total: 2,669 km
border countries: Brunei 381 km, Indonesia 1,782 km, Thailand 506 km
4,675 km (Peninsular Malaysia 2,068 km, East Malaysia 2,607 km)
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation; specified
boundary in the South China Sea
exclusive economic zone: 200 NM
territorial sea: 12 NM
tropical; annual southwest (April to October) and northeast (October to
February) monsoons
coastal plains rising to hills and mountains
lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m
highest point: Gunung Kinabalu 4,100 m
tin, petroleum, timber, copper, iron ore, natural gas, bauxite
flooding, landslides, forest fires
air pollution from industrial and vehicular emissions; water pollution from raw
sewage; deforestation; smoke/haze from Indonesian forest fires
strategic location along Strait of Malacca and southern South China Sea
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Population of Malaysia
Population:
Age structure:
25,274,132 (July 2008 est.)
0-14 years: 32.6% (male 4,093,859/female 3,862,730)
15-64 years: 62.6% (male 7,660,680/female 7,613,537)
65 years and over: 4.7% (male 509,260/female 645,792)
Median age:
24.1 years
Growth rate:
1.78%
Infant mortality:
17.16 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 72.5 years
male: 69.8 years
female: 75.38 years
Fertility rate:
3.04 children born/woman
Nationality:
noun: Malaysian(s)
adjective: Malaysian
Ethnic groups:
Malay 50.4%, Chinese 23.7%, Indigenous 11%, Indian 7.1%, others 7.8%
Religions:
Muslim, Buddhist, Daoist, Hindu, Christian, Sikh; note - in addition,
Shamanism is practiced in East Malaysia
Languages:
Bahasa Melayu (official), English, Chinese dialects (Cantonese, Mandarin,
Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai;
note - in addition, in East Malaysia several indigenous languages are spoken,
the largest are Iban and Kadazan
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 88.9%
male: 92.4%
female: 85.4%
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Question 3 asks you to discuss a given proverb or quotation and explain what it means to you in one
paragraph. Remember to use only the separate essay answer sheet provided.
Here is an example:
Expository Writing
(Total 6 Marks)
Q.3.
Write a paragraph explaining the meaning of the following proverb. Give an example from your own
experience to support or disprove the truth of this proverb:
“Don't worry. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
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Question 4 gives you a proposition (or statement) followed by some information on a particular topic.
You are asked to select relevant parts of the information and write a short argumentative essay
supporting or refuting the proposition. Use of your own words in the essay will be rewarded by the
examiners. Here is an example:
Argumentative Essay
(Total 12 Marks)
Q.4.
Directions
Using only the relevant information from the opinions expressed below, write a short essay in favour
of or against the proposition. Try to express your ideas in your own words. Credit will not be given for
copying your answer directly from the given information.
Use only the separate essay answer sheet provided.
Proposition:
Homeopathic treatments should not be made available to patients at any hospital in Pakistan.
Information:
• Homeopathy is a system of medicine in which a disease is treated by giving extremely small
amounts of a substance that causes similar symptoms.
•
Homeopathy was devised by Samuel Hahnemann in the eighteenth century. He made two basic
assumptions:
o If a substance would produce the symptoms of a disease in a healthy individual, it could
be used to treat these symptoms in a sick person: ‘like cures like’.
o If you dilute a substance with water, this will increase its ability to cure symptoms and
the more you dilute the more powerful it will become: it will also have no side effects.
•
Dilution has to be performed in a very specific way. Every time water is added, its glass
container is hit 10 times against a wooden striking board covered with leather on one side and
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filled with horsehair. In modern homeopathy pill factories, this task is carried out by specially
designed robots.
•
The typical homeopathic dilution is 30C: this means that the original substance has been diluted
by one drop in 100, thirty times over. In a sphere of water with the diameter of the distance from
the earth to the sun there would be one remaining molecule of the original substance.
•
Homeopathic remedies are given one at a time. They are natural, prepared from extremely small
quantities of herbs, minerals and animal products.
•
What the homeopath actually gives you is usually a little sugar pill, not a teaspoonful of water. It
has been demonstrated that two sugar pills are a more effective treatment than one sugar pill. The
colour of the pills, the packaging, how much you pay for them and the beliefs of the person
selling them all affect their potency. This is the placebo effect.
•
Diseases have a ‘natural history’, they are bad and then they get better. When you get better you
naturally assume that whatever you did when the disease was bad must be the reason for
recovery. There is no cure for the common cold. It simply gets better by itself.
•
There is no reliable evidence that homeopathic medicine is more effective than a placebo but
then the power of mind over matter, especially when associated with ritual and ceremony, can be
remarkable. Amputations without anaesthetic but with placebos have been carried out without
pain.
•
Alternative therapists do not just give placebo treatments they give ‘placebo explanations’ –
fanciful assertions about the nature of the patient’s disease with no grounding in evidence. As a
result, they can miss or ignore fatal conditions.
•
The real question with homeopathy is very simple: does it work? How do we know if any
treatment is working? We ask the patient. Someone who has a positive experience with
homeopathy will say: “All I know is it works for me. I get better when I take homeopathy”. This
statement has the power that, whatever happens, it stands as true.
•
Homeopathic remedies are tested on humans, not on animals. They consider the mind while
treating the symptoms.
•
There are very few doctors who are adequately trained in homeopathy and very few colleges
offering comprehensive training.
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THE AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY
SAMPLE ADMISSION TEST PAPER 2013
MBBS
Section II
Science and Mathematics
Time allowed: 2 hours and 15 minutes
Candidate’s Name: ______________________________________________________
Application No:
______________________________________________________
INSTRUCTIONS
Please read the following instructions carefully.
1.
Make sure that you write your name and application number in the space above and on the
given answer sheet.
2.
Mark ONLY ONE answer to each question. No credit will be given for multiple answers.
3.
If you change an answer, be sure that you completely erase the old answer before marking your
new answer.
4.
There will be 120 questions in five sub-sections:
Biology
(20 MCQs),
Chemistry
(20 MCQs),
Physics
(20 MCQs),
Science Reasoning
(30 MCQs),
Mathematics Reasoning
(30 MCQs).
5.
Attempt all questions.
6.
Questions can be attempted in any order.
7.
In the Biology, Chemistry and Physics sub-section every wrong answer loses 0.25 marks.
Biology
1. Diagram 1 shows a plant and a human
exposed to intense sunlight.
Which pigment protects the parts L and M from
the effect of intense sunlight?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Chlorophyll a
Chlorophyll b
Xanthophyll
Carotenoid
Answer: B
Answer: D
2. Diagram 2 represents a model of plasma
membrane. Which of the labelled parts is
hydrophobic in nature?
Answer: A
Answer: A
Physics
Science Reasoning
Questions 7-8 refer to the following information:
5. The mass-energy equivalence equation is
2
E = mc . What is represented by the symbol c
in this equation?
A.
B.
C.
D.
The critical angle
The speed of neutrons
The speed of light in vacuum
The specific heat capacity of the
material
A pantograph is a four-bar linkage mechanism
used for drawing. It consists of two long bars and
two short bars pivoted to one another so that they
can move freely in a plane. In the version shown
in Figure 1 below, the short bars are half the
length of the long ones.
The point O is held fixed. There is a pointer at
X and a pencil at Y. As the pointer at X is
traced over a shape, the pencil at Y draws the
shape enlarged by a factor of two.
Answer: C
6. A force of 20 N is applied to open the door.
What torque will be produced?
7.In Figure 1 if O and Q are both held fixed, the
point Y
A.
B.
C.
D.
cannot move.
can move on a circular path.
can move in a straight line.
can move freely.
Answer: B
For Question 8 select the answer from the
diagrams labelled A to D in Figure 2.
A.
B.
C.
D.
10 Nm
15
20 Nm
25 Nm
Answer: B
The size of the drawing traced out by the pencil
depends upon the relative lengths of the bars in
the pantograph.
8.Which of the pantographs in Figure 2 will
produce the biggest enlargement of the original
shape?
Answer: D
Mathematics Reasoning
Question 9 refers to the following information:
9.
A farmer sold apples, pears, and tomatoes by the kilogram for a total receipt of Rs. 480.00. How
many kilograms of apples did the farmer sell?
Which two of the following statements together provide sufficient information to answer the
question?
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
Apples and pears were each sold at Rs.0.50 per kilogram
A total of 780 kilograms of pears and tomatoes was sold.
The total receipt for apples was equal to the combined receipt for pears and tomatoes.
The total receipt for apples was 4 times the total receipt for pears.
The total receipt for tomatoes was 3 times the total receipt for pears.
A.
B.
C.
D.
I and IV
II and IV
III and V
I and III
Answer: D
Question 10 asks you to compare two quantities with the help of the information given below.
Distribution of the monthly budget of Rs. 4,500 for Salim's family
Insurance
Others
Food
Savings
Rent and
Utilities
Not to scale
Entertainment
Quantity X: the monthly budget for food
Quantity Y: Rs. 1,000/10.
Based on the above information, which of the following statements is correct for X and Y?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Quantity X is greater than Quantity Y.
Quantity Y is greater than Quantity X.
Quantities X and Y are equal.
The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.
Answer: A
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