Sample Test Paper - Aga Khan University
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MBBS<br />
2012<br />
Candidate’s Name:<br />
Application No:<br />
INSTRUCTIONS<br />
Please read the following instructions carefully.<br />
THE AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY<br />
SAMPLE ADMISSION TEST PAPER 2012<br />
MBBS<br />
Section I<br />
English<br />
Time allowed: 1 hour 15 minutes<br />
1. Make sure that you write your name and application number in the space above and on the<br />
given answer sheet.<br />
2. Mark ONLY ONE answer to each MCQ. No credit will be given for multiple answers.<br />
3. There are two sections with four questions;<br />
Reading Comprehension Section<br />
Question 1 is in two parts and tests semantic and syntactic inference.<br />
Question 1a (10 MCQs)<br />
Question 1b (10 MCQs)<br />
Question 2 calls for skimming and scanning for information.<br />
Question 2 (10 MCQs)<br />
Writing Section<br />
Question 3 calls for a short piece of expository writing.<br />
Question 3 6 Marks<br />
Question 4 calls for the construction of an argument from given information.<br />
Question 4 12 Marks<br />
3. Answer Questions 1 and 2 on the multiple choice answer sheet provided.<br />
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<br />
gaps. For each numbered gap, choose the best answer A, B, C, or D from the choices given. In the test<br />
itself you must remember to record your answers on the Answer sheet provided.<br />
Here is an example of the type of passage you will find in both parts of Question 1:<br />
Q.1.<br />
(Total 20 Marks)<br />
This section has two reading passages. Each<br />
passage is followed by ten multiple choice<br />
questions.<br />
Read the following passage carefully. For each<br />
numbered gap in the text choose the best answer<br />
from the possible choices (A, B, C, or D) given.<br />
Remember to record your answers on the<br />
Answer sheet provided. Do NOT write in this<br />
booklet.<br />
Passage<br />
Public and Private Primary Education in<br />
Pakistan<br />
A recent World Bank report calls for a reevaluation<br />
of education polices in the context of<br />
a dramatic increase in the number of private<br />
schools in primary education in Pakistan. The<br />
report says that the quality of education at public<br />
schools …..(1)……., and children at private<br />
schools score significantly higher than those at<br />
public schools, …….(2)……… from the same<br />
village.<br />
The World Bank report presents facts and<br />
figures from a comprehensive survey of public<br />
and private schools in 112 villages in Pakistan,<br />
and lays out important policy options to<br />
facilitate evidence-based policy making.<br />
For-profit private schools have become<br />
…..(3).….. in both urban and rural areas and<br />
they provide parents with an alternative option<br />
……(4)……. their children's education, the<br />
report says.<br />
1. A. was lacked<br />
B. is lacking<br />
C. lacks<br />
D. has been lacking<br />
Answer: B<br />
2. A. even as those who are<br />
B. even though the schools are<br />
C. even they are<br />
D. even if they are<br />
3. A. a widespread presence<br />
B. an unrealistic alternative<br />
C. realistic enigmas<br />
D. a sadly restricted option<br />
4. A. to invest<br />
B. to invest for<br />
C. for investing in<br />
D. by the investment of<br />
Answer: D<br />
Answer: A<br />
Answer: C
Question 2 asks you to skim and scan the following information to find the answers to the questions<br />
below. Here is an example:<br />
Q.2. (10 Marks)<br />
You are advised to read all the questions below BEFORE searching for the answers in the passages<br />
which follow. Choose the best answer A, B, C or D for each question. Remember to record your<br />
answers on the Answer sheet provided. Do NOT write in this booklet.<br />
5. The land border between Malaysia<br />
and Brunei extends for:<br />
A. 2, 699 km.<br />
B. 2, 607 km.<br />
C. 381 km.<br />
D. 506 km.<br />
Answer: C<br />
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6. Life expectancy for men in Malaysia<br />
is<br />
A. just under 70 years<br />
B. just over 70 years<br />
C. 76.5 years<br />
D. Less than 65 years<br />
Answer: A<br />
Geography of Malaysia<br />
Location: South-eastern Asia, peninsula and northern one-third of the island of Borneo,<br />
bordering Indonesia and the South China Sea, south of Vietnam<br />
Coordinates: 2 30 N, 112 30 E<br />
Area: total: 329,750 sq km<br />
water: 1,200 sq km<br />
land: 328,550 sq km<br />
Area comparative: slightly larger than New Mexico<br />
Land boundaries: total: 2,669 km<br />
border countries: Brunei 381 km, Indonesia 1,782 km, Thailand 506 km<br />
Coastline: 4,675 km (Peninsular Malaysia 2,068 km, East Malaysia 2,607 km)<br />
Maritime claims: continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation; specified<br />
boundary in the South China Sea<br />
exclusive economic zone: 200 NM<br />
territorial sea: 12 NM<br />
Climate: tropical; annual southwest (April to October) and northeast (October to<br />
February) monsoons<br />
Terrain: coastal plains rising to hills and mountains<br />
Elevation extremes: lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m<br />
highest point: Gunung Kinabalu 4,100 m<br />
Natural resources: tin, petroleum, timber, copper, iron ore, natural gas, bauxite<br />
Natural hazards: flooding, landslides, forest fires<br />
Environment current<br />
issues:<br />
air pollution from industrial and vehicular emissions; water pollution from raw<br />
sewage; deforestation; smoke/haze from Indonesian forest fires<br />
Geography - note: strategic location along Strait of Malacca and southern South China Sea
Population of Malaysia<br />
Population: 25,274,132 (July 2008 est.)<br />
Age structure: 0-14 years: 32.6% (male 4,093,859/female 3,862,730)<br />
15-64 years: 62.6% (male 7,660,680/female 7,613,537)<br />
65 years and over: 4.7% (male 509,260/female 645,792)<br />
Median age: 24.1 years<br />
Growth rate: 1.78%<br />
Infant mortality: 17.16 deaths/1,000 live births<br />
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 72.5 years<br />
male: 69.8 years<br />
female: 75.38 years<br />
Fertility rate: 3.04 children born/woman<br />
Nationality: noun: Malaysian(s)<br />
adjective: Malaysian<br />
Ethnic groups: Malay 50.4%, Chinese 23.7%, Indigenous 11%, Indian 7.1%, others 7.8%<br />
Religions: Muslim, Buddhist, Daoist, Hindu, Christian, Sikh; note - in addition,<br />
Shamanism is practiced in East Malaysia<br />
Languages: Bahasa Melayu (official), English, Chinese dialects (Cantonese, Mandarin,<br />
Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai;<br />
note - in addition, in East Malaysia several indigenous languages are spoken,<br />
the largest are Iban and Kadazan<br />
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write<br />
total population: 88.9%<br />
male: 92.4%<br />
female: 85.4%<br />
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Question 3 asks you to discuss a given proverb or quotation and explain what it means to you in one<br />
paragraph. Remember to use only the separate essay answer sheet provided.<br />
Here is an example:<br />
Expository Writing<br />
Q.3. (Total 6 Marks)<br />
Write a paragraph explaining the meaning of the following proverb. Give an example from your own<br />
experience to support or disprove the truth of this proverb:<br />
“Don't worry. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”<br />
Anonymous<br />
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Question 4 gives you a proposition (or statement) followed by some information on a particular topic.<br />
You are asked to select relevant parts of the information and write a short argumentative essay<br />
supporting or refuting the proposition. Use of your own words in the essay will be rewarded by the<br />
examiners. Here is an example:<br />
Argumentative Essay<br />
Q.4. (Total 12 Marks)<br />
Directions<br />
Using only the relevant information from the opinions expressed below, write a short essay in favour<br />
of or against the proposition. Try to express your ideas in your own words. Credit will not be given for<br />
copying your answer directly from the given information.<br />
Use only the separate essay answer sheet provided.<br />
Proposition:<br />
Homeopathic treatments should not be made available to patients at any hospital in Pakistan.<br />
Information:<br />
• Homeopathy is a system of medicine in which a disease is treated by giving extremely small<br />
amounts of a substance that causes similar symptoms.<br />
• Homeopathy was devised by Samuel Hahnemann in the eighteenth century. He made two basic<br />
assumptions:<br />
o If a substance would produce the symptoms of a disease in a healthy individual, it could<br />
be used to treat these symptoms in a sick person: ‘like cures like’.<br />
o If you dilute a substance with water, this will increase its ability to cure symptoms and<br />
the more you dilute the more powerful it will become: it will also have no side effects.<br />
• Dilution has to be performed in a very specific way. Every time water is added, its glass<br />
container is hit 10 times against a wooden striking board covered with leather on one side and<br />
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filled with horsehair. In modern homeopathy pill factories, this task is carried out by specially<br />
designed robots.<br />
• The typical homeopathic dilution is 30C: this means that the original substance has been diluted<br />
by one drop in 100, thirty times over. In a sphere of water with the diameter of the distance from<br />
the earth to the sun there would be one remaining molecule of the original substance.<br />
• Homeopathic remedies are given one at a time. They are natural, prepared from extremely small<br />
quantities of herbs, minerals and animal products.<br />
• What the homeopath actually gives you is usually a little sugar pill, not a teaspoonful of water. It<br />
has been demonstrated that two sugar pills are a more effective treatment than one sugar pill. The<br />
colour of the pills, the packaging, how much you pay for them and the beliefs of the person<br />
selling them all affect their potency. This is the placebo effect.<br />
• Diseases have a ‘natural history’, they are bad and then they get better. When you get better you<br />
naturally assume that whatever you did when the disease was bad must be the reason for<br />
recovery. There is no cure for the common cold. It simply gets better by itself.<br />
• There is no reliable evidence that homeopathic medicine is more effective than a placebo but<br />
then the power of mind over matter, especially when associated with ritual and ceremony, can be<br />
remarkable. Amputations without anaesthetic but with placebos have been carried out without<br />
pain.<br />
• Alternative therapists do not just give placebo treatments they give ‘placebo explanations’ –<br />
fanciful assertions about the nature of the patient’s disease with no grounding in evidence. As a<br />
result, they can miss or ignore fatal conditions.<br />
• The real question with homeopathy is very simple: does it work? How do we know if any<br />
treatment is working? We ask the patient. Someone who has a positive experience with<br />
homeopathy will say: “All I know is it works for me. I get better when I take homeopathy”. This<br />
statement has the power that, whatever happens, it stands as true.<br />
• Homeopathic remedies are tested on humans, not on animals. They consider the mind while<br />
treating the symptoms.<br />
• There are very few doctors who are adequately trained in homeopathy and very few colleges<br />
offering comprehensive training.<br />
END OF PAPER
THE AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY<br />
SAMPLE ADMISSION TEST PAPER 2012<br />
MBBS<br />
Section II<br />
Science and Mathematics<br />
Time allowed: 2 hours and 15 minutes<br />
Candidate’s Name: ______________________________________________________<br />
Application No: ______________________________________________________<br />
INSTRUCTIONS<br />
Please read the following instructions carefully.<br />
1. Make sure that you write your name and application number in the space above and on the<br />
given answer sheet.<br />
2. Mark ONLY ONE answer to each question. No credit will be given for multiple answers.<br />
3. If you change an answer, be sure that you completely erase the old answer before marking your<br />
new answer.<br />
4. There will be 120 questions in five sub-sections:<br />
Biology (20 MCQs),<br />
Chemistry (20 MCQs),<br />
Physics (20 MCQs),<br />
Science Reasoning (30 MCQs),<br />
Mathematics Reasoning (30 MCQs).<br />
5. Attempt all questions.<br />
6. Questions can be attempted in any order.<br />
7. In the Biology, Chemistry and Physics sub-section every wrong answer loses 0.25 marks.
Biology<br />
1. Diagram 1 shows a plant and a human<br />
exposed to intense sunlight.<br />
Which pigment protects the parts L and M from<br />
the effect of intense sunlight?<br />
A. Chlorophyll a<br />
B. Chlorophyll b<br />
C. Xanthophyll<br />
D. Carotenoid<br />
Answer: D<br />
2. Diagram 2 represents a model of plasma<br />
membrane. Which of the labelled parts is<br />
hydrophobic in nature?<br />
Answer: A<br />
Answer: B<br />
Answer: A
Physics<br />
5. The mass-energy equivalence equation is<br />
2<br />
E = mc . What is represented by the symbol c<br />
in this equation?<br />
A. The critical angle<br />
B. The speed of neutrons<br />
C. The speed of light in vacuum<br />
D. The specific heat capacity of the<br />
material<br />
Answer: C<br />
6. A force of 20 N is applied to open the door.<br />
What torque will be produced?<br />
A. 10 Nm<br />
B. 15<br />
C. 20 Nm<br />
D. 25 Nm<br />
Answer: B<br />
Science Reasoning<br />
Questions 7-8 refer to the following information:<br />
A pantograph is a four-bar linkage mechanism<br />
used for drawing. It consists of two long bars and<br />
two short bars pivoted to one another so that they<br />
can move freely in a plane. In the version shown<br />
in Figure 1 below, the short bars are half the<br />
length of the long ones.<br />
The point O is held fixed. There is a pointer at<br />
X and a pencil at Y. As the pointer at X is<br />
traced over a shape, the pencil at Y draws the<br />
shape enlarged by a factor of two.<br />
7.In Figure 1 if O and Q are both held fixed, the<br />
point Y<br />
A. cannot move.<br />
B. can move on a circular path.<br />
C. can move in a straight line.<br />
D. can move freely.<br />
Answer: B<br />
For Question 8 select the answer from the<br />
diagrams labelled A to D in Figure 2.<br />
The size of the drawing traced out by the pencil<br />
depends upon the relative lengths of the bars in<br />
the pantograph.<br />
8.Which of the pantographs in Figure 2 will<br />
produce the biggest enlargement of the original<br />
shape?<br />
Answer: D
Question 9 refers to the following information:<br />
Mathematics Reasoning<br />
9. A farmer sold apples, pears, and tomatoes by the kilogram for a total receipt of Rs. 480.00. How<br />
many kilograms of apples did the farmer sell?<br />
Which two of the following statements together provide sufficient information to answer the<br />
question?<br />
I. Apples and pears were each sold at Rs.0.50 per kilogram<br />
II. A total of 780 kilograms of pears and tomatoes was sold.<br />
III. The total receipt for apples was equal to the combined receipt for pears and tomatoes.<br />
IV. The total receipt for apples was 4 times the total receipt for pears.<br />
V. The total receipt for tomatoes was 3 times the total receipt for pears.<br />
A. I and IV<br />
B. II and IV<br />
C. III and V<br />
D. I and III<br />
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Answer: D<br />
Question 10 asks you to compare two quantities with the help of the information given below.<br />
Distribution of the monthly budget of Rs. 4,500 for Salim's family<br />
Insurance<br />
Entertainment<br />
Savings<br />
Others<br />
Quantity X: the monthly budget for food<br />
Quantity Y: Rs. 1,000/-<br />
10. Based on the above information, which of the following statements is correct for X and Y?<br />
Food<br />
Rent and<br />
Utilities<br />
A. Quantity X is greater than Quantity Y.<br />
B. Quantity Y is greater than Quantity X.<br />
C. Quantities X and Y are equal.<br />
D. The relationship cannot be determined from the information given.<br />
Not to scale<br />
Answer: A
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