Reasoning Questions for IBPS Clerk Mains Exam

Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below–

Five boys Divyaraj, Abhishek, Aman, Arun and Gaurav are roommates and they are living in Laxmi Nagar and they are fan of five different politicians-Jayalalitha, Mayawati, Smriti Irani, Mamta Banerjee and Sonia Gandhi but not necessary in same order. Five girls Sonakshi, Sonam, Deepika, Katrina and Anushka are famous Bollywood celebrities and they are married to five boys who live in Laxmi Nagar. All Bollywood celebrities are also fan of different politicians-Mulayam, Rahul Gandhi, Lalu, Kejriwal and Modi but not necessary in same order.
Katrina is either fan of Mulayam or Modi but does not married to one who is fan of Mayawati. Divyaraj is not fan of Mayawati or Jayalalitha but married to one who is fan of Modi. The one who is fan of Lalu is married to Gaurav. The boy who is fan of Jayalalitha is either married to Katrina or Anushka. Gaurav is not married to Sonakshi, who is fan of either Lalu or Kejriwal. Arun is not fan of Smriti Irani or Sonia Gandhi but married to one who is fan of Rahul Gandhi. Aman is married to Deepika but is not fan of Sonia Gandhi or Mayawati. Deepika is not married to one who is fan of Mayawati. Sonam is married to one who is fan of Smriti Irani. 

Q1.Who is married to Katrina? 

(a) Divyaraj

(b) Abhishek

(c) Aman

(d) Arun

(e) Gaurav

Q2.Who is fan of Mamta Banerjee? 

(a) Divyaraj

(b) Abhishek

(c) Aman

(d) Arun

(e) Gaurav

Q3.Wife of Gaurav is fan of which of the following Politicians?

(a) Lalu

(b) Modi

(c) Mulayam

(d) Rahul Gandhi

(e) Kejriwal

Q4.Who is fan of Rahul Gandhi? 

(a) Wife of Aman 

(b) Sonakshi

(c) Sonam

(d) Anushka

(e) Wife of one who is fan of Mayawati

Q5.Who is married to one who is fan of Sonia Gandhi?

(a) The one who is fan of Kejriwal

(b) The one who is fan of Mulayam

(c) The one who is fan of Lalu

(d) The one who is fan of Modi

(e) Cannot be determined 

Directions (6-10): Study the following information and answer the given questions:

Eight persons viz. P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W sitting around a circular table, but not necessarily in the same order. Four of them are facing the centre and four are facing outside. Each of them likes different brands of laptops i.e. Dell, Lenovo, HP, Apple, Toshiba, Sony, Acer and Fujitsu, but not necessarily in the same order.

Both the immediate neighbours of U and W face outside. The one who likes HP sits third to the right of the one who likes Lenovo. U and W face the centre. R sits second to the left of Q, who likes Fujitsu. The one who likes HP sit adjacent to the one who likes Dell. V likes Toshiba. T faces outside. P likes dell and sits third to the left of T, who likes Sony. The one who likes Apple sits second to the left of W. V is an immediate neighbour of W. U is second to the left of V. Persons who like Toshiba and Acer sits opposite to each other. Q is second to the left of P.

Q6.In which of the following pairs of people, are the people not sitting immediately next to each other? 

(a) QS

 (b) PV 

(c) ST 

(d) TR

 (e) None of these 

Q7.Who likes Acer?

(a)R 

 (b) V

 (c) Either V or S 

(d) S 

 (e) None of these

Q8.Who amongst the following is sitting exactly between T and S? 

(a) V 

(b) R 

(c) U 

(d) W

 (e) None of these 

Q9.Who amongst the following is sitting second to left of T? 

(a) V 

(b) Q 

(c) U 

(d) W 

(e) None of these 

Q10.Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence they form a group. Which one of the following does not belong to that group? 

(a)Sony 

 (b) Fujitsu 

 (c) Dell 

(d) Apple 

(e) None of these

Direction (11-15): In each question below are given 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 and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts. Give 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 conclusions I and II follow.

Q11.Statements: 

Some schools are colleges.

Some colleges are hostels.

No hostel is an institute.

Conclusions: 

I. All institutes being colleges is a possibility.

II. No institute is a hostel. 

Q12.Statements:

 All nails are hammers.

All hammers are needles.

Some needles are threads.

Conclusions: 

I. At least some threads are hammers. 

II. All hammers being nails is a possibility.

Q13.Statements:

 Some stones are shells.

All shells are boxes.

All boxes are pearls.

Conclusions: 

I. Some shells are pearls.

II. Some stones are boxes.

Q(14-15):

Statements: All chains are bangles.

Some bangles are pendants.

No pendant is a ring.

Q14.Conclusions: 

I. Some chains are pendants.

II. No chain is a bangle.

Q15.Conclusions:

 I. Some rings being pendants is a possibility.

II. Some bangles are chains.

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