Reasoning Quiz Based on IBPS PO Prelims |

Directions (1-2): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
P is father of L, M is mother of K and sister of B. B is mother of L. There are three females in the family. D is sister of L.

Q1. How is P related to M?
(a) Brother
(b) Father
(c) Sister
(d) Brother-in-law
(e) None of the above

Q2. How is K related to D?
(a) Cousin (sister)
(b) Cousin (brother)
(c) Sister-in-law
(d) Brother
(e) None of the above

Directions (3-4): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:
Five friends E, F, G, H and J each have a different height. F is taller than J. E and G are taller than J but shorter than H, who is not the tallest.

Q3. Who among the following is the tallest?
(a) E
(b) G
(c) J
(d) F
(e) Can’t be determined

Q4. Who among the following is at the third position?
(a) H
(b) E
(c) G
(d) Can’t be determined
(e) None of the above

Directions (5-9): In each question below are given two/three statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. 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. Given answer
(a) If only conclusion I follows.
(b) If only conclusion II follows.
(c) If either conclusion I or II follows.
(d) If neither conclusion I nor II follows.
(e) If both conclusion I and II follows.

Q5. Statements: All calculators are mobiles.

No mobile is a notebook.

Some pens are calculators.

Conclusions: I. All notebooks being mobiles is a possibility.
II. Some notebooks are not calculators.

Q6. Statements: Some books are newspapers.
  No newspaper is a notebook.
  All notebooks are magazines.
Conclusions: I. All magazines are not newspapers.
  II. Some books are magazines.

Q7. Statements: All calculators are mobiles.
  Some calculators are pens.
  No mobile is a notebook.
Conclusions: I. Some calculators being notebooks is a possibility.
  II. All pens are not mobiles.

Q8. Statements: No data is a record.
  All records are registers.
  Some registers are notebooks.
Conclusions: I. Some registers are not data.
  II. All data being notebooks is a possibility.

Q9. Statements: Some registers are notebooks.
All records are notebooks.
Conclusions: I. Some notebooks are registers.
II. No register is a record.

Directions (10-15): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below it.
Eight students P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting around a circular table facing the centre but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them belongs to different towns of West Bengal viz— Siliguri, Alipore, Howrah, Kolkata, Malda, Durgapur, Rampur and Raiganj.
There are two persons between those who belong to Alipore and Siliguri and neither of them sits opposite P. R and V are immediate neighbours and neither of them belongs to Raiganj or Siliguri. P who belongs to Rampur sits second to the right of the one who belongs to Raiganj. Q and T neither belongs to Raiganj nor sit adjacent to P. T belongs to Siliguri and sits second to the left of V who belongs to Kolkata. R does not belong to Alipore. The immediate neighbour of T faces R who sits third to the left of the one who belongs to Rampur. U does not belong to Raiganj. Both S and W do not belong to Alipore or Howrah. Q belongs to Durgapur while S belongs to Malda. Q is not an immediate neighbour of P.

Q10. Alipore is related to Durgapur in a certain way and Siliguri is related to Raiganj in the same way. Which of the following is related to Howrah following the same pattern?
(a) Kolkata
(b) Rampur
(c) Malda
(d) Can’t be determined
(e) None of the above

Q11. Who among the following belongs to Raiganj?
(a) U
(b) W
(c) T
(d) Can’t be determined
(e) None of the above

Q12. Who among the following sits third to the right of U?
(a) T
(b) V
(c) R
(d) Q
(e) None of the above

Q13. Which of the following statements is/are true about T?
(a) T is sitting opposite to W.
(b) T belongs to Raiganj.
(c) T is not an immediate neighbour of Q.
(d) All of the above are true
(e) None of the above

Q14. Which of the following statements is/are true?
(a) R is an immediate neighbour W and U.
(b) The person who belongs to Rampur sits opposite V.
(c) W belongs to Raiganj and sits on the immediate right of Q.
(d) Only (b) and (c)
(e) None of the above is true.

Q15. Who among the following sits third to the left of P?
(a) T
(b) V
(c) R
(d) Q
(e) None of the above