IBPS Material (Reasoning)

1. ‘Go’ is related to ‘Come’ in the same way as ’High’ is related to-

1) Above 2) Low 3) Jump
4) Stand 5) None of these

2. In a row of forty boys facing North, R is twelfth from the left end and T is eighteenth from the right end. How many boys are between R and T in that row ?

1) 10 2) 11 3) 12
4) Can’t be determined
5) None of these

3. How many such digits are there in the number 52137864 each of which is as far away from the beginning of the number as when they are arranged in descending order ?

1) None 2) One 3) Two
4) Three 5) None of these

4. In a certain code BREAK DOWN is written as NWODKAERB. How is TRIANGLES written in that code ?

1) SELGNTRIA
2) AIRTNSELG
3) SELGNAIRT
4) AIRTGNSEL
5) None

5. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group ?

1) Violet 2) Blue
3) Red 4) Yellow 5) Pink

6. If all the letters in the word POETICAL are rearranged as they appear in the English alphabetical order, the position of how many letters will remain in unchanged after the rearrangement ?
1) None 2) One
3) Two 4) Three 5) Four

7. There are five steel boxes labeled A, B, C, D and E. E is heavier only than A. C is heavier than D and E is less
heavier than B which is not the heaviest. Which of the following boxes is the heaviest ?

1)A 2)B 3)C 4)D 5)E

8. Nidhi walks 5 km towards the North, takes a right turn and walks 10 km. She now takes a left turn and walks 5 km. She finally takes another left turn and walks 10 km. Towards which of the following directions is she walking now ?

1) East 2) South 3) North
4) West 5) None of these

9. Neeta correctly remembers that her brother’s birthday is after twelfth but before sixteenth of February whereas her sister remembers that their brother’s birthday is after fourteenth but before twentieth February . On which day was definitely her brother’s birth day ?

1) 16th February
2) 15th February
3) 17th February
4) Data inadequate 5) None

10. What should come next in the following number series ?

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 9 8 7 6 4 3 2 1 9 8 7 6 4 3 2 9 8 7

1) 6 2) 4 3) 1 4) 5 5) None

Directions : Study the sets of numbers given below and answer the questions which follow:

279 543 926 247 438

11. Which of the following numbers will be obtained if the second digit of the smallest number is added to the third
digit of the largest number, after adding 5 to each number ?

1) 4 2) 5 3) 6 4) 9 5) None

12. If in each number, the first and the last digits are interchanged, which will be the largest number?

1) 247 2) 926 3) 543
4) 279 5) 438

13. If the second and the third digits are interchanged, which will be the smallest number ?

1) 438 2) 247 3) 926
4) 279 5) 543

Directions : Read the following information carefully and answer the questions which follow :

If’ ‘A X B’ means ‘A is wife of B’. If ’A + B’ means ‘A is brother of B’.
If ’A ÷ B’ means ‘A is daughter of B’. If ‘A – B’ means ‘A is son of B’.

14. How is Q related to P if ‘P ÷ R X T – Q’ ?

1) Grand daughter
2) Mother-in-law/Father-in-law
3) Grandmother
4) Grand mother/Grand father
5) None of these

15. How is Relation Q, if P + Q + R ÷ T ?

1) Brother/sister 2) Niece
3) Sister 4) Nephew/Niece
5) None of these

16. How is T related to P if ’P X Q – T + R’ ?

1) Mother 2) Father-in-law
3) Mother-in-law
4) Mother-in-law/Father-in-law
5) None of these

17. If Yellow is called Green, Green is called Black, Black is called White, White is called Red, Red is called Blue, Blue is called Orange then what is the colour of milk ?

1) White 2) Black 3) Red
4) Green 5) None of these

18. Pointing to a photograph Seema said ‘He is the only grandson of my mother’s father-in-law’. How is the man in the photograph related to Seema ?

1) Father 2) Uncle
3) Cousin 4) Brother
5) Can’t be determined

19. If ’+’ means ’X’, ‘X’ means ’÷’, ‘÷’ means ‘-’ and ‘-’ means ‘+’ what is the value of
17+ 15 – 135 X 9 ÷ 70 ?

1) 270 2) 240 3) 170
4) 200 5) None of these

20. How many such pairs of letters are there in the word EXPERIMENT each of which have as many letters between them in the word as they have in the English alphabet ?

1) None 2) One 3) Two
4) Three 5) More than three

Directions : Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below it:

i) Eleven students A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J and K are sitting in a row of the class facing theteacher.

ii) D, who is to the immediate left of F, is second to the right of C.

iii)A, is second to the right of E, who is at one of the ends.

iv) J is the immediate neighbor of A and B and third to the left of G.

v) H is the immediate neighbor of A and K is third to the right of I.

21. Who is sitting in the middle of the row ?

1) C 2) l 3) B 4) G 5) None

22. Which of the following groups of friends is sitting to the right of G ?

1) lBJA 2) ICHDF 3) CKDF
4) CHDE 5) None of these

23. In the above sitting arrangement, which of the following statements is superfluous ?

1) i 2) ii 3) iii 4) iv
5) None is superfluous

24. Which of the following statements is true in the context of the above arrangement ?

1) There are three students sitting between D and G
2) G and C are neighbors sitting to the immediate right of H
3) B is sitting between J and I 4) K is sitting between A and J 5) None of these

25. If E and D, C and B, A and H and K and F interchange their positions, which of the following pairs of students is
sitting at the end ?

1) D and E 2) E and F
3) D and K 4) K and F
5) None of these

Directions : Study the following arrangement carefully and answer the questions given below :
H 3 $ E K 5 @ M % 1 8 2 T A F W l © N V * P 4 Q S R D Z

26. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on their positions in the above
arrangement and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group ?

1) F A W 2) N © * 3) 4 P 5 4) M @ l 5) $ E H

27. How many such symbols are there in the above arrangement, each of which is immediately preceded by a number and immediately followed by a letter ?

1) None 2) One 3) Two
4) Three 5) More than three

28. Which of the following is the fifth to the left of the sixteenth from the left end of the abovearrangement ?

1) 2 2) © 3) 8 4) 6 5) None

29. If all the symbols and numbers are dropped from the above arrangement, which of the following will be the fourteenth from the right end ?

1) T 2) K 3) N 4)P 5) None

30. How many such numbers are there in the above arrangement, each of which is immediately preceded by a letter but not immediately followed by a letter ?

1) None 2) One 3) Two
4) Three 5) More than three

Directions : In these questions, relation between different elements is shown in the statements. Thestatements are followed by conclusions.

Give answer 1) if only conclusion I is true
Give answer 2) if only conclusion II is true
Give answer 3) if either conclusion I or II is true
Give answer 4) if neither conclusion I nor II is true
Give answer 5) if both conclusions I and II are true

31. Statements : M ≥ J = K < L ≥ N > O
Conclusions :
I. O < K
II. M ≥ L

32. Statements : R = S ≥ T > V, W ≤ T
Conclusions :
I. W ≤ R
II. V < W

33. Statements:
A < Z ≥ P > R; A ≥ M; R > T
Conclusions:
I. T > Z
II. Z > M

34. Statements :
Y = T < F ≥ G ; H > F ≤ R
Conclusions:
I. H > Y
II. R ≥ G

35. Statements :
D ≥ F = H; G < H ≥ I
Conclusions:
I. G < D
II. I ≤ D

Directions : Study the following information to answer the given questions: In a certain code 'license to sell
product' is written as 'ad mi ja no’, ’to buy not sell’ is written as ’ku jai gad’, ’product not for market' is written as ’be ku zo mi' and ’to demand for share' is written as 'be li ya ja'.

36. Which of the following may represent ’buy and sell’ ?

1) ig ad no 2) ig py ya
3) re ad be 4) ig li re 5) ad re ig

37. What is the code for ’demand’ ?
1) be 2) li 3) ya
4) ja 5) Either 'li’ or ’ya’

38. Which of the following represent ’not for product' ?
1) ku be zo 2) mi be no
3) ku be ya 4) mi ku be
5) be mi ad

39. What does the code 'ja' stand for ?

1) for 2) to 3) demand
4) sell 5) Either ’sell’ or 't0’

40. What is the code for ’market’ ?
1) be 2) ku 3) 20
4) mi 5) cannot be determined

Directions : In each of the questions below two statements are given followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from the commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding the Commonly known facts.

Give answer 1) if only conclusion I is true
Give answer 2) if only conclusion II is true
Give answer 3) if either conclusion I or II is true
Give answer 4) if neither conclusion I nor II is true
Give answer 5) if both conclusions I and II are true

41. Statements: Some highways are roads.
All roads are streets.

Conclusions:
I. All highways being streets is a possibility.
ll. Some streets are hot highways.

42. Statements: No cloud is rain.
Some rains are thunders.

Conclusions:
I. No thunder is a cloud.
ll. All thunders can never be rains.

43. Statements:
Some pins are clips.
Some clips are pens.

Conclusions:
I. Some pins are pens.
II. N0 pin is a pen.

44. Statements:
All D’s are A’s. All A’s are C’s.

Conclusions:
I. Some C’s are D’s.
II. Some A’s are D’s.

45. Statements:
All doors are windows.
Some windows are clips.

Conclusions:
I. Some clips are doors.
II. Some windows are doors.

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