Reasoning Questions for RRB PO and Clerk Exam 2017

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

In a sports event, different games are scheduled to be held on seven days, starting on Monday and ending en Sunday. Two games are scheduled to be held on Saturday as well as on Sunday and one game on each of the remaining five days. The games to be held in these seven days are Basketball, Football, Boxing, Sprinting, Swimming, Shooting, Weightlifting, Wrestling and Cycling, but not necessarily in the same order.
Shooting is scheduled to be held on Thursday. Boxing and Cycling are scheduled to be held on the same day. Wrestling is scheduled to be held three days before Basketball, i.e., two sports are scheduled between ‘Wrestling and Basketball. Wrestling is not scheduled to be held on Wednesday. Weightlifting is scheduled immediately after the day Boxing is scheduled. Football is scheduled immediately after the day Wrestling is scheduled. Swimming is not scheduled on Monday.

1.Which of the following games is scheduled to be held on Friday? 

(a) Basketball 

(b) Wrestling 

(c) Swimming 

(d) Weightlifting 

(e) Sprinting 

2.Which of the following games is scheduled to be held on Sunday? 

(a) Football 

(b) Wrestling 

(c) Basketball 

(d) Cycling 

(e) Swimming 

3.On which of the following days is Sprinting scheduled? 

(a) Saturday 

(b) Friday 

(c) Wednesday 

(d) Monday 

(e) Cannot be determined 

4.On which of the following days is Weightlifting scheduled? 

(a) Monday 

(b) Tuesday 

(c) Wednesday 

(d) Friday 

(e) Sunday 

5.Shooting is related to Basketball in the same way as Wrestling is related to ………..

(a) Sprinting 

(b) Football 

(c) Shooting 

(d) Weightlifting 

(e) Boxing 

Directions (6-10): Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether, the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Read both the statements and Give answer 

(a) if the data in statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question while the data in statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question. 

(b) if the data in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question while the data in statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question. 

(c) if the data either in statement I alone or in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question. 

(d) if the data in both statements I and II together are not sufficient to answer the question. 

(e) if the data in both statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question.

6.In which month of the year did the construction of the building begin? 

I. The construction engineer correctly remembers that the construction began before September but after May and that particular month did not have 31 days. 

II. The builder correctly remembers that the construction began after February but before October and the fact that, that particular month did not have 31 days. 

7.How many runs did Team X make? 

I. The umpire of the match correctly mentions that if the batsman from Team X scored two more runs, then the team would have won the match by 28 runs. 

II.The coach correctly mentions that the batsman from Team X missed his century by two runs. 

8.Who among P. Q, R and S is the shortest? 

I. S is not as tall as R but is taller than Q. 

II. R is not the tallest. 

9.What does ‘ni’ mean in the code language? 

I. ‘ni pa ca lo’ means ‘an honest bank employee’ and ‘sa lo ja pa’ means ’employee of the bank’. 

II. ‘fi ni ca’ means ‘an honest officer’ and ‘to fi sa pa’ means ‘reputed officer of bank’. 

10.Is Jay a sibling (brother or sister) of Rishi ? 

I. Jay’s mother is Shalini. Shalini is the only child of Rishi’s grandfather 

II. Rishi’s father has a daughter who is Smita. Jay is a brother of Smita.

Directions (11-15): In each question below, there are two or three statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be variance with commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follow(s) from the given statements.

11.Statements: 

All hunters are punters.

Some punters are tigers.

Conclusions 

I. Some hunters are tigers.

II. All tigers are punters.

III. Some punters are hunters.

IV. No punters are hunters.

(a)I and II follow 

(b) II and III follow 

(c) I and III follow

(d) II and IV follow 

(e) None of these

12.Statements: 

Some boxes are dogs. 

All dogs are pens. 

Conclusions 

I. Some boxes are pens. 

II. Some pens are boxes. 

III. Some pens are dogs. 

IV. All pens are dogs. 

(a) I, II and III follow 

(b) II, III and IV follow 

(c) I, III and IV follow 

(d) I, II and IV follow

(e) All follow 

13.Statements: 

Some diggers are jokers.

All jokers are cute. 

Conclusions 

I. Some diggers are cute. 

II. No diggers are cute. 

III. All cute are joker. 

IV. All diggers are cute. 

(a) I and III follow 

(b) Either II or IV follows 

(c) only I follows .

(d) Either I or III follows 

(e) None of these

14.Statements: 

Some barbers are painters.

No painters are watches. 

Conclusions

I. Some barbers are not watches. 

II. Some barbers are watches.

III. Some watches are not barbers. 

IV. Some watches are barbers. 

(a) I and III follow 

(b) Only I follows 

(c) Either I or II and III follow 

(d) Either III or IV and I follow 

(e) Either I or II and either III or IV follow

15.Statements: 

Some carts are darts. 

No smart is cart. 

Conclusions 

I. Some darts are not smarts. 

II. All darts are smarts. 

III. Some smarts are not darts. 

IV. All smarts are darts. 

(a) I and III follow 

(b) Only I follows 

(c) Only III follows

(d) I and either III or IV follow

(e) III and either I or II follow

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