Reasoning Quiz For IBPS PO Prelims 2023 -21st July

Q1. How many pairs of letters are in the word ‘CHAMPIONS’, each of which have as many letters between them as they have between them in the English alphabet?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four
(e) None

Q2. The position of how many alphabets will remain unchanged if each of the alphabets in the word ‘OVERCOME’ is arranged in alphabetical order from left to right?
(a) Four
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) One
(e) None

Q3. What will come in place of the question mark (?) to make the relation ‘I < H’ as well as ‘K ≥ J’ definitely true in expression ‘J = Y ≤ I ? K < H’.
(a) ≥
(b) <
(c) >
(d) ≤
(e) Either < or ≤

Directions (4-5): In each of the questions below, some statements are given 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 the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts. Give answer

Q4. Statements: Some Pink are Black.
All Black are Yellow.
Some Blue are Black.
Conclusions: I. Some Yellow are Pink.
II. Some Blue being Pink is a possibility.
III. Some Yellow are not Blue.
(a) Both I and II follows
(b) Either I or II follows
(c) Only III follows
(d) None follows
(e) Only I follows

Q5. Statements: Only a few Mars are Venus.
All Mars are Star.
No Sun is Star.
Conclusions: I. All Venus is star is a possibility
II. Some Venus is Sun
III. No Mars is Sun
(a) Only I follow
(b) Only II follows
(c) Only III follows
(d) Both I and III follows
(e) None of these

Q6. If each vowel of the word “QUAGMIRE” is changed to its next in the English alphabetical series and each consonant to its previous letter in the English alphabetical series and then the alphabets thus formed are arranged in alphabetical order from left to right, which of the following will be fifth from the left end?
(a) F
(b) J
(c) P
(d) Q
(e) None of these

Q7. If MEDIATION= 945%6#%8$ and REATTACH = &46##613, then how will you code ANOTHER?
(a) 6$8#34$
(b) 6$8#34&
(c) 4$8#34$
(d) 6$5#34$
(e) None of these

Q8. In a certain code, AUDIENCE is written as UAIDNEEC. How is ‘ATTORNEY’ coded as?
(a) ATOTNRYE
(b) TAOTNRYE
(c) TAOTNREY
(d) TATONRYE
(e) None of these

Q9. How many pairs of letters are in the word “REPRESENT” each of which have as many letters between them as they have between them in the English alphabetical series?
(a) More than four
(b) Three
(c) Four
(d) Two
(e) One

Q10. Which alphabet is 3rd from the left in the meaningful four-letter word formed from the 2nd, 4th and 8th and 11th letter of the word “PRODUCTIVITY”? If more than one word is formed then mark answer as X and no meaningful word is formed then mark answer as Z.
(a) T
(b) Z
(c) R
(d) X
(e) D

Solutions

S10. Ans. (c)
Sol. DIRT