Abhinav’s Reasoning Challenges for Bank PO Exams 2016 – 18 August, 2016

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

There are five friends A, B, C, D
and E. Two of them are businessmen while the other three belong to three
different occupations, viz. medical, engineering and legal. A businessman and
the lawyer stay in the same locality S. The other three stay in three different
localities P, Q and R. Two of these five persons are Hindus while the remaining
three come from three different communities, Viz Muslim, Christian and Sikh.

The lawyer is the oldest in age
while the businessman who runs a factory is the youngest. The other businessman
is a cloth merchant and lies between the doctor and the lawyer agewise. D is a
cloth merchant and stays in locality S while E is a Muslim and stays in
locality R. The doctor is a Christian and stays in locality P.B is a Sikh while
A is a Hindu and runs a factory.

1). What is  B’s occupation?

a)    Doctor

b)    Lawyer

c)    Engineer

d)    Business

e)    Can’t stay

2). What is E’s occupation?

a)    Doctor

b)    Lawyer

c)    Engineer

d)    Business

e)    Can’t say

3). What is C’s occupation?

a)    Doctor

b)    Laywer

c)    Engineer

d)    Business

e)    Can’t say

4). Agewise, who among the
following lies between A and C?

a)    Can’t stay

b)    Lawyer

c)    Doctor

d)    Cloth merchant

e)    None of these

5). Which of the following
statements is true on the basis of the given information?

a)    E’s religion is Hindu

b)    A stays in place R

c)    C is a lawyer

d)    D’s religion is Hindu

e)    B is a doctor

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Directions (6-10): Study the
following information carefully and answer the questions give below:

(i) Ashok, Bablu, Chandan,
Dharmendra, Ekta and Fool Babu are six children

Of Mrs Rajeshwar. Each of the
children was born on different days of the week except Sunday. Mrs.Rajeshwar
gave birth to a child every alternate year but not necessarily in the same
order as the names of the children are given. Each child studies a different
subject. The subjects are Hindi, Geology, Philosophy, English, Psychology and
Biology.

(ii) Dharmendra was born on
Tuesday in the late 1990s and he studies Hindi whereas Chandan studies
Psychology. The child who was born on Wednesday studies Geology. The fourth
eldest child studies English while Bablu studies Biology.

(iii) Ashok, who was born in
1989, studies Philosophy. Psychology is studied by the third eldest child who
was born on Friday.

(iv) Bablu was born on Thursday
and Fool Babu on Saturday. Ashok is the eldest child while Ekta is the youngest

6). In which year was Dharmendra
born?

a)    1989

b)    1991

c)    1993

d)    Data inadequate

e)    None of these

7). If Ekta was the only daughter
of Mrs Rajeshwar then after the birth of how many sons did Mrs Rajeshwar give
birth to a daughter?

a)    One

b)    Two

c)    Four

d)    Data inadequate

e)    None of these

8). On which day was Ashok born?

a)    Monday

b)    Wednesday

c)    Friday

d)    Data inadequate

e)    None of these

9). What is Chandan’s rank (in
terms of ascending order of age) among the children?

a)    Second

b)    Fourth

c)    Fifth

d)    Data inadequate

e)    None of these

10). In which year was Babu born?

a)    1989

b)    1993

c)    1995

d)    Data inadequate

e)    None of these