Model Paper of Reasoning Ability for SBI Associate Bank Exam 2012

 Reasoning Question Paper

Direction (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions:

Eight people are sitting in two parallel rows containing four people each in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row-1 P, Q, R and S are seated (but not necessarily in the same order) and all of them are facing north. In Row-2 A, B, C and D are seated (but not necessarily in the same order) and all of them are facing south. Therefore in the given seating arrangement each member seated in row faces another member of the other row.

B sits second to left of D, R is an immediate neighbour of the person  facing D. only one person sits between R and P, c does not face R. Two people sit between r and Q.

1) Who amongst the following faces P?

a) A

b) B

c) C

d) D

e) Cannot be determined

Ans c

2) Who amongst the following sits to the immediate left of the person who faces B?

a) P

b) Q

c) R

d) S

e) cannot be determined

Ans a

3) Who amongst the following faces D?

a) P

b) Q

c) R

d) S

e) Cannot be determined

Ans d

4) Which of the following is true regarding S?

a) S sits at one of the extreme ends of the Line

b) S sits second to right of Q

c) P is not an immediate neighbor of S

d) b is an immediate neighbour of the person who faces S.

e) None is true.

Ans e

5) Which is the one that does not belong to that group?

a) D

b) P

c) Q

d) S

e) C

Ans c

Direction (1-5): Study the following arrangement carefully and answer the following questions given below

B  2  M  E  J  %  R  5  @  N  D  I  P  4  T  ©  3  9  F  U  1  $  6  H  J  A  7  * G  Q  #

6) 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?

a) 5NI

b) 9U$

c) HA *

d) 7G#

e) D4T

Ans e

7) How many such vowels are there in the above arrangement, each of which is immediately preceded by a number and an immediately followed by a Consonant?

a) None

b) One

c) Two

d) Three

e) Four

Ans a

8) Which of the following is the fifth to the left of the eighteenth from the left end of the above arrangement?

a) %

b) A

c) D

d) 3

e) None of these

Ans e

9) If all the symbols in the above arrangement are dropped which of the following will be the twelfth from the right end?

a) 4

b) 3

c) 9

d) F

e) None of these

Ans b

10) How many such consonants are there in the above arrangement each of which is immediately preceded by a number and immediately followed by a letter?

a) None

b) One

c) Two

d) Three

e) More than Three

Ans d

Directions (11-15): In each of the questions below there are three statements followed by three conclusions numbered I, II and III. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given statements disregarding commonly known facts. 

11) Statements:

All windows are doors

All buildings are doors

All doors are boats

Conclusions:

I.                    All windows are boats

II.                  All buildings are boats

III.                Some boats are doors

a)      Only I and II follow

b)      Only I and III follow

c)       Only II and II follow

d)      All follow

e)      None of these

Ans d

12) Statements:

Some desks are chairs

Some chairs are pens

Some pens are drawers

Conclusions:

I.                    Some drawers are desks

II.                  Some drawers are chairs

III.                No drawers is chairs

a)      None follows

b)      Only II follow

c)       Only III follow

d)      Only either I or III follow

e)      Only I and either II or III follows

Ans a

13) Statements:

All flowers are trees

Some trees are houses

All houses are wheels

Conclusions:

I.                    Some wheels are trees

II.                  Some trees are flowers

III.                Some Wheels are flowers

a)      Only I and II follow

b)      Only I and III follow

c)       Only II and III follow

d)      All I, II and III follow

e)      None of these

Ans a

14) Statement:

Some radios are telephones

All telephones are mirrors

All mirrors are desks

Conclusions:

I.                    Some radios are desks

II.                  Some radios are mirrors

III.                Some desks are telephones

a)      Only I and II follow

b)       Only I and III follow

c)       Only II and III follow

d)      All follow

e)      None of these

Ans d

15) Statements:

All furniture's are Jungles

No Jungle is road

Some roads are hills

Conclusions:

I.                    Some roads are furniture

II.                  Some Jungles are furniture

III.                Some hills are jungles

a)      Only I follow

b)      Only II follow

c)       Only III follow

d)      Only I and II follow

e)      None of these

Ans b

 

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