Reasoning Quiz

Directions (1-2): In each question below a statement is given followed by two courses of action numbered I and II.

A course of action is a practicable and feasible step or administrative decision to be taken for follow-up, improvement, or further action in regard to the problem policy, etc. on the basis of the information given in the statement, you have to assume everything in the statement to be true, and decide which of the suggested course of action logically follows for pursuing give answer:

(1) if only I follow

(2) if only II follows

(3) if either I or II follows

(4) if neither I nor II follows

(5) if both I and II follows

1.          Statement: Many complaints have been registered lately by commuters regarding unavailability of railway tickets during the peak travelling season.

Courses of action:

I. The commuters should be advised to defer their travel plans till the peak season gets over.

II. Railways should try to accommodate as many commuters as possible by adding extra coaches to the trains.

2.          Statement: Leader of a National Party residing near a proposed highway project has given an application expressing his community’s opposition to construction of the highway through their residential area.

Courses of action:

I. Government should convince the national community stating the fact that building of the highway would bring development in their area.

II. Government should immediately stall the highway project in response to the resistance faced by the tribal community.

Directions (3-5): In each of these questions, two statements marked as I and II are provided there may have a cause and effect relationship or may have independent causes or be the effects of independent causes. Read the statements carefully and mark answer as

(1) if the statement I is the cause and statement II is its effect

(2) if the statement II is the cause and statement I is its effect

(3) if both the statements I and II are effects of independent causes

(4) if both the statements are effects of some common cause

(5) if both the statements I and II are independent causes

3.          Statement I: There has been an increase level column at all places in Mumbai due to the last year’s monsoon rains

Statement II: Many flights had to be cancelled last year due to water-logging on the runway and airport

4.          Statement I: It is the boundary duty of each citizen of the country to fight the pollution of corruption by contributing their best in this Endeavour to safeguard the healthy growth of the country

Statement II: The alarming pollution of corruption is causing corrupt practices to constant multiply

5.          Statement I: There is an outbreak of several epidemics in the country.

Statement II: There was a worst flood situation even experienced in the past most parts of the country

Directions (6-10): Study the following information

In each questions below are two/three statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the two/three given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts. Give answer

(1) if only conclusion I follows

(2) if only conclusion II follows

(3) if either conclusion I or conclusion II follows

(4) if neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows

(5) if both conclusion I and II follows

6.          Statements: All roads are traffics. All buses are roads. No taxi is traffic.

Conclusions:

I. Some roads being taxi is a possibility

II. At least some traffic are buses

7.          Statements: No hostel is an apartment. Some PGs are apartments.

Conclusions:

I. No hostel is PGs

II. All PGs are hostels

8.          Statements: Some guns are bullets. All bullets are fire.

Conclusions:

I. All guns being fire is a possibility

II. All such guns which are not fire can never be fires.

9.          Statements: All minutes are seconds. All seconds are hours. No second is a day

Conclusions:

I. No day is an hour

II. At least same hours are minutes

10.      Statements: Some teachers are happy. Some lecturers are teachers.

Conclusions:

I. No happy is a lecturers

II. All lecturers being happy is a possibility

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