IAS CSAT — Reasoning previous year questions with solutions.
Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting equidistant from each other around a circular table (facing the centre of the table): Consider the question and two statements given below: Question: Who is sitting on the immediate left of A? Statement 2: B is sitting opposite to C and D is sitting opposite to E. Statement 3: F is sitting on the immediate left of B. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the question and the statements?
What is the value of x in the sequence 2, 12, 36, 80, 150, X?
An Identity Card has the number ABCDEFG, not necessarily in that order, where each letter represents a distinct digit (1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 only). The number is divisible by 9. After deleting the first digit from the right the resulting number is divisible by 6. After deleting two digits from the right of original number, the resulting number is divisible by 5. After deleting three digits from the right of original number, the resulting number is divisible by 4. After deleting four digits from the right of original number, the resulting number is divisible by 3. After deleting five digits from the right of original number, the resulting number is divisible by 2. Which of the following is a possible value for the sum of the middle three digits of the number?
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?
If the order of the letters in the English alphabet is reversed and each letter represents the letter whose position it occupies, then which one of the following represents ‘LUCKNOW’?
Five friends P, Q, X, Y and Z purchased some notebooks. The relevant information is given below: 1. Z purchased 8 notebooks more than X did. 2. P and Q together purchased 21 notebooks. 3. Q purchased 5 notebooks less than P did. 4. X and Y together purchased 28 notebooks. 5. P purchased 5 notebooks more than X did. If each notebook is priced Rs 40, then what is the total cost of all the notebooks?
Consider the questions and two statements given below: Question: Is x an integer? Statement-1: \(\frac{x}{3}\) is not an integer. Statement-2: 3x is an integer. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the question and statements?
Consider the Question and two Statements given below Question: What is the age Manisha? Statement-1: Manisha is 24 years younger than her mother. Statement-2: 5 years later, the ages of Manisha and her mother will be in the ratio 3 : 5. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the question and the statements?
Consider the questions and two statements given below: Question: Is Z brother of X? 1. Statement 1: X is a brother of Y and Y is a brother of Z. 2. Statement 2: X, Y and Z are siblings. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the question and statements?
Three statements followed by three conclusions are given below. You have to take the statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from the commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows/follow from the statements, disregarding the commonly known facts: 1. Statement-1: Some doctors are teachers. 2. Statement-2: All teachers are engineers. 3. Statement-3: All engineers are scientists. 4. Conclusion-I: Some scientists are doctors. 5. Conclusion-II: All engineers are doctors. 6. Conclusion-III: Some engineers are doctors. Which one of the following is correct?
P, Q, R, S, T and U are six members of a family. R is the spouse of Q. U is the mother of T and S is the daughter of U. P’s daughter is T and R’s son is P. There are two couples in the family. Which one of the following is correct?
Eight students A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H sit around a circular table, equidistant from each other, facing the centre of the table, not necessarily in the same order. B and D sit neither adjacent to C nor opposite to C. A sits in between E and E, and F in between B and H. Which one of the following is definitely correct?
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
Consider two Statements and a Question: Statement-1: Each of A and D is heavier than each of B, E and F, but none of them is the heaviest. Statement-2: A is heavier than D, but is lighter than C. Question: Who is the heaviest among A, B, C, D and E? Which one of the following is correct in respect of the Statements and the Question?
A bank employee drives 10 km towards South from her house and turns to her left and drives another 20 km. She again turns left and drives 40 km, then she turns to her right and drives for another 5 km. She again turns to her right and drives another 30 km to reach her bank where she works. What is the shortest distance between her bank and her house?
In a code language 'MATHEMATICS' is written as 'LBSIDNZUHDR'. How is CHEMISTRY' written in that code language?
A statement followed by Conclusion-I and Conclusion-II is given below. You have to take the statement to be true even if it seems to be at variance from the commonly known facts. Read all Conclusions and then decide which of the given Conclusion(s) logically follows/follow from the statement, disregarding the commonly known facts. Statement: Some radios are mobiles. All mobiles are computers. Some computers are watches. Conclusion-I: Certainly some radios are watches. Conclusion-II: Certainly some mobiles are watches. Which one of the following is correct?
Consider two Statements and four Conclusions given below. You have to take the Statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from the commonly known facts. Read all conclusions and then decide which of the given Conclusion(s) logically follows/follow from the Statements, disregarding the commonly known facts. 1. Statement-1: Some greens are blues. 2. Statements-2: Some blues are blacks. 3. Conclusion-1: Some greens are blacks. 4. Conclusion-2: No green is black. 5. Conclusion-3: All greens are blacks. 6. Conclusion-4: All blacks are greens. Which one of the following is correct?
You are given two identical sequences in two rows: | | | | | Sequence-I: | 8 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 52.5 | 236.25 Sequence-II: | 5 | A | B | C | D | E What is the entry in the place of C for the Sequence-II?
Which day is 10th October, 2027?
Replace the incorrect term by the correct term in the given sequence 3, 2, 7, 4, 13, 10, 21, 18, 31, 28, 43, 40 where odd terms and even terms follow the same pattern.
Consider two Statements and a Question: 1. Statement-I: Priya is 4 ranks below Seema and is 31st from the bottom. 2. Statement-II: 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?
A woman runs 12 km towards her North, then 6 km towards her South and then 8 km towards her East. In which direction is she from her starting point?
Following is a matrix of certain entries. The entries follow a certain trend row-wise. Choose the missing entry (?) accordingly. | 7B | 10A | 3C 3C | 9B | 6A 10A | 13C | ?