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IAS CSAT — Reasoning previous year questions with solutions.
All Reasoning Questions (393)
Six lectures A, B, C, D, E and F each of one hour duration, are scheduled between 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Consider the question and two statements given below: Question: Which lecture is in the third period? 1. Statement 2: Lecture F is preceded by A and followed by C. 2. Statement 3: There is no lecture after lecture B. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the question and the 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?
Consider the following statements: 1. Between 3:16 pm and 3:17pm., both hour hand and minute hand coincide. 2. Between 4:58 pm and 4:59 pm, both minute hand and second hand coincide. Which of the above statements are correct?
Two friends X and Y start running and they run together for 50m in the same direction and reach a point. X turns right and runs 60 m, while Y turns left and runs 40 m. Then X turns left and runs 50 m and stops, while Y turns right and runs 50 m and then stops. How far are the two friends from each other now?
Consider the questions and two statements given below in respect of three cities P, Q and R is a state: Question: How far is city P from city Q? Statement 1: City Q is 18 km from city R. Statement 2: City P is 43 km from city R. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the question and statements?
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’?
Which date of June 2099 among the following in Sunday?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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 | ?
Seven books P, Q, R, S, T, U and V are placed side by side. R, Q and T have blue covers and other books have red covers. Only S and U are new books and the rest are old. P, R and S are law reports; the rest are Gazetteers. Books of old Gazetteers with blue covers are
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?
In a code language 'MATHEMATICS' is written as 'LBSIDNZUHDR'. How is CHEMISTRY' written in that code language?
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 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?
Which day is 10th October, 2027?
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?
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?
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: 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?
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?