Reasoning Questions for RBI assistant mains 2017 |

Directions (1-5): In each question below is given a statement followed by three courses of action numbered I, II and III. A course of action is a step of the administrative decision to be taken for improvement, follow-up or further action in regard to the problem, policy, etc. On the basis of the information given in the statement, you have to assume everything in the statement to be true, then decide which of the suggested courses of action logically follow(s) for pursing.

Q1. Statements: Many people in the locality have fallen sick and admitted to the local hospital after consuming sweets served during a community meal.

Courses of action:

I. The police should immediately arrest all the people responsible for making the sweets.

II. The people admitted to the local hospital should immediately be shifted to bigger hospitals.

III. The local food and drug authority should investigate to find out the cause of the sickness and take necessary action.

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only I and II follow

(d) Only II and III follow

(e) All follow

Q2. Statements: A large private bank has decided to retrench one-third of its employees in view of huge losses incurred by it during the past three-quarters.

Courses of action:

I. The Government should issue a notification to the general public to immediately stop all transactions within the bank.

II. The Government should direct the bank to refrain from retrenching its employees.

III. The Government should ask the central bank of the country to initiate an inquiry into the bank’s activities and submit its report.

(a) None follows

(b) Only I follows

(d) Only I and III follow

(e) Only III follow

Q3. Statements: Every year during monsoon quite a few people get drowned and die while swimming in the sea on various beaches in the city.

Courses of action:

I. The civic administration should deploy at least two life guards on each of the beaches during monsoon.

II. The civic administration should make arrangements to caution people from swimming in the sea during monsoon.

III. The civic administration should put up prominent sign posts near the treacherous parts of the beaches advising people not to venture into the sea in these areas.

(a) Only I and II follow

(b) Only II and III follow

(d) All follow

(e) None follows

Q4. Statements: Many management institutes in the city have enrolled a large number of students for management courses which are not recognised either by the local university or by the department of technical education.

Courses of action:

I. All these management institutes should immediately be derecognized by the university and the Department of Technical Education.

II. All these management institutes should be asked to refund fees to all such students and enrol them only for recognised courses.

III. All such students should be advised to switch over to the recognised courses in other institutes.

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only II follows

(d) Only II and III follow

(e) None of these

Q5. Statements: It is feared by the experts that there may be deficient rainfall in many parts of the country due to weak monsoon.

Courses of action:

I. The Government should immediately set up a committee of experts to study the amount of rainfall in various parts of the country.

II. The Government should make arrangements for providing relief supplies to the areas affected due to poor monsoon.

III. The farmers in the affected areas should be advised to switch over to crops requiring less water during the Kharif season.

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only II follows

(d) Only I and III follows

(e) None of these

Directions (6-10): In each of the questions below are given four statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Q6. Statements:

Some bags are truth.

All truth are shirts.

Some shirts are boys.

All boys are shops.

Conclusions:

I. Some shops are bags.

II. Some boys are bags.

III. Some shops are shirts.

IV. Some shirts are bags.

(a) Only I and II follow

(b) Only I and III follow

(d) Only II and IV follow

(e) None of these

Q7. Statements:

All pens are chairs.

All flowers are chairs.

All chairs are trucks.

All trees are trucks.

Conclusions:

I. Some trucks are pens.

II. Some trucks are chairs.

III. Some trees are pens.

IV. Some trees are chairs.

(a) Only I and III follow

(b) Only I and II follow

(d) Only II and IV follow

(e) None of these

Q8. Statements:

All desks are pillars.

Some pillars are towns.

All towns are benches.

Some benches are cars.

Conclusions:

I. Some cars are towns.

II. Some benches are desks.

III. Some benches are pillars.

IV. Some cars are pillars.

(a) None follows

(b) Only I follows

(d) Only III follows

(e) Only IV follows

Q9. Statements:

All stations are houses.

No house is garden.

Some gardens are rivers.

All rivers are ponds.

Conclusions:

I. Some ponds are gardens.

II. Some ponds are stations.

III. Some ponds are houses.

IV. No pond is station.

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only either II or IV follows

(d) Only I and IV follow

(e) None of these

Q10. Statements:

Some towers are lanes.

Some lanes are roads.

Some roads are rivers.

Some rivers are jungles.

Conclusions:

I. Some jungles are roads.

II. Some roads are lanes.

III. Some jungles are towers.

IV. No jungle is road.

(a) Only I follows

(b) Only II follows

(d) Only IV follow

(e) Only either I or IV and II follow

Directions (11-15): Each of the questions below consists of q 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 given the 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 to 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.

(d) if the data even in both statements I and II together are not sufficient to answer the question.

(e) if the data in both statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question.

Q11. Which bag amongst P, Q, R, S and T is the heaviest?

I. Bag Q is heavier than R and S. Bag T is heavier than only bag P.

II. Only three bags are lighter than R. The weight of bag Q is 50 kg, which is 2 kg more than bag R.

Q12. Are all the five friends – A, B, C, D and E – who are seated around a circular table facing the centre?

I. A sits third to the left of B. B faces the centre. D and E are immediate neighbours of each other. C sits second to the right of E.

II. D sits second to the right of C. C faces the centre. Both E and A are immediate neighbours of D. B sits second to the right of A.

Q13. In a college, five different subjects, viz Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Mathematics, are taught on five different days of the same week, starting from Monday and ending on Friday. Is Chemistry taught on Wednesday?

I. Two subjects are taught between Zoology and Mathematics. Mathematics is taught before Zoology. Chemistry is taught on the day immediately next to the day when Physics is taught. Botany is not taught on Friday.

II. Three lectures are scheduled between the lectures of Botany and Zoology. Mathematics is taught immediately before Physics.

Q14. Among friends M, N,O,P,Q and R, who is second heaviest?

I. O is heavier than only two friends. P is heavier than O but lighter than N.R is the heaviest.

II. M is lighter than only two friends. N is heavier than O but lighter than R.P is heavier than only Q.

Q15. If F granddaughter of B?

I. B is the father of M. M is the sister of T. T is the mother of F.

II. S is the son of F. V is the daughter of F. R is the brother of T.