SSC CGL/CHSL 2015:-REASONING

SITTING ARRANGEMENT, CODING AND STATEMENT CONCLUSION 

PRACTICE SET-1

Directions (Q. 1-5): Study the following sitting arrangement to answer the given questions.

Eight People are sitting in two parallel rows containing four people each in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1, A,B C and D are sitting (but not necessarily in the same order) and all of them are facing North. In row 2, P, Q, R and S are sitting (but not necessarily in the same order) and all of them are facing South. Therefore, in the given section arrangement, each member sitting in a row faces another member of the other row. S sits second to left of Q. A faces the immediate neighbour of S. Only one person sits between A and C. P does not face A. B is not an immediate neighbour of A.

1.Which of the following is true regarding D?
A. D sits an one of the extreme ends of the line.
B. A sits on the immediate left D.
C. Q faces D.
D. C is an immediate neighbour of D.
E. No immediate neighbour of D faces R.

2.Who among the following faces C?
A. P
B. Q
C. Rsitting
D. S
E. Cannot be determined

3.Who among the following sits on the immediate right of the person who faces C?
A. P
B. Q
C. R
D. S
E. Cannot be determined

4.Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given seating arrangement and thus form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that
group?
A. A
B. Q
C. R
D. B
E. S

5.Who among the following faces R?
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. Cannot be determined

Directions (Q. 6-11): Study the following information to answer the given questions:
In a certain code,
‘time and money’, is written as ‘ma jo ki’,
‘manage time well’ is written as ‘pa ru jo’,
‘earn more money’ is written as ‘zi ha ma’ and
‘earn well enough’ is written as ‘si ru ha’.

6.What is the code for ‘earn’?
A. si
B. ru
C. ha
D. ma
E. Cannot be determined

7.Which of the following represents ‘more time’?
A. Pa jo
B. zi ki
C. ma ki
D. si jo
E. jo zi

8.What is the code for ‘manage’?
A. ru
B. pa
C. jo
D. ha
E. Either ‘jo’ or ‘ru’

9.Which of the following may represent’ ‘money matters’?
A. ki to
B. ma pa
C. fi ma
D. ha ma
E. ma jo

10.What does ‘ru’ stand for?
A. well
B. manage
C. time
D. enough
E. Either ‘time’ or ‘enough’

11.Which of the following may represent ‘good enough’?
A. ru si
B. da ha
C. si pa
D. si da
E. ki ru

Directions—(Q. 12-16) Read the following information carefully and answer the questions,which follow :
‘A – B’ means ‘A is father of B’
‘A + B’ means ‘A is daughter of B’
‘A ÷ B’ means ‘A is son of B’
‘A × B’ means ‘A is wife of B’

12.Which of the following means P is grandson of S ?
A. P + Q – S
B. P ÷ Q × S
C. P ÷ Q + S
D. P × Q ÷ S
E. None of these

13.How is P related to T in the expression ‘P + S – T’ ?
A. Sister
B. Wife
C. Son
D. Daughter
E. None of these

14.In the expression ‘P + Q × T’ how is T related to P ?
A. Mother
B. Father
C. Son
D. Brother
E. None of these

15.Which of the following means T is wife of P ?
A. P × S ÷ T
B. P ÷ S × T
C. P – S ÷ T
D. P + T ÷ S
E. None of these

16.In the expression ‘P × Q – T’ how is T related to P ?
A. Daughter
B. Sister
C. Mother
D. Can’t be determined
E. None of these

Directions—(Q. 17-21) In each of the questions below are given three statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read both the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.Read the statements and the conclusions which follow it and
Give answer—
A. if only conclusion I is true.
B. if only conclusion II is true.
C. if either conclusion I or conclusion II is true.
D. if neither conclusion I nor conclusion II is true
E. if both conclusions I and II are true.

17.Statements : All stars are suns.
Some suns are planets.
All planets are satellites.
Conclusions :
I. Some satellites are stars.
II. No star is a satellite.

18.Statements : All fishes are birds.
All birds are rats.
All rats are cows.
Conclusions :
I. All birds are cows
II. All rats are fishes

19.Statements : All curtains are rods.
Some rods are sheets.
Some sheets are pillows.
Conclusions :
I. Some pillows are rods.
II. Some rods are curtains.

20.Statements : Some walls are windows.
Some windows are doors.
All doors are roofs.
Conclusions :
I. Some doors are walls.
II. No roof is a window.

21.Statements : All switches are plugs.
Some plugs are bulbs.
All bulbs are sockets.
Conclusions :
I. Some sockets are plugs.
II. Some plugs are switches.
Answers

1 (D) 

2 (A)
3(B)
4(E)
5(A)
6 (C)
7 (E)
8 (B)
9 (C)
10 (A)
11 (D)
12 (C)
13 (A)
14 (B)
15 (E)
16 (D) 
17 (C)
18 (A)
19 (B)
20 (D) ;
21 (E)