Question : Identify whether the given statements about p-block elements are correct or incorrect.

Statement A: In p-block elements, the last electron enters the outermost p orbital.

Statement B: The non-metals and metalloids exist only in the p-block of the periodic table.

Option 1: Both Statements A and B are correct.

Option 2: Only Statement A is correct.

Option 3: Both Statements A and B are incorrect.

Option 4: Only Statement B is correct.

Question : An article is marked at 100% above its cost price. After allowing two successive discounts of 5% and 20% respectively on the marked price, it is sold at $x$% profit. What is the value of $x$?

Option 1: 48

Option 2: 75

Option 3: 72

Option 4: 52

Question : X can do a work in 3 days, Y can do three times the same work in 8 days, and Z can do five times the same work in 12 days. If they have to work together for 6 hours a day, then how much time will they take to complete the work?

Option 1: 4 hours

Option 2: 5 hours 20 minutes

Option 3: 4 hours 10 minutes

Option 4: 5 hours

Question : AB is the common tangent to both circles as shown in the given figure. What is the distance between the centres of the circles?

Option 1: 20 cm

Option 2: 15 cm

Option 3: 10 cm

Option 4: 30 cm

Question : If $x=\frac{\sqrt{3}-\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{3}+\sqrt{2}}$ and $y=\frac{\sqrt{3}+\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{3}-\sqrt{2}}$, then the value of $x^{3} + y^{3}$ is:

Option 1: 950

Option 2: 730

Option 3: 650

Option 4: 970

Question : In which of the following years did the government opt for a planned holiday after the seventh five-year plan?

Option 1: From 1991 to 1993

Option 2: From 1990 to 1992

Option 3: From 1992 to 1993

Option 4: From 1989 to 1991

Question : The value of $2 \frac{1}{3} \div 2 \frac{1}{2}$ of $1 \frac{3}{5}+\left(\frac{3}{8}+\frac{1}{7} \times 1 \frac{3}{4}\right)$ is:

Option 1: $\frac{25}{24}$

Option 2: $\frac{29}{24}$

Option 3: $\frac{35}{24}$

Option 4: $\frac{5}{24}$

Question : Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the question of where and when the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic ever, originated is one of the biggest mysteries in human history. After all, the Black Death was the first wave of the second plague pandemic of the 14th to early 19th centuries. It killed some 50–60% of the population in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, and an unaccountable number of people in Central Asia. Different proposals, based on competing theories, have been put forward. But in 2017, I came across some records describing an intriguing medieval cemetery in Kara-Djigach, Chüy Valley, northern Kyrgyzstan, which I suspected may hold the key. As part of a multidisciplinary team co-led by Maria Spyrou at the University of Tubingen, we have now investigated several specimens from individuals buried at that site and come up with an answer. The idea that the Black Death originated in the east—territories overlapping, roughly speaking, Central Asia, Mongolia, and China—dates back to the contemporaries of the pandemic in Europe and the Islamic world. The modern, academic Chinese origin theory dates back at least to 1756–8, and a publication about the history of Central Asia by French scholar Joseph de Guignes.

Which of the following may be the probable origin of the Black Death, according to the passage?

Option 1: Kyrgyzstan

Option 2: India

Option 3: Mongolia

Option 4: China

Question : Directions: Select the related letter cluster from the given alternatives.
LSFW : NTHX :: PKWE : ?

Option 1: RYLF

Option 2: RLYE

Option 3: RLYF

Option 4: RLGF

Question : What will be the area of a plot of quadrilateral shape, one of whose diagonals is 20 m and lengths of the perpendiculars from the opposite vertices on it are 12 m and 18 m, respectively?

Option 1: 400 m²

Option 2: 250 m²

Option 3: 200 m²

Option 4: 300 m²