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Hindi classifies every word twice, and papers ask about both classifications. The first asks where the word came from — Sanskrit unchanged, Sanskrit worn down, local soil, or a foreign language. The second asks how it is built — one indivisible lump, meaningful parts added up, or meaningful parts that have hardened into one fixed sense.
The first system gives तत्सम, तद्भव, देशज and विदेशज. The second gives रूढ़, यौगिक and योगरूढ़.
Why this earns marks cheaply: the answer is a category, not a fact you must have read somewhere. Once you can hear that आग is a worn-down form of अग्नि, you can classify a word you have never been taught. That is why every Hindi language paper opens with one or two of these — they test a skill, and a skill is portable.
Learn the sound changes, not the word list. The list is infinite; the changes are about a dozen.
1. The word 'आग' (aag) is the tadbhav form of which tatsam word?
2. Which of the following is a deshaj (indigenous) word?
3. By structure, the word 'पंकज' (pankaj) is which kind of word?
4. The word 'कैंची' (kainchi) came into Hindi from which language?
5. What is the tadbhav form of the tatsam word 'क्षेत्र' (kshetra)?
6. By structure, the word 'विद्यालय' (vidyalaya) is which kind of word?
7. Which of these words came into Hindi from Portuguese?
8. The word 'जेबकतरा' (jebkatra) belongs to which category?