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Work and Time - General Aptitude - General Aptitude (GA) Previous Year Questions

Practice Work and Time - General Aptitude - General Aptitude (GA) previous year questions organised from real papers, with year-wise coverage and clear topic navigation.

12Papers
8Years
17Questions
1Topics

Work and Time question pattern

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Questions by year

Year-wise coverage for Work and Time. Each bar uses a separate theme-derived color.

Difficulty distribution

How the classified questions are distributed by difficulty.

Easy 11 64.7%
Medium 6 35.3%

Question type distribution

MCQ, numerical, multiple-select and other formats found in these papers.

MCQ 11 64.7%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 6 35.3%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

General Aptitude (GA)
17 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

General Aptitude
17 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Work and Time
17 Qs

Paper coverage

Question coverage for the most populated papers. Every active PYP paper remains listed below.

Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2025
1 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2020 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2019 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2018 [Session 1]
2 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2018 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2016 [Session 1]
1 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2016 [Session 3]
1 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2015 [Session 1]
3 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2015 [Session 2]
2 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2014 [Session 3]
1 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2014 [Session 4]
1 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2012
2 Qs

Included previous year papers

Newest papers appear first. Sort by year, question coverage or name.

PaperYear / sessionQuestions in this viewOpen
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 202520251View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2020 [Session 2]20201View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2019 [Session 2]20191View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2018 [Session 1]20182View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2018 [Session 2]20181View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2016 [Session 1]20161View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2016 [Session 3]20161View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2015 [Session 1]20153View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2015 [Session 2]20152View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2014 [Session 3]20141View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2014 [Session 4]20141View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 201220122View paper

All Work and Time previous year questions

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2012 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2012
A CNC vertical milling machine has to cut a straight slot of 10 mm width and 2 mm depth by a cutter of 10 mm diameter between points (0, 0) and (100, 100) on the XT plane (dimensions in mm). The feed rate used for milling is 50 mm/min. Milling time for the slot (in seconds) is
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2012 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2012

In a single pass drilling operation, a through hole of 15 mm diameter is to be drilled in a steel plate of 50 mm thickness. Drill spindle speed is 500 rpm, feed is 0.2 mm/rev and drill point angle is 118°. Assuming 2 mm clearance at approach and exit, the total drill time (in seconds) is

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2014 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2014 [Session 3]
A train that is 280 metres long, travelling at a uniform speed, crosses a platform in 60 seconds and passes a man standing on the platform in 20 seconds. What is the length of the platform in metres?
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2014 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2014 [Session 4]
It takes 30 minutes to empty a half-full tank by draining it at a constant rate. It is decided to simultaneously pump water into the half-full tank while draining it. What is the rate at which water has to be pumped in so that it gets fully filled in 10 minutes?
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2015 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2015 [Session 1]
A tiger is 50 leaps of its own behind a deer. The tiger takes 5 leaps per minute to the deer’s 4. If the tiger and the deer cover 8 metre and 5 metre per leap respectively, what distance in metres will the tiger have to run before it catches the deer?
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2015 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2015 [Session 1]
A swimmer can swim 10 km in 2 hours when swimming along the flow of a river. While swimming against the flow, she takes 5 hours for the same distance. Her speed in still water (in km/h) is ______
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2015 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2015 [Session 1]
A ball of mass 0.1 kg, initially at rest, is dropped from height of 1 m. Ball hits the ground and bounces off the ground. Upon impact with the ground, the velocity reduces by 20%. The height (in m) to which the ball will rise is ______
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2015 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2015 [Session 2]
Annual demand of a product is 50000 units and the ordering cost is Rs. 7000 per order. Considering the basic economic order quantity model, the economic order quantity is 10000 units. When the annual inventory cost is minimized, the annual inventory holding cost (in Rs.) is ______
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2015 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2015 [Session 2]
Work is done on an adiabatic system due to which its velocity changes from 10 m/s to 20 m/s, elevation increases by 20 m and temperature increases by 1 K. The mass of the system is 10 kg, \(C_v = 100\ J/(kg·K)\) and gravitational acceleration is \(10\ m/s^2\). If there is no change in any other component of the energy of the system, the magnitude of total work done (in kJ) on the system is ______
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2016 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2016 [Session 1]

P, Q, R and S are working on a project. Q can finish the task in 25 days, working alone for 12 hours a day. R can finish the task in 50 days, working alone for 12 hours per day. Q worked 12 hours a day but took sick leave in the beginning for two days. R worked 18 hours a day on all days. What is the ratio of work done by Q and R after 7 days from the start of the project?

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2016 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2016 [Session 3]
S, M, E and F are working in shifts in a team to finish a project. M works with twice the efficiency of others but for half as many days as E worked. S and M have 6 hour shifts in a day, whereas E and F have 12 hours shifts. What is the ratio of contribution of M to contribution of E in the project?
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2018 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2018 [Session 1]

Seven machines take 7 minutes to make 7 identical toys. At the same rate, how many minutes would it take for 100 machines to make 100 toys?

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2018 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2018 [Session 1]

From the time the front of a train enters a platform, it takes 25 seconds for the back of the train to leave the platform, while travelling at a constant speed of 54 km/h. At the same speed, it takes 14 seconds to pass a man running at 9 km/h in the same direction as the train. What is the length of the train and that of the platform in meters, respectively?

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2018 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2018 [Session 2]
A contract is to be completed in 52 days and 125 identical robots were employed, each operational for 7 hours a day. After 39 days, five-seventh of the work was completed. How many additional robots would be required to complete the work on time, if each robot is now operational for 8 hours a day?
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2019 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2019 [Session 2]
Two pipes P and Q can fill a tank in 6 hours and 9 hours respectively, while a third pipe R can empty the tank in 12 hours. Initially, P and R are open for 4 hours. Then P is closed and Q is opened. After 6 more hours R is closed. The total time taken to fill the tank (in hours) is ____.
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2020 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2020 [Session 2]

It was estimated that 52 men can complete a strip in a newly constructed highway connecting cities P and Q in 10 days. Due to an emergency, 12 men were sent to another project. How many number of days, more than the original estimate, will be required to complete the strip?

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2025 · General Aptitude (GA) · General Aptitude · Work and Time
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2025

Two cars, P and Q, start from a point X in India at 10 AM. Car P travels North with a speed of 25 km/h and car Q travels East with a speed of 30 km/h. Car P travels continuously but car Q stops for some time after travelling for one hour. If both the cars are at the same distance from X at 11:30 AM, for how long (in minutes) did car Q stop?

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