C SAT QUESTIONS

Ranking & Sequence

Basics:

→ In a Row of persons, position of ‘A’ from left side of the row is L and position of ‘A’ from right side
of the row is R. Find total No. of persons in the Row?

[Total No. of persons = L + R - 1]

Questions are based on

(1) Left & Right (2) Top & Bottom (3) First & Last

Example:

One student A, whose rank is 4th in a class of 40 students in English and another student B rank is 30th
in the same class. If we consider negative ranking i.e. from the last position, then what will be the
positions of those Students A and B respectively?

(a) 30th and 4th positions (b) 37th and 10th positions

(c) 36th and 10th positions (d) 37th and 11th positions

Questions:

1. Manik is 14th from the right end in a row of 40 boys. What is his position from the left end?
(a) 24 (b) 25 (c) 26 (d) 27

2. Ravi is 7 Ranks a head of Sumit in a class of 39. If Sumit’s rank in 17 th from the last, what is
Ravi’s rank from the start?
(a) 14 (b) 15 (c) 16 (d) 17

3. In a row of girls, Shilpa is eight from the left and Reena is 17th from the right. If they
interchange their positions, Shilpa becomes 14th from the left. How many girls are there in the
row?
(a) 29 (b) 30 (c) 31 (d) 32
4. In a row of children, Dipa is 5th from the left &Vijay is 6th from the right, when they interchange
their places among themselves. Dipa becomes 13th from the left. Then what will be Vijay’s
position from the right?
(a) 19 (b) 10 (c) 14 (d) None of the above
5. ‘A’ is 15th from the left end and ‘B’ is 6th from the right end in a row of boys. If there are 3 boys
between ‘A’ & ‘B’, how many boys are there in the row?
(a) 16 (b) 11 (c) 12 (d) 15

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6. A is 6th from the left end and B is 10th from the right end in a row of boys. If there are 8 boys
between A & B, how many boys are there in the row?
(a) 24 (b) 6 (c) 10 (d) Cannot be determined

7. In a row of persons, position ‘P’ from left side of the row is 9th & position of ‘Q’ from right side
of the row is 8th. If ‘R’ is sitting just in middle of ‘P’ & ‘Q’ and position of ‘R’ from the left side
of a row is 15th. Find the total no. of persons in the row?
(a) 28 (b) 30 (c) 24 (d) 31

8. In a class of 35 students, ‘A’ is placed 7th from the bottom whereas ‘B’ is placed 9th from the
top. ‘C’ is placed exactly in between the two. What is A’s position from ‘C’?
(a) 18 (b) 10 (c) 14 (d) 11

Ranking Sequence types

9. Five children were administered psychological tests to know their intellectual levels. In the report,
psychologists pointed out that the child ‘A’ is less intelligent than the child B. The child ‘C’ is less
intelligent than the child D. the child ‘B’ is less intelligent than the child C and child ‘A’ is more
intelligent than the child E. which child is the 2nd most intelligent?
(a) C (b) A (c) B (d) D

10. Five boys participated in a competition. Rohit was ranked lower than Sanjay. Vikas was ranked
higher than only Dinesh. Kamal’s rank was between Rohit & Vikas. Who was highest?
(a) Vikas (b) Sanjay (c) Dinesh (d) None

11. Roshan is taller than Hardik, Who is shorter than Sushil. Niza is taller than harry but shorter than
Hardik. Sushil is shorter than Roshan. Who is the tallest.
(a) Roshan (b) Hardik (c) Sunil (d) None

12. The positions of the first and sixth digits in the number 5109238674 are interchanged. Similarly,
the positions of the second and the seventh digits are interchanged and so on. which of the
following will be the third digit from the right end after the after the rearrangement?
(a) 1 (b) 0 (c) 4 (d) 6

UPSC PYQS (Ranking Test)

1. Consider the following statements: (CSAT 2023)
1. A is older than B.
2. C and D are of the same age.
3. E is the youngest.
4. F is younger than D.
5. F is older than A.
How many statements given above are required to determine the oldest person/persons?
(a) only two (b) only three (c) only four (d) All five

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2. Three persons A, B and C are standing in a queue not necessarily in the same order. There are
4 persons between A and B, and 7 persons between B and C. If there are 11 persons ahead of C
and 13 behind A, what could be the minimum number of persons in the queue? (UPSC CSAT
2022)
(a) 22 (b) 28 (c) 32 (d) 38

3. Consider two Statements and a Question:

Statement-1: Priya is 4 ranks below Seema and is 31st from the bottom.
Statement-2: Ena is 2 ranks above Seema and is 37th from the bottom.
Question: What is Seema’s rank from the top in the class of 40 students?
Which one of the following is correct in respect of the Statements and the Question?
(UPSC CSAT 2021)

(a) Statement-1 alone is not sufficient to answer the Question

(b) Statement-2 alone is not sufficient to answer the Question

(c) Either Statement-1 alone or Statement-2 alone is sufficient to answer the Questions

(d) Both Statement-1 and Statement-2 are required to answer the Question

4. A is 16th from the left end in a row of boys and V is 18th from the right end. G is 11th from A
towards the right and 3rd from V towards the right end. How many boys are there in the row?
(UPSC CSAT 2020)
(a) 40 (b) 41 (c) 42 (d) Cannot be determined due to insufficient data

5. 15 students failed in class of 52. After removing the names of failed students, a merit order list
has been prepared in which the position of Ramesh is 22nd from the top. What is his position from
the bottom? (UPSC CSAT 2017)
(a) 18th (b) 17th (c) 16th (d) 15th

6. In a class of 60 students, where the number of girls is twice that of boys, Kamal, a boy, ranked
seventeenth from the top. If there are 9 girls ahead of Kamal, the number of boys in rank after
him is: (UPSC CSAT 2016)
(a) 13 (b) 12 (c) 7 (d) 3

7. In a row 'A' is in the 11th position from the left and 'B' is in the 10th position from the right. If
‘A’ and ‘B’ interchange, then 'A' becomes 18th from the left. How many persons are there in the
row other than 'A' and 'B'? (UPSC CSAT 2014)
(a) 27 (b) 26 (c) 25 (d) 24

8. In a class of 45 students, a boy is ranked 20th. When two boys joined, his rank was dropped by
one. What is his new rank from the end? (UPSC CSAT 2013)
(a) 25th (b) 26th (c) 27th (d) 28th

9. If Pen < Pencil, Pencil < Book and Book > Cap. Then which one of the following is always true?
(UPSC CSAT 2018)
(a) Pen < Cap (b) Pen < Book
(c) Pencil = Cap (d) Pencil > Cap

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Venn Diagrams
A Venn diagram is a single figure that represents possible relation that can exists among given
group of elements.
For example there are two things/ departments / objects….etc three types of relations exist among
them.

1. One group belongs to another group completely; i.e. all A’s are B’s

2. Two groups partly related; i.e. some A’s are B’s

3. No elements are common; i.e No A is B

Foundation Questions

Directions (Q.no. 1 to 12)

Which one of the following diagrams best depicts the relationship between given things

1. Married, Women and Teachers?

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2. Doctors, Human beings and Cats

3. Females, Mothers and Sisters?

4. Males, Husbands and Doctors?

5. Females, Mothers and Infants?

6. Triangles, Scalene triangle & Right angled triangle?

Directions (Example Nos. 7-8): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions
based on them.

In the Venn diagram given below, the square represents women, the triangle represents persons who
are in Government services, the circle represents educated persons and the rectangle represents
persons working in private sector. Each section of the diagram is numbered. Your task is study the
diagram and answer the questions that follow.

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 7. Which number represents the uneducated women, who have Government jobs as well as jobs
in private sectors?

(a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 12 (d) 9

8. Number 10 represents

(a) educated women in private jobs

(b) uneducated men in Government jobs

(c) educated men working in private sectors

(d) educated men having private as well as Government jobs

Venn Diagrams applications (In Numbers & Percentages) based on Equations

n (AUB) = n(A) + n (B) – n (A∩B)

& n (AUBUC) = n(A) + n (B) + n (C)– n (A∩B) - n (A∩C) - n (C∩B) + n (A∩B∩C)

9. Find the number of numbers from 1 to 200 which are not divisible by any one of 2 & 3.
(a) 154 (b) 46 (c) 48 (d) None

10. How many numbers between 1 and 1200, both included, are not divisible by any of the numbers
2, 3 and 5?
(a) 880 (b) 760 (c) 440 (d) 320

11. 80% passed in English, 70% passed in Maths and 15% failed in both. If 325 students passed in
both subjects. Find total students?
(a) 500 (b) 400 (c) 800 (d) 600

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 12. In an examination, 27 students passed in English (E), 29 students passed in Hindi (H), 25
students passed in Telugu (T); 10 students passed in E and H; 8 students passed in H and T; and
6 students passed in E and T. The number of students who passed in each subject alone was
equal, and was 15 for each subject. A total of 70 students wrote the exams in all the three subjects.
Match the following List A with the List B:
List A List B
A. The number of students who passed in T an H, but not in E I. 9
B. The number of students who have failed in all the three subjects II. 12
C. The number of students who passed in all the three subjects III. 16
D. The number of students who passed in two subjects only IV. 34
V. 4
Choose the correct answer:
(a) A-IV; B-II; C-III; D-I (b) A-II; B-III; C-IV; D-V
(c) A-I; B-III; C-IV; D-V (d) A-IV; B-I; C-V; D-II
13. In a degree programme of a college, the number of students who opted for only Physics is twice
the number of students who opted for Chemistry. The number of students who opted only for
Chemistry is twice the number of students who opted for both Physics and Chemistry. Then the
number of students who opted for Physics is how many times the number of students who opted
for both Physics and Chemistry?
(a) 5 (b) 7 (c) 6 (d) 3
UPSC PYQS
1. In a group of 120 persons, 80 are Indians and rest are foreigners. Further, 70 persons in the group
can speak English. The number of Indians who can speak English is (UPSC CSAT 2021)
(a) 20 (b) 30 (c) 30 or less (d) 30or more

2. All members of a club went to Mumbai and stayed in a hotel. On the first day, 80% went for
shopping and 50% went for sight-seeing, whereas 10% took rest in the hotel.
Which of the following conclusion(s) can be drawn from the above data? (UPSC CSAT 2019)
i) 40% members went for shopping as well as sight-seeing.
ii) 20% members went for only shopping.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

(a) 1 only (b) 2 only

(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2

3. In a group of 15 people, 7 can read French, 8 can read English while 3 of them can read neither
of these two languages. The number of people who can read exactly one language is?
(UPSC CSAT 2019)
(a) 10 (b) 9 (c) 5 (d) 4

4. Out of a total of 120 musicians in a club, 5% can play all the three instruments, guitar, violin and
flute. It so happens that the number of musicians who can play any two and only two of the
above instruments is 30. The number of musicians who can play the guitar alone is 40. What is
the total number of those who can play violin alone or flute alone? (CSAT 2014)
(a) 45 (b) 44 (c) 38 (d) 30

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 5. There are 50 students admitted to a nursery class. Some students can speak only English and
some can speak only Hindi. 10 students can speak both English and Hindi. If the number of
students who can speak English is 21, then how many students can speak Hindi, how many can
speak only Hindi and how many can speak only English? (CSAT 2014)
(a) 21, 11and 29 respectively (b) 28, 18 and 22 respectively
(c) 37, 27 and 13 respectively (d) 39, 29 and 11 respectively

6. In a town, 45% population read magazine A, 55% read magazine B, 40% read magazine C, 30%
read magazines A and B, 15% read magazines B and C, 25% read magazines A and C; and 10%
read all the three magazines. What percentage do not read any magazine? (UPSC CSAT 2015)
(a) 10% (b) 15% (c) 20% (d) 25%

7. In an examination, 52% candidates failed in English and 42% failed in Mathematics. If 17% failed
in both the subjects, then what percent passed in both the subjects? (UPSC CDS 2019)
(a) 77 (b) 58 (c) 48 (d) 23

8. In an examination, 50% of the candidates failed in English, 40% failed in Hindi and 15% failed
in both the subjects. The percentage of candidates who passed in both English and Hindi is
(UPSC CDS 2018)
(a) 20% (b) 25% (c) 60% (d) 75%

9. In an examination, 35% students failed in Hindi, 45% students failed in English and 20%
students failed in both the subjects. What is the percentage of students passing in both the
subjects? (UPSC CDS 2017)
(a) 0 (b) 20 (c) 30 (d) 40

10. In a party of 150 persons, 75 persons take tea, 60 persons take coffee and 50 persons take milk.
15 of them take both tea and coffee, but no one taking milk takes tea. If each person in the party
takes at least one drink, then what is the number of persons taking milk only? (UPSC CDS 2023)
(a) 50 (b) 40 (c) 30 (d) 20

11. In a party, 75 persons took tea, 60 persons took coffee and 15 persons took both tea and coffee.
No one taking milk takes tea. Each person takes at least one drink.
Question: How many persons attended the party?
Statement-1: 50 persons took milk.
Statement-2: Number of persons who attended the party is five times the number of persons
who took milk only.
Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above question and the statements? (CSAT
2023)
(a) The Question can be answered by using one of the statements alone, but cannot be answered
using the other statement alone.
(b) The question can be answered by using either statement alone.
(c) The question can be answered by using both the statements together, but cannot be answered
using either statement alone.
(d) The question cannot be answered even by using both the statements together

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