SAMPLE PAPER TEST 03 FOR BOARD EXAM 2025

SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS (041) MAX. MARKS : 80

CLASS : XII DURATION: 3 HRS
General Instructions:
1. This Question paper contains - five sections A, B, C, D and E. Each section is compulsory.
However, there are internal choices in some questions.
2. Section A has 18 MCQ’s and 02 Assertion-Reason based questions of 1 mark each.
3. Section B has 5 Very Short Answer (VSA)-type questions of 2 marks each.
4. Section C has 6 Short Answer (SA)-type questions of 3 marks each.
5. Section D has 4 Long Answer (LA)-type questions of 5 marks each.
6. Section E has 3 source based/case based/passage based/integrated units of assessment (4
marks each) with sub parts.

SECTION – A
Questions 1 to 20 carry 1 mark each.
1 dy 1
1. Let f   and f '( x)  x 3 . What is the value of at x = ?
 x dx 2
(a) – 1/64 (b) – 1/32 (c) – 32 (d) – 64

dy
2. If y  log sec x , then the value of at x = π²/16 is :
dx
(a) 1/π (b) π (c) 1/2 (d) 1/4

 a b 
3. If A =   and A2 = I, then
 c a
2
(a) a + bc – 1 = 0 (b) 1 – a2 + b c = 0 (c) a2 + bc +1 = 0 (d) a2 – bc +1 = 0

1 2   3 1   7 11
4. If    2 5   k 23 , then write the value of k.
 3 4    
(a) 17 (b) -17 (c) 13 (d) -13

5. If A is a square matrix of order 3 such that |A| = - 5 , then value of is

(a) 125 (b) – 125 (c) 25 (d) – 25

1
6. If f ( x)  x 2 sin , where x ≠ 0, then the value of the function f at x = 0, so that the function is
x
continuous at x = 0, is
(a) 0 (b) -1 (c) 1 (d) None of these

d2y
7. If y = 5e7x + 6e-7x,show that is equal to
dx 2
(a) 7y (b) (c) 49y (d) 36y

8. For the function f(x) = x3, x = 0 is a point of :

(a) local maxima (b) local minima (c) non-differentiability (d) inflexion

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2
dx
9. The value of e sin x
is
0 1
(a)  (b) 0 (c) 3  (d) /2

dx
10.  9x  4x2
equals

1 1  9 x  8  1 1  8x  9 
(a) sin  C (b) sin  C
9  8  2  9 
1 1  9 x  8  1 1  9 x  8 
(c) sin  C (d) sin  C
3  8  2  8 

11. The area (in sq. units) of the region bounded by the curve y = x, x-axis, x = 0 and x = 2 is :
(a) 3/2 (b) 1/2 log 2 (c) 2 (d) 4

dy
12. The number of arbitrary constants in the general solution of the differential equation  y0
dx
is:
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3

13. The projection of the vector 2i  3 j  2k ℎ i  2 j  k is

(a) 10/√6 (b) 10/√3 (c) 5/√6 (d) 5/√3

x 3 y  2 z 5
14. If the equation of a line AB is   , find the direction ratios of a line parallel to
1 2 4
AB.
(a) 1, 2, 4 (b) 1, 2, –4 (c) 1, –2, –4 (d) 1, –2, 4

15. If the direction cosines of a line are k, k, k then

1 1
(a) k > 0 (b) 0 < k< 1 (c) k=1 (d) k= or k = -
3 3
     
16. If a and b are two vectors such that a.b > 0 and | a.b || a  b | , then the angle between and is :
(a) π/4 (b) π/3 (c) 2π/3 (d) 3π/4

17. The greatest integer function defined by f(x) = [x], 1 < x < 3 is not differentiable at x =
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3/2

18. If the radius of a circle is increasing at the rate of 0.5 cm/s, then the rate of increase of its
circumference is :
(a) 2π/3 cm/s (b) π cm/s (c) 4π/3 cm/s (d) 2π cm/s

ASSERTION-REASON BASED QUESTIONS

In the following questions, a statement of assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R).
Choose the correct answer out of the following choices.
(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d) A is false but R is true.

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 2  1  1  
19. Assertion (A) : The value of expression sec 1  1
  tan 1  sin  2  is 4
 3  
  
Reason (R) : Principal value branch of sin 1 x is   ,  and that of sec1 x is [0, ]  { / 2}
 2 2

20. Assertion (A): If R and S are two events such that P(R | S) = 1 and P(S) > 0, then S  R.
Reason (R): If two events A and B are such that P(A ∩ B) = P(B), then A  B.

SECTION – B
Questions 21 to 25 carry 2 marks each.

1  x2 1
21. Write the simplest form of tan 1 ,x  0
x

x3  1
22. (a) Find:  x3  x dx
OR
0
(b) Evaluate:  | x  2 | dx
4

   
23. If a  5i  j  7 k b  i  j   k , then find the value of so that the vectors a  b
 
a  b are orthogonal.

–1 2 d2y
2 dy
24. (a) If y = (sin x) , then find (1  x ) 2  x
dx dx
OR
 1 x  1 x  dy 1
(b) If y = sin 1   , then show that 
 2  dx 2 1  x 2

1  cos kx
 x sin x , if x  0
25. Find the value (s) of k so that the following function f ( x )   is continuous at
 1
, if x  0
 2
x = 0.

SECTION – C
Questions 26 to 31 carry 3 marks each.
dy sin 2 (a  y )
26. (a) If x sin (a + y) – sin y = 0, prove that 
dx sin a
OR
dy
(b) Find , if y  (cos x ) x  cos 1 x
dx
a
ax
27. Evaluate:  dx
a
ax
OR

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
x
Evaluate:  (1  sin x)dx
0

28. Find the general solution of the following differential equation; x dy – (y + 2x2)dx = 0
  
29. If the vectors a , b and c represent the three sides of a triangle, then show that
     
ab  b c  c  a

30. It is known that 20% of the students in a school have above 90% attendance and 80% of the
students are irregular. Past year results show that 80% of students who have above 90%
attendance and 20% of irregular students get ‘A’ grade in their annual examination. At the end of
a year, a student is chosen at random from the school and is found to have an ‘A’ grade. What is
the probability that the student is irregular ?

 4 0  17 10 
31. (a) Find a matrix A such that A   
 1 2   0 16 
Also, find A–1.
OR
 3 4 4 
(b) Given a square matrix A of order 3 such that A =  0 1 0  , show that A3 = A–1.
2

 2 2 3

SECTION – D
Questions 32 to 35 carry 5 marks each.
32. Show that the relation S in the set R of real numbers, defined as
S = {(a, b) : a, b ∈ R and a ≤ b3} is neither reflexive, nor symmetric, nor transitive.

33. Find the area of the region in the first quadrant enclosed by the x-axis, the line y = x and the
circle x2 + y2 = 32.
OR
(b) Using integration, evaluate the area of the region bounded by the curve y = x2, the lines y = 1
and y = 3 and the y-axis.

x 3 y 5 z 7
34. An insect is crawling along the line   and another insect is crawling along
1 2 1
x 1 y 1 z 1
the line   . At what points on the lines should they reach so that the distance
7 6 1
between them is the shortest? Find the shortest possible distance between them.
OR
The equations of motion of a rocket are: = 2 , = −4 , = 4 , where the time t is given in
seconds, and the coordinates of a moving point in km. What is the path of the rocket? At what
distances will the rocket be from the starting point O(0, 0, 0) and from the following line in 10
seconds?

35. Solve the following linear programming problem graphically:

Minimise Z = 6x + 7y, subject to constraints
x + 2y ≥ 240
3x + 4y ≤ 620
2x + y ≥ 180
x, y ≥ 0.

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SECTION – E(Case Study Based Questions)
Questions 36 to 38 carry 4 marks each.

36. Case-Study 1:
Mahindra Tractors is India’s leading farm equipment manufacturer. It is the largest tractor selling
factory in the world. This factory has two machine A and B. Past record shows that machine A
produced 60% and machine B produced 40% of the output(tractors). Further 2% of the tractors
produced by machine A and 1% produced by machine B were defective. All the tractors are put
into one big store hall and one tractor is chosen at random.

(i) Find the total probability of chosen tractor (at random) is defective.
(ii) If in random choosing, chosen tractor is defective ,then find the probability that the chosen
tractor is produced by machine ‘B’

37. Case-Study 2:
An architect is developing a plot of land for a commercial complex. When asked about the
dimensions of the plot, he said that if the length is decreased by 25 m and the breadth is
increased by 25 m, then its area increases by 625 m2. If the length is decreased by 20 m and the
breadth is increased by 10 m, then its area decreases by 200 m2.

On the basis of the above information, answer the following questions:

(i) Formulate the linear equations in x and y to represent the given information.
(ii) Find the dimensions of the plot of land by matrix method.

38. Case-Study 3:
A sandbag is dropped from a balloon at a height of 60 metres.

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When the angle of elevation of the sun is 30°, the position of the sandbag is given by the
equation y = 60 – 4.9 t2, where y is the height of the sandbag above the ground and t is the time
in seconds.
On the basis of the above information, answer the following questions :
(i) Find the relation between x and y, where x is the distance of the shadow at P from the point Q
and y is the height of the sandbag above the ground.
(ii) After how much time will the sandbag be 35 metres above the ground ?
(iii) (a) Find the rate at which the shadow of the sandbag is travelling along the ground when the
sandbag is at a height of 35 metres.
OR
(iii) (b) How fast is the height of the sandbag decreasing when 2 seconds have elapsed ?

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