Reasoning - New

Reasoning - New

Directions for questions 1 to 4: Refer to the data below and answer the questions that follow.

Palaash never knew he would be in such trouble. He has to sing in seven different languages. The Assamese song would be a hit if and only if it is preceded by a Telugu song. Konkani song would be a hit only if a Hindi song came before it. English has to be preceded by Hindi and Punjabi is the last song he sings. There is one song between English and Punjabi and of the three only two were hit. Konkani song is a failure. Tamil is the seventh language. If the Assamese song is a hit and his first song was Telugu then:

1.       Which song did he sing after English?

a)      Telugu          b)  Konkani         c)  Tamil                d)  Assamese

Ans: (c)

2.       Which song did he sing after Konkani?

a)      Tamil             b)  Punjabi          c)  Hindi                d)  English

Ans: (c)

3.       If each hit had two points in the Grammy Awards, then how many points dis Palaash get?

a)      4                      b)  6                       c)  8                        d)  Can’t say

Ans: (d)

4.       What were the total numbers of assured hit songs as per the question?

a)      3                      b)  4                       c)  5                        d)  6

Ans: (a)

Directions for questions 5 to 9: Refer to the data below and answer the questions that follow.

A six digit (with no digit repeated) number is such that every alternate digit is a prime number. The difference between the digit on the tens place and the digit on the thousands place is the digit on the lakh place. The unit’s digit is the product of the digit on the lakh’s place and the digit on the ten thousand’s place, which is also a prime number. The digit in the ten’s place is greater than the digit in the thousandth place.

5.       The digit in the lakh’s place is:

a)      1                      b)  2                       c)  3                        d)  4

Ans: (b)

6.       The digit in the unit’s place is:

a)      2                      b)  4                       c)  6                        d)  8

Ans: (c)

7.       The difference of the digits in the ten thousandth and the ten’s place is:

a)      3                      b)  4                       c)  6                        d)  7

Ans: (b)

8.       The digit in the hundredth place is:

a)      3                      b)  4                       c)  8                        d)  can’t say

Ans: (d)

9.       The number is divisible by:

a)      2                      b)  3                       c)  4                        d) both (a) and (c)

Ans: (d)

Directions (Questions 10-14): In each of the following questions two statements are given and these statements are followed by two conclusions numbered (1) and (2). You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements, disregarding commonly known facts.

10.   Statements: Some papers are pens. All the pencils are pens.

Conclusions:

1. Some pens are pencils.

2. Some pens are papers.

a) Only conclusion (1) follows             b) Only conclusion (2) follows

c) Both (1) and (2) follow                      d) Either (1) or (2) follows

e) Neither (1) nor (2) follows

Ans: (c)

11.   Statements:  Some dogs are bats. Some bats are cats.

Conclusions:

1.       Some dogs are cats

2.       Some cats are dogs

a)      Only conclusion (2) follows.                 b)  Both (1) and (2) follow 

c)  Either (1) or (2) follows                            d)  Only conclusion (1) follows

e)  Neither (1) nor (2) follows.

                Ans: (e)

12.   Statements:   All the windows are doors.   No door is a wall.

Conclusions:

1.   Some windows are walls.

2.   No wall is a door.

a)   Either (1) or (2) follows                           b)  Only (2) conclusion follows

c)   Both (1) and (2) follow                            d)  Neither (1) nor (2) follows

e)   Only (1) conclusion follows

Ans: (b)

13.   Statements:   Some actors are singers.  All the singers are dancers

Conclusions:

1.       Some actors are dancers

2.       No singer is an actor

a)      Only conclusion (1) follows                  b)   Only conclusion (2) follows 

c)  Either (1) or (2) follows                            d)   Neither (1) nor (2) follows

e)  Both (1) and (2) follows

Ans: (a)

14.  Statements: All the pencils are pens. All the pens are inks.

Conclusions:

1. All the pencils are inks.

2. Some inks are pencils.

a) Only conclusion (2) follows                        b) Only conclusion (1) follows 

c) Either (1) or (2) follows                               d)  Both (1) and (2) follow

e)  Neither (1) nor (2) follows

Ans: (b)

Directions (Questions 15 – 19) Re-arrange the following sentences in an orderly manner to form a cohesive paragraph.

15.   A. This factor is exclusion – access to these technologies remains excluded by class, race and gender.
B.  In comparing these two things, we must realize that there is one important factor for the limitation the former.
C. The rise of digital technologies has the potential to open new directions in ethnography.
D. Despite the ubiquity of these technologies, their infiltration into popular research methods is still limited compared to the number of online scholarly research portals.

a)      CDBA             b)  BACD              c)  CDAB               d)  BCDA

Ans: (a)

16.    A. Based on these findings such as these, scientists agree that we will soon discover intelligent alien life and make contact with it.
B. But this complacency has all changed.
C. Until recently, we have looked at life in a pretty conservative way.
D. In just the past three or four years, biologists have discovered that life on Earth can exist in the most extreme places, and in the most bizarre forms.
E. For example, microbes have been found down boreholes two kilometres deep.

a)       BAECD          b)  CEDAB            c)  CBDEA             d)  EABDC

Ans: (c)

17.   A. These mediums allowed for a greater number of listeners, they quickly garnered popularity in America as well.
B. They would also play in clubs that were popular at the time.
C. What they were trying to do was play “live music” on the Bucharest radio station.
D. The very first signs of Romanian jazz music appeared about seventy years ago, when some jazz bands appeared, like the ones led by Emil and Mihai Berinde.

a)       DCBA             b)  BCDA               c)  BCAD               d)  ABCD

Ans: (a)

18.   A. The issue of abolishing the monarchy as a whole and declaring itself a republic, free of the Queen, has been suggested several times in Canada’s Parliament.
B. Legislation to abolish this has never passed, as we never cease to recognize key function of the Queen as a symbol of loyalty.
C. Most importantly, though, the Queen symbolizes stability, tradition and a certain romanticism about political affairs within the constitutional monarchy.
D. The concept of loyalty as often been viewed as an important part of ethics, and we should not forget this vital fact.

a)      BCDA             b)  CADB              c)  ABDC               d)  CABD

Ans: (c)

19.   A. The revisionist perspective, however, takes a slightly more defensive viewpoint.
B. Corruption is usually viewed from one of two perspectives; the first is the moralist perspective which believes that it is inherently bad.
C. Either way, we must realize that corruption has the ability to be extremely harmful to the general society.
D. It believes that corruption acts as a lubricant for the flow of money and for a developing country’s governmental structure. 

a)      DCBA             b)  BADC              c)  CABD               d)  CDAB

Ans: (b)