Most Important Reasoning Questions for IBPS PO and Clerk Exam 2017

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Directions(1-5): In each question below are given some statements followed by some conclusions. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts.

Q1. Statements

No OrangeareApple.

All Grapes are Apple.

All Grapes are Banana.

Conclusions

I. Some Grapes are not Orange. 

II.  Some Apple are Banana.

III. Some Banana are not Orange.

IV.  No Orange are Grapes.

(a) All follow

(b) I, II and III

(c) II, III and IV

(d) I, III and IV

(e) None of these

Q2. Statements

No MobilearePager.

All Fax are Mobile. 

All Printer are Fax.

Conclusions

I. Some Mobileare not Printer. 

II. SomeFax are not Printer.

III. All MobilearePrinter. 

IV.   No Printer are Pager. 

(a) None follow 

(b) Only IV

(c) I, II and IV

(d) I and IV

(e) None of these

Q3. Statements

All BlueareGreen. 

No GreenarePink. 

All PinkareYellow. 

Conclusions

I. Some Blue are not Pink. 

II.  some pink are not Blue. 

III. Some Yelloware not Blue.

IV.  some blue are not Yellow.

(a) All follow

(b) I, II and III  

(c) II, III and IV

(d) II and III

(e) None of these

Q4. Statements

All She are He.

No We are She.

All You are We.

Conclusions

I. Some He areYou. 

II. NoYou are She. 

III. Some Heare not You. 

IV. No He are You.

(a) II, III and IV

(b) II and either I or III follow

(c) II, III and either I or IV follow

(d) III and either I or IV follow

(e) None of the above

Q5. Statements

All PisQ. 

Some P is R.

No pins is R.

Conclusions

I.   Some P is pins.

II. Some Q is pins.

III. Some R is not Q. 

IV.  Some P is not R.

(a) None follows 

(b) Only I 

(c) All follow 

(d) Only II 

(e) None of these

Directions (6-10): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow:

Eight friends SUNEETA, GEETA, SEETA, VEENA, SEEMA, TEENA, HEER and SONI are sitting around a circular table for lunch. Each person has a different birthplace, via Lucknow, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Dehradun, Delhi, Agra and Hyderabad, but not necessarily in the same order. All are facing in the same direction.

The person born in Jaipur sits third to the right of Heer.Seeta is an immediate neighbour of Heer. The person born in Mumbai sits second to the right of Seeta. Geeta sits third to the right of Soni. Soni’s birthplace is neither Jaipur nor Mumbai. Only one person sits between Seeta and the person whose birthplace is Ahmedabad. Suneeta and Teena are immediate neighbours of each other. Neither Suneeta’s nor Teena’s birthplace is Jaipur. The person born in Hyderabad sits second to the right of Suneeta. Two persons sit between Veena and the person born in Dehradun. Veena is not from Jaipur. The person born in Lucknow is not an immediate neighbour of the person born in Jaipur. The person born in Delhi sits second to the left of Suneeta.

Q6. Who among the following is from Agra?

(a) Suneeta

(b) Soni

(c) Seeta

(d) Teena

(e) Veena

Q7. What is the position of Teena with respect to the person whose birthplace is Jaipur?

(a) Second to the left

(b) Second to the right 

(c) Immediate right 

(d) Immediate left

(e) None of these 

Q8. Where is the birthplace of Heer?

(a) Agra 

(b) Lucknow

(c) Delhi

(d) Ahmedabad

(e) Mumbai

Q9. Where is the birthplace of Seema?

(a) Agra

(b) Mumbai

(c) Delhi

(d) Jaipur

(e) Dehradun

Q10. Who sits (s) exactly between the persons whose birth places are Ahmedabad and Dehradun?

(a) Seeta and Soni

(b) Seeta and Geeta

(c) Only Hyderabad-born person

(d) Suneeta and Geeta

(e) None of these

Directions (11-15): In the following questions, certain symbols are used with the following meanings:

P × Q means P is not smaller than Q.

P – Q means P is neither greater than nor smaller than Q.

P+ Q means P is not greater than Q.

P @ Q means P is neither smaller than nor equal to Q.

P ÷ Q means P is neither greater than nor equal to Q.

P © Q means P is not equal to Q.

Now in each of the following questions, assuming the given statements to be true, find which of the two conclusions I and II given below them is/are definitely true. Give answer 

(a) if only conclusion I is true.

(b) if only conclusion II is true.

(c) if either conclusion I or II is true.

(d) if neither conclusion I nor II is true.

(e) if both conclusions I and II are true.