Biomedical Paper 2020 Ques 1
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GENERAL ABILITY
Q. No. 1 – 5 Carry One Mark Each
1. Despite a string of poor performances, the chances of K.L. Rahul’s selection in the team are_______.
(A) slim (B) bright (C) uncertain (D) obvious
Answer: (B)
2. The difference between the sum of the first 2n natural numbers and sum of first n odd natural numbers is
____________.
(A) 2n 2 n (B) n 2 n (C) 2n 2 n (D) n 2 n
Answer: (D)
3. Hit by floods, the Kharif (summer sown) crops in various parts of the country have been affected.
Officials believe that the loss in production of the kharif crops can be recovered in the output of the rabi
(winter sown) crops so that the country can achieve its food-grain production target of 291 million tons
in the crop year 2019-20 (July-June). They are hopeful that good rains in July-August will help the soil
retain moisture for a longer period, helping winter sown crops such as wheat and pulses during the
November-February period.
Which of the following statements can be inferred from the given passage?
(A) Officials want the food-grain production target to be met by the November-February period.
(B) Officials feel that the food-grain production target cannot be met due to floods.
(C) Officials declared that the food-grain production target will be met due to good rains.
(D) Officials hope that the food-grain production target will be met due to good rabi produce.
Answer: (D)
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5. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award was conferred _______ MaryKom, a six-time world champion in
boxing, recently in a ceremony_____ the Rashtrapati Bhawan (the President’s official residence) in New
Delhi.
(A) to, at (B) on, at (C) On, in (D) With, at
Answer: (A)
6. For a matrix M = mij ;i, j 1,2,3,4, the diagonal elements are all zero and mij m ji . The minimum
number of elements required to fully specify the matrix is_______.
(A) 12 (B) 16 (C) 6 (D) 0
Answer: (C)
7. The profit shares of two companies P and Q are shown in the figure. If the two companies have invested
a fixed and equal amount every year, then the ratio of the total revenue of company P to the total
revenue of company Q, during 2013 – 2018 is ______.
70
Company P
60
Company Q
Profit percentage
50
40
30
20
10
0
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Year
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9. Repo rate is the rate at which Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lends commercial banks, and reverse repo
rate is the rate at which RBI borrows money from commercial banks.
Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage?
(A) Decrease in repo rate will decrease cost of borrowing and increase lending by commercial banks.
(B) Decrease in repo rate will increase cost of borrowing and decrease lending by commercial banks.
(C) Increase in repo rate will decrease cost of borrowing and decrease lending by commercial banks.
(D) Increase in repo rate will increase cost of borrowing and Increase lending by commercial banks.
Answer: (A)
10. The distance between Delhi and Agra is 233km. A car P started travelling from Delhi to Agra and
another car Q started from Agra to Delhi along the same road 1 hour after the car P started. The two cars
crossed each other 75 minutes after the car Q started. Both cars were travelling at constant speed The
speed of car P was 10km/hr more than the speed of car Q. How many kilometers the car Q had travelled
when the cars crossed each other?
(A) 116.5 (B) 88.2 (C) 66.6 (D) 75.2
Answer: (D)
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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Q. No. 1–25 Carry One Mark Each
1. m1 and m2 are the roots of the characteristics equation of a linear second order physical system. Match
the nature of the roots with the natural response of the system.
Nature of roots System response
P. m1 and m2 are real and distinct K. Critically damped
2. A person is sitting in a chair with feet on the ground. While rising up on his feet, the kinematic motion
NOT occurring is
(A) Hip extension (B) Plantar flexion
(C) Hip flexion (D) Knee extension
Answer: (C)
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5. The MRI scanner parameter of long TRe p or short TEcho will generate a _______ contrast image
6. In diagnostic X-ray imaging, the following is NOT a part of primary EM radiation interaction in soft
tissue
(A) Photoelectric effect (B) Characteristic radiation production
(C) Compton scattering (D) Pair-production
Answer: (B & D)
7. A 5 MHz ultrasound pulse is used to image a tumor at a depth of 2 cm in a soft tissue. It takes time t for
the reflected echo from the tumor to come back to the receiver. Instead, if a 2.5 MHz wave is used, how
long will it take for the echo from the same tumor to arrive at the receiver?
(A) t/2 (B) r (C) 2t (D) 4t
Answer: (B)
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0 2 X b U
X a 0 0
Y 1 0 X
The condition for the system to be controllable are
(A) a 0, b 0 (B) a 0, b 0 (C) a 0, b 0 (D) a 0, b 0
Answer: (C)
11. In microprocessor systems with memory mapped I/O, which of the following is true?
(A) Only I/O devices with internal memory can be interfaced
(B) I/O devices can be accessed using IN and OUT instructions
(C) Each I/O device can be addressed as a memory location
(D) Arithmetic and logic operations cannot be directly performed with the I/O data
Answer: (C)
12. The number of electrodes used in recording standard 12-lead Electrocardiogram (ECG) is
(A) 13 (B) 12 (C) 11 (D) 10
Answer: (D)
14. During a routine stethoscopic examination at the left midclavicular-5th intercostals space, murmurs were
noted between first and second heard sound. The possible abnormality among the following could be
(A) Aortic stenosis (B) Mitral regurgitation
(C) Mitral stenosis (D) Aortic regurgitation
Answer: (B)
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16. The value of the integral evaluated over the contour C : z is _________.
2
1 z
2j z 1 z 2
dz
Answer: (–1)
17. The eigen values of a 3 × 3 non-singular matrix P are 1, 2 and 3. The trace of matrix P 1 (rounded off to
two decimal places) is __________.
Answer: (1.83)
18. The following recursion relation, when started from a finite positive non-zero value, converges to _____
1 1
x n 1 x n
2 xn
Answer: (1)
19. In a nuclear imaging system, Sodium Iodide (NaI) crystals are used to detect gamma rays of 120 keV.
The percentage (%) of gamma-rays that will pass through 1 cm of NaI crystal, assuming the Half-Value-
Layer (HVL) of NaI as 0.2 cm, is _________ (rounded off to one decimal place).
Answer: (3.1)
20. The distal end of an endoscope is placed at a distance of 1 mm from the gastrointestinal wall. The
refractive indices of the fiber core and cladding are 1.5 and 1.45, respectively.
The maximum field of view for the endoscope is __________ degrees (rounded off to one decimal
place).
Answer: (45)
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21. Two inductors with the details given below are wound separately on two identical ring type
ferromagnetic cores
Coil Number of turns Gauge of wire Self-Inductance
Coil-1 N G L1
Coil-2 2N G/2 L2
L2
The ratio is _____________.
L1
Answer: (4)
22. Two dyes X and Y having concentrations in the ratio 0.25 in identical cuvettes were subjected to
absorption measurements in a spectrophotometer. The estimated ratio of their absorbance is 0.5. The
ratio of their extinction coefficients is _______.
Answer: (2)
23. Hydrolysis of one ATP molecule provides an energy of __________ kilo calories (correct up to one
decimal place).
Answer: (7.3)
24. An 830 nm laser Doppler flow meter probe is oriented at an angle of 60° to the flow axis. If the average
flow velocity is 3 cm/s, the magnitude of Doppler shift frequency (kHz) is ________(rounded off to one
decimal place).
Answer: (36.1)
25. A 100 mA single current pulse from a pulse generator is used for artificial pacing of heart at the right
ventricle. If the delivered energy does not exceed the fibrillation threshold of 300 J, the safe duration
of the pulse of the pulse that could be applied to the tissue mass having an impedance of 500 is
__________ s.
Answer: (60)
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26. The resting potential of a mammalian nerve cell is –80 mV. A certain drug administered to the body
changes the intracellular K concentration from 150 mmol/L to 55 mmol/L. The nearest value of cell
membrane potential after the drug administration, assuming that the external equilibrium of K does not
get changed during the event, is
(Gas constant = 8.315 J/mol/K, core temperature = 37°C and Faraday constant = 96500 C/mol)
(A) –117 mV (B) –18.71 mV (C) –53.32 mV (D) –141.30 mV
Answer: (C)
27. The arrangement of four resistors of equal value in the diaphragm of a physiological pressure
measurement catheter is shown below. The applied pressure is observed to cause an increase in length of
resistors R2, R4 and an increase in cross sectional area in R1 and R3. The operation results in an equal
change in the values of all four resistors. Which among the configuration given below should be used to
connect the resistors to form a Wheatstone bridge so that bridge output voltage is proportional to the
change in resistance of individual resistors?
R1
R4 R2
R3
I. II.
R1 R2
R1 R2
Vo
Vo
R4 R3 R3 R4
(A) I only (B) II only (C) Neither I nor II (D) Both I and II
Answer: (A)
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28. For the given input voltage, Vin 10sin 2t to the functional circuit shown below, the output signal
will be
10k 12V
12V
Vin
~ 100k
Vout
0.2F
12V
12V
10k
Vout Vout
(A) (B)
12
12
t s
1 t s
1
12 12
10 12
t s t s
1 1
10 12
Answer: (D)
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29. During a non-invasive measurement of blood pressure, mean arterial pressure was observed to be 100
mm Hg. If systolic pressure is 150 mm Hg, the diastolic pressure would be
(A) 110 mm Hg (B) 75 mm Hg (C) 70 mm Hg (D) 50 mm Hg
Answer: (B)
30. Two loads are connected to AC supply mains as depicted in the figure. One load draws 10 kW whereas
the other load of 10 kVA is operated at 0.69 pf lagging. To achieve an overall power factor of 0.9544
lagging, the nearest kVAr rating of the capacitor bank needed to be connected across the supply mains is
equal to
AC supply mains
10 kW 10 kVA,
0.6 pf lagging
31. The nearest value of power dissipated in the 3 resistance in the circuit is
2
4
2 3 2A
2V
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32. A second order low pass filter is being constructed by cascading two first order low pass filters with the
following transfer functions
1 1
H1 j , H 2 j
j j
1 1
1 2
Where 1 and 2 are the respective 3 dB off frequencies
The undamped natural frequency c of the resulting second order low pass filter is
12
(A) c 12 (B) c 1 2 (C) c (D) c 12 22
1 2
Answer: (A)
33. Match the bridge type with the application given below:
Name of the bridge Application
P. Maxwell bridge K. Measurement of Low resistance
Q. Kelvin double bridge L. Measurement of medium Q-coil inductance
R. Hay bridge M. Measurement of capacitance
S. Schering bridge N. Measurement of High Q-coil inductance
(A) P-L, Q-K, R-N, S-M (B) P-N, Q-K, R-L, S-M
(C) P-N, Q-L, R-M, S-K (D) P-L, Q-M, R-N, S-K
Answer: (A)
12 2
34. For a non-unity feedback, system with G s and H s , the magnitude of steady-state
s2 s3
error to a unit step-input is
(A) 0.50 (B) 0.45 (C) 0.25 (D) 0.20
Answer: (D)
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(A) P-K, Q-L, R-N, S-M (B) P-L, Q-K, R-N, S-M
(C) P-L, Q-N, R-M, S-K (D) P-M, Q-K, R-L, S-N
Answer: (B)
36. The glomerulus filtration process of kidney is modeled as a flat membrane with pores of radius 1 mm
and length of pore 60 nm. The viscosity of the fluid is 0.002 PaS. The aggregate area of the pores
makeup 5% of total surface area of the membrane. The average pressure on the blood side of the
membrane 800 Pa and on the ultrafiltrate side is 6200 Pa. The total available area of membrane is 1.5
m2 . The nearest value of resulting filtration rate in cm3 min is
(A) 0.14 (B) 1.40 (C) 8.43 (D) 84.37
Answer: (C)
37. During resting state, the voltage outside the cell membrane compared to that inside the membrane is
______________. Under such conditions, the intracellular and extracellular regions have _______ and
___________ concentrations, respectively.
(A) More positive, more Potassium [K ], more Sodium [Na ]
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38. The tensile strength of a degradable suture used for a surgical procedure in the human body is observed
to decrease exponential from its original strength by 40% and 50% after 10 days and 20 days,
respectively. The closest approximation of the time taken for the tensile strength to decay to 20% of its
original value would be
(A) 35 days (B) 45 days (C) 60 days (D) 70 days
Answer: (D)
39. A 60 kg person is standing on one foot on a force plate. The ground reaction force is found to act 40 min
anterior to the ankle joint. The mass center of a foot is 60 mm from the Trochanter Knee Ankle (TKA)
line. If the weight of the foot is 0.8 kg, the closest value of magnitude of moment acting on the ankle
joint is
(A) 23 Nm (B) 48 Nm (C) 235 Nm (D) 466 Nm
Answer: (A)
40. The temperature of bone cement is increased from 37°C to 87°C during the femoral hip arthroplasty.
The cement thickness is noted to be 20 mm. The stress developed due to exothermic reaction of bone
cement during the polymerization process and shrinkage of the bone cement, respectively, are
Assume that
(i) bone, cement, and implant are modeled as a set of concentric cylinders
(ii) no direct adhesion takes place between bone and cement
(iii) temperature is uniform
Coefficient of thermal expansion of bone cement 90 106 C
Young’s modulus of bone cement = 3.5 GPa
(A) 15.75 MPa, 90 m (B) 15.75 MPa, 110 m
(C) 6.85 MPa, 110 m (D) 6.85 MPa, 90 m
Answer: (A)
41. A patient initially imaged in a 1 Tesla MRI scanner and inducted voltage is found to be equal to V1 . The
expression for the magnitude of the received voltage in RF coil is given below.
V 2 o VS M o sin r
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42. A 3 MHz ultrasound transducer transmits a 3-cycle long pulse into a soft tissue at normal incident to fat
and liver interface. The axial resolution (mm) and the amplitude reflection coefficient at fat-liver
interface, respectively, are
Use Ctissue 1500 m s, Cfat 1450 m s, Cliver 1570 m s, fat 920 kg m3 , liver 1060 kg m3
(A) 0.5, 0.22 (B) 0.75. 0.22 (C) 0.5, 0.11 (D) 0.75, 0.11
Answer: (D)
43. The forward biased current of a silicon (Si) diode is being calculated from the exponential mode of the
V-I characteristics. If the diode current ID 1mA at a voltage drop VD 0.7V, the nearest value of ID
when VD 0.8V is
Assume thermal voltage VT 25.3mV for Si diode
(A) 0.133 mA (B) 2 mA (C) 52 mA (D) 90 mA
Answer: (C)
where is a real constant. The variance of x is ___________ (correct up to one decimal place).
Answer: (0.5)
45. The magnitude of the gradient of the function f x, y x 2 y 2 at the point (1, 1) is ______ (rounded
off to two decimal places).
Answer: (2.85)
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46. The value of following double integral is ___________ (correct up to three decimal places).
R
xydxdy
where R is the first quadrant of the circle with center at the origin and radius of one unit.
Answer: (0.125)
47. A gynecologist recorded the blood pressure (BP) of patients as shown in the Table below. Using
Regression process, the diastolic BP of a 38 year old patient (mm Hg) is ________ (rounded off to two
decimal places).
Age (years) 23 24 25 26 28 29 31 35 40
BP (diastolic) mm Hg 65 60 62 70 70 73 75 83 90
Answer: (87.1)
48. A person in standing position first flexes the hip by 50° from the initial Trochanter knee ankle (TKA)
line and then flexes knee by 20°. The distance of ankle joint from the initial TKA line is ______
(rounded off to nearest integer).
(i) the distance between hip joint and knee joint is 400 mm
(ii) the distance between knee joint and ankle joint is 300 mm.
Answer: (456.5)
49. A chest radiograph of 36 cm × 48 cm is digitized. If we want to preserve details in the image to a spatial
resolution of 6 cycles/mm, the approximation image data size in MB for an 8 bit quantization is _______
(rounded off to two decimal places).
Answer: (23.73)
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50. An X-ray radiography scenario is shown in the figure. If the number of incident photons (Ni ) is equal to
2 106 at 50 keV, the number of photons (Nd ) that exist the tissue is __________ 106 (rounded off to
two decimal places).
(use linear attenuation coefficient for soft tissue and blood at 50 keV as 0.4 cm1 and 0.2 cm1 ,
respectively). 0.5cm 1cm
2cm
Soft Soft
Ni tissue Nd
tissue
Answer: (0.55)
51. The wavelength of an electron accelerated to a potential of 1V is __________ nm (rounded off to two
decimal places).
Mass of electron 9.11 1031 kg
52. In a permanent magnetic moving coil (PMMC) instrument having following specifications, the angular
deflection of the pointer for a coil current of 100 A will be _________ degree (rounded off to one
decimal place).
Magnetic flux density = 1.5 Tesla
Torsional spring constant 2 106 Nm deg
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53. Arterial blood extracted from a healthy adult showed an oxygen partial pressure value of 40 mm Hg. The
total oxygen content in the arterial blood measured in % V/V is __________ (rounded off to one decimal
place).
Given: Solubility of oxygen in blood = 0.003 ml/min Hg/dL
Hemoglobin oxygen saturation = 95%
Oxygen carrying capacity of Hb = 1.34 ml/g
Arterial blood hemoglobin concentration = 15 g/dL
Answer: (19.3)
54. In the process of measuring blood flow from an artery using C-clamp magnetic flow probe, the voltage
recorded across diametrically opposite sites of the artery is 3.75nV. The blood flow rate through the
artery is ________ cm3 s (rounded off to two decimal places).
The inner diameter of the C-clamp = 0.5 cm
The magnetic flux density 1.5 105 Wb m2 .
Answer: (0.97)
55. A cell is injected with a current i(t) = u(t) to produce a change in the intracellular membrane voltage v(t).
t
The cell-membrane is modeled as a linear system with impulse response h t Ae u t . The cell
membrane voltage output at 5 ms is ________ mV.
Use A = –34 V/s; 3 ms.
Answer: (–82.5)
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