Reasoning For SBI/IBPS/UIIC 2016

Directions (Q.1-5): In each question below is given a statement followed by two courses of action numbered I and II. A course of action is a step or administrative decision to be taken the improvement, follow-up or further action in regard to the problem, policy, etc. On the basis of the information given in the statement, you have to assume everything in the statement to be true, then decide which of the suggested courses of action logically follow(s) for pursuing. 


Give answer: a) If only I follow. 
Give answer b) If only II follows. 
Give answer c) If either I or II follows. 
Give answer d) If neither I nor II follows. 
Give answer e) If both I and II follow. 

1. Statement: A very large number of people gathered outside the local police station to submit a memorandum on behalf of the residents highlighting police inaction in curbing incidents of theft and burglary in the neighborhood for the past few months. 


Courses of action: 
I. The police authority should form team of officers to talk to the representatives of the residents and assure them that proper steps will be taken to stop the menace. 
II.The police authority should advise the people gathered outside the police station to disburse and promise them quick action.

2. Statement: At least five students were killed due to a stampede in one city school as the students tried to leave the school building, fearing short circuit. 


Course of action: 
I. The principal of the school should be arrested immediately. 
II.The Govt should immediately order closure of the school permanently.

3. Statements: Two local passenger trains collided while running opposite directions on the same track as the signaling system failed for a brief period. 


Course of action: 
I. The services of the motormen of the trains should immediately be terminated. 
II.The Govt should immediately constitute a task force to review the functioning of the signaling system.

4. Statement: Almost ninety per cent of the flights of one of the private airline companies were cancelled for the fourth consecutive day as the pilots refused to join their duties in protest against sacking of two of their colleagues by the airline management. 


Course of action: 
I. The management of the airline company should be ordered by the Govt to immediately reinstate the sacked pilots to end the crisis. 
II.The Govt should immediately take steps to end the impasse between the management and the pilots to help the hapless passengers.

5. Statement: A major part of the local market in the city was gutted due to a short circuit causing extensive damage to goods and property. 


Course of action: 
I. The Govt should issue strict guidelines for all establishments regarding installation and maintenance of electrical fittings. 
II.The Government should relocate all the markets to the outskirts of the city.

6. Statement: The Govt has decided to construct an eight-lane super highway across the state to facilitate fast movement of vehicles. 


Which of the following can be an assumption which is implicit in the above statement?

7. Statement: It has been reported in a recent research report that taller people are found to be happier than those who are relatively shorter. 


Which of the following contradicts the above finding?

8. Statement: There was a slow decline in the number of patients with flu-like symptoms visiting various health facilities in the city during the last fortnight. 


Which of the following substantiates the fact mentioned in the above statement?

9. Cause: A seven cyclonic storm swept away most part of the state during the last two days. 


Which of the following cannot be a possible effect of the above cause?

10. Effect: The prices of petroleum products have increased by about twenty per cent in the past two months. 


Which of the following can be a probable cause of the above effect?