Must Important Reasoning Questions for IBPS PO and Clerk Exam 2017

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

Seven cricket players viz. Sachin, Dhoni, Hardik, Rahul, Ishant, Zaheer and Virender played in seven different matches in a week starting from Monday and ending on Sunday. Some of them are bowlers and some of them are the batsman. Their Run/Wickets in the seven matches are – 50, 5, 4, 16, 8, 4 and 25. No bowler can take more than 10 wickets.

Zaheer plays on Thursday. Two matches are played between the matches played by player Zaheer and player Sachin. On the first day of the week, the batsman scored half century played in the match.The sum of Runs/Wickets of the player Virender and Dhoni is equalled to the Runs/Wickets of Rahul. All the bowlers should be preceded and succeeded by batsman and Ishant is the only bowler which cannot be succeeded by anyone. Sachin is the only batsman which is followed by another batsman.Only one match is played between the matches played by the player Ishant and Rahul. The score of the batsman who played the match on Thursday is the perfect square of the score of the player who played on Saturday.

The match played by Ishant is not played on the day immediately before or immediately after the day when the match of player Zaheer is played. The match played by Hardik is played on the day immediately before the day when the match of player Virender is played. Match played by Rahul is not played after the match of player Dhoni.

Q1. As per the given arrangement which of the following combination represents only the people who are bowlers?.

(a) Ishant, Zaheer

(b) Dhoni, Sachin, Ishant

(c) Zaheer, Virender, Hardik

(d) Sachin, Ishant

(e) Virender, Ishant, Rahul

Q2. As per the given arrangement which of the following person represent the one who was played in between the Virender and Rahul?

(a) Zaheer

(b) Sachin

(c) Hardik

(d) Dhoni

(e) Ishant

Q3. Who among the following takes 8 wicket?

(a) Ishant

(b) Virender

(c) Rahul

(d) Dhoni

(e) None of these

Q4. Which of the following combinations is correct as per the given arrangement?

(a) Monday – Sachin

(b) Tuesday – Virender

(c) Wednesday – Dhoni

(d) Thursday – Rahul

(e) Friday – Ishant

Q5. Who amongst the following scored half century?

(a) Sachin

(b) Zaheer

(c) Dhoni

(d) Virender

(e) Ishant

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

In a certain code language 

“among the company struck” is coded as ” L5H  Z6X  F2G  H4Z ” 

“under relevant part that” is coded as ” U3G  U3K  U7I  S4F ” 

“for years date extreme” is coded as ” F6V  F3W  T4B  S2U”

Q6. What is the code for ‘oxford’ in the given code language?

(a) E8L

(b) Q5L

(c) E5L

(d) E5J

(e) None of these

Q7. What is the code for ‘returns’ in the given code language?

(a) T6I

(b) X6I

(c) T5I

(d) T6A

(e) None of these

Q8. What is the code for ‘nations’ in the given code language?

(a) T9M

(b) Y6M

(c) T6M

(d) T6N

(e) None of these

Q9. What is the code for ‘category’ in the given code language?

(a) Z7V

(b) C7X

(c) Z6X

(d) Z7X

(e) None of these

Q10. What is the code for ‘vacant’ in the given code language?

(a) V5E

(b) U5F

(c) U6E

(d) U5E

(e) None of these

Directions (11-15): In each question below is given a group of letters followed by four combinations of digits/symbols numbered (a), (b), (c) and (d). You have to find out which of the combinations correctly represents the group of letters based on the following coding system and mark the number of that combination as the answer. If none of the four combinations correctly represents the group of letters, mark (e), i.e. ‘None of these’, as the answer.

Conditions:

(1) If the first letter is a consonant and the last letter is a vowel, the codes of both letters are to be interchanged.

(2) If the first and the last letters are vowels both of them are to be coded as per the code for the last letter.

(3) If the first letter is a vowel and the last letter is a consonant both of them are to be coded as ‘£’.

Q11. TIMEFC

(a) @%$298

(b) 7%$298

(c) 8%$928

(d) $%@29£

(e) None of these

Q12. EDKHUI

(a) %5#6δ%

(b) 25#6δ2

(c) 25#6δ%

(d) @56#δ@

(e) None of these

Q13. KAJTHI

(a) 6#7%$6

(b) #1@73#

(c) #1376%

(d) %1376#

(e) None of these

Q14. AKTMHU

(a) 1#7$61

(b) 1#7$6δ 

(c) δ#7$61

(d) δ#7$6δ 

(e) None of these

Q15. EDCAPJ

(a) £51843

(b) £5814£

(c) 25814£

(d) £5234£

(e) None of these

Must Important Reasoning Questions for IBPS PO and Clerk Exam 2017 (Solutions)