Reasoning Questions for Banking Exams

1. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?


a) Fearless : Courage
b) Fit : Health

c) Reliable : Trust
d) Wealthy : Money
e) Famous : Ambition


2. If it is possible to make only one meaningful word with the fifth, the ninth the eleventh and the twelfth letters of the word HORTICULTURE using each letter only once in each word, which of the following will be the last letter of that word? If no such word can be made, give answer ‘N’ and if more than one such word can be made, give answer ‘M’.


a) E
b) T
c) R
d) N
e) M


3. In a certain code, SHADOW is written as TGBCPV and PURE is written as ‘QTSD’ How is LENGTH written in that code?


a) MFOHUI
b) MDMFUG
c) MDOFUI
d) MFOFSG
e) None of These


4. How many such pairs of letters are there in the word MISCONDUCT each of which has as many as letters between them in the word as in the English alphabet ?


a) None
b) One
c) Two
d) Three
e) More than three


5.If 9 : 27 and 16 : 64 then 81 : ?


a) 324
b) 729
c) 289
d) 243
e) 125


6. In a certain code HEART is written as @8531 and FEAST is written as’# 8541′ How is ‘FARTHEST’ written in that code?


a) @8543#18
b) #5314@81
c) #531@841
d) 4531@845
e) None of these


7. Pointing to Hari, Seema says. “He is the grandfather of Mahesh my eldest son. How is Hari related to Seema ?


a) Father
b) Uncle
c) Brother-in-law
d) Data inadequate
e) None of these


8. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group ?


a) Planet
b) Sun
c) Earth
d) Moon
e) Star


9. If ‘sun’ is called ‘moon’, ‘moon’ is called ‘earth’, ‘earth’ is called ‘sky’, ‘sky’ is called ‘star’ and ‘star’ is called ‘sun’, where do birds fly ?


a) Star
b) Moon
c) Sky
d) Sun
e) None of these


10. If the positions of the first and the eighth letters of the word REPRESENTATIVE are interchanged. Similarly the positions of the second and the ninth letters of the word are interchanged and so on, which of the following will be the fourth to the left of the sixth from the left end after the rearrangement ?


a) E
b) A
c) P
d) T
e) None of those


(Directions 11-15) Study the following arrangement carefully and answer the questions given below:
Y H 4 T $ F O 9 V * R 5 Q M @ I E 7 K C 2 Z W A # N


11. If all the numbers in the above arrangement are arranged in ascending order from left to right how many numbers will retain their position within the arrangement after rearrangement ?


a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) None
e) None of those


12. How many such elements are there in the above arrangement, each of which is immediately followed by a vowel and immediately preceded by a symbol?


a) None
b) One
c) Two
d) Three
e) More than three


13. Position wise $ is related to M and Y is the same way as 5 is related to which of the following ?


a) 9 and
b) and V
c) K and I
d) 4 and I
e) None of These


14. If the positions of the elements in the above arrangement are interchanged i.e. first and twenty-sixth, second and twenty-fifth and so on and the position of the last element is left unchanged which of the following will be tenth from the left end after rearrangement ?


a) *
b) V
c) 7
d) E
e) None of these


15. If all the vowels in the above arrangement are dropped which of the following will be the middle element ?


a) Q
b) R
c) 5
d) M
e) None of these




(Directions 16-18) These questions are based on the following information: ‘A* B’ means ‘B is the father of A’. ‘A $ B’ means ‘A is the sister of B’. ‘A@ B’ means ‘A is the mother of B’. ‘A = B’ means ‘B is the brother of A’.


16. If R @ Q = L * M = P how is R related to P ?


a) Cousin Sister
b) Mother-in-law
c) Aunt
d) Data inadequate
e) None of these


17. Which of the following means L is the aunt of Q ?


a) L@P$M=Q
b) L$M@N=Q
c) L=N*R=Q
d) L$M*N=Q 
e) None of these


18. Which of the following meanings of arithmetical signs will yield the value zero for the expression given below? 1000 $ 10 * (16 @ 5?20)


a) $ means ÷, * means +, @ means x, ? means –
b) $ means x, * means +, @ means -, ? means ÷
c) $ means ÷, * means -, @ means x, ? means +
d) $ means +, * means ÷, @ means -, ? means x
e) None of these


(Directions 19-20) The letters in each of the following five words are written in alphabetical order and five new sets of letters are obtained. HAD OLD ART WOE PER


19. Which word will remain unchanged even after rearrangement in alphabetical order ?


a) WOE
b) PER
c) HAD
d) ART
e) None


20. If it is possible to make one meaningful English word from the last letter of each of the five words after their rearrangement in alphabetical order the last letter of the word is your answer. If no word can be made ‘Z’ is your answer and if more than one such word can be made then ‘Y is your answer.


a) Y
b) R
c) H
d) W
e) Z