Reasoning Questions for IBPS Clerk Mains Exam

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

A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight persons who live in an eight-storey building. The ground floor is numbered one and the topmost floor is numbered eight. Each of them have different profession, viz Chemist, Agrologist, Architect, Lawyer, Pharmacist, Dentist, Geologist and Physician, but not necessarily in the same order.

There is only one floor between A and the floor on which the person who is Physician lives. The person who is Physician does not live on floor number 1. D lives just below B. The one who is Chemist lives on an even-numbered floor and just above the floor on which the one who is Pharmacist lives. The one who is Dentist lives on an even-numbered floor but not on the 8th floor. Neither D nor H lives on the 1st floor. Only one person lives between the one who is Geologist and D. A lives on an odd-numbered floor and E lives just above A. B lives on the fourth floor. Only two persons live between the one who is Dentist and A. F lives just below the one who is Pharmacist. D is neither Pharmacist nor Physician. The one who is Architect does not live on an odd-numbered floor. G is not an Agrologist. There are two floors between the floor on which H lives and the floor on which E lives. Only two persons live between the one who is Lawyer and the one who is Architect.

Q1. Who among the following is Agrologist?

(a) D

(b) C

(c) F

(d) E

(e) None of these

Q2. How many persons live between E and B?

(a) One

(b) Two

(c) Three

(d) Four

(e) None of these

Q3. Who among the following lives on the topmost floor?

(a) The one who is Chemist

(b) The one who is Dentist

(c) The one who is Architect

(d) The one who is Agrologist

(e) None of these

Q4. Which of the following combinations is/are true?

(a) Floor no. 2 – D – Lawyer 

(b) Floor no. 5 – F – Physician 

(c) Floor no. 1 – C – Agrologist 

(d) Floor no. 8 – E – Chemist 

(e) None of these

Q5. What is the profession of A?

(a) Chemist

(b) Physician

(c) Dentist

(d) Pharmacist

(e) None of these

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

A group of eight persons– A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H – are sitting in a straight line facing towards north direction. Each of them has different car– Toyota, Renault, Tata, Mahindra, Maruti, Ford, Audi and Honda but not necessarily in the same order. Each of the car is of different colours viz. Pink, Yellow, Red, Black, Blue, Orange, White and Green, but not necessarily in the same order. 

A has Maruti car and he sits third to the left of F. Neither A nor F sits at the extreme ends of the line. E has Pink colour Tata car. E is not an immediate neighbour of either A and F. H sits second to right of C and he has Orange colour car. C has red colour Audi car. G has Toyota car of white colour and he sits at an extreme end of the line. B has Mahindra car of green colour and he sits on the immediate left of A. A does not have Blue and Yellow colour car. One who has Honda car sits on the immediate left of the one who has Toyota car. F has Renault car. F does not have Yellow colour car.

Q6. How many persons sit between B and F?

(a) One

(b) Three

(c) Two

(d) Five

(e) None of these

Q7. H has which of the following car?

(a) Toyota

(b) Maruti(c) Audi

(d) Honda

(e) None of these

Q8. Who is third to left to G?

(a) E

(b) B

(c) A

(d) C

(e) None of these

Q9. Who among the following has Ford car?

(a) A

(b) C

(c) B

(d) D

(e) None of these

Q10. If E is related to D and B is related to C, in the same way C is related to?

(a) G

(b) E

(c) D

(d) B

(e) None of these

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

Eight employees A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H will have to take the leave in the months of January, March, July and November but not necessarily in the same order. In each month, they all will take a leave on either 8th or 19th of the given month. Not more than two employees will take a leave on the same month. Only one employee will take a leave on each day.

Only one person will take a leave before the G. More than three persons will take a leave between G and A. Only one person will take a leave between A and H. Two persons will take a leave between H and B. Only one person will take a leave between B and F. Two persons will take a leave between F and C. D will take a leave one of the days after E. Neither D nor E will take a leave on 19th of the any of the given month.

Q11. Who among the following will take a leave on 8th January?

(a) A

(b) C

(c) G

(d) F

(e) B

Q12. Who among following will take a leave on 8th November?

(a) A

(b) C

(c) G

(d) D

(e) B

Q13. H will take a leave on which date and month?

(a) 8th March

(b) 19th March

(c) 8th July

(d) 19th July

(e) None of these

Q14. Who among following will take a leave on March month?

(a) A, C

(b) F, B

(c) G, H

(d) H, C 

(e) B, C

Q15. How many persons will take a leave between F and E?

(a) One

(b) No one.

(c) Three

(d) Two

(e) Four

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