Reasoning Quiz for SBI PO Prelims 2018: 25th May 2018

Dear Aspirants,

Reasoning Ability is an onerous section. With the increasing complexity of questions, it becomes hard for one to give it a cold shoulder. The only way to make the grade in this particular section in the forthcoming SBI PO Prelims and other banking exams is to practice continuously with all your heart and soul. And, to let you practice with the best of latest pattern questions, here is the Adda247 Reasoning Quiz with the exact same pattern of questions that are being asked in the exams.

Following the study plan for SBI PO Preliminary Examination 2018, the second week starts with practice questions on Puzzles and coding-decoding. To ensure proper preparation of the section we advise you to go through all the questions sincerely and try to attempt each one of them. Afterward, match your solutions and the approach with the one that would be provided later. Practice more and more questions on the same section to enhance your grip over the topics. Following is the Reasoning Ability quiz to help you practice with the best of latest pattern questions.

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

Seven boxes labeled as A, B, C, D, E, F and G are kept one above the other but necessarily in the same order. Each of them contains a different food item viz. Onion, Potato, Cabbage, Carrot, Capsicum, Brinjal and Tomato, but not necessarily in the same order. Only one box is there between the box which contains Tomato and the box which contains Brinjal. Box E is not kept at the lowermost position. There are only six boxes below the box which contains onion.

Only three boxes are there between box E and box B. Box D is kept somewhere above box C. The box which contains carrot is kept somewhere below box F. More than five boxes are kept above the box which contains Carrot.  Cabbage is not kept in box A. Box G does not contains Carrot. Box F is kept immediately below box A. Tomato is not kept in box D. Box G does not contain onion.  Box E is kept somewhere below box B. Only two boxes are there between the box which contains Cabbage and box G. Boxes which contains potato and cabbage are adjacent to each other. The box which is kept immediately above box G contains Capsicum. Only one box is kept between box B and the box which contains Cabbage. Box E and the box which contains brinjal are kept adjacent to each other.

Q1. How many boxes are kept above the box which contains Potato?

(a) One

(b) Two

(c) Three

(d) Four

(e) More than four

Q2. Which of the following box is kept immediately above the box which contains Brinjal?

(a) D

(b) E

(c) The box which contains tomato

(d) F

(e) The box which contains Carrot

Q3. Which of the following box contains Capsicum?

(a) B

(b) A

(c) G

(d) E

(e) None of these

Q4. How many boxes are there between the boxes which contains Potato and Brinjal?

(a) None

(b) Three

(c) Two

(d) Four

(e) None of these

Q5. Which of the following box lies below box G?

(a) The box which contains Carrot

(b) The box which contains Capsicum

(c) F

(d) D

(e) The box which contains Onion

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

In a certain code language,

‘float the blast crash’ is written as ‘pn ca ga mo’,

‘crash are flight rod’ is written as ‘ta ha cm pn’, 

‘float the ship crash’ is written as ‘ga ca se pn’ and 

‘flight rod you’ is written as ‘ha cm va’. 

Q6. What is the code for ‘ship’? 

(a) se

(b) ca

(c) ha

(d) pn

(e) None of these

Q7. Which of the following can be the code for ‘you float blast’? 

(a) va mo ca

(b) ca ga mo

(c) mo ga va

(d) Either (a) and (c)

(e) None of these 

Q8. ‘cm’ is the code for?

(a) flight

(b) are

(c) Either ‘flight’ or ‘rod’

(d) crash

(e) None of these 

Q9. Which of the following is the code for ‘crash’?

(a) se

(b) pn

(c) cm

(d) ga

(e) None of these

Q10. ‘rod float the flight’ can be coded as

(a) ca ga ha cm

(b) ha cm ga se

(c) ca ha ga mo

(d) Can’t be determined

(e) None of these

Direction (11-15): Study the information given below and answer the given questions.

Nine persons viz. P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, and X are living in the same building which has nine floors. The ground floor is numbered 1, the floor above it is numbered 2, and so on, and the topmost floor is numbered 9. No two persons are living on the same floor. Each of them were born in different months of the same year starting from January to September, but not necessarily in the same order. S was born in February and lives on an even-numbered floor. V lives on an even-numbered floor. 

There are three floors between the floors on which T and Q lives. X stays on a floor immediately above R’s floor. There is one floor between the floors on which U and Q lives. U was born in the month which has 31 days. The second youngest person lives on fourth floor. W, who was born in July, lives on second floor. The one who lives on third floor was born in May. V is not the third oldest person. There are two floors gap between the floors on which the persons who were born in June and February lives. More than seven persons are older than T. The oldest person lives on the topmost floor. U does not live on first floor. S who is older than V, lives on one of the floors above V. T lives on the bottommost floor. X does not live on an odd numbered floor. 

Q11. How many persons living on the floors above W are older than R?

(a) One

(b) Two

(c) Three

(d) Four

(e) More than four 

Q12. Who amongst the following lives on the topmost floor?

(a) U

(b) Q

(c) X

(d) T

(e) None of these 

Q13. Who among the following is/are younger than W?

(a) X

(b) T

(c) Both X and T                  

(d) R

(e) None of these 

Q14. How many persons are living below the second oldest person are younger than X? 

(a) One

(b) Two

(c) Three

(d) Four

(e) More than four 

Q15. How many persons were born between the months in which the persons who lives on the seventh and fourth floor were born? 

(a) One

(b) Two

(c) Three

(d) Four

(e) More than four 

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