Reasoning Quiz for IRDAI Junior Officer 2016 – Set 1

Directions (Q. 1-7): Study the following information
carefully and answer the given questions.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are
eight members of a family. They belong to three different generations. There
are three married couples. All of them are sitting around a circular table, facing
the centre but not necessarily in the same order. D and F are a married couple.
D, the wife of F, sits second to the left of her husband. C and A are offspring
of D. A is not an immediate neighbour of his mother. There is only one person
sitting between C and his niece G, but that person is not G’s father. E, a bachelor,
sits third to the right of his uncle A, but neither to the opposite nor to the
immediate left of his father. G is not an immediate neighbour of her aunt B. No
three females are sitting together. C and his sister-in-law are immediate
neighbour.

1. Who among the
following is G’s father?

1) F

2) A

3) H

4) B

5) Can’t be determined

2. How many females
are there in the family?

1) Two

2) Three

3) Five

4) Can’t be determined

5) None of these

3. What is the
position of D with respect to her grand-daughter?

1) Second to the left

2) Fourth to the right

3) Third to the right

4) Fourth to the left

5) Immediate left

4. Who among the
following is the aunt of E?

1) B

2) D

3) G

4) H

5) Can’t be determined

5. Which of the
following represents a group of male members of the family?

1) EB

2) FG

3) CG

4) FA

5) Can’t be determined

6. Who among the
following is sitting opposite his wife?

1) F

2) C

3) A

4) E

5) None of these

7. Starting from A,
if all of them are made to sit in alphabetical order in clockwise direction,
the position of how many members
will remain unchanged? (excluding A)

1) One

2) Two

3) Three

4) Four

5) None of these

Directions (Q. 8 –
12): Study the following information to answer the given questions.

A word and number arrangement machine when given an input of
words and numbers, rearranges them following a particular rule. The following
is an illustration of input and rearrangement.

Input: economy on
16 is cool hot begin 14 but new again 24

Step I: begin 14 economy on 16 is cool hot
but new again 24

Step II: begin 14 on 16 economy is cool hot
but new again 24

Step III: begin
14 on 16 again 24 economy is cool hot but new

Step IV: begin 14
on 16 again 24 new economy is cool hot but

Step V: begin 14
on 16 again 24 new is economy cool hot but

Step VI: begin 14
on 16 again 24 new is hot economy cool but

Step VI is the last step of the rearrangement.

As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out in
each of the following questions the appropriate step for the following input:

Input: Garden
heat 36 in 8 below normal in 2 over

8. Which of the
following would be the final arrangement?

1) in 2 in 8 heat 36 Garden below normal over

2) in 2 in 8 heat 36 over normal Garden below

3) in 2 in 8 heat 36 normal over Garden below

4) in 2 in 8 heat 36 normal Garden over below

5) None of these

9. Which step number
will be the following output?

in 2 in 8 heat 36 Garden below normal over

1) III

2) IV

3) VI

4) V

5) There will be no such step

10. In Step IV which
of the following words/numbers would be at eighth position from the left?

1) over

2) 36

3) below

4) Garden

5) None of these

11. Which of the
following steps will be the last but one step of the rearrangement?

1) IV

2) V

3) VI

4) VII

5) None of these

12. In step III, if
‘heat’ is related to ‘Garden’ and ‘Garden’ is related to ‘normal’ in a certain
way, which of the following would
‘36’ be related to in the same pattern?

1) Heat

2) Normal

3) 8

4) Below

5) None of these