Explore topic-wise InterviewSolutions in .

1. SLN 

2. D8

(d) Provident Fund (It is a deduction)

Correct answer is (a) Salvage value

Depreciation = \(\frac{10000-2000}{10}\) i.e., 800

Assets are classified into the following categories:

1. Goodwill 

2. Land: Freehold and leasehold

3. Building: Factory, offiice  & residential building 

4. Plant & Machinery 

5. Furniture and fixtures 

6. Vehicles 

7. Work in progress (Capital) 

8. Other assets

Methods of calculation of depreciation 

1. Straight Line Method (SLM) 

2. Written Down Value Method (WDV)

Decrease in the value of fixed assets is called Depreciation

Depreciation is the gradual & permanent diminution in the value of assets due to wear and tear, use or abuse or efflux of time.

A. because of terrible heat outside.

1. The poet has described houses as if they are standing by themselves closing their
doors as men do.

2. The old man was carrying a bag full of gold.

3. The old man must be a person for whom money must be everything in his life than anything else.

1. The garden hedge was all blooming with flowers.

2. The maid offered to hire the job-seeker with a smile.

3. Afterwards the smile of the maid faded and turned into tears. Then she disappeared into the dark.

Like the power of the king, the money of the old man, the charm of the fair maid too is very temporary regarding its existence. Her sweet smile is bound to be dried away in tears in the due course. So the fair maid went back alone into the dark.

Soon after occupying her seat in the park, Dona Laura throws three handfuls of bread crumbs to a flock of pigeons and sits watching them feeding on the bread crumbs. Don Gonzalo and Juanito walk towards the birds. Immediately, Dona Laura shouts ‘lookout’ so as to warn them. Then she tells Don Gonzalo that he had scared away the birds. Don Gonzalo brushes aside her remarks telling her that he does not care about the birds as it was a public park. Dona Laura asks him why then did he complain about the priests occupying his usual bench if it was a public park.

Again, Don Gonzalo tries to put her off rudely telling her that since they had not met before she should not take the liberty of addressing him. Dona Laura retaliates saying that he is an illnatured old man. She wonders why a man like him should be so fussy and cross after reaching a certain age. Later, she sees him moving about without getting a seat on the other side of the park. She enjoys his predicament saying that it serves him right for scaring the birds. Later, when Don Gonzalo sits at the extreme end of Dona Laura’s bench and greets her, she asks him. annoyingly why he was there again. Again, there is an angry exchange of words. When he fails to find a convincing reply to her question, he tells her that he has nothing more to say. Then he mutters to himself that she was a senile old lady and she ought to be at home knitting and counting her beads. Again, Dona Laura tells him rudely not to grumble any more and she was not going to leave just to please him.

Petra said that she could see him there waiting for her. In response, Dona Laura requested Petra not to remain for more than ten minutes. Petra assured Dona Laura that she would be back soon. Dona Laura requested Petra to wait a moment. Referring to Dona Laura as senora, Petra asked her what she wished.

Dona Laura asked Don Gonzalo whether he used a shoe brush as a handkerchief. Don Gonzalo asked her what right she had to criticise his actions. Dona Laura replied that she had a neighbour’s right. Don Gonzalo replied rudely that he did not care to listen to nonsense. Don Laura sarcastically replied that he was very polite.

The opportunity to join Achrekar Sir’s camp involving a session in the morning and evening at Shivaji Park transformed the life of Sachin.

2022 – To score 75% marks in the HS Board Examination; 2022-2026 – To complete any chosen Degree course; 2026-2029 – To take up Higher Degrees in the chosen field; 2030-2039 – Into job (professional and personal uplift); 2040 Onwards – To do some social service besides the regular job.

Compared to many other schools in Mumbai, Shardashram Vidyamandir gave due importance to the game of cricket. Mr. Ramakant Achrekar was the cricket coach there and he regularly conducted summer camps.

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, the world famous cricketer has set many records in his career and is considered as one of the greatest Batsman of all times. ‘I often tried to emulate the mannerisms of my favorite players, Sunil Gavaskar and the West Indian legend Viv Richards.’ – This is one of the inspiring sentences to me.

If Sachin can emulate and have a role model, how important it is for me to find my role model to pursue my career, ‘Winning the one-rupee coin used to give me immense satisfaction and taught me how to concentrate even when physically drained. ’ – Rewards are surely a big motivational factor. Hence, it is quite important that we fix a target and strive hard even during dire circumstances that we should be focused to achieve in life.

‘I didn’t have the money for a second ticket and I had to learn to take these remarks in my stride. ’ – Life is full of ups and downs. We should never yield to any kind of pressure and give up easily. Life is a mixture of success and failure and the road to success is never a bed of roses. We should be ready to tread on a rough path with many pitfalls. However, we need to be determined and perseverant in our journey. Above all the words from the coach is the most inspiring. It penetrates into your heart to know the purpose of your life. It pierces your heart and makes you be focused and chase your dream. ‘Cricket is waiting for you at the nets. Practice hard and see what magic can transpire.

If Sachin did not turn up for coaching, Achrekar would jump on his scooter to find him having fun with his friends at home. He would drag him out of the house and together head towards Shivaji Park to pursue practice.

1. (c) 

2. (e) 

3. (b) 

4. (a) 

5. (d)

Ajit, one day, took his brother Sachin to the Achrekar Sir’s camp to get trained. Sachin was nervous and failed miserably in front of him. Ajit asked the coach to give him another chance and observe him unawares. This time, Sir agreed to let him join the camp. The camp involved a session every morning and evening at Shivaji Park. He would practice between 7.30 a.m. and 10.30 a.m. in the morning. Then he would come back in the afternoon and practice till late evening. The schedule was rigorous and he would be exhausted by the end of the day. Travelling to Shivaji Park took forty minutes from his house in Bandra and he had to catch an early morning bus to make it on time.

As a child, he had only one set of cricket clothes and the routine was to wash them as soon as he returned to wear it for the next session. By the middle of the summer camp, Sir had started taking an active interest in his batting and at the end of the two months, informed Ajit that he had the potential to be a good cricketer if he practiced all year round. In his first year at Shardashram, he played fifty five practice matches during the summer break of sixty days. His summer sessions used to start at 7.30 am and end at 4.30 pm.

His evening session would start at 5 pm after a thirty-minute break. Between 5 pm and 7 pm he would have five more net sessions. Towards the last 15 minutes, every bowler in the camp would come and bowl to him, with some sixty to seventy boys fielding. At the end of it all., Sir would tell hi to run two full circuits of Shivaji Park with his pads and gloves on. That was the last part of his training and he would be completely exhausted by the end of it all. It was a routine he would repeat right through his summer holidays.

While travelling in the bus, Ajit would talk to Sachin about the nuances of batting a lot.

When Sachin had to stand in the bus with his kitbag, the conductors would complain about his kitbag taking up the space of another passenger. So they would ask him to buy two tickets.

Sachin’s brother Ajit once gave him a note containing some thoughts about batting. He kept it with him as it served him as a very personal coaching manual.

1. (i) To become invisible Griffin had to remove his clothes but it was difficult as it was the cold of January.

2. (ii) Griffin entered into a store which closed after sometime. He wore clothes, ate food and slept with quilts there.

3. (iii) Griffin is 'he' in the above extract.

4. (i) He was a scientist.

5. (iii) H.G Wells is the author of the story.

Griffin was a brilliant scientist who carried out experiment after experiment to prove that the human body could become invisible. Finally, he swallowed certain rare drugs and his body became as transparent as a sheet of glass-though it also remained as solid as glass.

But he was not an honest person as he used his discovery of invisibility to attack and hurt people, steal money from shopkeepers and others like the clergy and make people furious and scared of him. At the store, he fed and clothed himself without regard to expenses. He was very revengeful and because His landlord disliked him and tried to eject him he set fire to the house.

Griffin was not bothered if he had harmed anybody in the fulfilment of what he wanted. He set his landlord’s house on fire because the landlord tried to make him leave. Then his robberies at shops and later in the village indicate that he was a lawless person. When he encountered the landlady of the inn, he threw a chair at her and her husband. Lawless persons like Griffin never think about the safety and well-being of others. They are only concerned about themselves

Sachin had only one set of cricket clothes and the routine was to wash them as soon as he’d return from the morning session. While he had his lunch, the clothes would dry out in the sun and he would wear them again in the afternoon. The pattern was repeated in the evening so that he could use the same set of clothes the following morning.

Compared to many other schools in Mumbai, Shardashram Vidyamandir gave importance to the game of cricket. It was all the more different since Achrekar Sir was the cricket coach too.

1. (b) disabled people

2. (c) after the Olympic Games

3. (a) 1960

4. (a) Romans

5. (b) Sir Ludwig Guttmann

Sachin Tendulkar was a part of the World Cupwinning team for India in 2011.

1. inn 

2. no 

3. bee 

4. two

5. what 

6. write 

7. where 

8. bear 

9. heard 

10. thrown

Griffin, the scientist, had carried out an experiment and become invisible. However, she happened to step in some mud and left footprints as he walked which were observed by two boys who followed them fascinated until the muddy impressions became fainter and fainter and finally disappeared altogether. Since it was mid-winter he slipped into a big London store for warmth.

There he fitted himself out with warm clothes. Soon, with shoes, an overcoat and a wide-brimmed hat, he became a fully dressed and visible person. He settled s down sleep on a pile of quilts and in this way was visible to the assistants at the store s the next morning.

The other extraordinary thing that happened at the inn was when the landlord and his wife were up early and were surprised to see the scientist’s door wide open. Usually, it was shut and locked, and when they peeped round the door, they saw nobody, but, the bedclothes were cold, showing that the scientist must have been up for some time what was stranger was that the clothes and bandages that he always wore were lying about the room.

Suddenly Mrs. Hsdl heard a sniff close to her ear and a moment later the hat on the bedpost leapt up and dashed itself into her face. Then the bedroom chair came alive and springing into the air it charged straight at her, legs foremost. As she and her husband turned away in terror, the extraordinary chair pushed them both out of the room and then appeared to slam and lock the door after them.

Very early in the morning a clergyman and his wife were awakened by noises in the study. Creeping downstairs, they heard the chink of money being taken from the clergyman’s desk. Without making any noise and with a poker grasped firmly in his hand, the clergyman flung open the door and shouted ‘surrender’.

To their amazement, they realised that the room appeared to be empty. They looked under the desk, and behind the curtains, and even up the chimney but there wasn’t a sign of anybody. Yet the desk had been opened and the housekeeping money was missing. ‘The clergyman kept saying for the rest of the day that it was an “Extraordinary affair!”

Griffin, the scientist, had carried out an l experiment to prove that the human body could become invisible. Finally, he swallowed certain rare drugs and his body became transparent. Brilliant scientist though he was, Griffin was rather a lawless person. His landlord disliked him and tried to eject him.

In revenge, Griffin set fire to the house. To get away without being seen he had removed his clothes. Thus it was that he became homeless and was wandering on the streets, without clothes, without money, and quite invisible.

1. c. The baker recorded his accounts on a wall with a pencil.

2. d. Baking was a profitable profession. Hence, the bakers family never starved.

3. b. Even today a person with a Jackfruit like appearance is compared to a baker.

4. d. The plump physique was a testimony for the baker's family being happy and prosperous.

5. a. The baker recorded his accounts with a pencil on a wall because he usually collected his bills at the end of the month.

It can be an exciting idea for most people. Like two facets of a coin, invisibility can have many advantages and disadvantages. For a child, invisibility may mean a licence for all kinds of pranks without getting caught. Like s a Hindi movie, ‘Mr India’, invisibility can help you beat all the villains black and blue and s get rid of them. Once you become invisible, nobody would notice you. Within no time, the s sadness of isolation will take over the excitement of being invisible. You will have no friends. You s will tend to behave like the eccentric scientist in this story.

The fact that light can pass through glass or water makes them transparent. When light falls on an object, the reflected light from that object makes it visible to us. If some device can be made which can prevent reflection of light from the human body then the human body can be made invisible.

Magnetic forces and electrostatic forces S are examples of invisible forces. The atoms and molecules in a matter are so small that they are not visible to the naked eye. Similarly, heat energy is invisible. Similarly, sound is invisible to us. While the idea of seeing invisible things can be very exciting, their visibility would create too many problems. For example, if we are able to see all the sound around us, that would be too irritating for us.

Achrekar informed Ajit that Sachin had the potential to be a good cricketer if he practiced all year round.

The arrival of a stranger at an inn in winter was in itself a strange occurrence. Mrs Hall the landlord’s wife, made every effort to be friendly with the stranger but Griffin had no desire to talk and told her that his reason for coming to Iping was a desire for solitude. He did not wish to be disturbed in his work. Besides, an accident had affected his face. His desire for solitude, his uncommon appearance, strange habits and irritable temper all made Mrs Hall find the scientist eccentric.

1. (iv) People suspected the scientist for the burglary.

2. (i) Suspicion grew stronger because earlier Griffin had admitted that he had no money.

3. (i) Griffin was suspected of having a hand in robbing the clergyman, by the residents of lping.

4. (ii) Griffin is 'he' in the above extract.

5. (iv) The word is trouble.

Among the boys, Jack Beggles and among the girls, Wanda Petronski won the drawing and colouring contest. To show her determination she did not attend the school for two days and had drawn a hundred sketches of dresses of different colours. Each of them was capable to win the contest individually.

Wanda had drawn all the dresses which she had claimed to have had in the class. Everybody was very impressed with her drawing skill and clapped for her.

(a) After his practice sessions in cricket, Sachin used to demand his father to treat him to a special fruit juice.

(b) He had not realized that his parents also had to  take care of the needs of his brothers and sister. So his demand was unreasonable.

Ajit suggested that Sir Achrekar, the coach should go away while Sachin was batting and then watch him from a distance since he was confident of his brother’s talent.

1. (ii) Inside the empty room, Mrs. Hall heard a sniff close to her ear. Then the hat in the room leapt up and dashed itself into her face. It made her to think that the room was haunted by spirits.

2. (iii) Griffin, the scientist had caused this to happen because he did not like Mrs. Hall’s presence in his room.

3. (ii) Mrs. Hall got scared of the chair that pushed her out of the room and she got tripped. She feared that the spirits have entered into the furniture.

4. (ii) Mrs. Hall suspected that the furniture became alive due to witchcraft.

5. (iii) H.G Wells is the author of the story.