Reasoning Quiz for IBPS and other Bank Exam 2016

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

Eight friends P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and V are sitting around a circular table for lunch. Each person has a different birthplace viz London, New York, Sydney, Tokyo, Paris, Corsica, Moscow and Bangkok but not necessarily in the same order.
The person born in New York sits third to the right of V. R is an immediate neighbour of V. The person born in Tokyo sits second to the right of R. Q sits third to the right of W. W’s birthplace is neither New York nor Tokyo. Only one person sits between R and the person whose birthplace is Sydney. P and U are immediate neighbours of each other. Neither P’s nor U’s birthplace is New York. The person born in Bangkok sits second to the right of P. Two persons sit between S and the person born in Paris. S is not from New York. The person born in London is not an immediate neighbour of the person born in New York. The person born in Corsica sits second to the left of P.

Q1. Who among the following is from Moscow?
(a) P
(b) W
(c) R
(d) U
(e) S

Q2. What is the position of U with respect to the person whose birthplace is New York?
(a) Second to the left
(b) Second to the right
(c) Immediate right
(d) Immediate left
(e) None of the above

Q3. Where is the birthplace of V?
(a) Moscow
(b) London
(c) Corsica
(d) Sydney
(e) Tokyo

Q4. Where is the birthplace of T?
(a) Moscow
(b) Tokyo
(c) Corsica
(d) New York
(e) Paris

Q5. Who sit(s) exactly between the persons whose birth places are Sydney and Paris?
(a) R and W
(b) R and Q
(c) Only Bangkok-born person
(d) P and Q
(e) None of the above

Directions (6-10): Read the information given below and then answer the questions given below:


Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circle in such a way that three of them are facing   outside and rest of them are facing the centre.
E is 2nd to the left of H, who is facing outside. D is second to the left of F and third to the
right of E, who is facing the centre. B is third to the left of G and faces outside. G is third to
the left of A, who is not an immediate neighbour of E and F. The friends facing outside are not
adjacent.

Q6. Which of the following group is facing outside?
(a) B, H, E
(b) C, B, H
(c) C, D, H
(d) Cannot be determined
(e) None of the above

Q7. What is D’s position with respect to A?
(a) Immediate right
(b) 3rd to the left
(c) Opposite
(d) 2nd to the right
(e) Immediate left

Q8. Who is 2nd to the right of B?
(a) H
(b) G
(c) C
(d) A
(e) D

Q9. If all the friends change their respective position to immediate right place then who are still facing Inside the centre?
(a) A and E
(b) F and D
(c) F and G
(d) A and D
(e) G and A

Q10. Which of the following is true about the given information?
(a) C and F are facing each other.
(b) E is third to the left of F.
(c) C is third to the left of B.
(d) G and A are two places away from each other, if counted in clock wise direction from A.
(e) None of the above

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

Six girls – A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting in a row facing North and six boys – P, Q, R, S, T and U are sitting in a different row facing South, but not necessarily in the same order. Each girl in a row is facing exactly one boy from the other row. The following information is known about them.
P sits second to the right of the person who sits opposite B. B does not sit at any end of the row. C and D are immediate neighbours of B, and one of them sits at an extremes. E sits second to the left of D but not opposite R.
P is a neighbour of R but is not opposite F. Neither Q nor T are adjacent to P. T is adjacent to either R or Q but not both. U is a neighbour of the person who sits opposite E.

Q11. Who sits opposite C?
(a) S
(b) P
(c) R
(d) Q
(e) T

Q12. Who sits second to the left of R?
(a) S
(b) T
(c) P
(d) Q
(e) U

Q13. If S and D interchange their positions, then who sits to the immediate left of D?
(a) U
(b) R
(c) P
(d) T
(e) Q

Q14. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Find the one which does not belong to that group?
(a) U, A
(b) P, B
(c) D, S
(d) C, R
(e) D, T

Q15. Which of the following is true, according to the given information?
(a) U and C are at the extremes.
(b) R sits second to the right of S.
(c) T sits to the immediate right of Q.
(d) B sits second to the left of A.
(e) All of the above