Reasoning Questions for IBPS clerk mains 2016

Directions (1-3): Read the following information carefully and answer the question below it.

In a certain code, ‘il be pee’ means ‘roses are blue’; ‘silk hee’ means ‘red flowers’ and ‘pee mit hee’ means ‘flowers are vegetables’.

Q1. How is ‘red’ written in that code?

(a) hee

(b) silk

(c) be

(d) pee

(e)None of the above

(a) il 

(b) pee

(c) be

(d) silk

(e) cannot be determined

Q3. How is ‘vegetables are red flowers’ written in this code?

(a) pee silk mit hee

(b) silk pee hee be

(c) il silk mit hee

(d) silk pee hee il

(e) cannot be determined

Directions (4-8): Read the following information carefully and answer the question below it.

In each of the Letter Analogy various terms of a letter series are given with one term missing as shown by (?). Choose the missing term out of the given alternatives.

Q4. HUA GTZ FSY ERX ?

(a) DWQ

(b) DQW

(c) WDQ

(d) WQD

(e) cannot be determined

Q5. DF GJ KM NQ RT ?

(a) UW

(b) YZ

(c) XZ

(d) UX

(e) None of the above

Q6. DCXW FEVU HGTS ?

(a) LKPQ

(b) ABZ

(c) JIRQ

(d) LMRS

(e) None of the above

Q7. AB DEF HIJK ? STUVWX

(a) MNOPQ

(b) LMNOP

(c) LMNO

(d) QRSTU

(e) None of the above

Q8. C G L R ?

(a) Y

(b) S

(c) U

(d) Z

(e) cannot be determined

Directions (9-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

In a certain code language ‘she can do this’ is written as ‘12 23 45 76’, ‘she know about that’ is written as ‘49 94 28 76’, ‘that can be fast’ is written as ‘67 28 45 84’ and ‘this is about care’ is written as ‘23 81 94 51’.

Q9. In the given code language what does the code ‘94’ stand for?

(a) care

(b) about

(c) know

(d) Can’t be determined

(e) None of the above

Q10. What is the code for ‘fast’ in the given code language?

(a) 84

(b) 67

(c) 45

(d) Either (a) and (b)

(e) None of the above

Directions (11-15): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below: 

In a certain code language,

Fake motion nor – *N6, @R3, #E4

not male fifth – *E4, @T3, #H5

mankind newly form – #M4, @Y5, *D7

Q11. What is the code for ‘motion’?

(a) #E4

(b) $R3 

(c) *N6

(d) @N8

(e) Cannot be determined

Q12. Which of the following code can be coded for ‘NACTOR’?

(a) #D6

(b) @R6 

(c) *S6

(d) @N6

(e) Cannot be determined

Q13. What is the code for ‘merge for neck?

(a) *E4 @H6 #M4

(b) #R3 *E4 @D5

(c) *M3 @H5 #E4

(d) #R3 @K4 *E5

(e) Cannot be determined

Q14. What is the code for ‘Fluent’?

(a) #F6

(b) $S5 

(c) *S7

(d) #T6

(e) Cannot be determined

Q15. What is the code for ‘Nomenclature’?

(a) #P13

(b) #S11

(c) @E12

(d) @P11

(e) Cannot be determined