IAS CSAT — Reasoning previous year questions with solutions.
What is the least possible number of cuts required to cut a cube into 64 identical pieces?
If in a certain code, ‘ABCD’ is written as 24 and ‘EFGH’ is written as 1680, then how is IJKL’ written in that code?
If in a certain code, ‘POT’ is written as ATOP and ‘TRAP’ is written as APART, then how is ‘ARENA’ written in that code?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. Question: What are the unique values of x and y, where x, y are distinct natural numbers? 1. Statement-I: x / y is odd. 2. Statement-II: xy = 12 Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
How many times the hour hand and the minute hand coincide in a clock between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. (same day)?
In some code, letters P, Q, R, S, T represent numbers 4, 5, 10, 12, 15. It is not known which letter represents which number. If Q – S = 2S and T = R + S + 3, then what is the value of P + R – T?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. Question: What are the values of m and n where m and n are natural numbers? Statement-I: m + n > mn and m > n. Statement-II: The product of m and n is 24. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. Question: If the average marks in a class are 60, then what is the number of students in the class? Statement-I: The highest marks in the class are 70 and the lowest marks are 50. Statement-II: Exclusion of highest and lowest marks from the class does not change the average. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
What will come in place of * in the sequence 3, 14, 39, 84, *, 258?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. There are three distinct prime numbers whose sum is a prime number. Question: What are those three numbers? 1. Statement-1: Their sum is less than 23. 2. Statement-II: One of the numbers is 5. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
A person walks 100 m straight from his house, turns left and walks 100 m, again turns left and walks 300 m, then turns right and walks 100 m to reach his office. In which direction does he walk initially from his house if his office is exactly in the North-East direction?
The calendar for the year 2025 is same for
A father said to his son, “n years back I was as old as you are now. My present age is four times your age n years back”. If the sum of the present ages of the father and the son is 130 years, what is the difference of their ages?
If a + b means a – b; a – b means a × b; a × b means a ÷ b; a ÷ b means a + b, then what is the value of 10 + 30 – 100 × 50 ÷ 25? (Operations are to be replaced simultaneously)
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. A certain amount was distributed among X, Y and Z. Question: Who received the least amount? 1. Statement-1: X received 4/5 of what Y and Z together received. 2. Statement-II: Y received 2/7 of what X and Z together received. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. Question: What is the time required to download the software? 1. Statement-I: The size of the software is 12 megabytes. 2. Statement-II: The transfer rate is 2.4 kilobytes per second. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. P, Q, R and S appeared in a test. Question: Has P scored more marks than Q? Statement-I: The sum of the marks scored by P and Q is equal to the sum of the marks scored by R and S. Statement-II: The sum of the marks scored by P and S is more than the sum of the marks scored by Q and R. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
A Statement is given followed by two Conclusions numbered I and II. Consider the Statement and the Conclusions. Statement: India is the world’s largest producer of milk. Conclusion-I: India is the world’s largest exporter of milk. Conclusion-II: India does not import milk. Which one of the following is correct?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. A person buys three articles p, q and r for ₹50. The price of the article q is ₹16 which is the least. Question: What is the price of the article p? Statement-I: The cost of p is not more than that of r. Statement-II: The cost of r is not more than that of p. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. Question: Is (x + y) an integer? 1. Statement-I: (2x+y) is an integer. 2. Statement-II: (x+2y) is an integer. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
What is the middle term of the sequence Z, Z, Y, Y, Y, X, X, X, X, W, W, W, W, W, …., A?
If \(7 \oplus 9 \oplus 10 = 8\), \(9 \oplus 11 \oplus 30 = 5\), \(11 \oplus 17 \oplus 21 = 13\), what is the value of \(23 \oplus 4 \oplus 15\)?
The letters of the word "INCOMPREHENSIBILITIES" are arranged alphabetically in reverse order. How many positions of the letter/letters will remain unchanged?
40 children are standing in a circle and one of them (say child-1) has a ring. The ring is passed clockwise. Child-1 passes on to child-2, child-2 passes on to child-4, child-4 passes on to child-7 and so on. After how many such changes (including child-1) will the ring be in the hands of child-1 again?