General Science and Ability Past Paper 2011

One full question in the General Science and Ability past paper 2011 goes to plastics. Q.6 asks whether plastic is a natural or an artificial polymer and then describes the types of plastics and their uses. Q.3 offers seven differentiate pairs, from typhoons and tornadoes to antibodies and antibiotics. Q.4 asks what a galaxy is, describes the big bang theory, and questions whether Pluto still counts as the ninth planet. Q.7 expands LAN, HTTP, HTML, PDF and URL, then separates natural satellites from artificial ones. Short notes close the paper: nucleic acids, fertilizers, semiconductors, microwave oven, and the internet.

What this paper contains

  • Part-I (Q.1) — 50 MCQs (50 marks)
  • Part-II — attempt five of the eight questions (Q.2–Q.9); each question carries 10 marks
  • Q.2 — Short notes on Jabar-bin-Hayan and Bu Ali Sina, with life spans and contributions
  • Q.3 — Differentiate five pairs: typhoons and tornadoes, microscope and telescope, ultrasonics and infrasonics, hard and heavy water, isotopes and isomers, antibodies and antibiotics, antigen and vaccine
  • Q.4 — Galaxy and the Milky Way, the big bang theory, Pluto’s planet status
  • Q.5–Q.6 — Forms and types of energy, renewable sources; plastics as polymers, their types and uses
  • Q.7–Q.9 — Abbreviations LAN, HTTP, HTML, PDF, URL; natural and artificial satellites; cell organelles; animal habitats; notes on nucleic acids, fertilizers, semiconductors, microwave oven, internet
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