Reasoning Quiz for IBPS Clerk 2015 – Set 3

Directions (Q. 1-5):
Study the following information carefully to answer the questions given below:

In a certain code language,
‘answer the given question’ is written as ‘sa pa ka la’, ‘write the question’
is written as ‘sa la ta’, ‘answer is wrong’ is written as ‘ha ja pa’, and ‘read
the answer’ is written as ‘sa na pa’.

1. What will be the
code for ‘read’?

1) na

2) pa

3) ja

4) ha

5) None of these

2. ‘write to answer’
can be coded as

1) sa ja da

2) da ta pa

3) pa na ta

4) pa ka ja

5) None of these

3. ‘sa’ stands for

1) wrong

2) write

3) read

4) the

5) None of these

4. What will be the
code for ‘question is given wrong’?

1) ha ja da la

2) ka la ha ja

3) la ha pa ja

4) Can’t be determined

5) None of these

5. What will be the
code for ‘wrong’?

1) ha

2) pa

3) Either ha or ja

4) Either ja or pa

5) None of these

Directions (Q. 6-10):
Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions:

Seven neighbours S, P, L, Q, R, M
and I live on different floors in the same building having seven floors
numbered one to seven. (The first floor is numbered one, the floor above it is
numbered two and so on and the topmost floor is numbered as seven.) Three
persons live between I and M. M lives on the floor above S, who does not live
on an odd-numbered floor. P does not live on the first floor. I does not live
on the first floor. Two persons live between R and S. Q lives neither on the
first floor nor on the fourth floor.

6. Who lives on the floor
just above M?

1) L

2) P

3) Q

4) R

5) None of these

7. How many persons
live between L and P?

1) None

2) One

3) Two

4) Three

5) Can’t be determined

8. Which of the
following pairs live on the first floor and the topmost floor respectively?

1) L, Q

2) Q, P

3) I, Q

4) L, I

5) Can’t be determined

9. Who among the
following lives on the topmost floor?

1) I

2) Q

3) P

4) L

5) None of these

10. Which of the
following combinations is true?

1) First floor – S

2) Fourth floor – R

3) Third floor – M

4) Sixth floor – I

5) None of these