Reasoning Questions for IBPS Clerk Prelims 2016

Directions (1-6): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

Ten friends J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R and S are sitting at a rectangular table in such a way that four of them sit at the corners, two each on the longer sides and one each on the smaller sides, but not necessarily in the same order. Some of them are facing the centre while the rest are not facing the centre. Not more than two friends sitting together face the same direction.

J sits on one of the smaller sides and third to the right of O.

R is not an immediate neighbor of J, K or O, but sits on the immediate right of L, who is not facing the centre.

Only two among four sitting on the corners face outward.

Q and M are sitting on the immediate left and third to the left of S respectively.

One of the four friends sitting on the corner is R.

N sits on the immediate left of M and is not an immediate neighbor of L. J and N face the same direction.

M and P sit diagonally and face opposite directions.

Five of them face the same direction.

Note: Facing the same direction means if one person faces the centre then the other person also faces the centre and if one person faces outward then the other person also faces outward. Facing the opposite direction means if one person faces the centre then the other person faces outward and vice versa.

Q1. Which of the following groups sit on the corners of the rectangular table?

(a) MRQS

(b) SMRP

(c) QMPR

(d) QMPL

(e) None of the above

Q2. Who among the following sits third to the right of N?

(a) P 

(b) Q

(c) J

(d) S

(e) None of the above

Q3. What is the position of M with respect to J?

(a) Immediate right 

(b) Second to the right

(c) Fourth to the right

(d) Can’t be determined

(e) None of the above

Q4. Who among the following sits opposite Q?

(a) R

(b) K

(c) M

(d) N

(e) None of the above

Q5. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?

(a) OL

(b) JN

(c) RN

(d) QK

(e) MS

Q6. How many persons are not facing the centre?

(a) Three

(b) Four

(c) Five

(d) Six

(e) None of the above

Directions (7-12): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

Twelve friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K and L are sitting in a row facing east. J sits third to the left of E, who sits sixth to the right of A. G sits fourth to the right of L, who is not an immediate neighbor of C. B sits fifth from the right end and H sits second to the left of D. E is not an immediate neighbor of I or F, but sits second to the right of B. There are two friends between C and K. K is not an immediate neighbor of J.

Q7. What is the position of F with respect to H?

(a) Third to the right

(b) Second to the left

(c) Seventh to the left

(d) Can’t be determined

(e) None of the above

Q8. If K is an immediate neighbor of I then who among the following is on the immediate right of D?

(a) F

(b) E

(c) L

(d) A

(e) None of the above

Q9. How many persons are there between G and E?

(a) Two 

(b) Three

(c) Four

(d) Five

(e) None of the above

Q10. If F is immediate neighbor of L then who among the following sit on the extreme ends of the line?

(a) KD

(b) LI

(c) HF

(d) IF

(e) None of the above

Q11. Who among the following sits third to the right of the eighth from the right end?

(a) B

(b) H

(c) E

(d) F

(e) None of the above

Q12. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?

(a) CA

(b) BC

(c) JH

(d) EB

(e) KL

Directions (13-15): In each question three statements followed by three conclusions numbered I, II and III have been given. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Q13. Statements: 

No pen is a pin.

All needles are pins.

Some copies are pens.

Conclusions:

I. No copy is a pin.

II. At least some pens are copies.

III. At least some needles are pens.

(a) Only I follow

(b) Only II follows

(c) Only II and III follow

(d) None follows

(e) None of the above

Q14. Statements: 

Some frames are pictures.

All pictures are images.

No image is a paper.

Conclusions:

I. All images being frames is a possibility.

II. All images are pictures.

III. No picture is a paper.

(a) Only I and III follow

(b) Only II and III follow

(c) Only I and II follow

(d) All I, II and III follow

(e) None of the above

Q15. Statements: 

All deserts are roads.

Some rivers are deserts.

Some hills are rivers.

Conclusions:

I. At least some hills are deserts.

II. All roads being hills is a possibility.

III. All rivers being roads is a possibility.

(a) Only I follow

(b) Only II follows

(c) Only II and III follow

(d) All I, II and III follow

(e) None of the above