Reasoning For SBI/IBPS/NABARD 2016

Directions (Q.1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

Eight chemicals Alcohol, Baking Soda, Chalk, Drano, Ether, Formalin, Galena and Hypo contained in eight different bottles, are placed around a circular table in such a manner that the tap fixed to each bottle is directed outward from the centre of the table. Each chemical is of different colour, viz Blue, Yellow, Orange, White, Green, Violet, Brown and Black, but not necessarily in the same order.

• Chemical Baking Soda is placed third to the right of Chemical Drano.
• The Yellow chemical is placed on the immediate left of Chemical Baking Soda.
• The colour of Chemical Baking Soda is not White.
• Chemical Formalin is placed fourth to the left of Chemical Alcohol.
• Neither Chemical Formalin nor Chemical Alcohol is an immediate neighbour of Chemical Baking Soda.
• The colour of Chemical Chalk is Violet and is placed third to the left of the Yellow chemical.
• The Green chemical is placed second to the right of the Violet chemical.
• The Brown chemical is placed second to the right of Chemical Baking Soda.
• Hypo is the Orange chemical and is placed exactly between Chemical Chalk and Chemical Alcohol.
• The Blue chemical is placed second to the left of the Orange chemical.
• Chemical Galena is placed third to the right of Chemical Chalk.

1. Which of the following chemicals is of White colour?
(a) Drano
(b) Ether
(c) Galena
(d) Formalin
(e) None of the above


2. What is Hypo’s position with respect to Formalin?
(a) Third to the left
(b) Second to the left
(c) Third to the right
(d) Second to the right
(e) Fourth to the left

3. How many chemical bottles are placed between Chemical Alcohol and Galena (counted from Galena clockwise)?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four
(e) None of the above

4. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence from a group. Which of the following does not belong to that group?
(a) Violet–Brown
(b) Black–Green
(c) Orange–White
(d) Yellow–Blue
(e) Green–Yellow


5. What is the colour of Chemical Baking Soda?
(a) Blue
(b) Black
(c) Yellow
(d) Can’t say
(e) None of the above


Directions (Q.6-10): Study the following information and answer the questions given below:

Eight persons Arun, Bisht, Charu, Dilip, Ela, Farooq, Gopal and Hemant are playing a game of musical chairs. The chairs placed around a circular table face away from the table. Each person knows a different language – Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Hindi and English – but not necessarily in the same order. When all of them are sitting in the chairs during the game, the following conditions were fulfilled.


• Charu is a Hindi speaker and sits third to the left of Ela.
• The Tamil and the Punjabi speaker are immediate neighbours of each other. Neither the Punjabi nor the Tamil speaker is an immediate neighbour of either Ela or Charu.
• The Telugu and the English speaker are immediate neighbours of each other.
• Neither Ela nor Dilip speaks English.
• The one who speaks Punjabi sits to the left of Bisht, who speaks Kannada.
• Arun speaks Telugu and is not an immediate neighbour of the Hindi speaker.
Only Farooq sits between the Punjabi and the Marathi speaker
• Gopal sits third to the left of the person who speaks English.


6. Which of the following pairs represents the immediate neighbors of the Marathi speaker?
(a) Punjabi and Bengali
(b) English and Punjabi
(c) Telugu and Bengali
(d) Kannada and Tamil
(e) None of the above


7. Who among the following speaks English?
(a) Gopal
(b) Hemant
(c) Farooq
(d) Ela
(e) None of the above

8. How many persons sit between the Hindi speaker and Dilip when counted in clockwise direction from the Hindi speaker?
(a) None
(b) One
(c) Two
(d) Three
(e) Four


9. Ela speaks which of the following languages?
(a) Tamil
(b) Bengali
(c) Punjabi
(d) Marathi
(e) None of the above


10. Who among the following sits exactly between Bisht and Hemant?
(a) Telugu speaker
(b) Tamil speaker
(c) Punjabi speaker
(d) Marathi speaker
(e) Hindi speaker