Reasoning Questions And Answers For Competitive Exams

Q - 1. In a certain code HOUSE is written as FTVPI, how is CHAIR written in that code?

1. DIBJS


2. SBJID


3. SHBGD


4. SJBID

Ans: (D)

Q - 2. How many meaningful words can be made from the letters AEHT, using each letter only once?

1. None


2. One


3. Two


4. Three

Ans: (C)

Q - 3. In the following question one term in the number series is wrong. Find out the wrong term.

8,   14,   26,   48,   98,   194,   386

1. 14


2. 48


3. 98


4. 194

Ans: (B)

Q -4. A long rope has to be cut to make 23 small pieces. If it is double folded to start with how many times does it need to be cut?

1. 9


2. 23


3. 11


4. 12

Ans: (C)

Q - 5. Introducing a boy, a girl said, "He is the son of the daughter of the father of my uncle." How is the boy related to the girl?

1. Brother


2. Nephew


3. Uncle


4. Son-in-law

Ans: (A)

Q - 6. If the digits of the number 5726489 are arranged in ascending order, how many digits will remain at the same position?

1. None


2. One


3. Two


4. Three

Ans: (D)

Q - 7. If blue means pink, pink means green, green means yellow, yellow means red and red means white then what is the color of turmeric?

1. green


2. yellow


3. red


4. pink

Ans: (C)

Q - 8. 120, 99, 80, 63, 48, ?

1. 35


2. 38


3. 39


4. 40

Ans: (A)

Q - 9. Mara runs faster than Gail.

Lily runs faster than Mara.

Gail runs faster than Lily.

If the first two statements are true, the third statement is

1. true


2. false


3. uncertain

Ans: (B)

Q - 10. The total of the ages of Amar, Akbar and Anthony is 80 years. What was the total of their ages three years ago?

1. 71 years


2. 72 years


3. 74 years


4. 77 years

Ans: (A)

Q-11. BRISTLE : BRUSH

1. arm : leg


2. stage : curtain


3. recline : chair


4. key : piano

Ans: (D)

Q-12. An institute organised a fete and 1/5 of the girls and 1/8 of the boys participated in the same. What fraction of the total number of students took part in the fete ?

1. 2/13


2. 13/40


3. Data inadequate


4. None of these

Ans: (C)

Q-13. Which of the following means that N is the maternal uncle of M?

1. N β P - L + E - M


2. N - Y + A β M


3. M - Y * P – N


4. N β C + F * M

Ans: (A)

Q-14. JAK, KBL, LCM, MDN, _____

1. OEP


2. NEO


3. MEN


4. PFQ

Ans: (B)

Q-15. 8 : 28 :: 27 : ?

1. 28


2. 8


3. 64


4. 65

Ans: (D)

Q-16. David gets on the elevator at the 11th floor of a building and rides up at the rate of 57 floors per minute. At the same time, Albert gets on an elevator at the 51st floor of the same building and rides down at the rate of 63 floors per minute. If they continue travelling at these rates, then at which floor will their paths cross ?

1. 19


2. 28


3. 30


4. 37

Ans: (C)

Q-17. Which word does NOT belong with the others?

1. aorta


2. heart


3. liver


4. stomach

Ans: (A)

Q-18. If South-East becomes North, North-East becomes West and so on. What will West become?

1. North-East


2. North-West


3. South-East


4. South-West

Ans: (C)

Q-19. Nitin's age was equal to square of some number last year and the following year it would be cube of a number. If again Nitin's age has to be equal to the cube of some number, then for how long he will have to wait?

1. 10 years


2. 38 years


3. 39 years


4. 64 years

Ans: (B)

Q-20. Here are some words translated from an artificial language.

hapllesh means cloudburst

srenchoch means pinball

resbosrench means ninepin

Which word could mean "cloud nine"?

1. leshsrench


2. ochhapl


3. haploch


4. haplresbo

Ans: (D)