Abhinav’s Reasoning Challenges for Bank PO Exams 2016 – 10 September, 2016

1. How many pairs of letters are there in the word
UNDERSUBSCRIBED which have number of letters between them in the word two less
than the number of letters between them in English alphabet?

a)    four

b)    three

c)    two

d)    one

e)    more than four

2. If it is possible to make a meaningful word with the
first, the third, the fifth, the tenth and the twelfth letters of the word
THEORETICALLY, using each letter only once, which letter will be the third
letter of that meaningful word? If no such word can be formed mark ‘X’ as your
answer and if two such words can be formed mark ’XX’ as your answer. If three
such words can be formed mark ‘XXX’ as your answer and if more than three such
words can be formed give ‘XXX’ as your answer and if more than three such words
can be formed give ‘XXXX’ as your answer.

a)    XX

b)    T

c)    XXX

d)    XXXX

e)    None of these

3. In a certain code language RENOWNED is written as
DEENNORW. How is INFORMATION written in that code?

a)    AFIMINNOORT

b)    AFIIMNNOORT

c)    NONFIOIRAMT

d)    AFIMINNOORT

e)    None of these

4. Each letter of the word COMPETITION is replaced by a
letter that is two letters after that in alphabet and each letter is assigned a
numeric value which is equal to its position no. in alphabet. The sum of the
numeric values of the letters of this new word is divisible by

a)    2

b)    5

c)    3

d)    7

e)    None of these

5. Q travel towards East. M travels towards North, S and T
travel in opposite directions. T travels towards right of Q. Which of the
following is definitely true?

a)    T travels
towards North.

b)    S travels
towards West.

c)    M and S travel
in the opposite directions.

d)    M and S travel
in the same direction.

e)    None of these

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6. If Thursday was the day after the day before yesterday
five days ago, what is the lease number of days ago when Sunday was three days
before the day after tomorrow?

a)    Two

b)    Five

c)    Three

d)    Four

e)    None of these

7. In a class of 180, where girls are twice the number of
boys, Rupesh, a boy, ranked thirty – fourth from the top. If there are eighteen
girls ahead of Rupesh, how many boys are after him in rank?

a)    60

b)    44

c)    45

d)    Can’t be
determined

e)    None of these

8. 3 2 5 1 7 2 8 5 9 3 5 5 4 1 6 5 3 8 5 4 3 5 1 3 2 5 6

In the above sequence in some cases, the multiplication of
the two digits which immediately proceed the digit ‘5’ exceeds the
multiplication of two digits which immediately follow that digit. How many such
5’s are there?

a)    6

b)    7

c)    5

d)    4

e)    None of these

9. If 2 is subtracted from the middle digit of the following
numbers and then the position of the digits are reversed, which of the
following will be the last digit of the middle number after they are arranged
in descending order?

489  362 154  271
542

a)    1

b)    5

c)    4

d)    2

e)    3

10. If the first and the fifth digits of the number 9 3 1 5
2 8 6 7 are interchanged, so are the second and the sixth digits, and so on,
then what should be the second digits from the right?

a)    1

b)    6

c)    8

d)    3

e)    None of these