Reasoning

High Level Reasoning-1

Directions for questions 1 to 3: Five friends A, B, C, D, E were staying in a
hotel. Everybody ordered exactly one item each in breakfast, Lunch and
Dinner; where item ordered by each of them was different each time. The
items ordered in Breakfast were Milk, Juice, Sandwiches, Pasta and Egg. The
items ordered in Lunch were Burger, Rice, Pizza, Idli and Chicken. The items
ordered in Dinner were Dosa, Lasagna, Chinese, Fish and Continental.
Egg, Chicken, Continental and Fish are the only Non-Vegetarian items.
A, B, C are pure vegetarians, so cannot have any Non Vegetarian items.
Everybody must have at least one vegetarian item in any of the three meals.
 One of them is a south Indian so ordered both Idli and Dosa.
 B had Burger in lunch and cannot have Chinese in Dinner.
 The one who had Rice in Lunch had Fish in Dinner.
 D cannot have Sandwiches and Milk in Breakfast.
 A cannot have Sandwiches in Breakfast
 C ordered a pair of item whose name starts with the same alphabet and the
same was true for D.
1. Who ordered Chinese in Dinner?
(a) A (b) B
(c) C (d) D
2. What did D ordered in breakfast?
(a) Milk (b) Juice
(c) Sandwiches (d) Pasta
3. The person who had Milk in Breakfast, had what in dinner?
(a) Dosa (b) Lasagna
(c) Chinese (d) None of these
Directions for questions 4 to 6: Seven persons namely Ajay, Mano, Nirmal,
Gopi, Pranav, Sai and Raj will appear for a different exam but not necessarily
in the same order in 7 different months of the same year namely January,
February, April, May, July, September and December. Each of them also like
a different genre of Movies viz. Family, Action, Comedy, Reality, Animated,
History and Thriller, but not necessarily in the same order.
 Gopi will appear for an exam in a month which has only 30days.
 Only one person will appear between the one who likes Animated movie
and Gopi.
 The one who likes action will appear for an exam immediately before the
one who likes Animated movie.

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 The one who likes thriller will appear for an exam neither in the month
which has 31 days nor in the month which has 30 days.
 Only 2 persons will appear for an exam between the one who likes Thriller
and Sai.
 Mano will appear for an exam immediately after Sai and does not like
action movie.
 Raj will appear for an exam immediately before Nirmal.
 Pranav likes History movie and appear for an exam in December.
 The one who likes family movie will appear for an exam in a month which
has 31 days.
 Gopi does not like comedy movie.
4. Which of the following genres of Movie does Gopi like?
(a) History (b) Thriller
(c) Family (d) None of these
5. How many persons will appear for an exam between Nirmal and the one
who likes animated movies?
(a) One (b) None
(c) Two (d) More than two
6. Who will appear for an exam in September month?
(a) Pranav (b) Sai
(c) Raj (d) None of the above
Directions for Question 7 to 10:
Six friends A, B, C, D, E, F were compared on the basis of heights. The six
people are Doctor, Lawyer, Banker, C.S, Engineer and Teacher by profession.
 C.S was the tallest of all whereas the Banker was the shortest of all.
 C was taller than Engineer but was shorter than Teacher.
 Lawyer is one of A, B or C whereas Banker is not one of them.
 D is taller than Doctor who is taller than B.
 E is one C.S or Engineer.
 A is shorter than Teacher but taller than Doctor
7. Who is an Engineer?
(a) A (b) B
(c) C (d) D
8. If arranged in descending order of their heights, who will rank third?
(a) Teacher (b) Lawyer
(c) Doctor (d) Engineer

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9. How many among the six friends are definitely shorted than D?
(a) 2 (b) 3
(c) 4 (d) 5
10. Who is the doctor?
(a) C (b) B
(c) F (d) Can’t be determined
Directions for questions 11 to 13: There are five people A, B, C, D, E living in
an apartment on five different floors of a 10-storey building. These five people
are a Doctor, a Dentist, an Engineer, a Lawyer, a Businessman by profession.
 The Dentist lives on the 4th floor above the Doctor.
 C lives on 2nd floor above the Dentist.
 The Businessman lives on the highest floor amongst all 5 people.
 The separation between the Businessman and the Engineer is of 7 floors.
 The Doctor lives above B.
 The 6th floor is vacant.
 The Lawyer lives directly below the Dentist.
 D does not have any neighbours above or below him.
 E has only one resident living above him.
11. Which is highest floor occupied?
(a) 10 (b) 9
(c) 8 (d) 7
12. Who is the Lawyer?
(a) A (b) B
(c) C (d) D
13. If one more resident were to be added to the building, subject to the condition
that he/she cannot live directly above or below B, E, or the doctor, then which
floor or floors could he/she be accommodated in?
(a) Only 5 (b) Only 9
(c) 5 or 9 (d) Only 6
Direction for questions 14 to 17: Eight persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H
lives in a nine floor building. One of the floor is vacant and they have different
ages 16, 25, 27, 33, 47, 50, 64 and 67, but not necessarily in the same order.
 G lives in even numbered floor.
 C lives one of the floors above vacant floor.
 F lives immediately above D whose age is prime number.
 Difference between C’s age and H’ age is equal to A’s floor number.
 Three floors are between one whose age is 25 and E who lives in 7th floor.
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 H lives one of the floor above G and his age is square of his floor number.
 The person whose age is 25 lives one of the floors below G.
 E’s age is greater than B’s age but less than G’s age.
 C lives on an even numbered floor but doesn’t live immediately below A’s
floor.
 B lives on the top most floor.
 A is older than F.
14. Which of the following floor is vacant?
(a) Seventh (b) Sixth
(c) Third (d) Fifth
15. What is difference between the age of E and G?
(a) 8 (b) 17
(c) 40 (d) None of the above
16. Which of the following pair represents exactly lives between G and the
person one whose age is 64?
(a) D, F (b) B, E
(c) C, E (d) None of these
17. What is the average age of the persons B, C and D?
(a) 43 (b) 37
(c) 33 (d) None of these
Directions for questions 18 to 20: Seven friends Jimmy, Sumit, Harry,
Sachin, Akash, Rohit and Amit are sitting in a straight line facing south. All of
them study in a different school, viz. Spring Dale, Red Roses, DAV,
Alexandra, Cedar Spring, Sacred Heart and DPS but not necessarily in the
same order.
 Sumit sits 4th to the right of the person who studies in Sacred Heart.
 Only one person sits between Sumit and Amit.
 Amit studies in DAV.
 Either Sumit or the one who studies in Sacred Heart sits at the extreme end
of the row.
 The person who studies in Spring Dale School is 3 places to the east of
Sachin, who is not an immediate neighbour of Amit.
 Only one person sits between Akash and the one who studies in Red Roses.
 Jimmy and Harry are immediate neighbours.
 Jimmy does not study in Sacred Heart.
 The person who studies in Cedar Spring sits third to the left of the one who
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18. Who among the following studies in Alexandra School?
(a) Rohit (b) Sachin
(c) Akash (d) None of these
19. Which of the following school does Jimmy study in?
(a) Sacred Heart (b) Spring Dale
(c) Cedar Spring (d) Can’t be determined
20. Which of the following combinations is true?
(a) Harry – DAV (b) Akash – Spring Dale
(c) Rohit – Alexandra (d) All are true
Directions for questions 21 to 22: J, K, L, M, N, O, P and R are sitting
around a circular table, facing inside. Each of them was born in a different
year – 1971, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985 and 1990, not necessarily in
the same order.
 M is sitting second to the right of K.
 L is sitting third to the right of J.
 L and J were born before 1980.
 P is not immediate neighbour of N.
 Only the one born in 1984 is sitting exactly between J and K.
 N, who is the eldest, is not an immediate neighbour of J or M.
 R is older than only M.
 R is sitting second to the left of P.
 J is younger than L.
 K was born before O.
21. In which year was R born?
(a) 1979 (b) 1975
(c) 1980 (d) 1985
22. Which of the following statements is true regarding K?
(a) K is sitting fourth to the right of R.
(b) The one who was born in 1984 is on the immediate left of K.
(c) K is younger than R.
(d) None of the above

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Directions for questions 23 to 25: Eight friends J, K, L, M, N, P, R and S like
different sports – Archery, Badminton, Cricket, Diving, Pool, Football, Golf
and Hockey. All of them are seated around a square table (two on each side)
facing inside.
 L sits third to the right of K, who likes Cricket.
 R is sitting second to the left of P.
 P is not an immediate neighbour of L or K.
 The one who likes Archery in an immediate neighbour of P.
 Three people sit between K and the person who likes Football.
 K, L and also their immediate neighbour do not like Diving.
 Only one person sits between the person who likes Diving and M.
 The persons who like Pool and Hockey are immediate neighbour of each
other.
 L likes neither Hockey nor Pool.
 Only one person sits between J and the person who likes Badminton.
 J does not like Diving or Pool.
 N does not like Diving.
23. Which of the following is true regarding R?
(a) R like the Badminton
(b) S and M are immediate neighbours of R
(c) One person sits between R and J
(d) None of these
24. Who amongst the following likes Pool?
(a) L (b) R
(c) N (d) Can’t be determined
25. How many persons sit between S and the person who likes Hockey, when
counted from the left hand side of the person who likes Hockey?
(a) None (b) One
(c) Two (d) Three

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 HOME EXERCISE
Directions for questions 1 to 3: Twelve friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K
and L were born in different months of the same year.
A was born in the month of April and G was born in the month of August. J
was born in the month immediately preceding the month in which K was born
and immediately succeeding the month in which C was born. J was not born in
the month of October nor in February. There is a gap of two months between
the birthdays of L and B. There were 30 days in the month in which L was
born. D was born in the month immediately after the month in which I was
born. There were 31 days in the month in which D was born. There is a gap of
one month between the birthdays of B and F. E and H were born in that
months which had 31 days each.
1. In which of the following months B was born?
(a) December (b) June
(c) March (d) November
(e) September
2. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence form a
group. Which one of the following does not belong to that group?
(a) L (b) A
(c) J (d) F
(e) None of these
3. Who among the following was born in the month of February?
(a) J (b) L
(c) E or H (d) C
(e) I
Directions for questions 4 to 6: Study the following information carefully
and answer the questions given below.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight students in a class. Three of them play
cricket and badminton each and two of them play hockey. Each one of them
has a different height.
 The tallest does not play hockey and the shortest does not play cricket.
 F who does not play Hockey, is taller than A and D but shorter than H and
B.
 E, who does not play cricket, is taller than B and is second tallest.
 G is shorter than D but taller than A.
 H, who is shorter than only 3 persons, plays badminton with D.
 G plays neither cricket nor hockey. B does not play hockey.

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4.Who is the tallest?
(a) B (b) H
(c) C (d) Data inadequate
(e) None of these
5.Who is the shortest?
(a) G (b) D
(c) H (d) Data inadequate
(e) None of these
6.Which of the following pairs of students plays hockey?
(a) EF (b) HE
(c) HF (d) Data inadequate
(e) None of these
Directions for questions 7 to 9: Among A, B, C, D, E everybody speaks
different number of languages among English, Hindi, Punjabi, Marathi and
Bengali.
 English is the only common language among all.
 The least spoken language among these five is both Hindi and Marathi.
 The only common languages among A and C is Punjabi and English.
 A can speak Marathi but not Hindi.
 B cannot speak Marathi and Punjabi.
 D cannot speak Punjabi and Bengali.
 C cannot speak Hindi.
7. How many among the following five can speak Bengali?
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 4
8. How many languages do B speaks?
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 4
9. Which of the following is the common language among Band C?
(a) Hindi (b) Punjabi
(c) Marathi (d) None of these
Directions for questions 10 to 12: A, B, C, D, E, F and G are seven people
live on seven different floors of a building but not necessarily in the same
order. The lowermost floor of the building is numbered 1, the one above that
is numbered 2 and so on till the topmost floor is numbered 7. Each person
likes different vegetables namely Potato, Brinjal, Carrot, Tomato, Drumstick,
Cabbage, and Cauli flower.
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 Three persons live between the one who likes Potato and the one who likes
Brinjal.
 The one who likes Potato lives one of the floors above the floor numbered 4.
 Three persons live between the one who likes Drumstick and the one who
likes Cauli flower.
 The person who lives on the ground floor like neither Carrot nor Brinjal.
 The one who likes Carrot lives on floor below the floor numbered 4.
 The person who likes Cabbage does not live on one of the floors below the
floor numbered 4.
 The person who likes Potato and Drumstick live on one of the floors above
the floor numbered 4.
 The person who lives on the top most floor does not like Potato.
 Three persons live between the one who likes Cabbage and the one who likes
Carrot.
 A lives between B and E. B lives on one of the floors above E.
 A lives on an odd numbered floor but not on the floor numbered three.
 Only one person lives between A and G. G does not like Carrot.
 F lives immediately below the one who likes Carrot.
 Only two persons live between E and C.
 C does not live on the top most floor.
10. Which among the following is liked by B?
(a) Tomato (b) Carrot
(c) Potato (d) None of these
11. Which of the following combination is true as per the given arrangement?
(a) A – 5 – Drumstick (b) C – 3 – Tomato
(c) B – 5 – Carrot (d) None of these
12. Who among the following lives in floor no 3?
(a) A (b) C
(c) D (d) None of these
Directions for questions 13 to 15: Ravi is the owner of a Maruti Suzuki
workshop. He has six mechanics – Sameer, Uthappa, Walthaty, Xavier, Yuvi
and Zaheer. Each mechanic services at least one of the following three models
of cars – Ritz, Swift and Vitara – and no other model.
 Xavier and exactly three other mechanics service Ritz.
 Yuvi services both Swift and Vitara.
 Samir does not service any model of the car that Yuvi services.
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 Walthaty does not service any model of cars that Samir services.
 Uthappa services exactly two models of cars.
13. For how many of the six mechanics is it possible to determine exactly
what all the models of cars each of them services?
(a) Two (b) Three
(c) Four (d) Five
14. Which one of the following pairs could comprise two mechanics who
service exactly the same models of cars?
(a) Samir and Uthappa (b) Uthappa and Yuvi
(c) Uthappa and Xavier (d) Xavier and Walthaty
15. Swift car is serviced by how many persons?
(a) Two (b) Three
(c) Four (d) Data inadequate
Directions for questions 16 to 20: There are six juices – Mango, Grape,
Lychee, Orange, Sweet lime and Pomegranate – kept in six bottles Pony,
Magnum, Imperial, Sovereign, Split and Jeroboam but not necessarily in same
order. These bottles are arranged from left to right.
 Mango juice has been kept in bottle Magnum.
 Orange juice has not been kept in bottle Split but has been placed on the
immediate left of Pony.
 Pomegranate juice has been kept in bottle Jeroboam and has been placed
exactly between the bottles which contain orange juice and Mango juice.
 Sovereign has been placed at the extreme left end.
 The bottle containing Grape juice has not been placed at the extreme ends.
 Bottle Split has been placed at the extreme right end.
 Sweet lime juice has not been kept near bottle Magnum.
16. Which of the following bottles contains Grape juice?
(a) Magnum (b) Pony
(c) Imperial (d) None of these
17. Which of the following fruit juices has been placed at the extreme left
end?
(a) Sweet lime (b) Mango
(c) Lychee (d) None of these
18. Which of the combinations of bottle and juice is correct?
(a) Split – Sweet lime (b) Sovereign – Mango
(c) Imperial – Lychee (d) None is correct
(e) All are correct
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19. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on their
positions in the above arrangement and hence from a group. Which is the one
that does not belong to that group?
(a) Split, Imperial (b) Jeroboam, Sovereign
(c) Pony, Jeroboam (d) Magnum, Sovereign
(e) Imperial, Magnum
20. Which of the following juices has been kept in bottle Sovereign?
(a) Pomegranate (b) Lychee
(c) Mango (d) Orange
(e) None of the above
Directions for questions 21 to 23: In a meeting eight delegates A, B, C,
D, E, F, G and H of different countries are sitting around a square table facing the
centre, not necessarily in the same order. Each one of them belongs to different
countries Brazil, Canada, Singapore, UAE, USA, UK, Japan and Russia.
 F sits second to the right of the delegate of UAE.
 Japan delegate is on immediate right to delegate of UAE.
 Two people sit between the delegate of Japan and B.
 C and E are immediate neighbours of each other.
 Neither C nor E is an immediate neighbour of B and delegate of UAE.
 The delegate of Singapore sits second to the right of D, who is the delegate
of Canada.
 G and the delegate of Brazil are immediate neighbour of each other.
 B is not the delegate of Brazil.
 Only one person sits between C and D.
 H sits third to left of the delegate of Russia.
 The delegate of UK sits second to the left of the delegate of USA.
21. Which of the following is true with respect to the given seating arrangement?
(a) E is an immediate neighbour of the delegate of Brazil
(b) E is the delegate of Canada
(c) The delegate of Brazil is an immediate neighbour of F
(d) None of the Above
22. H is delegate of which country?
(a) Brazil (b) Singapore
(c) UAE (d) USA
23. What is the position of delegate of USA with respect to delegate of Japan?
(a) Immediate left (b) Third to the left
(c) Second to the right (d) Fourth to the left

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Directions for questions 24 to 25: Study the following information carefully
and answer the questions below.
Seven Persons A to G are sitting in a circular table facing center. Their seat
numbers are numbered as a prime number between 4 and 30. No consecutive
prime number seats are adjacent to each other.
 The difference between the seat number of B and D is 8.
 B’s seat number is greater than D’s seat number.
 The lowest seat number is placed third to the right of highest seat number.
 No seat is numbered as 13.
 F seat number is 7 and sits fourth to the right of G.
 D and A are immediate neighbors.
 The one whose seat number is third-highest sits second to the right of A.
 C’s seat number is higher than E’s seat number who doesn’t have the
lowest seat number.
24. What is the seat number of G?
(a) 19 (b) 23
(c) 11 (d) None of these.
25. What is the position of D with respect to G?
(a) Immediate right (b) Second to the right.
(c) Second to the left (d) None of these

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 Reasoning Ability
High-Level Reasoning-1
Answers and Explanations

CLASS EXERCISE
1 c 2 b 3 a 4 d 5 c 6 d 7 b 8 b 9 c 10 a
11 a 12 a 13 d 14 d 15 b 16 c 17 d 18 b 19 c 20 b
21 d 22 b 23 d 24 c 25 d

HOME EXERCISE
1 e 2 d 3 E 4 c 5 e 6 e 7 c 8 c 9 d 10 c
11 a 12 c 13 B 14 c 15 d 16 b 17 a 18 a 19 d 20 b
21 d 22 c 23 B 24 b 25 b

CLASS EXERCISE
For questions 1-3:

Name Breakfast Lunch Dinner

E Egg Rice Fish

D Juice Chicken Continental

B Sandwich Burger Lasagne

A Milk Idli Dosa

C Pasta Pizza Chinese

1. c
2. b
3. a

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For Questions 4-6:

Month Name Genre

January Raj Family

February Nirmal Thriller

April Gopi Reality

May Ajay Action

July Sai Animated

September Mano Comedy

December Pranav History

4. d
5. c
6. d
For question 7-10:
Doctor Lawyer Banker C.S. Engineer Teacher
A      
B      
C      
D      
E      
F      

E>D>A>C>B>F
7. b
8. b
9. c
10. a

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For questions 11-13:

10. (C) Businessman

9. ----------------
8. (E) Dentist
7. (A) Lawyer
6. ----------------
5. ----------------
4. (D) Doctor
3. ----------------
2. (B) Engineer
1. ----------------
11. a
12. a
13. d
For questions 14-17:

9. B (27) 9. B (27)
8. H (64) 8. H (64)
7. E (33) 7. E (33)
6. G (50) 6. C (67)
5. ---------------- 5. ----------------
4. C (67) 4. G (50)
3. A (25) 3. A (25)
2. F (16) 2. F (16)
1. D (47) 1. D (47)
INVALID CASE VALID CASE

14. d
15. b
16. c
17. d

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For questions 18-20:

18. b
19. c
20. b
For questions 21-22:

21. d 22. b
For questions 23-25:

23. d 24. c
25. d

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HOME EXERCISE
For questions 1-3:
Month Name

January E or H

February I

March D

April A

May H or E

June L

July F

August G

September B

October K

November J

December C

1. e
2. d
3. e

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For questions 4-6:
Cricket Badminton Hockey
A 
B 
C 
D 
E 
F 
G 
H 

C>E>B>H>F>D>G>A
4. c
5. e
6. e
For questions 7-9:
English Hindi Punjabi Marathi Bengali
A     
B     
C     
D     
E     

7. c
8. c
9. d

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For questions 10 to 12:

10. c
11. a
12. c
For questions 13 to 15:
Ritz Swift Vitara
Sameer   
Uthappa 
Walthaty 
Xavier 
Yuvi   
Zaheer   
13. b
14. c
15. d
For questions 16 to 20:

16. b 17. a
18. a 19. d
20. b

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For questions 21 to 23:

21. d
22. c
23. b
For questions 24 to 25:

24. b
25. b

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