Reasoning Questions for RRB PO and Clerk Exam 2017

Directions (1-5): Read the following information carefully and answer the question that follows:

There are seven persons- Riya, Reena, Rita, Disha, Diya, Jitesh and Ritesh – who teach different subjects, viz Sanskrit, Geography, History, Civics, Economics, Hindi and English but not necessarily in the same order. They teach on different days of the week starting from Monday. They like different colours, viz White, Yellow, Red, Black, Brown, Green and Pink, but not necessarily in the same order.

Reena, who likes Green, teaches on the fourth day of the week but neither Sanskrit nor English. Two persons teach between Reena and Jitesh, neither of them teaches on the Ist day of the week. There is one person between Riya and Rita. But Rita does not teach either on 1st or on 3rd day of the week. Rita likes Yellow colour and teaches Sanskrit. The one who teaches History teaches on the last day of the week and likes Red colour. Disha does not teach on the day either immediately before or immediately after the classes by Riya, who does not like either Brown, White and Black colour. Ritesh teaches immediately after Rita and he likes White colour. Diya does not like Brown colour and teaches Hindi. Riya does not teach either Economics or Civics. The one who teaches Geography takes class immediately after the day when Sanskrit has been taught. English is taught immediately after hindi. 

Q1. Which of the following combinations is definitely false? 

(a) Rita – Yellow – Sanskrit

 (b) Riya – Pink – English 

(c) Diya – Black – Hindi 

(d) Reena – Green – History 

(e) None of these 

Q2. Who among the following teaches on the fifth day of the week?

(a) Ritesh 

(b) Jitesh 

(c) Rita 

(d) Diya 

(e) None of these 

Q3. Who teaches Civics? 

(a) Reena 

(b) Riya

(c) Disha 

(d) Either Disha or Reena 

(e) None of these

Q4. If ‘Reena’ is related to ‘Yellow’ and ‘Ritesh’ is related to ‘Red’, then which of the following is ‘Riya’ related to?

(a) Brown 

(b) Green

(c) Black 

(d) Pink

(e) None of these 

Q5. Who teaches Economics?

(a) Reena 

(b) Disha

(c) Riya 

(d) Can’t be determined 

(e) None of these

Directions (6-10): Question consists of five statements followed by five conclusions. Consider 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 does not logically follow from the given statements using all statements together.

Q6. Statements: Some cat are bear. All bear are tiger. No tiger is dear. All dear is fox. Some lion are deer. 

Conclusions: 

(a) Some cat is tiger.

(b) No bear is deer.

(c) Some lion is not tiger.

(d) Some lion is fox

(e) None of these.

Q7. Statements: All kite are earth. No kite is fly. All bird are fly. Some bird are tree. All tree are green.

Conclusions: 

(a) Some earth is not fly.

(b) Al fly being earth is a possibility.

(c) All earth being fly is a possibility.

(d) Some green are bird.

(e) Some earth is not bird.

Q8. Statements: All white is black. Some white is red. All red is green. Some red is yellow. Some yellow are orange.

Conclusions: 

(a) Some black is red.

(b) Some yellow is green.

(c) All white being green is a possibility.

(d) Some orange is green.

(e) All orange being green is a possibility.

Q9. Statements: All bag are cat. Some cat are knives. No knives are hand. Some hand are toy. All toy are month.

Conclusions:

(a) Some month are hand.

(b) All bag being knives is a possibility.

(c) Some cat is not hand.

(d) Some bag is not hand.

(e) All hand being month is a possibiity.

Q10. Statements: Some flower are hot. No hot is watch. All watch is lime. Some lime is Nut. All nut is point.

Conclusions:

(a) All hot being lime is a possibility.

(b) All flower being watch is a possibility.

(c) Some point is lime.

(d) All watch being point is a possibility.

(e) Some flower is not watch.

Directions (11-15): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions:

Eight friends, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W and Y are sitting around a square table in such a way that four of them sit at four corners of the square while four sit in the middle of each of the four sides. The ones who sit at the four corners face the centre while those who sit in the middle of the sides face outside.

P, who faces the centre, sits third to the right of V. T, who faces the centre, is not an immediate neighbour of V. Only one person sits between V and W. S sits second to right of Q. Q faces the centre. R is not an immediate neighbour of P.

Q11. Who sits second to the left of Q?

(a) V

(b) P

(c) T

(d) Y

(e) Cannot be determined

Q12. What is the position of T with respect to V?

(a) Fourth to the left

(b) Second to the left

(c) Third to the left

(d) Third to the right

(e) Second to the right

Q13. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?

(a) R

(b) W

(c) V

(d) S

(e) Y

Q14. Who among following sits diagonally opposite to P?

(a) T

(b) V

(c) Q

(d) Y

(e) S

Q15. Which of the following is true regarding R?

(a) R is an immediate neighbour of V.

(b) R faces the centre.

(c) R sits exactly between T and S.

(d) Q sits third to left of R.
(e) None of these.

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