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Q1. Study the following arrangement of alphabets and answer the question given: D U B C A B E D C A B U D C B A E D B C A D E B A U C D A E B . How many meaningful words can be formed with the alphabets which are first, second, fifth and sixth from the right end of the above arrangement?
Correct answer : 1
Q2. STATEMENT: The municipal corporation advised all the people living in the shanties along the beaches to move to higher places during monsoon. ASSUMPTIONS: (1) Many people living in the shanties may leave the city and relocate themselves elsewhere in the state. (2) Majority of the people living in the shanties along the beach may try to relocate to higher places during monsoon.
Correct answer : 2
Q3. In the question below is given three statements followed by three conclusions numbeFF0000 (1),(2) and )3). You have to take the three given statements to be true even if they seem to at variance from commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.STATEMENTS: All grapes are mangoes. Some oranges are mangoes. Some leaves are organges. CONCLUSIONS: (1) Some leaves are mangoes. (2) Some organges are grapes. (3) Some leaves are grapes.
Correct answer : 4
Q4. In a group of six women there are four dancers, four vocal musicians, one actress and three violinists. Girija and Vanaja are mong the violinists while Jalaja and Shailaja do not know how to play on the violin. Shailaja and Tanuja are among the dancers. Jalaja, Vanaja, Shailaja and Tanuja are all vocal musicians and two of them are also violinists. If Pooja is an actress who among the following is both a dancer and a violonist?
Correct answer : 3
Q5. In the sequence 462, 420, 380, XXX, 306. XXX stands for
Correct answer : 2
Q6. If ABRA-CADABRA is 1, 2, 9, 1 -3, 1, 4, 1, 2, 9, 1, HOCUS-POCUS will be ...
Correct answer : 1
Q7. The letters L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S and T in their order are substituted by nine integers 1 to 9 but not in that order. 4 is assigned to P. The difference between P and T is 5. The difference between N and T is 3. What is the integer assigned to N?
Correct answer : 4
Q8. Examine the following STATEMENTS: (1) Either A and B are of the same age or A is older than B. (2) Either C and D are of the same age or D is older than C. (3) B is older than C. Which one of the following conclusions can be drawn from the above statements?
Correct answer : 4
Q9. In the question below is given three statements followed by three conclusions numbeFF0000 (1), (2) and . You have to take the three given statements to be true even if they seem to at variance from commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.STATEMENTS: Some hotels are towns. All towns are villages. All villages are cities. CONCLUSIONS: (1) Some cities are hotels. (2) Some village are hotels. (3) All villages are towns.
Correct answer : 1
Q10. Which of the following can be inferFF0000 from the statement that "Either John is stupid or John is lazy"? (1) John is lazy/therefore, John is not stupid. (2) John is not lazy/therefore, John is stupid. (3) John is not stupid/therefore, John is lazy. (4) John is stupid/therefore, John is not lazy. Choose the correct answer from the codes given.
Correct answer : 2
Q11. Consider the date series given below : 4/12/95, 1/1/96, 29/1/96, 26/2/96, .......
Correct answer : 2
Q12. Examine the following STATEMENTS: (1) I watch TV only if I am boFF0000. (2) I am never boFF0000 when I have my brother's company (3) Whenever I go to the theatre I take my brother along. Which one of the following conclusions is valid in the context of the above statements?
Correct answer : 4
Q13. Out of a total of 120 musicians in a club, 5% can play all the three instruments, guitar, violin and flute. It so happens that the number of musicians who can play any two and only two of the above instruments is 30. The number of musicians who can play the guitar alone is 40. What is the total number of those who can play violin alone or flute alone?
Correct answer : 2
Q14. A truck, a car and a motor cycle have equal kinetic energies. If equal stopping forces are applied and they stop after travelling a distance of X, Y and Z respectively, then
Correct answer : 3
Q15. Examine the following STATEMENTS: (1) All children are inquisitive. (2) Some children are inquisitive (3) No children are inquisitive (4) Some children are not inquisitive. Among these statements, the two statements which CANNOT both be true simultaneously but can both be false would be .....
Correct answer : 1
Q16. Town C is towards the South of town B and town A is toward the North of town C. In which of the following directions is town A with respect of town B?
Correct answer : 4
Q17. Mouse is to cat as fly is to .........
Correct answer : 3
Q18. The next pair of letters in the series AZ, CX, FU, ...... is
Correct answer : 1
Q19. Complete the series: 4, 7, 3, 6, 2, 5, ?
Correct answer : 2
Q20. Six roads lead to a country. They may be indicated by letters X, Y, Z and digits 1,2 and 3. When there is storm, Y is blocked. When there are floods X, 1 and 2 will be affected. When road 1 is blocked, 2 also is blocked. At a time when there are floods and a storm also blows, which road(s) can be used?
Correct answer : 3
Q21. Examine the following STATEMENTS: (1) George attends Music classes on Monday. (2) He attends Mathematics classes on Wednesday. (3) His Literature classes are not on Friday. (4) He attends History classes on the day following the day of his Mathematics classes. (5) On Tuesday, he attends his Sports classes. If he attends just one subject in a day and his Sunday is free, then he is also free on ......
Correct answer : 3
Q22. Study the following arrangement of alphabets and answer the question given: D U B C A B E D C A B U D C B A E D B C A D E B A U C D A E B . If all the Bs are dropped from the above arrangement, which of the following will be twelfth from the left end of the above arrangement?
Correct answer : 4
Q23. Examine the following statements regarding a set of balls: (1) All balls are black. (2) All balls are white. (3) Only some balls are black. (4) No balls are black. Assuming that the balls can only be black or white, which two of the statements given above can both be true, but cannot both be false? Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
Correct answer : 1
Q24. In the series .. POQ, SRT, VUW ...... the blank space refers to
Correct answer : 3
Q25. How many such pairs of letters are there in the word MARGINS, each of which has as many letters between them in the word (in both forward and backward directions) as they have between them in the English alphabetical series?
Correct answer : 3
Q26. Consider the following: (1) Saxena, David, Jain and Kumar were District Collectors at places P, Q, R and S respectively in 1970. (2) In 1972 they were transferFF0000. Saxena and Jain interchanged places. Kumar and David also interchanged places. (3) One year later in 1973 they were again transferFF0000 in such a way that David and Jain interchanged places and Saxena and Kumar were also interchanged. What should be the next round of transfers so that all the four persons could have been posted at all the four places?
Correct answer : 1
Q27. Read the information/statement given carefully and answer the QUESTION: Which of the following expressions will be true if the expression 'H< G = K > F' is definitely true?
Correct answer : 1
Q28. If it is possible to make only one meaningful word with the third, fourth, eighth and the ninth letters of the word 'CENTURIES', which would be the second letter of the word from the left? If more than one such word can be formed, give 'A' as the answer. If no such word can be formed give 'Z' as your answer.
Correct answer : 1
Q29. In a code language, SOLID is written as WPSLPIMFHA. What does the code word ATEXXQIBVO refer to?
Correct answer : 4
Q30. Which one of the following satisfies the relationship? Dda : aDD : : Rrb : ?
Correct answer : 3
Q31. If in a certain code SAND is VDOG and BIRD is ELUG, then what is the code for LOVE?
Correct answer : 4
Q32. Examine the following STATEMENTS: (1) All members of Mohan's family are honest. (2) Some members of Mohan's family are not employed. (3) Some employed persons are not honest. (4) Some honest persons are not employed. From the above statements, which one of the following inferences can be drawn?
Correct answer : 2
Q33. On another planet, the local terminology for earth, water, light, air and sky are "sky, "light", "air" "water" and "earth" respectively. If someone is thirtsty there, what would he drink?
Correct answer : 4
Q34. A hunter aims his gun at a point between the eyebrows of a monkey sitting on the branch of a tree. Just as he fires, the monkey jumps down. The bullet will ......
Correct answer : 3
Q35. A bag contains 20 balls. 8 balls are green, 7 are white and 5 are FF0000. What is the minimum number of balls that must be picked up from the bag blind folded (without replacing any of it) to be assumed of picking atleast one ball of each colour?
Correct answer : 2
Q36. In an open economy, the national income (Y) of the economy is ..... (C=Consumption; I=Investment; G=Government expenditure; X=total exports and M=total imports)
Correct answer : 3
Q37. In a group of five people, K, L and M are ambitious, M, N and R are honest, L, M and N are intelligent and K, N and R are industrious. Among these, neither industrious not ambitious person (s) would include
Correct answer : 4
Q38. Read the information/statement given carefully and answer the QUESTION: Which of the following expressions will NOT be true if the expression 'P < Q < R = S' is definitely true?
Correct answer : 4
Q39. In a certain code MARCH is written as OCTEJ. How is RETURN written in that code?
Correct answer : 3
Q40. A, B, C, D, E and F not necessarily in that order are sitting in six chairs regularly placed around a round table. It is observed that.....(1) A is between D and F (2) C is opposite D (3) D and E are on neighbouring chairs. From this, which one of the following must be true?
Correct answer : 4
Q41. Anand must be a vegetarian because he is a Buddhist. The argument assumes that
Correct answer : 2
Q42. Examine the following relationships among members of a family of six persons A, B, C, D, E and F. (1) The number of males equals that of females. (2) A and E are sons of F. (3) D is the mother of two, one boy and one girl. (4) B is the son of A. (5) There is only one married couple in the family at present. From this, which of the following inferences can be drawn from the above?
Correct answer : 2
Q43. A complete cycle of a traffic lights takes 60 seconds. During each cycle the light is green for 25 seconds, yellow for 5 seconds and FF0000 for 30 seconds. At a randomly chosen time, the probability that the light will not be green is
Correct answer : 4
Q44. A two member committee comprising of one male and one female member to is to be constituted out of five males and three females. Amongst the females, Ms.A refuses to be a member of the committee in which Mr.B is taken as the member. In how many different ways can the committee be constituted?
Correct answer : 4
Q45. The age of a man is three times the sum of the ages of his two sons. Five years hence, his age will be double of the sum of the ages of his sons. The father's present age is ......
Correct answer : 2
Q46. Fill the blank in the question mark: B, D, G, I, L, ?
Correct answer : 2
Q47. Read the information/statement given carefully and answer the QUESTION: In which of the following expressions does the expresswion 'W < Z' hold true?
Correct answer : 3
Q48. Three flags, each of different colour, are available for a military exercise. Using these flags, different codes can be generated by waving (1) single flags of different colours, or (2) any two flags in a different sequence of colours, or (3) three flags in a different sequence of colours. The maximum number of codes that can be generated is
Correct answer : 3
Q49. In how many different way;s can six players be arranged in a line such that two of them, Ajit and Mukherjee, are never together?
Correct answer : 4
Q50. A person stands at the middle point of a wooden ladder which starts slipping between a vertical wall and the floor of a room, while continuing to remain in a vertical plane. The path traced by a person standing at the middle point of the slipping ladder is