S THE AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY BB M 13 20 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 PLEASE TURN OVER THE PAGE 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% PLEASE TURN OVER THE PAGE 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.” Anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 PLEASE TURN OVER THE PAGE 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. END OF PAPER 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 END OF PAPER Please use this page for rough work Please use this page for rough work