Dear Readers,
Just a few days are left for SBI PO and NIACL Assistant Examination. It is time to pace up your preparation for SBI PO Prelims and NIACL Assistant Mains 2017. These Reasoning questions will also help you in preparing for BOB PO and NICL AO 2017 recruitment examination.
Directions (1-3): Each of the questions below, consist a question and three statements numbered I, II and III. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question.
Read the three statements and Give answer
(a) If the data in statement I and II together are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement III are not required to answer the question.
(b) If the data in statement I and III together are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement II are not required to answer the question.
(c) If the data in statement II and III are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement I are not required to answer the question.
(d) If the data in all three statements I, II and III together are necessary to answer the question.
(e) If the data in all the statements, I, II and III even together are not sufficient to answer the question.
Q1. Eight friends P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting around a circle facing to the center of the table. How many students are sitting between R and U?
Statements:
I. P is seated second to the right of W, who is seated third to the right of S. V is seated immediate left of U.
II. R is seated third to the right of P and is not near to T. U is seated second to the right Q.
III. S is seated second to the left of T and is third to right of V. R is an immediate neighbor of W.
Q2. Point A is in which direction with respect to B?
Statements:
I. Point S is to the west of point T, which is in south of point B. Point A is to the north of point S.
II. Point B is to the east of point V, which is the south of point T. Point A is to the south of point W.
III. Point T is to the west of point Y, which is to the north of point W.
Q3. Who earns lowest salary among six members in a family? (Six members A, B, C, D, E and F are earning different salaries)
Statements:
I. A earns more than only C and D. B earns more than F.
II. B earns less than E while D earns less than C and F.
III. C earns more than E but less than D. F earns more than two persons.
Directions (4-5): Each of the following questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question.
Read both the statements and give answer.
(a) if the data in statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement II alone are not sufficient in answer the question.
(b) if the data in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question.
(c) if the data in either in statement I alone or in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question.
(d) if the data in both the statements I and II together are not sufficient to answer the question.
(e) if the data in both the statements I and II are together necessary to answer the question.
Q4. Is X is aunt of Y?
I. A is son of X. A is brother of B. B is daughter of C. F is sister of C. Y is daughter of F.
II. D is father of Y. F is mother of Y. K is brother of F. K has two children J and R. X is married to K.
Q5. Among A,B,C,D and E, seated in a straight line facing south, who sits at the extreme end of the row?
I. B sits second to right of A. E is not immediate neighbor of D.
II. A sits third to left of D. B sits on the immediate right of C.
Directions (6-10): Study the given information and answer the questions:
A word and number arrangement machine when given an input line of words and numbers rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of an input and rearrangement.
Input: work 27 that 33 was 23 under 21 way 17
Step I: way 17 work 27 that 33 was 23 under 21
Step II: that 23 way 17 work 27 33 was under 21
Step III: was 21 that 23 way 17 work 27 33 under
Step IV: under 27 was 21 that 23 way 17 work 33
Step V: work 33 under 27 was 21 that 23 way 17
And Step V is the last step of the rearrangement of the above input.
As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out in each of the following questions the appropriate step for the given input.
Input: motive 15 would 9 also 17 party 27 for 19
Q6. In which step the elements ‘party 17 would’ found in the same order?
(a) StepI
(b) StepII
(c) StepIII
(d) StepIV
(e)None of these
Q7. In step IV, which of the following words would be at 3rd position to the left of 5th from the right end?
(a) 15
(b) also
(c) 9
(d) for
(e) None of these
Q8. How many step required completing the above arrangement?
(a) Five
(b) Four
(c) Six
(d) Seven
(e) None of these
Q9. Which of the following would be the step III after arrangement?
(a) also 9 for 19 party 17 15 would 27 motive
(b) also 19 for 9 party 17 motive 15 would 27
(c) also 9 for 19 party 17 motive 27 would 15
(d) also 9 for 19 party 17 motive 15 would 27
(e) None of these
Q10. In step II, ‘19’ is related to ‘17’ and ‘15’ is related to ‘9’. In the same way ‘motive’ is related to?
(a) 15
(b) would
(c) 9
(d) also
(e) None of these
Directions (11-15): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions.
There are seven friends – S, P, M, A, D, K and C. All of them are working in Army and they like different type of machine gun like Anti-aircraft machine gun(AA), machine gun(MG), light Machine gun(LMG), medium machine gun (MMG), heavy machine gun(HMG), general-purpose machine gun (GPMG), and squad automatic machine gun(SAMG). They go to temple one by one in the same week starting from Monday but not necessarily in the same order.
S goes to temple on the third day of the week and he does not like LMG and HMG. Only one friend goes to temple between S and P, who likes AA. There are two friends go to temple between the days on which P and M, who likes MG. The one who likes SAMG goes to temple on the fourth day of the week. Only one friend goes to temple between the A and one who likes SAMG. The one who likes GPMG goes to temple on last day of the week. The one who likes HMG goes to temple neither immediately above nor below the days on which S goes to temple. There are as many as friend go to temple between the D and one who likes LMG and as between the D and C. K does not go to the temple last day of the week.
Q11. Who among following goes to temple on Monday?
(a) P
(b) D
(c) S
(d)M
(e) K
Q12. S likes which of the following machine gun?
(a) GPMG
(b) SAMG
(c) LMG
(d)MMG
(e)None of these
Q13. S goes to temple on which of the following day?
(a) Friday
(b) Tuesday
(c) Monday
(d) Wednesday
(e) Sunday
Q14. Who among following likes HMG?
(a) K
(b) M
(c) C
(d) A
(e) P
Q15. K goes to temple on which of the following day?
(a) Monday
(b) Tuesday
(c) Wednesday
(d) Thursday
(e)None of these