REASONING ABILITY 1

REASONING ABILITY 1

                                                             REASONING ABILITY

 

1. In a certain code ' ADG' means 'Boys are intelligent', 'GAM' menas 'Select Intelligent Boys' 'AGP' means

'Encourage Intelligent Boys'. Which letter code means 'Select' ?

(1) G (2) D (3) M (4) A (5) S

2. In a certain code 'UNMESH' is written as 'ITFNOV'. How is 'PINTY' printed in that code ?

(1) QJOUZ (2) TSMHO (3) ZOUQH (4) ZUOJQ (5) ZOUQJ

3. If the following alphabet is written in the reverse order, which will be the seventh to the right of seventeenth

letter from the left ?

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

(1) C (2) H (3) J (4) I (5) S

4. Swarna ranks 19th in a class of 49. What is her rank from the last ?

(1) 19 (2) 21 (3) 31 (4) 30 (5) 35

5. If '+' means ' ÷ ', '-' means '×', '' means '-'' means '+', then (280 + 1020) - 86 is -------.

(1) 70 (2) 112 (3) - 392 (4) 58 (5) None

6. How many 7's are there in the full sequence which are followed by 3, but not preceded by 9 ?

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

(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 4 (4) 5 (5) 6

7. Who come next in the seiries ?

JAZ, LEX, NIV, POT

(1) RUR (2) QUR (3) RUS (4) SUR (5) PUR

8. A is the son of B's sister. Band C are brothers. How is A related to C ?

(1) Uncle (2) Cousine (3) Nephew (4) Brother in law (5) None of these

9. A man walks nortwards. after a while he turns towards his right and a littele further to his left. Finally after

walking a distance of 1 Km, he turns to his left again. In which direction is he moving now ?

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

10. Anand is taller than Suraj. Sukumar is not as taller as Anand, but taller than Asok. Suraj too is not as tall as

Sukumar, but taller than Asok. Who is the tallest ?

(1) Anand (2) Suraj (3) Sukimar (4) Asok (5) Can't Say

11. A man said to a woman. " YOur only brother's sister is my mother". How is the woman related to the man's

grandmother to his mother's side ?

(1) Mother (2) Sister (3) Sister in law (4) Daughter (5) None of these

12. six persons are playing a card game. Suresh is facing Raghav, who is to the left of Ajay and to the right of

Pramod. Ajay is to the left of Dheeraj. Yogan is to the left of Pramod. If Dheeraj exchanges his seat woth

Yogan, and Pramod with Raghav, who will be sitting to the left of Dheeraj ?

(1) Yogan (2) Raghav (3) Ajay (4) Suresh (5) Pramod

13. How many numbers from 6 to 79 are there which are not only divisible by 7, but also have 7 as a digit ?

(1) 22 (2) 13 (3) 10 (4) 3 (5) None of these

14. A travelled westwards 5 Km, turned left and travelled 3 Km and turned right and travelled 9 Km. He then

travelled north 3 Km. How far he is from the starting point ?

(1) 5 Km (2) 3 Km (3) 6 Km (4) 14 Km (5) None of these

15. Pick the odd one.

(1) Bat (2) Radar (3) Malayalam (4) Level (5) None of these

16. Which of the follwoing pairs shows the same relations as that of Bunch : Key ?

(1) Hound : Pack (2) Beehive : Bee (3) Bouquet : Flowers (4) Team : Competition

(5) None of these

17. Complete the series.

c-bbaac-b-aacab-aa

(1) ccab (2) aabb (3) cbab (4) ccba (5) None of these

18. If P denotes '

', Q denotes '

', R denotes '+' and S denotes '-', then 18 Q 12 P 4 R 5 S 6 = ?

(1) 53 (2) 36 (3) 59 (4) 65 (5) None of these

19. If white is called blue, blue called red, red is called yellow, yellow is called green, green is called black, black is

called violet and violet is called orange, what will be the colour of human blood ?

(1) red (2) yellow (3) violet (4) green (5) orange

20. Find the missing number in the series.

3, 5, 6, 12, ? 24, 26

(1) 19 (2) 14 (3) 17 (4) 15 (5) None of these

Directions ( Q. 21 - 25) Read the following and answer the questions given below.

Seetha, Geetha, Radha and Sudha are friends. Seetha can play Sitar and Veena, but not Violene. Geetha is

expert in Veena and Violene. Radha cannot paly that instrument which Seetha and Geetha both can play, but

all other instruments. Sudha can play all insruments, but Sitar and Santhoor.

21. Who among the following is expert in maximum number of instruments ?

(1) Sudha (2) Radha (3) Geetha (4) Seetha (5) Radha & Sudha

22. On which instrument Radha cannot play ?

(1) Violene (2) Santhoor (3) Sitar (4) Veena (5) None of these

23. Which instrument is not being played by anyone ?

(1) Veena (2) Violene (3) Sitar (4) Guitar (5) Santhoor

24. the common instrument which Seetha and Geetha both can play is

(1) Santhoor (2) Sitar (3) Veena (4) Violene (5) None of these

25. Who are playing Sitar ?

(1) Seetha (2) Geetha (3) Radha (4) Sudha (5) Seetha & Radha

ANSWERS:

1. 3

2. 4

3. 1

4. 3

5. 1

6. 2

7. 1

8. 3

9. 4

10. 1

11. 4

12. 4

13. 4

14. 4

15. 1

16. 3

17. 2

18. 1

19. 2

20. 1

21. 2

22. 4

23. 4

24. 3

25. 5