CSAT Reasoning questions from IAS 2011.
You are an officer-in-charge for providing basic medical facilities to the survivors of an earthquake-affected area. Despite your best possible efforts, people put allegations against you for making money out of the funds given for relief. You would:
A, B, C, D and E are members of the same family. There are two fathers, two sons, two wives, three males and two females. The teacher was the wife of a lawyer who was the son of a doctor. E is not a male, neither also a wife of a professional. C is the youngest person in the family and D is the eldest. B is a male. Whose wife is the teacher?
You are the officer-in-charge administering vaccine distribution in an isolated, epidemic-hit village, and you are left with only one vaccine. There is a requirement for that vaccine from both the Gram Pradhan and a poor villager. You are being pressurised by the Gram Pradhan to issue the vaccine to him. You would:
Consider the following argument: In order to be a teacher one must graduate from college. All poets are poor. Some Mathematicians are poets. No college graduate is poor. Which one of the following is not a valid conclusion regarding the above argument?
You, as an administrative authority, have been approached by the daughter-in-law of an influential person regarding harassment by her in-laws on account of insufficient dowry. Her parents are unable to approach you due to social pressures. You would:
A, B, C, D and E are members of the same family. There are two fathers, two sons, two wives, three males and two females. The teacher was the wife of a lawyer who was the son of a doctor. E is not a male, neither also a wife of a professional. C is the youngest person in the family and D is the eldest. B is a male. How is D related to E?
The question below consists of four statements. Of these four statements, two cannot both be true, but both can be false. Study the statements carefully and identify the two that satisfy the above condition. Select the correct answer using the codes given below each set of statements: Examine the following statements: 1. All trains are run by diesel engine. 2. Some trains are run by diesel engine. 3. No train is run by diesel engine. 4. Some trains are not run by diesel engine.
You have to accomplish a very important task for your Headquarters within the next two days. Suddenly you meet with an accident. Your office insists that you complete the task. You would:
A, B, C, D and E are members of the same family. There are two fathers, two sons, two wives, three males and two females. The teacher was the wife of a lawyer who was the son of a doctor. E is not a male, neither also a wife of a professional. C is the youngest person in the family and D is the eldest. B is a male. Who are the females in the group?
The question below consists of four statements. Of these four statements, two cannot both be true, but both can be false. Study the statements carefully and identify the two that satisfy the above condition. Select the correct answer using the codes given below each set of statements: Examine the following statements: 1. All animals are carnivorous. 2. Some animals are not carnivorous. 3. Animals are not carnivorous. 4. Some animals are carnivorous.
Consider the following figure and answer the item that follows: [Image: Question Image] A square is divided into four rectangles as shown above. The lengths of the sides of rectangles are natural numbers. The areas of two rectangles are indicated in the figure. What is the length of each side of the square?
Consider the figure given below and answer the items that follows: [Image: Question Image] In the figure shown above, OP1 and OP2 are two plane mirrors kept perpendicular to each other. S is the direction of a beam of light filing on the mirror OP1. The direction of the reflected beam of light from the mirror OP2 will be:
Consider the following figures: [Image: Question Image] What is the missing number?
You have been asked to give an explanation for not attending an important official meeting. Your immediate boss who has not informed you about the meeting is now putting pressure on you not to place an allegation against him/her. You would:
You have taken up a project to create night-shelters for homeless people during the winter season. Within a week of establishing the shelters, you have received complaints from the residents of the area about an increase in theft cases with a demand to remove the shelters. You would:
Consider the following figure and answer the item that follows: [Image: Question Image] What is the minimum number of different colours required to paint the figure given above such that no two adjacent regions have the same colour?
Study the following figure: [Image: image] A person goes from A to B always moving to the right or downwards along the lines. How many different routes can he adopt?
Consider the following three statements: 1. Only students can participate in the race. 2. Some participants in the race are girls. 3. All girl participants in the race are invited for coaching. Which one of the following conclusions can be drawn from the above statements?
Consider the following figure and answer the item that follows: [Image: Question Image] What is total number of triangles in the above grid?
The houses of A and B face each other on a road going north south, A's being on the western side. A comes out of his house, turns left, travels 5 km, turns right, travels 5 km to the front of D's house. B does exactly the same and reaches the front of C's house. In this context, which one of the following, Statements is correct?
You have been made responsible to hire boats at short notice to be used for an area under flood. On seeing the price mentioned by the boat owners, you find that the lowest price is approximately three times more than the approved rate of the Government. You would:
In a queue, Mr. X is fourteenth from the front and Mr. Y is seventeenth from the end, while Mr. Z is exactly in between - Mr. X and Mr. Y. If Mr. X is a head of Mr. Y and there are 48 persons in the queue, how many persons are there between Mr. X and Mr. Z?
There are 100 students in a particular class. 60% students play cricket, 30% student play football and 10% student play both the games. What is the number of students who play neither cricket nor football?
A local thug (bad element) has started illegal construction on your vacant plot. He has refused your request to vacate and threatened you of dire consequences in case you do not sell the property at a cheap price to him. You would: