Test-I: Reasoning Ability
Directions (Q. 1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Nine persons are sitting in a row. Some of them are facing north while some others are facing south.
A sits second from one of the extreme ends. Only two persons sit between A and C. D sits third to the left of C. F sits second to the right of D. The immediate neighbours of D face opposite D. E sits second to the right of F. H is an immediate neighbour of E. The persons sitting at the extreme ends are facing opposite directions. A sits second to the right of E. H and A don’t face north. B sits second to the left of G. X doesn’t face south.
1. Who among the following sits third to the right of F? 1)A 2)C 3)D 4)E 5) None of THESE
2. How many persons sit between A and D?
1) Two 2) Three 3) Five 4) Four 5) One
3. Which of the following pairs of persons sit at the extreme ends?
1)D-G 2)G-X 3)A-H 4)A-X 5) None of these
4. How many persons are facing south?
1) Two 2) Three 3) Four 4) Five 5) None of these
5. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence from a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group? 1)G 2)B 3) H 4)X 5)A
Directions (Q.6-8): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
There are six ropes E, F, G, H, I and J of different lengths. Fis longer than E. I is longer than F. I is shorter than only G. J is longer than F. E is not the shortest rope. The length of the second longest rope is 54 cm and that of the third shortest rope is 30 cm.
6. Which of the following is the third longest rope? 1)I 2)J 3) F 4) E 5)Can’t be determined
7. What may be the possible length of J?
1)28 cm 2)42 cm 3)25 cm 4)55 cm 5) 60 cm
8. Which of the following is the second shortest rope?
1)J 2)F 3)E 4)H 5) None of these
Directions (Q.9-12): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below: Six persons are sitting around a triangular table. The persons sitting at the corners are facing towards the table and the persons sitting at the middle of the sides are facing outward from the TABLE.A sits at one of the corners. M is an immediate neighbour of A. Two persons sit between M and B. C sits on the immediate right of B. N is on the immediate right of 0. O does not sit at any of the corners of the table.
9. Who among the following is second to the right of B?
2)A 1)M 3)N 4)0 5)C
10. Who among the following sits between A and N when counted to the right of A?
1)C 2)B 3)0 4)M 5) None of these
11. Who sits on the immediate left of N?
2)C 1)M 3) 0 4)B 5) None of these
12. How many persons sit between B and M?
1) Three 2) One 3) Two 4)Four 5)None Directions
(Q. 13-16): In each of the questions below are given some statements followed by two conclusions. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts. Give answer 1) if only conclusion I follows.
2) if only conclusion II follows.
3) if either conclusion I or II follows.
4) if neither conclusion I nor II follows.
5) if both conclusion I and II follow.
13. Statements: Only a few charts are turbines. All turbines are pores. Some pores are fans.
Conclusions: I Some fans being charts is a possibility.
IL All fans are turbines.
14. Statements: All beaches are deltas.
All deltas are CUSHIONS.No cushion is a wave. Conclusions: L Some beaches can be waves.
IL No delta is a wave.
15. Statements: Only a few aces are clubs.
No club is a jack.Only a few jacks are diamonds.
Conclusions: 1 Some diamonds are aces.IL Some aces are jacks.
16. Statements: Some apples are bananas,
No banana is a date. Conclusions: 1 Some dates being apples is a
possibility IL All apples can never be dates.
Directions (Q. 17-18): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
P is to the south of B and T is to the west of P, who is to the north of Q. I is to the east of P.
17. Who among the following is towards the northwest of Q?1)P 2) 1 3) T 4)B
5) None of these
18. In which direction is 1 with respect to Q? 1) North 2) Northeast 3) Southwest 4) West 5) None of these
Directions (Q. 19-23): The following questions are based on the five three-digit numbers given below: 247 196 385 723 628 537
19. If one is added to the first digit and two is subtracted from the third digit of each number how many numbers thus formed will be divisible by three? 1) None 2) One 3) Two
4) Three 5) More than three
20. If all the digits in each of the numbers are arranged in ascending order within the number, which of the following will be the second lowest number in the new arrangement of numbers ?
1)723 2)537 3) 247 4)628 5) 196
21. What will be the resultant number if the second digit of the lowest number is divided by the third digit of the highest number? 1) None 2)1 3)2 4)3 5)4
22. What is the difference between the third digit of the third highest number and the second digit of the lowest number?
1)3 2)5 3)2 4) 1 5)4
23. If in each number the first and the third digit are interchanged which will be the third lowest number? 1) 196 2)628 3) 723 4)537 5) 247 Directions (Q.24-27): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Seven boxes J, K, L, M, N, O and P are kept one above another but not necessarily in the same ORDER.There are only two boxes between 0 and J. J is below 0. L is immediately above J. There is only one box between P and L. K is below O. N is above O but not immediately above 0. Pis below L.
24. Which of the following boxes is immediately below M?
1)L 2)) 3)N 4)0 5) None of these
25. How many boxes are there between K and N? 1) None 2) One 3) Two 4) Three 5) Can’t be determined
26. Which of the following boxes are at the lowermost and the topmost position respectively? 1)K,M 2)P,N 3) K, N 4)P, O 5) Can’t be determined
27. Which of the following is immediately above M?1)O 2) N 3) 4)P 5) None of these
28. In a certain code, if today is Sunday’ is coded as ‘zt bx jq’ and ‘Sunday is holiday’ is coded as ‘jg bx hi’, then what is the code for ‘holiday’ in the given code language?
1) zt | 2)bx 3) hi
4) Either 1 or 2 5) ja
Directions (Q. 29-31): In these questions, a relationship between different elements is shown in the statements. The statements are followed by two conclusions. Give answer
1) If only conclusion 1 is true. 2) If only conclusion II is true. 3) If either conclusion I or II is true. 4) If neither conclusion I nor II is true.5) If both conclusion I and II are true.
29. Statements: R=T≤N<O≤M; P>W≥X<N
Conclusions: I.X<O II. M>P
30. Statements: B≥D=F≤K≤I; C=L>F≥Y≤A
Conclusions: I . I≥Y II. L>K
31. Statements: EZG>K=P; S>G>T Conclusions: I T>P IL E>T
Directions (Q. 32-35): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Twelve persons are sitting in two parallel rows containing six persons each, in such a way that there is equal distance between adjacent persons. In row-1 J, K, L, M, N and O are seated and all of them are facing south. In row-2 W, X, Y, Z, H and I are seated and all of them are facing north. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row.
W sits third to the left of H. Neither W nor H sits at either extreme end of the row. I sits second to the right of N. Neither J nor N faces H or W. J does not sit at either extreme end of the row. Y does not face J and Y does not sit at either extreme end of the row. Only one person sits between 0 and L. Neither O nor L faces H. L does not sit at either extreme end of the row. Only one person sits between I and X. O is not an immediate neighbour of K. J does not face I.
32. Who among the following sits on the immediate right of the one who faces I?
1) The one who sits at an extreme end of the row 2) The one who sits second to the left of L 3) The one who sits on the immediate left of K 4)O 5) None of these
33. Which of the following statements is true? 1) L faces X
2) Y is not an immediate neighbour of W. 3) L faces the one who sits second to left of H.
4) K sits at one of the extreme ends of the .
5) Y sits third to the right of I. a certain
34. If I is related to K’ and ‘X is related to L’ in way based on their seating positions, then W is related to who among the following if the same pattern is followed?
1)J2)O 3)M 4)N 5) None of these
35. Who among the following sit at the extreme ends of a row?
1)M,O 2)I, Z 3)X, Z 4)K,M 5) None of these
Directions (Q. 36-38): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
P%2ZOXBHG#5 M+2 NSV6O@3©RT*U E$9
36. Which of the following elements is exactly between M and ©?
). 1)S 2)V 2)V 3/6 4) * 5) None of these 37. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group? 1) 20X 2) H#5 3) MNS 4) ©T* 5) BG#
38. How many consonants are there each of which is immediately followed by a symbol? 4) Three 5) Four
1) One 2) None 3) Two
39. How many pairs of letters are there in the word ‘TRANSGENDER’, each of which have as many letters between them in the word as they have between them in the English alphabet (both forward and backward direction)?
1) One 2) Two 3) Three 4) Four 5) Five
40. The position of the first and the second digit of the number ‘85792416’ are interchanged. Similarly, the position of the third and the fourth digit are interchanged. And so on. Which of the following will be the fifth digit from the right end after the rearrangement?
1)9 2)7 3)4 4)1 5) 6
