Reasoning Questions for Clerk Mains 2017

The reasoning is a game of wits and presence of mind! Yes, it is true and it might seem as the greatest of the challenge after English Section’s surprises but yet this one can easily be dealt with. You just need correct practice and hardwire your brain to quickly make decisions of what to attempt and what to leave. And for same we are providing you questions of Reasoning Question and Answers. Solve these to Practice latest pattern reasoning question for bank exams.

Directions (1-3): 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 conclusion does not logically follow from the given statements using all statements together.

Q1. Statements: Some policy is global. All global are economy. No economy is bank. All job is bank. Some job is success.
Conclusions: 
(a) Some policy is not bank.
(b) No global is bank.
(c) Some success is bank.
(d) All global being job is a possibility.
(e) All success is being bank is a possibility.

Q2. Statements: Some market is investor. No investor is stock. Some financial is goal. No financial is brand. All financial is value.
Conclusions:  
(a) Some market is not stock.
(b) Some goal is not brand.
(c) Some value is not brand.
(d) All market being goal is a possibility.
(e) All market being stock is a possibility.

Q3. Statements: All debt is deficit. Some deficit is tax. All tax is budget. Some tax is fiscal. No fiscal is stability.
Conclusions:  
(a) Some deficit is budget.
(b) Some tax is not stability.
(c) Some budget is not stability.
(d) Some debt is tax.
(e) All deficit being tax is possibility.

Directions (4-5): In each of the questions below are given four statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III & IV. 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 follow from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Q4. Statements: 
Some tennis is cricket.
No cricket is bat.
All bat is match.
Some bat is football.
Conclusions:
I. Some cricket is match.
II. Some tennis is not cricket.
III. Some cricket is football.
IV. Some tennis is bat.
(a) Only I and III follow
(b) Only II and III follow
(c) Only I and IV follow
(d) Only II, III and IV follow
(e) None follows

Q5. Statements: 
All sony is lava.
Some lava is MI.
All MI is nokia.
Some nokia is samsung.
Conclusions:
I. Some samsung is MI.
II. Some nokia is lava.
III. Some samsung is sony.
IV. Some sony being nokia is possibility.
(a) Only I and III follow
(b) Only I, II and III follow
(c) Only II and IV follow
(d) Only II, III and IV follow
(e) None of these

Directions (6-10): Study the following information and answer the given questions:
Seven teachers  I, J, K, L, M, N and O live on separate floors of a 7-floor building. Ground floor is numbered 1, first floor is numbered 2 and so on. Each of them is teaching different subjects, viz Hindi, English, Math, Science, Civics, History and Sanskrit but not necessarily in the same order. Only three teachers live above the floor on which I lives. Only one teacher lives between I and the one who teaches History. N lives immediately below the one who teaches English. The one who teaches English lives on an even-numbered floor. Only three teachers live between the teachers who teach History and Math. M lives immediately above K. M does not teach Math. Only two people live between J and the one who teaches Civics. The one who teaches Civics lives below the floor on which J lives. The one teaches Hindi does not live immediately above or immediately below J. L does not live immediately above or immediately below I. O does not teach Science.

Q6. Which of the following is true with respect to O as per the given information?
(a) The one who lives immediately below O ,teaches English.
(b) O lives on floor no. 7
(c) O lives immediately below M.
(d) O lives on the lowermost floor.
(e) O teaches History.

Q7. Who among the following lives on floor no. 3?
(a) The one who teaches Science
(b) The one who teaches Civics
(c) K
(d) O
(e) M

Q8. Who lives on the floor immediately above M?
(a) I
(b) J
(c) L
(d) O
(e) N

Q9. L teaches which of the following subject?
(a) English
(b) History
(c) Math
(d) Civics
(e) Science

Q10. How many teachers live between the floors on which L and the one who teaches  English live?
(a) None
(b) Two
(c) One
(d) More than three
(e) Three

Directions (11): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions which follow:
‘A × B’ means A is son of B.
‘A + B’ means A is father of B.
‘A > B’ means A is daughter of B.
‘A < B’ means A is wife of B.

Q11. Which of the following pairs of persons represent cousins with regard to the relations given in the expressions, if it is provided that A is the sister of J.
‘L > V < J + P’ and ‘S × A < D + F < E + K’?
(a) LP
(b) SP
(c) SK
(d) SF
(e) Can’t be determined

Q12. In which of the following expressions will the expression P < M be definitely true?
(a) M < R > P ≥ S
(b) M ≥ S = P < F
(c) Q < M < F = P
(d) P = A < R < M
(e) None of these

Q13. Among A, B, C, D and E, each having scored different marks, B has scored more marks than E and D. B has not scored the highest marks among them. Who among them scored the second-highest marks?
(a) B
(b) C
(c) E
(d) D
(e) Data inadequate

Q14. A man walked 30 metres towards South, took a left turn and walked 50 metres, again he took a left and walked 30 metres. How far is he and in which direction from the starting point?
(a) 80m south
(b) 50m west
(c) 130m east
(d) 50m east
(e) None of these

Q15. Mohan walked 30 metres towards South, took a left turn and walked 15 metres. He then took a right turn and walked 20 metres. He again took a right turn and walked 15 metres. How far is he from the starting point?
(a) 95 metres
(b) 50 metres
(c) 70 metres
(d) Cannot be determined
(e) None of these