CSIR-NCL MTS 2026 Practice: Class 10 MCQs with +3 / −1
A timed Class 10 practice set for NCL/01-2026/MTS: general intelligence, arithmetic, general awareness and English, with +3 for a correct answer and −1 for a wrong one.
NCL/01-2026/MTS is a 150-question, 2-hour paper. Merit is that paper only. Dates and the fee trap for departmental candidates are on the recruitment page. The four-subject split is on the syllabus page.
Before you start
This set is 12 questions in 9 minutes 36 seconds, the same 48 seconds a question as 150 in 2 hours. A correct answer is 3 marks. A wrong answer is minus 1. A blank is 0. A four-option blind guess has expected value 0. Drop one option, then guess.
Practice
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Frequently Asked Questions
No. The advertisement prints no sample paper and no chapter list. These questions sit at Class 10, which is the printed standard, under the same +3 / −1 rule.
Each correct answer on the real paper is 3 marks and each wrong answer is minus 1. This set uses those marks.
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