reasoning questions for bank exams with answers pdf

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Direction : Read the following information carefully and answer the given questions :

In current economic crisis there has been the longest period of slump in India's automobile market, with
sales declining for a second straight year, this has taken its toll with production cuts leading to the loss
of 200,000 jobs, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers. The Indian auto industry
employs 19 million direct and indirect workers. Due to declining sales for the past two years, companies
are enforcing regular production cuts and industry executives said that job losses in the sector are quite
common.

A) A consistent fall in demand and sales for the past two years is likely to create a huge employment
gap.
B) The auto industry continues to struggle in a sluggish economy.
C) The industry is not expecting an immediate turnaround, even with a cut in excise duty.
D) Many auto companies have gone for downsizing.

1. Which of the following among (A), (B), (C), and (D) can be a probable effect of the given information ?
1) Only C
2) Both A and D
3) Only A
4) Both B and D
5) None of these

2. Which of the following among (A), (B), (C), and (D) can be an inference of the given information ?
1) Only A, B and D
2) Both C and D
3) Only D
4) Both A and D
5) None of these
Direction: Read the following information carefully and answer the given questions :

Grim statistics present the deadly reality of the spread of cancer in India: one million new cases of
different cancers are diagnosed every year in the country; an estimated 600,000 to 700,000 people were
killed in 2012. The fact that tobacco was singularly responsible for nearly 40 per cent of all cancers is
also painfully underlined again. Tobacco companies continue to have a stranglehold over nearly 275
million tobacco–users in India –35 per cent of the adult population and about 14 per cent of children in
the age range 13 to 15. the availability of doctors and facilities is skewed – the urban areas are better
served than rural areas. There is a need to take remedial step.

A) Proper distribution of cancer facilities and doctors.
B) The miserable failure of the government to control spreading of cancer.
C) Changed lifestyle is one of the reasons for the increase in cancer incidence.
D) The prevention, early detection are more effective treatment.
E) The government should implement tough and effective measures to counter the tobacco companies.

3. Which of the following among (A), (B), (C) , (D) and (E) can be an effective step to reduce cancer ?
1) Both A and B
2) Both B and D
3) Only D
4) Both A and D
5) None of these

4. Which of the following among (A), (B), (C), (D)and (E) can be an immediate course of action for
government to prevent children from tobacco ?
1) Only B
2) Both C and D
3) Only E
4) Both C and E
5) None of these

5. Which of the following among (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) can be an assumption of the given information ?
1) Only B
2) Both C and E
3) Only E
4) Both A and D
5) None of these

Directions : Study the following information and answer the following questions :

Seven person A, B, C, D, E, F and G visit a restaurant on four days - Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday - in a week. At least one person but not more than two person visits the restaurants on each of
these days. Each of them is working in different professions - Lawyer, Doctor, Engineer, Hotelier,
Professor, Pilot and Businessman. D visit on Saturday with pilot. The Engineer does not visit on Sunday
nor with E and G. The businessman F visits alone on Wednesday. B visits on Friday and he is not
engineer. C visits on Friday. G is not pilot. The Engineer visits with lawyer. The Hotelier visits on
Saturday. A is neither professor nor pilot.

6. What is the profession of A ?
1) Lawyer
2) Engineer
3) Doctor
4) Pilot
5) Professor
7. On which day of week does E visit restaurant ?
1) Wednesday
2) Saturday
3) Friday
4) Sunday
5) Data Inadequate

8. Who among them visits restaurant along with A ?
1) G
2) E
3) D
4) Either E or D
5) None of these

9. On which of the following days does Doctor and Professor visit restaurant ?
1) Wednesday
2) Friday
3) Sunday
4) Either Saturday or Sunday
5) None of these

10. What is D's Profession ?
1) Pilot
2) Lawyer
3) Engineer
4) Professor
5) Hotelier

Answers:
1. 3; Due to fall in demand the sales, biggest job losses likely to have occurred huge employment gap
and most of the auto manufacturer reduce its expenditure in orders to become financialy stable.

2. 1; Due to bad or slow moving economy auto mobile sector is going to suffer for the longest period.

3. 4; Prevention and early detection and proper distribution of cancer facilities and doctors around the
country is an effective step to reduce cancer from spreading.

4. 3; Statement E is the only option where government is taking some effective measure to counter the
tobacco companies. Therefore it is the valid course of action for government.

5. 1; It is implicit that the government is totally failed to control the cancer from spreading.

6. 3
7. 2
8. 1
9. 3
10. 5
Directions (Q.1-5) Some statements are given followed by some conclusions. You have to consider the
statements to be trueeven if they seem to be at varience from commonly known facts. You have to
decide which of the following conclusions if any, follow from the given statements:
1. Statements:
Some airplane are helicopters.
All Helicopters are gliders.
All gliders are kites.
All kites are balloons.
Conclusions :
1. Some helicopters are balloons.
2. All kites are airplanes.
3. All balloons are gliders.
4. All helicopters are kites.

1) Only 4 follow
2) Either 2 or 3 follow
3) Only 3 follow
4) Only 1 follows
5) None of these

2. Statements:
Some Glasses are bottle.
All bottles are pipe.
All pipes are cisterns
Conclusions :
1. Some cisterns are glass.
2. All pipes are bottle.

1) Only 2 follow
2) Only 1 follows
3) None follow
4) Both follow
5) None of these

3. Statements:
All books are papers
Some pens are papers
All pens are rubber
Conclusions :
1. Some rubbers are paper
2. Some books are paper

1) Only 1 follow
2) Only 2 follows
3) None follow
4) Either 1 or 2 follows
5) Both follow

4. Statements:
Some mobiles are phones
Some phones are pager
No pager is wireless
Conclusions :
1. Some wireless are mobile
2. some phones are not wireless

1) Only 1 follows
2) None follows
3) Only 2 follow
4) Both follow
5) None of these

5. Statements:
All clothes are tie
Some ties are belt
Some belts are sock
Conclusions :
1. All belts being tie is a possibility
2. Some socks are not belt

1) Only 2 follow
2) Either 1 or 2 follow
3) None follows
4) Only 1 follows
5) None of these

Directions(Q.6-10): In the following questions, the symbols @, #, %, $ and * are used with the following
meaning as illustrated below.

‘A @ B’ means ‘A Is not smaller than B’
‘A # B’ means ‘A is neither smaller than nor equal to B’
‘A % B’ means ‘A is neither smaller than nor greater than B’
‘A $ B’ means ‘A is not greater than B’
‘A * B’ means ‘A is neither greater than nor equal to B’

Give answer 1) : If only conclusion 1 is true
Give answer 2) : If only conclusion 2 is true
Give answer 3) : If either conclusion 1 or 2 is true
Give answer 4) : If neither conclusion 1 nor 2 is true
Give answer 5) : If both conclusions 1 and 2 are true

6. Statements : T @ V, V # M, M % F
Conclusions :
1) T # M
2) T @ F

7. Statements : L $ N, N * F, R % L
Conclusions :
1) F # R
2) R $ N
8. Statements : H # I, I @ J, J $ P
Conclusions :
1) H # J
2) H # P

9. Statements : L * D, D # K, K $ J
Conclusions :
1) L # K
2) L $ K

10. Statements : Q $ W, W % E, E @ K
Conclusions :
1) Q $ K
2) W @ K

Answers :
1. (5)
2. (2)
3. (5)
4. (3)
5. (4)
6. (1)
7. (5)