Board Exams

(CAT 2020)

In a certain board examination, students were to appear for examination in five subjects: English, Hindi, Mathematics, Science and Social Science. Due to a certain emergency situation, a few of the examinations could not be conducted for some students. Hence, some students missed one examination and some others missed two examinations. Nobody missed more than two examinations.

The board adopted the following policy for awarding marks to students. If a student appeared in all five examinations, then the marks awarded in each of the examinations were on the basis of the scores obtained by them in those examinations.

If a student missed only one examination, then the marks awarded in that examination was the average of the best three among the four scores in the examinations they appeared for.

If a student missed two examinations, then the marks awarded in each of these examinations was the average of the best two among the three scores in the examinations they appeared for.

The marks obtained by six students in the examination are given in the table below. Each of them missed either one or two examinations.

	English	Hindi	Mathematics	Science	Social Science
Alva	80	75	70	75	60
Bithi	90	80	55	85	85
Carl	75	80	90	100	90
Deep	70	90	100	90	80
Esha	80	85	95	60	55
Foni	83	72	78	88	83

The following facts are also known.
I. Four of these students appeared in each of the English, Hindi, Science, and Social Science examinations.
II. The student who missed the Mathematics examination did not miss any other examination.
Ill. One of the students who missed the Hindi examination did not miss any other examination. The other student who missed the Hindi examination also missed the Science examination.

1) Who among the following did not appear for the Mathematics examination?

1. Carl
2. Alva
3. Esha
4. Foni

2) Which students did not appear for the English examination?

1. Cannot be determined
2. Alva and Bithi
3. Carl and Deep
4. Esha and Foni

3) What BEST can be concluded about the students who did not appear for the Hindi examination?

1. Two among Alva, Deep and Esha
2. Alva and Esha
3. Alva and Deep
4. Deep and Esha

4) What BEST can be concluded about the students who missed the Science examination?

1. Deep and Bithi
2. Alva and Bithi
3. Alva and Deep
4. Bithi and one out of Alva and Deep

5) How many out of these six students missed exactly one examination?

6) For how many students can we be definite about which examinations they missed?

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