UGC NET Speed, time and distance Previous Year Questions
JRFSmart holds 8 previous-year questions on Speed, time and distance from UGC NET Paper 1 (Teaching and Research Aptitude), filed under Unit 5: Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude, drawn from 8 of the 87 exam papers in the bank (2024–2025). Each question can be practised with a full explanation and shows how often NTA has returned to the same idea.
What is asked in Speed, time and distance
The questions in this topic fall under these subtopics, ordered by how many previous-year questions each has.
| Subtopic | Questions |
|---|---|
| Train crossing a platform | 1 |
| Late and early arrival | 1 |
| Speed needed for the remaining journey | 1 |
| Counting poles from a train | 1 |
| Average speed for a round trip | 1 |
| Two legs at different speeds | 1 |
| Inverse proportion of speed and time | 1 |
| Two-leg journey against a round trip | 1 |
NTA repeat analysis
Speed, time and distance appears in 8 of 87 papers (9%), which JRFSmart rates as low frequency.
Sample previous-year questions
A train travels at a certain average speed for a distance of 63 km and and then travels a distance of 72 km at an average speed of 6 km/h more than its original speed. If it takes 3 hours to complete the total journey, what is the original speed?
The speed of an electric train is 25% more than that of a steam engine train. What is the time taken by the electric train to cover a distance which the steam engine train takes 4 hours 25 minutes to cover?
A man travels three-fifth of a distance AB at a speed of 3a and the remaining at the speed of 2b. If he goes from B to A and returns at a speed of 5c in the same time then, :
A 200 m long train is travelling at a constant speed of 20 m/s. How long will it take to completely cross a 1000 m long railway platform?
A school boy, travelling at 3 km/hr, reaches his school 28 minutes late but when he travels at 5 km/hr, he reachers his school 28 minutes early. What distance does he travel every day to reach the school?
If a person travels in a car at a sped of 36 km/hour, then he will reach his destination on time. He covers half the journey in (4/5)th time. What should be his speed for the remaining part of the journey so that he reaches his destination on time?
Travelling in a train, a man notices 13 telephone poles in two minutes. If the two successive telephone poles are known to be 125 m a part, then the train is travelling at a speed of :
A person travels from X to Y at a speed of 30 km/hr and returns from Y to X by increasing his speed by 50%. His average speed during the journey is :
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