Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited Aptitude Test previous year question papers

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Q.1) Educational Background-How many years does a chemical engineer need to study in university before becoming a chemical engineer?

A. bachelors degree.
B. 5 years
C. a chemical engineer need about fourteen years of study's before becoming a engineer.
D. 4 years
E. all of the above.
Q.2) Salary- in 2007 Alberta had a wage and salary survey. from the results of the survey a chemical engineer can make up to how much dollars a year?

A. $101,000
B. $156,000
C. depends on his/her education.
D. $191,000
E. $190,000
Q.3) Job Description- what does a chemical engineer manage?

A. chemicals, biochemicals, pharmaceutical materials and processing plants.
B. tools for measuring pressure.
C. Determines the most effective process for chemical products.
D. all of the above
E. only a abd b
Q.4) working conditions- does the chemical engineer get called after hours?

A. lol what no!
B. yes obviously
C. no a chemical engineer's work to hard for that to happen
D. non of the above.
E. b and d
Q.5) working conditions- does a chemical engineer ever come in contact with hazardous products?

A. yes always come on there chemical engineers!!!
B. no never..."what you talking about #!@#!?"
C. those who work in production may come in contact with hazardous products.
D. non of the above.
E. all of the above.
Q.6) daily basis- does a chemical engineer ever work with the computer?

A. no never.
B. while drawing reports.
C. yes always
D. B) and C) only
E. non of the above.
Q.7) Duties- why do chemical engineer test products before putting them out for sale?

A. so the products doesn't hurt animals.
B. the manufacturing process may affect the environment and the safer of workers and consumers.
C. they don't test them........
D. all of the above.
E. non of the above
Q.8) what 2 university's did i mention that had the chemical engineers course in my presentation?

A. University of Toronto and University of Alberta.
B. University of Alberta and the University of Edmonton
C. University of Alberta and the University of Calgary.
D. University of Edmonton and University of Waterloo
E. a and d
Q.9) What is the minimum degree to become a Chemical engineer?

A. masters.
B. bachelors.
C. 4 years degree.
D. license for a degree.
E. all of the above
Q.10) University of Alberta is located in what major city?

A. Toronto
B. Halifax
C. Calgary
D. Edmonton

1. Dissolving salt in water is an example of which type of change ?

Physical-Ans

Nuclear

Chemical

Biochemical

2. When nuclear change takes place, which is true

Energy is destroyed

Energy is released

Energy is changed

None of these

The answer is Energy is released

3. Which type of radiation is unaffected by magnetism ?

Alpha

Beta

GammaAns

All of these

4. Which temperature scale is an absolute scale, where the zero point is the lowest possible temperature ?

KelvinAns

Celsius

Fahrenheit

Centigrade

5. The relative randomness of molecules in the states of matter is best indicated by

Solid > Liquids > Gas

Liquid > Gas > Solid

Liquid > Solid > Gas

Gas > Liquid > SolidAns

6. Whether or not two liquids are miscible is determined by

Molecular Size : Molecules of similar sizes tend to mix together

Density : Liquids of simliar densities usually mix well together

Polarity : Polar and nonpolar liquids are not miscible while polar liquids can usually be mixed with each other Ans

All of the above factors directly affect miscibility

7. The Triple Point is

The combination of standard temperature, pressure and volume

The combination of temperature and pressure at which the solid, liquid and gas phases can coexist at equilibrium

The combination of pressure and temperature at which liquid, gas, and plasma phases all exist in equilibrium

The combination of temperature and pressure at which liquids and gases cannot be distinguished from each other

8. If the work done by a force depends only on the initial and final stages and not on the path taken, then this type of force will be

Conservative Force

Non-conservative Force

Conservative as well as Non-conservative force

None of these

9. Working between which pair of following temperatures, the efficiency of a carnot engine will be maximum ?

10 Degrees F and 10 Degress R

10 Degrees F and 10 Degress C

10 Degrees R and 10 Degress C

It will be same in all the above cases

10. Dacron is a

Polyester

Polyamide

Nylon

Resin

11. Which of the following has the highest stable atom ?

Bi

Al

Cl

Pb

12. In Friedel-Crafts reaction, AlCl3 acts as a

Lewis Acid

Lewis Base

Catalyst

Reactant

13. The number of unpaired electrons in [Ni(CO)4] is

Zero

One

Three

Five

14. Iodoethane reacts with sodium to form

Pentane

Propane

Butene

Butane

15. An ideal gas has maximum density at

1 atm, 300 K

2 atm, 150 K

0.5 atm, 600 K

1 atm, 500 K

16. Which of the following metals is present in brass, bronze and german silver ?

Defence Mechanism

Hydrolysis of ATP

Trifling of Contraction

Generating right electrical potential across cell membrane

17. First ionization potential is ___________ second ionization potential.

Less than

More than

Equal to

None of these

18. n-propyl benzene is best prepared by

Friedel-Crafts Reaction

Wurtz Reaction

Wurtz-Fitting Reaction

Grignard Reaction

19. Chloroform is slowly oxidized by air to

Formly Chloride

Carbonyl Chloride

Trichloroacetic Acid

Formic Acide

20. Electrophoresis is

Movement of colloidal particle under the influence of electric field

Movement of colloidal particle under the influence of magnetic field

Movement of colloidal particle in zig-zag fashion

Scattering of light by colloidal particles

21. Rosenmund's reduction of an acyl chloride gives

Alcohol

Ester

Hydrocarbon

Aldehyde

22. Pyrophosphoric acid is

Monobasic

Dibasic

Tribasic

Basic

23. Which of the following is an example of a mathematical model ?

Area of a circle = PI x Radius^2

Volume of a cube = Length^3

Force = Mass x Acceleration

All of the above

24. The specific activity of an enzyme is relatively constant between pH 3-8. If the enzyme activity at pH 7.0 is to be modeled, which of the following would be a reasonable simplifying assumption ?

Specific activity is not dependent on temperature

Specific activity is not dependent on substrate concentration

Specific activity is not dependent on pH

All of the above

25. The bioreactor which is most commonly used in industry is the

Batch Fermenter

Fed Batch Fermenter

Continous Fermenter

Batch Continous Fermenter

26. Which of the following is correct with regards to microbial growth ?

Cells are autocatalysts and thus the rate of increase in biomass (dX/dt) keeps changing

Many factors affect cell growth

The rate of increase in biomass concentration is not constant during a fermentation

All of the above are correct

27. During a batch fermentation, when would the specific growth rate be lowest ?

During exponential phase

During the lag and stationary phase

When cells are growing at their fastest rate

Throughout the fermentation

28. Which of the following describes a limitation of the exponential growth model ?

Biomass growth is assumed to be not linked to the availability of nutrients or substrates

It does not predict when cell growth will cease

It predicts that all types of cells under all conditions will grow exponentially

All of the above are correct

29. In large scale bioreactors, dissolved oxygen levels are often so low that they restrict the rate of cell growth. In this case

Dissolved oxygen would be the growth limiting nutrient

The nitrogen source would be the growth limiting nutrient

The carbon source would be the growth limiting nutrient

Dissolved oxygen levels would not be the growth limiting nutrient

30. Which of the following is not correct ?

The Monod model is an empirical correlation

The Michaelis Menten model is a mechanistic model

The Monod model was derived from a study of the mechanism of microbial growth

The Michaelis Menten model was derived from a study of the mechanism of enzyme action

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As you want to get Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited Aptitude Test previous year question paper for doing preparation of this exam so here I am giving you some questions of that paper:

1. Which of the following involves context switch,
(a) system call
(b) priviliged instruction
(c) floating poitnt exception
(d) all the above
(e) none of the above

Ans: (a)

2. In OST, terminal emulation is done in
(a) sessions layer
(b) application layer
(c) presentation layer
(d) transport layer

Ans: (b)

3. For 1 MB memory, the number of address lines required,
(a)11
(b)16
(c)22
(d) 24

Ans. (b)

4. Semaphore is used for
(a) synchronization
(b) dead-lock avoidence
(c) box
(d) none

Ans. (a)

5. Which holds true for the following statement
class c: public A, public B
a) 2 member in class A, B should not have same name
b) 2 member in class A, C should not have same name
c) both
d) none

Ans. (a)

6.Preproconia.. does not do which one of the following
(a) macro
(b) conditional compliclation
(c) in type checking
(d) including load file
Ans. (c)

7. Piggy backing is a technique for
a) Flow control
b) Sequence
c) Acknowledgement
d) retransmition
Ans. (c)

8. Given the following statement
enum day = { jan = 1 ,feb=4, april, may}
What is the value of may?
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 6
(d) 11
(e) None of the above

Ans (e)

9. Find the output for the following C program
i=20,k=0;
for(j=1;j9 && Y++!=10 && Y++>10)
{printf("%d", Y);
else
printf("%d", Y);
}

Ans. 13

12. Find the output for the following C program
f=(x>y)?x:y
a) f points to max of x and y
b) f points to min of x and y
c)error

Ans. (a)

13. What is the sizeof(long int)
(a) 4 bytes
(b) 2 bytes
(c) compiler dependent
(d) 8 bytes

Ans: (a) or (c)

14.1. a=2, b=3, c=6
Find the value of c/(a+b)-(a+b)/c
Ans : 0.3 or 3/10

15.. What does the hexanumber E78 in radix 7.
(a) 12455
(b) 14153
(c) 14256
(d) 13541
(e) 131112

Ans. (d)

16.. 10 : 4 seconds :: ? : 6 minutes

Ans. 900

17.. From the following statements determing the order of ranking
? M has double the amount as D
? Y has 3 rupess more than half the amount of D
Ans. Data insuffiecient

Questions 18 - 22 are to be answered on the following data
? A causes B or C, but not both
? F occurs only if B occurs
? D occurs if B or C occurs
? E occurs only if C occurs
? J occurs only if E or F occurs
? D causes G,H or both
? H occurs if E occurs
? G occurs if F occurs


18. If A occurs which of the following must occurs
I. F and G
II. E and H
III. D
(a) I only
(b) II only
(c) III only
(d) I,II, & III
(e) I & II (or) II & III but not both
Ans. (e)

19. If B occurs which must occur
(a) D
(b) D and G
(c) G and H
(d) F and G
(e) J
Ans. (a)

20. If J occurs which must have occured
(a) E
(b) either B or C
(c) both E & F
(d) B
(e) both B & C
Ans. (b)

21. Which may occurs as a result of cause not mentioned
I. D
II. A
III. F
(a) I only
(b) II only
(c) I & II
(d) II & III
(e) I,II & III
Ans. (c)


22. E occurs which one cannot occurs
(a) A
(b) F
(c) D
(d) C
(e) J
Ans. (b)

[ Draw table and see ]

23.A man fixed an appointment to meet the manager, Manager asked him to come two days after the day before the day after tomorrow. Today is Friday. When will the manager expect him? (repeated from previous papers)

Ans: Monday


[Don't confuse it with Tuesday.the correct answer is Monday]

24.A man said he spent 1/6 of his as a child, 1/12 as salesman in a liquor shop, 1/7 and 5 years as a politician and a good husband respectively. At that time Jim was born. Jim was elected as Alderman four years back.when he was half of his age. What is his age? (repeated from previous papers)

Ans: 84 years

[Assume that he lived x years.
X/6 + x/12 + x/7 + 5 + 4 + x/2 = x. Solving x= 84, Same as Question in Shakundala Devi book]

25.Jack,Doug and Ann, 3 children had a running race while returning from school.Mom asked who won the race. Then Jack replied" I wont tell u.I wil give u a clue,When Ann takes 28 steps Doug takes 24 steps, meantime I take 21 steps. Jack explained that his 6 steps equals Droug's 7 steps and Ann's 8 steps. Who won the race? (repeated from previous papers)

Ans: Doug

[ Ann steps = 8,16,24,28 --- finished by 3 & half full steps
Doug steps=7,14,21,24 --- finished before 3 & half full steps
Jack steps= 6,12,18,21 --- finished by 3 & half full steps
So Doug won the race ]

26. Every day a cyclist meets a car at the station.The road is straight and both are travelling in the same direction. The cyclist travels with a speed of 12 mph.One day the cyclist comes late by 20 min. and meets the car 5miles before the Station. What is the speed of the car?

Ans: 60 mph

[Very similar to Shakuntala Devi puzzles to puzzle you problem no: 38 ]


27.A lady goes for shopping. She bought some shoestrings. 4 times the number of shoestrings, she bought pins and 8 times, handkerchiefs. She paid each item with their count as each piece's cost. She totally spent Rs. 3.24.How many handkerchiefs did she buy? (repeated from previous papers)

28. Complete the series :

a) 3,6,13,26,33,66,____(repeated from previous papers)
b) 364,361,19,16,4,1,___( " " " )

Ans : a) 63
b) 1


29. Lucia is a wonderful grandmother. Her age is between 50 and 70.Each of her sons have as many sons as they have brothers. Their combined number gives Lucia?s age. What is the age?

Ans: 64

30.There are two towers A and B. Their heights are 200ft and 150ft respectively and the foot of the towers are 250ft apart. Two birds on top of each tower fly down with the same speed and meet at the same instant on the ground to pick a grain. What is the distance between the foot of tower A and the grain?

Ans:90ft

31. Grass in lawn grows equally thick and in a uniform rate. It takes 40 days for 40 cows and 60 days for 30 cows to eat the whole of the grass. How many days does it take for 20 cows to do the same?

Ans: 120

32. Four tourists A,B,C,D and four languages English, German, French and Italian. They are not able to converse among themselves in one language. Though A does not know English he can act as an interpreter between B and C. No one spoke both French and German. A knows German and was able to converse with D who doesn?t know a word in German. Only one language was spoken by more than two persons. Each spoke two languages. Find who spoke what.

Ans : A- German,Italian
B- French,Italian
c- German,English
D- Italian,English



33. There is a five digit number. It has two prime digits (1 is not a prime number). Third digit is the highest. Second digit is the lowest. First digit is one less than the third digit. The fifth digit is half of the fourth. The sum of 4th and 5th is less than the first. Find the number.

Ans ? 71842

34. Four persons A, B, C and D are playing cards. Each person has one card, laid down on the table below him, which has two different colours on either side. No card has the same color on both sides. The colours visible on the table are Red, Green, Red and Blue respectively. They see the color on the reverse side and give the following comment.

A: Yellow or Green
B: Neither Blue nor Green
C: Blue or Yellow
D: Blue or Yellow

Given that out of the 4 people 2 always lie find out the colours on the cards each person.

Ans: A- Yellow
B- Yellow
C- Green
D- Red

35. A 1 k.m. long wire is held by n poles. If one pole is removed, the length of the gap becomes 12/3m. What is the number of poles initially?


Ans:6km

36. Find the digits X,Y,Z
X X X X
Y Y Y Y +
Z Z Z Z
--------------
Y X X X Z
----------------
Ans: X Y Z
9 1 8

37. A man starts walking at 3 pm . ha walks at a speed of 4 km/hr on level ground and at a speed of 3 km/hr on uphill , 6 km/hr downhill and then 4 km/hr on level ground to reach home at 9 pm. What is the distance covered on one way?

Ans: 12 km

38. A grandma has many sons; each son has as many sons as his brothers. What is her age if it?s the product of the no: of her sons and grandsons plus no: of her sons?(age b/w 70 and 100).

Ans: 81

39. An electric wire runs for 1 km b/w some no: of poles. If one pole is removed the distance b/w each pole increases by 1 2/6 (mixed fraction). How many poles were there initially?

40. There is a church tower 150 feet tall and another catholic tower at a distance of 350 feet from it which is 200 feet tall. There is one each bird sitting on top of both the towers. They fly at a constant speed and time to reach a grain in b/w the towers at the same time. At what distance from the church is the grain?

Ans: 90

41. A person wants to meet a lawyer and as that lawyer is busy he asks him to come three days after the before day of the day after tomorrow? on which day the lawyer asks the person to come?

ans: thursday

42. A person is 80 years old in 490 and only 70 years old in 500 in which year is he born?

ans: 470

43.A person says that their speed while going to a city was 10mph however while returning as there is no much traffic they came with a speed of 15mph. what is their average speed?

ans: 12mph

45. There is a peculiar island where a man always tells truth and a women never says two 2 consecutive truth or false statements that is if she says truth statement then she says false statement next and vice versa. A boy and girl also goes in the same way. one day i asked a child " what r u a boy or a girl" however the child replied in their language that i dint understand but the parents knew my language and one parent replied that " kibi is a boy" the other one said that "no kibi is a girl, kibi lied".

a: is kibi a boy or a girl
b: who ansered first mother or father?

ans: kibi is a girl and mother answered first.

46. The boy goes to school reaches railway station at his 1/3 of his journey& mill at 1/4 of his journey the time taken him to walk between railway station & mill is 5 mins. Also he reaches railway station at 7.35amwhen he started from house& when he reaches school?

Ans: 7:15to8.15

47. if a person is sitting in a exam having 30 questions (objective type) the examiner use the formula to calculate the score is S=30+4c-w here c is number of correct answer and w is number of wrong answer , the examiner find the score is more than 80, tell how may questions are correct ? if the score is little less but still more than 80 then u wont be able to answer.

ans :- 16


48. if a person having 1000 rs and he want to distribute this to his five children in the manner that ecah son having 20 rs more than the younger one , what will be the share of youngest child
ans- 160

49.raju having some coins want to distribute to his 5 son , 5 daughter and driver in a manner that , he gave fist coin to driver and 1/5 of remaining to first son he again gave one to driver and 1/5 to 2nd son and so on.... at last he equally distributed all the coins to 5 daughters. how many coins raju initially have???

ans:-881

50. if ravi binded his book and the binder cut the pages of the book , ravi decided to mark the pages by himself own , what he found that number of three appears 61 times find of number of pages answer

ans - 300


51. a painter went in a exhibition to purchases some pictures where T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z pictures were remaining , he want to buy only five in the condition on that if T is there then X should not be there, if U is there than y should be there if if v is there then X should be there

which is the combination the painter can have
(a) T,U,V,W,Y
(b)T,Z,U,W,X
(c)T,X,U,V,W
(d)T,U,Y,W,Z

ans (d)

52.There are 100 men in town. Out of which 85% were married, 70% have a phone, 75% own a car, 80% own
a house. What is the maximum number of people who are married, own a phone, own a car and own a house ? ( 3 marks)

Sol: 15%

53. There are 10 Red, 10 Blue, 10 Green, 10 Yellow, 10 White balls in a bag. If you are blindfolded and asked to pick up the balls from the bag, what is the minimum number of balls required to get a pair of atleast one colour ? ( 2 Marks)

Sol :6 balls.

54. Triplet who usually wear same kind and size of shoes, namely, Annie, Danny, Fanny. Once one of them broke a glass in kitchen and their shoe prints were there on floor of kitchen. When their mother asked who broke Annie said, ?I didn?t do it?; Fanny said ?Danny did it?; Danny said ?Fanny is lieing?; here two of them are lieing, one is speaking truth. Can you find out who broke it ? (3 Marks)

Sol : Annie