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CSS Pure Mathematics Past Paper 2026

CSS Pure Mathematics 2026 carries 100 marks over 3 hours. It has 8 questions.

Marks: 100
Time: 3 hours
Questions: 8

Years

How to attempt: Attempt FIVE questions in all by selecting TWO Questions each from SECTION-A&B and ONE Question from SECTION-C. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.

Questions

SECTION-A

Q. 1
- (a)
  State the Lagrange’s Theorem and find all the subgroups of the cyclic group of order 24. Show that any group of prime order has no non-trivial subgroups.
  (10)
- (b)
  Let G be an Abelian group and H is a subset of G consisting of those elements of G which are of the second order then H is a subgroup of G. Let $G = \left\{\begin{pmatrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{pmatrix} : a, b, c, d \in \mathbb{R}, ad - bc \neq 0\right\}$ be the group of all matrices under matrix multiplication. Show that $H = \left\{\begin{pmatrix} a & b \\ 0 & d \end{pmatrix} : a, b, d \in \mathbb{R}, ad \neq 0\right\}$ is a subgroup of G and $K = \left\{\begin{pmatrix} 1 & b \\ 0 & 1 \end{pmatrix} : b \in \mathbb{R}\right\}$ is a subgroup of H.
  (10)
Q. 2
- (a)
  Consider the group $\mathbb{Z}_{6}$ under addition modulo 6. Let $\psi(x) = 5x(mod\,6)$ . Verify that it is an automorphism. Define Kernel and Image with at least one example of each. Consider the homomorphism: $\psi: \mathbb{Z}_{4} \to \mathbb{Z}_{2}$ , where $\psi(x) = x(mod\,2)$ . Find $Ker(\psi)$ ? Let $\phi: G \to H$ be a group homomorphism, and let $g \in G$ . Then for any integer $n$ , we have $\phi(g^{n}) = \phi(g)^{n}$ .
  (10)
- (b)
  A computer chip manufacturer decides to spend $6 \times 10^{5}$ rupees on radio, magazine, and TV advertisement. If he spends as much on TV advertisement as on magazine and radio together and the amount spent on magazine and TV combined equals five times that spent on radio. What is the amount to be spent on each type of advertisement? Use Gauss Jordan Method.
  (10)
Q. 3
- (a)
  Find Echelon form and Rank of the following matrix by successively reducing it to its row/column sub-matrices.
  (10)
  $\begin{bmatrix} 1 & -2 & 1 & 0 & 5 \\ -1 & 0 & 1 & -2 & 2 \\ 2 & -3 & 0 & 2 & 3 \end{bmatrix}$
- (b)
  Define linearly independent and linearly dependent vectors. Are the vectors $(1, -2, 4, 1), (2, 1, 0, -3)$ and $(1, -6, 1, 4)$ in $R^{4}$ linearly independent or linearly dependent?
  (10)

SECTION-B

Q. 4
- (a)
  Consider two planes as follows:
  (10)
  $\begin{array}{l} P_{1}: 2x - y - 2z + 5 = 0, \\ P_{2}: 4x - 2y - 4z + 15 = 0. \end{array}$
  Are the planes parallel? If no, what is angle between them?
- (b)
  Derive the equation of sphere in standard form. Find the equation of sphere through the circle:
  (10)
  $x^{2} + y^{2} + z^{2} = 9,\ 2x + 4y + 5z = 6$ and touching the $xz$ -plane.
Q. 5
- (a)
  Find cylindrical coordinates of the point with rectangular coordinates $(2\sqrt{3}, 2, -2)$ . Express the equation $(x + y)^{2} - z^{2} + 4 = 0$ in cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
  (10)
- (b)
  Use Maclaurin Series to prove that
  (10)
  $tan^{-1}x = x - \frac{x^{3}}{3} + \frac{x^{5}}{5} - \frac{x^{7}}{7} + \cdots,$ hence find the value of $\pi$ .
Q. 6
- (a)
  Evaluate the following limits;
  (10)
  - (i)
    $\lim_{x \to 0}\left[\frac{1}{\sin 3x} - \frac{1}{3x}\right]$
  - (ii)
    $\lim_{x \to 0}\frac{x - \sin x}{x^{3}}$
- (b)
  What is the area $A$ , of the region bounded by the curves $y = x^{2}$ and $y = \sqrt{x}$ ?
  (10)

SECTION-C

Q. 7
- (a)
  State De-Moivre’s Theorem. If $x + \frac{1}{x} = 2\cos\theta, y + \frac{1}{y} = 2\cos\varphi, z + \frac{1}{z} = 2\cos\phi$ , prove that $xyz + (xyz)^{-1} = 2\cos(\theta + \varphi + \phi)$ .
  (10)
- (b)
  State Green’s Theorem and verify it for $\oint_{C}(2xy - x^{2})dx + (x + y^{2})dy$ , where $C$ is the curve bounded by $y = x^{2}$ and $x = y^{2}$ .
  (10)
Q. 8
- (a)
  Use the concept of Path Integrals to prove following:
  (10)
  - (i)
    $\int_{|z|=1} \frac{1}{z}dz = 2\pi i$
  - (ii)
    $\int_{|z|=1} zdz = 0$
- (b)
  State Residue Theorem and use it to prove the following:
  (10)
  $\oint_{C} \frac{e^{-z}}{(z + 2)^{5}}dz = \frac{1}{12}\pi ie^{2}$ where $C$ is the circle $|z| = 3$ .

Attempt FIVE questions in all by selecting TWO Questions each from SECTION-A&B and ONE Question from SECTION-C. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.
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