Daily Test On Reasoning

Directions 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 input rearrangement.
Input: but 32 71 glory fair south 65 84
Step I: south but 32 71 glory fair 65 84
Step II: south 84 but 32 71 glory fair 65
Step III: south 84 glory but 32 71 fair 65
Step IV: south 84 glory 71 but 32 fair 65
Step V: south 84 glory 71 fair but 32 65
Step VI: south 84 glory 71 fair 65 but 32
and step VI is the last step of the rearrangement.
As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out in each of the following questions the appropriate step for the given input

1.Step III of an input is: year 92 ultra 15 23 strive house 39. How many more steps will be required to complete the rearrangement?

A) Three

B) Four

C) Two

D) Five

E) None of these

2.Input: anyhow 49 24 far wide 34 69. Which of the following steps will be the last but one?

A) VI

B) VII

C) V

D) VIII

E) None of these

3.Step II of an input is: town 74 pair 15 31 nice job 42. Which of the following is definitely the input?

A) pair 15 31 town nice job 42 74

B) pair 15 town 31 74 nice job 42

C) pair 15 town 74 31 nice job 42

D) cannot be determined

E) None of these

4.Input: play over 49 37 12 match now 81 Which of the following will be step IV?

A) play 81 over 49 37 match now

B) play 81 over 49 37 12 now

C) play 81 over 49 now 37 match 12

D) there will be no such step.

E) None of these

5.Step II of an input is: war 58 box cart 33 49 star 24 Which of the following steps will be the last?

A) V

B) VI

C) IV

D) VII

E) None of these



Directions:(6-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below: P, Q, R, S, T, V and W are seven students of a school. Each of them studies in a different standard – from standard IV to standard X – not necessarily in the same order. Each of them has a favourite subject from English, Science, History, Geography, Mathematics, Hindi and Sanskrit, not necessarily in the same order. Q studies in VII standard and does not like either Mathematics or Geography. R likes English and does not study either in V or in IX. T studies in VIII standard and likes Hindi. The one who likes Science studies in X standard S studies in IV standard. W likes Sanskrit. P does not study in X standard. The one who likes Geography studies in V standard

6. In which standard does W study?

A) VII

B) IX

C) X

D) Data inadequate

E) None

7. Which subject does P like?

A) Geography

B) Mathematics

C) English

D) History

E) None of these

8.Which subject does S like?

A) History

B) Geography

C) Mathematics

D) Data inadequate

E) None of these

9.In which standard does P study?

A) IV

B) VII

C) IX

D) X

E) None of thes

10. Which of the following combinations of student standard subject is correct?

A) T- VIII – Mathematics

B) W – VII – Sanskrit

C) Q – VII – Geography

D) V – X – Science

E) None of these



Answers this Directions.

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1.B

2.C

3.D

4.D

5.B

6.B

7.A

8.C

9.E

10.D

ALPHABETICAL SERIES TRICKS

Two or three questions from alphabetic series is there in every exam. In such questions of alphabetic series, if the question consists of a single alphabet series, then you have to solve the logic implied in the sequence. Then fill in the missing character with a correct choice. Here in this article, we will discuss alphabetical series tricks.

ALPHABETICAL SERIES TRICKS

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

I. THE ALPHABET:There are 26 letters in English alphabets.

The first half of alphabet series is from A to M and the half is from N to Z.

A-M – 1-13 (First Alphabetical Half)

N-Z –14-26 (Second Alphabetical Half)

II.1.EJOTY: To make it easier there is a trick called EJOTY (i.e From left to Right) by which you can simply locate the position of letter without much effort.

E J O T Y

5 10 15 20 25

Suppose we want to find the place of the 20th letter from the left side. And you know 20th letter is T, so now, you only have to find a letter which is two positions ahead of T, which is V.

2.VQLGB: It is similar to EJOTY but this is in reverse order i.e from right to left.

V Q L G B

5 10 15 20 25

By these simple tricks, you can instantly find the position of any letter either from the left side or the right side without much efforts.This trick will help you to solve basic questions on Alphabet series.

III. Most of the questions from Alphabetic series in the exams will be from the right side as we are habitual of counting from the left side i.e A,B,C,D… But before we proceed here are few points to remember :

• From your right implies right to left.
• From your left implies left to right.
• To the right implies from left to right.
• To the left implies from right to left.

For example, Let’s find the place of a letter from right side which is the 14th from the left side.

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   2   3  4   5  6  7   8  9  10 11 12  13 14 15  16 17 18  19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14  13  12 11 10  9  8  7 6   5   4   3   2    1

Well, the 14th letter from the left side, N, is the 13th from the right side. Their sum (14+13=27) which is one number more than the total number of alphabets i.e. 26. Simply, we can solve this question easily by adding one to the total number of letters (26+1=27) and then subtracting 14 from it, we will get (27-14=13),as you can  see, which is its place from right. It will give you the position of letter from the right.

Now lets take an example from right side: A letter which is placed 12th from the right side What will be its position from the left. Again, we will add 1 to total no. of letters and then subtract the right position from it to get its position from the left side.And  27 – 12 gives you 15. Therefore, the answer is O.

IV. Next type of question which we encounter in exams is locating the midpoint between two letters.

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   2   3  4   5  6  7   8  9  10 11 12  13 14 15  16 17 18  19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14  13  12 11 10  9  8  7 6   5   4   3   2    1

Now, Let us consider an example to find mid-point between the 10th letter and the 16th letter from the left side. As there are 6 letters i.e. k, L, M,N and O. Clearly, the midpoint of 5 is the 3 which is same when counted from either side. And the mid term is M.The shortest way to find the mid-point between two term is to add them and then take their average.

The simple trick to solve these type of questions is to simply add the position and then take their average.

Now if we want to find the mid-point between the 14th and the 20th letter from the right side. We will add the position of these two letters. On adding we will get 34 and average will be 17 which is from the right side. We can count it from right side or else for your convenience you can convert this position into a position from the left.

As discussed earlier, just subtract 17 from 27. We will get 10th position from the left, which is j.Here you can directly recallEJOTY.

Now consider have to find the mid-point between two,now, one from the left and the other from the right.

Consider an example to find the mid-point between the 7th position from the left side and the 12th position from the right side. Now simply convert the right position into a left position to easily solve it. Now again subtracting 12 from 27 will give us its position from the left side(27-12=15). Now add up 15 and 7 and take average we will get 11, apply EJOTY.And the answer is K.