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Reasoning Ability

Verbal, non-verbal, and analytical logic: Syllogisms, Circular & Linear Seating Arrangements, Puzzles, Coding-Decoding, and Direction Sense.

13 Chapter Topics Venn & Logic Deduction 98+ Practice Questions Puzzles & Arrangements

Reasoning Ability Topics (13 Chapters)

Each chapter includes concept explanations, key formulas, distractor trap alerts, and real exam practice questions with detailed solutions.

Seating arrangement questions place people in a row or around a table from a set of clues. Draw the seats and fill in the…

Key Rule: Note the facing direction: for people facing north, their left is your left; facing south, it is reversed.
3 Qs

Alphabet test questions ask for a letter by its position, or the position of a letter. Knowing the letter numbers saves time.

Key Rule: A=1 … Z=26; reverse position = 27 βˆ’ position.

Order and ranking questions give a person's position from both ends of a row and ask for the total, or the reverse.

Key Rule: Total in a row = position from left + position from right βˆ’ 1.

Classification (odd one out) questions show items that share a property, except one. Find the property, then the item that…

Key Rule: Number checks: prime or composite, odd or even, squares, cubes, multiples, digit sums.
3 Qs

Letter series questions follow a fixed gap between letters. Convert letters to numbers and find the gap.

Key Rule: Use A=1 … Z=26 and look at the differences.
13 Qs

Number series questions ask for the next term (or a wrong term) of a pattern. Start with the differences between terms.

Key Rule: Check first differences, then second differences.

Calendar questions find the day of the week after a number of days, or for a date. Everything depends on the remainder when…

Key Rule: Odd days = number of days mod 7.

Clock questions mostly ask for the angle between the hour and minute hands at a given time.

Key Rule: Angle = |30H βˆ’ 5.5M| degrees, where H is the hour and M the minutes.
3 Qs

Coding-decoding questions show how one word is coded and ask you to code another word by the same rule.

Key Rule: Compare each letter with its code: count the shift (+1, βˆ’2, …).
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Analogy

3 Qs

Analogy questions give a pair with a relationship (A : B) and ask for the item that has the same relationship with a third.

Key Rule: Number analogies: squares, cubes, nΒ² + 1, n Γ— (n + 1), digit operations.
26 Qs

Direction sense questions track turns and distances to find a final direction or distance from the start. Draw a quick sketch.

Key Rule: A right turn is 90Β° clockwise; a left turn is 90Β° anticlockwise.
12 Qs

Blood relation questions describe family links and ask how two people are related. Draw a small family tree with genders.

Key Rule: Start from the person the statement is about and work outward.
22 Qs

Syllogism questions give statements and ask which conclusions must follow. Treat the statements as true even if they sound odd,…

Key Rule: "All A are B": circle A inside circle B.

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