Set - 76

Q1. If C and D are standing in the 3rd and the 4th

positions, not necessarily in that order, which of the
following can be true of the other members of the team
and the positions in which they stand?
A team of five members is to be selected from nine persons – A, B, C, D, a) 1st position - B or G, 2nd position-A , 5th position-F
E, F, G, H and J. After the selection, these five members stand in b) 1st position - G, 2nd position- A, 5th position - J
positions 1 to 5 in a queue, the person at the front of the queue being in c) 1st position - B, 2nd position - A, 5th position - F
the 1st position and the person at the end of the queue being in the 5th d) 1st position - G, 2nd position - F, 5th position- J
position. The selection of the members and the arrangement of the queue
Q2. If D and C are standing in the 2nd and the 3rd
is to be done based on the following conditions: positions respectively, then in how many different ways
can the queue be formed?
i.If B is selected, D must not be selected. Q3. If D is in the 2nd position, which of the following
cannot be true?
ii.If C does not stand in the 2nd position, then H must not be selected.
a) C stands in the 3 position.
rd

iii.Neither B nor G can stand in any position except the 1 st position. b) A stands behind J.
iv.If H is not selected, then F is selected only if E is standing before him. c) Only one among A and C can be selected
v.If E is selected, then he must stand in the 4 th position. d) J is behind F.

vi.Neither A nor H can stand in the 5 th position. Q4. If H is in the 4th position, which of the following is not
true?
a) A may not be selected.
b) D may stand in the 5 position.
th

c) F may not stand in the 5 position.

th

d) None of the above

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 Set - 78

Q1. How many persons are taller than Lal?

Six persons, Jai, Lal, Raj, Dev, Man and Kip, were standing in a row, from a) 1
East to West, with each of them facing North. Each person was ranked b) 2
from 1 to 6 on two parameters – Height and Weight. They were ranked c) 3
such that a taller person received a numerically lower rank than a shorter d) 4
person and a heavier person received a numerically lower rank than a
lighter one. Further, no person received the same rank across the two Q2. How many persons are taller than Raj but lighter
parameters. It is also known that than him?
a) 0
b) 1
i.Raj, who is standing two places away from Man, was lighter than at c) 2
least three persons and shorter than at least four persons. d) 3
ii.Kip, who was standing to the immediate left of Dev, was not the tallest
and neither Kip nor Dev were standing at either end. Q3.For which of the six persons was the sum of their
ranks according to height and weight the highest?
iii.Jai was standing two places to the left of the tallest person and he was a) Kip
the third shortest among the six. b) Jai
iv.the heaviest person, who is not Kip, is next to the tallest person and the c) Man
lightest person is not standing next to the shortest person. d) Raj
v.neither the shortest nor the lightest were standing at any end, while the
second heaviest person was not standing next to the lightest person. Q4.Which of the following persons is taller than at
least three persons but lighter than at least four?
vi.at least three persons were heavier than the tallest person and at least a) Kip
three persons were taller than the heaviest person. b) Man
c) Raj
d) Lal
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In a country, exactly five different brands of smartphones, P, Q, R, S and T, are Set - 79
sold. Kiran tracked the market shares (by volume) of these five brands, over
four years, from 2015 to 2018. Q1. What is the difference between the number of units of
R sold in 2017 and the number of units of Q sold in 2016?
The following area chart provides the market share of each of the five brands
for each year: Q2. If the difference between the number of units of T sold
in 2017 and that of Q sold in 2015 is 47,500, how many
units of S were sold in 2018?

Q3. The number of units of R sold in 2017 is definitely

greater than
a) the number of units of R sold in 2015.
b) the number of units of P sold in 2018.
c) the number of units of P sold in 2016.
d) None of the above

Q4. If the total number of units of T sold across the four

years is the same as the total number of units of the five
brands sold in the year 2015, how many units of P were
sold in the year 2016?
a) 1,07,000
b) 1,12,000
c) 1,05,000
d) 1,00,000

It is also known that,

i. during one year, among 2016, 2017 and 2018, the total number of units of the five brands sold decreased by 50,000 as compared
to the previous year but in this year, the number of units sold by P increased as compared to the previous year.
ii. during another year, among 2016, 2017 and 2018, the total number of units of the five brands sold decreased by 30,000 as
compared to the previous year but in this year, the number of units sold by R increased as compared to the previous year.
iii. during another year, among 2016, 2017 and 2018, the total number of units of the five brands sold increased by 40,000 as
compared to the previous year but in this year, the number of units sold by Q decreased as compared to the previous year.
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 Set - 83

Q1. What is the highest possible amount that any of the five
contestants can be eligible for?
a) Rs.8 lakh
b) Rs.8.5 lakh
c) Rs.8.75 lakh
At the finals of the “Gaana Sunao” contest, which was conducted all over d) Rs.9 lakh
India, five contestants – C 1 , C 2 , C 3 , C 4 and C 5 – participated. Q2. If one of the contestants is eligible for Rs.5 lakh, then
Before the announcement of the results, six mischievous persons – Azad, what is the total amount that the organizers have to give
away to all the five contestants put together?
Bose, Chand, Dev, Ehsaan and Fardeen – managed to get hold of the
a) Rs.29.5 lakh
result sheet, which contained the scores of each of the five participants.
b) Rs.29 lakh
Each of the six persons then decided to announce the sum of the final
c) Rs.30 lakh
scores of exactly four contestants. So, Azad, Bose, Chand, Dev, Ehsaan
and Fardeen announced their sums as 220, 260, 230, 240, 210 and 250 d) Cannot be determined
points respectively. However, one of them made a mistake in adding the Q3. If two of the contestants put together are eligible to
receive exactly Rs.15 lakh, then who among the following
scores. Also, the organizers of the contest decided to award an amount of could have made the mistake while adding the scores?
Rs.10,000 for each point that a contestant scored. The score of each a) Chand
contestant is an integral value.
b) Dev
c) Ehsaan
d) None of the above
Q4.If the amount awarded to C 1 was half of that awarded to
C 3 , which, in turn, was less than the amount awarded to C 5
, who made the mistake while adding the scores?
a) Ehsaan
b) Chand
c) Fardeen
d) Cannot be determined
 Set - 84

Each of the five batsmen – A, B, C, D and E – belongs to exactly one team

among Rajasthan, Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata and Punjab, not necessarily
in that order. No two of them belong to the same team. In a twenty-20 Q1. Who among the following belongs to team
tournament, the total runs scored by each of them is unique and is among 96, Punjab?
112, 64, 72 and 80, in no particular order. The number of balls faced by each a) A
of them is a multiple of 4. Each of them faced at least 16 and at most 36 balls. b) B
The runs scored per ball by each of them is an integer and is not more than c) C
4. d) E

Q2.What is the difference between the scores of the

Further the following information is known:
batsman of team Kolkata and that of team
i. The total runs scored by the batsman of team Mumbai is 24 more than that Rajasthan?
scored by C.
ii. The difference between the runs scored by the batsmen of teams Q3.What is the number of balls faced by the
batsman of team Rajasthan?
Bangalore and Rajasthan is half the difference between the runs scored by
batsmen D and E. a) 20
b) 36
iii. No one scored less runs per ball than the batsman who scored 16 runs c) 24
less than that scored by the batsman of team Kolkata. E does not belong to d) Cannot be determined
team Mumbai.
iv. B faced the least number of balls and scored 8 runs more than a batsman, Q4.What is the difference between the number of
who is not a player of team Bangalore. balls faced by the batsman of team Bangalore and
that faced by E?

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 Set - 85
Q1. Among all the high income countries, the region/country that has the
maximum share in FDI outflows in all the three years put together is
a) U.S.A.
b) Europe.
c) Japan.
d) Oceania.
Q2.Based on the table, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a) FDI inflows into the U.S.A. have risen by almost 4.5 times in the two
decades given.
b) Though outflows have risen for high income countries, inflows have
risen even faster for them.
c) Both outflows and inflows have risen for Asia.
d) Japan has consistently been a net FDI provider to the world.
Q3. Based on the above table, which of the following statements is
TRUE?
a) While inflows have increased for the developing and transition
countries, outflows have decreased for them.
b) Eastern Europe has not seen much growth of FDI inflows relative to
other developing and transition countries.
c) Though inflows have increased for the developing and transition
countries, outflows have increased at a faster rate.
d) None of the above
Q4.If Net FDI is defined as FDI Outflow – FDI Inflow, then which of the
following countries has the highest Net FDI in 2005?
a) U.S.A
b) Europe
c) Japan
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 Set - 88

During a period of ten days, Day 1 through Day 10, on each day, it rained or
snowed or was windy. On any day that it rained, it did not snow. On any day 1) On how many days that it snowed did Jatin
that it snowed, it was not windy. On any day that was windy, it did not rain. If it go to a movie?
rained on any day, Jatin went to a movie on that day. If it snowed on any day, a) 0
Jatin went to the mall on that day. If it was windy on any day, Jatin went to the b) 1
gym on that day. Further, if Jatin went to a mall but did not go to a movie on c) 2
any day, he also went to the gym on that day. If Jatin went to a movie on any d) 3
day, he also went to the mall on that day. It is also known that, during the
given period, 2) On how many days that were windy did
Jatin go only to the gym?
i. it did not snow on any two consecutive days.
ii. Jatin did not go to the mall on Day 8 and Day 10, while he went to a movie 3) On which of the following days did it not
on Day 3. snow but Jatin went to the mall?
iii. it rained on at least three days and it snowed on at least three days. a) Day 4
b) Day 5
iv. on each of Day 2 and Day 5, Jatin went to the mall but did not go to a c) Day 9
movie, while on each of Day 1 and Day 7 he went to the gym but did not go to d) None of the above
the mall.
v. he went to both a movie and the gym on exactly four days. 4) On how many days did he go to the gym?

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 Set - 93

1) Which mall did B visit?

a) City Centre
b) Central Square
c) Central
In a city, there are exactly five different malls - City Centre, Central, d) Cannot be determined
Central Square, City Square and Square Central. Each mall has a
different restaurant among Eat Street, Eatery Bay, Bay Street, Streetfood 2) Which cuisine does the restaurant that D visited
and Food Bay. Further, each restaurant serves a different cuisine among serve?
Indian, Chinese, Italian, Mexican and French. On a particular day, each of a) Mexican
five persons, A through E, visited a different restaurant among the ones b) Indian
mentioned above. It is also known that c) Italian
i. Food Bay is in Central Square, while D visited City Square. d) Cannot be determined
ii. The restaurant that serves Indian cuisine was visited by B, while the
Bay Street does not serve French cuisine. 3) Who among the following visited Eatery Bay?
a) B
iii. E, who visited Eat Street, did not visit the restaurant that serves
b) D
Mexican cuisine.
c) C
iv. Square Central has the restaurant which serves French cuisine and d) Cannot be determined
this was visited by C.
v. Street Food, which is not in City Centre, serves Chinese cuisine and 4) Which cuisine does the restaurant in Central
this was visited by A. serve?
a) Indian
b) Mexican
c) Italian
d) Chinese
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 Set - 101

1) Who among the following was sitting opposite B?

a) A
b) C
Eight persons, A through H, were sitting in eight chairs placed around a c) H
rectangular table, with four chairs along each of the longer sides of the d) G
table. Among the eight persons, three persons are from England, three
are from France and two are from Belgium. It is also known that 2) Who among the following was sitting to the
immediate right of a person from France?
a) G
i. B, who is from England, was sitting to the immediate right of F, who is b) C
not from France, and neither of them were sitting at any end.
c) D
ii. on each side of the table, the two persons sitting at the extreme ends d) E
are from the same country.
iii. two persons from France, one from Belgium and one from England 3) Who among the following was sitting opposite a
were sitting on the same side of the table. person from England and adjacent to a person from
Belgium?
iv. no two persons from the same country were sitting opposite each a) D
other. b) G
v. H, who is from France, was sitting to the immediate right of A, while G c) C
is not from the same country as H. d) More than one of the above
vi. D, who is not from England, and E were sitting opposite each other
and neither of them were sitting adjacent to B 4) Who among the following is from Belgium?
a) C
b) D
c) A
d) More than one of the above
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 Set - 102

The bar graph below provides the number of wars won and lost by four
countries - A through D - during the 18th and the 19th centuries. It is
known that, during the 18th and 19th centuries, the four countries waged
wars only against each other.

1. If D won 16 wars against each of B and C, what is

the maximum number of wars that B won against D?
A. 21
B. 22
C. 23
D. 24

2. If B won an equal number of wars against each of

A, C and D, what is the maximum number of wars
that D could have won
against A?

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 Set - 103
1) If Farhan fed into the machine 300 notes, of which
100 were genuine and 200 were fake, how many
notes will the machine identify as genuine?
a) 70
b) 110
c) 40
d) 30

2) If the machine labelled 1500 notes as fake and

1200 notes as genuine, what is the number of notes
Farhan purchased a machine which can identify fake currency notes and correctly labelled by the machine?
genuine currency notes. Farhan can feed any number of notes into the a) 924
machine. However, the machine is not completely accurate. It sometimes b) 1104
misclassifies the notes as fake even though they are genuine and c) 396
sometimes misclassifies the notes as genuine even though they are fake. d) 2028
The machine classifies 20% of the fake notes as genuine and 30% of the
genuine notes as fake. 3) Farhan had a certain number of Rs.500 notes and
Rs.1000 notes with him in the ratio 2 : 1 totaling
Rs.1,20,000. He fed all the notes that he had into the
machine and found that the machine identified 94
notes as fake. What is the minimum possible number
of genuine Rs.500 notes with Farhan?

4) Farhan’s friend, Rahul, gave Farhan 300 Rs.100

notes and 500 Rs.500 notes. If he fed all these notes
into the machine and it identified exactly 364 notes as
fake, the genuine notes that Rahul gave Farhan must
be worth (in Rs.) at least
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 Set - 104

Each of five persons, A through E, participated in a running race and

finished in a different position. The five persons were ranked from first to 1) Who was the second person to finish the race?
fifth on the basis of the descending order of their weight (i.e., the heaviest a) C
person was ranked first and the lightest, fifth). Further, it is known that no b) A
two persons whose ranks were consecutive finished consecutively, in any c) D
order. It is known that d) E

2) How many persons finished the race before the

i. B, who was ranked fifth, was the fourth person to finish, while the third second heaviest person?
heaviest person was not the last person to finish.
ii. D, who was the third heaviest person, finished immediately after C, 3) What is the rank of the person who finished first?
while A was not the first to finish a) 2
b) 1
c) 3
d) 4

4) How many persons lighter than C finished the race

after him?

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 Set - 106

1) Which country sent the highest number of female

delegates?
Four countries, A through D, sent a certain number of male and female a) D
delegates to a summit. The following table provides b) C
the total number of delegates sent by each of the four countries to the c) A
summit: d) Cannot be determined

2) What is the difference between the number of

female delegates that D sent and the number of male
delegates that C sent?

3) The total number of female delegates sent by the

four countries as a percentage of the total number of
male delegates sent by them can be at most
It is also known that (approximately)
i. exactly one country sent an equal number of male and female a) 71.8%
delegates. b) 78.4%
c) 81.1%
ii. no country sent as many male delegates as B did. d) 215.4%
iii. three countries sent the same number of male delegates. Each of
these three countries sent at most 13 female delegates 4) If the number of female delegates sent by B is at
least one third the number of female delegates sent
by A, what is the total number of male delegates sent
by the four countries?

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 Set - 107

Eight teams, A through H, participated in a hockey tournament which

comprised three rounds – Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Finals. All the 1) Which team played against B in the quarterfinals?
eight teams participated in the Quarterfinals such that each team a) E
played exactly one match in the Quarterfinals. The winners of the b) G
Quarterfinals played in the semifinals and the winners of the c) A
semifinals played in the finals. The winner of the finals was declared d) H
the winner of the tournament. It is known that A, E, G and H played in
the semifinals and A and G played in the finals. In any match, the 2) Which team scored the highest number of goals in
difference between the number of goals scored by the two teams was the quarterfinals?
exactly 3. a) A
The following table provides the total number of goals scored by each b) E
team in the tournament: c) G
d) H

3) If the semifinals that A played was the third match

of the tournament, then which of the following teams
could have played in the second match of the
tournament?
a) E
b) D
c) F
d) G

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 Set - 109

A large cube of side four units is formed using 64 unit cubes, each of which 1) In the cube of side three units, what is the
is painted red on all its faces. After forming the large cube, all the faces of maximum possible number of unit cubes which have
the large cube are painted blue. The large cube is then disassembled into at least two faces painted blue?
unit cubes. One cube of side two units is formed using these unit cubes
such that the maximum possible visible area of this cube is blue. With the 2) What is the minimum number of unutilized cubes
which have exactly one face painted blue?
remaining unit cubes, a cube of side three units is formed such that the
maximum possible visible area of this cube is blue. The remaining unit
3) In the cube of side three units, what is the
cubes are referred to as unutilized cubes.
maximum number of unit cubes which are painted red
on all its faces?

4) If another cube of side two units is formed using

some of the unutilized cubes, what is the maximum
number of faces of this cube that are completely
blue?

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 Set - 113

On a particular day, Hema visited a hardware store and 1) What is the price (in Rs.) of the Spanner?
purchased five different tools, Spanner, Screwdriver,
Hammer, Scissors and Shovel. The price of each tool is 2) Which company manufactured the Hammer?
different among Rs.40, Rs.210, Rs.150, Rs.270 and a) GM
Rs.100. Further, each tool was manufactured by a b) CAT
different company among Stanley, Bosch, 3M, GM and c) Bosch
CAT. It is also known that d) Stanley
i. the Spanner, which costs more than the Hammer, was
not manufactured by GM. 3) How many of the five tools have a higher price than
the Scissors?
ii. the price of the Shovel is Rs.150 and the tool that costs a) 1
Rs.100 was not manufactured by Stanley. b) 2
iii. the tool manufactured by GM costs Rs.120 more than c) 3
the one manufactured by CAT. d) 4
iv. the Scissors was manufactured by 3M and it costs less
than the Hammer. 4) What is the sum (in Rs.) of the prices of the Hammer
and the Spanner?

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 Set - 114

1) Who is the Accountant?

a) Dinesh
b) Chirag
c) Neeraj
d) Cannot be determined
Six persons, Amit, Kiran, Neeraj, Dinesh, Venkat and Chirag, were sitting
2) What is the occupation of the person sitting
in six equally spaced chairs around a circular table. Of the six, two opposite the Manager?
persons were Doctors, two were Lawyers, one was an Accountant and a) Doctor
one was a Manager. It is also known that b) Lawyer
i. Neeraj, who was neither a Doctor nor sitting to the left of one, was c) Accountant
sitting opposite a Lawyer. d) Cannot be determined
ii. Dinesh was sitting next to a Lawyer, while Chirag was not adjacent to
the Accountant. 3) Who is sitting to the left of Chirag?
a) Venkat
iii. the two Doctors were sitting next to each other and one of them was
b) Amit
Amit.
c) Dinesh
iv. the Manager, who was not Neeraj, was sitting opposite Kiran, who, in d) Kiran
turn, was sitting adjacent to the Accountant.
4) Who is a Lawyer who is sitting adjacent to a
Doctor?
a) Venkat
b) Chirag
c) Dinesh
d) None of the six persons
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 Set - 116
Each of five persons, Amit, Karan, Manan, Gaurav and Lalit, live in a house of
a different colour among Red, Blue, Yellow, Green and Brown. Each person
works in a different company among Alpha, Beta, Omega, Delta and Epsilon. 1) Who lives in the Red house?
a) Amit
b) Lalit
A, B, C and D were four common friends of the above five persons. Each of c) Gaurav
these four friends were asked to separately list the five persons in the order of d) Manan
their individual preference. The following tables provide the orders of
preference that A, B, C and D gave:
2) Who lives in the Green house?
a) Manan
b) Lalit
c) Gaurav
d) Karan

3) In which company does the person living in the

Yellow house work?
a) Epsilon
b) Omega
c) Delta
d) Cannot be determined

4) What is the colour of the house in which Gaurav

lives?
a) Blue
b) Yellow
c) Brown
d) Red
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 Set - 117

1) Who visited Kolkata?

a) Guru
b) Praveen
c) Manoj
d) Zakir

During a particular year, each of six persons, Prathik, Guru, Praveen, 2) Who among the following made his visit in
Manoj, Umesh and Zakir, visited a different city among Delhi, Mumbai, September?
Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Each person visited in a a) Prathik
different month among January, April, May, July, September and b) Umesh
November. It is also known that c) Praveen
d) Guru
i. Prathik, who visited Bangalore, did not visit in April.
ii. Manoj, who visited in July, did not visit Delhi. 3) In which month did the person who visited Delhi
iii.The person who visited Hyderabad visited the city in January, while the make his visit?
person who visited in November did not visit Delhi. a) April
b) May
iv. Umesh, who visited Mumbai, visited the city neither in April nor in May.
c) September
v. Zakir, who visited in November, did not visit Chennai. d) July

4) If Praveen visited Delhi, in which month did Guru

make his visit?
a) April
b) May
c) January
d) September
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 Set - 118

1) If at least one employee from Finance is sitting in row

number 1, at least one employee from HR is sitting in row
number 30 and at least one employee from Marketing is
sitting in row number 24, which of the following rows will be
occupied by four employees from Operations?
a) 8
Vijay, the CEO of a company, wanted to take all the b) 15
employees of his company for a conference. He chartered a c) 13
plane for this occasion and delegated the task of assigning d) 11
the seats to his assistant, Ravi. The plane had exactly 30
rows of seats, numbered 1 to 30, from the front of the plane 2) If there are exactly two employees from HR and two
employees from Operations sitting in the same row and row
to the back, with four seats in each row. Ravi has to assign
number x has exactly three employees from HR, how many
the seats to 120 employees from different departments, of the following values can x assume?
comprising 45 employees from Marketing, 30 from Finance,
25 from HR and 20 from Operations. He assigned the seats 3) If exactly one employee from Marketing is sitting in row
to the employees starting from the first row to the last, from number x, how many possibilities exist for x?
left to right in each row, ensuring that all the employees of
each department were assigned seats one after the other, 4) If an employee from Operations is sitting in the same row
consecutively as an employee from Finance and another employee from
Operations is sitting in the row immediately ahead of a row
in which an employee from Marketing is sitting, in which of
the following rows will there be definitely more than two
employees from Finance sitting?
a) 6
b) 7
c) 8
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 Set - 119

1) If Amit and Abhinav between themselves

purchased a pair of Shoes and a Bag, how many of
the remaining four items could Abhijeet have
purchased?

Six friends, Amar, Amit, Ankit, Anuj, Abhinav, and Abhijeet, went shopping 2) What did Ankit purchase?
and each of them purchased a different item among a pair of Shoes, a a) Pen
Bag, a Shirt, a Mobile Phone, a Pen, and a Watch. Further it is also b) Shirt
known that c) Shoes
d) Cannot be determined
i. Ankit did not purchase either a pair of Shoes or a Bag, while Amar
purchased a Mobile Phone.
3) How many of the following statements, each when
ii. Abhinav did not purchase either a pair of Shoes or a Pen, while Anuj taken independently, would be sufficient to determine
purchased a Watch. the item purchased by each person?
iii. neither Amit nor Abhijeet purchased either a Pen or a Bag. (i) Abhinav purchased a Bag.
(ii) Abhijeet purchased a pair of Shoes.
(iii) Ankit purchased a Pen.
(iv) Amit purchased a Shirt.

4) How many combinations of persons and the items

that they purchased are possible?

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On an overcast Sunday morning, a young man robbed a store and escaped. Rajiv, the Set - 120
police officer assigned for the case, arrived at the crime scene and, upon investigating, 1) Who among the following wears a black
found that the robber had brown hair, was of brown complexion, had a mole on his right eye patch?
cheek and wore a pink coloured eye patch over his left eye. Rajiv returned back to the a) Lokesh
police headquarters and tried searching the database for the person matching the
description provided above. However, the database had only partial information about b) Hari
the persons. Based on the partial information from the database, Rajiv deduced that c) Amit
the robber must be one of the seven persons among Amit, Lalit, Rishi, Bill, Gourav, d) Lalit
Hari and Lokesh.
2) Who among the seven persons is the
Among the seven persons, robber?
three persons have black hair and four persons have brown hair;
a) Lokesh
four persons are of brown complexion and three persons are of olive complexion;
three persons have a mole on their right cheeks, while four persons have a mole on b) Rishi
their left cheeks; c) Amit
four persons wear an eye patch over their left eye and three persons wear an eye d) Hari
patch over their right eye;
five persons wear a pink eye patch and two persons wear a black eye patch. 3) How many persons wear a pink eye patch
and have a mole on their right cheek?
He gathered the following additional information from the database:
i. For no two persons are all the above mentioned characteristics the same. a) 0
ii. Rishi, who has the same complexion as Bill, wears his eye patch on a different eye b) 1
as compared to Bill. c) 2
iii. Lalit has black hair, has a mole on his left cheek and wears an eye patch over his d) More than 2
right eye. iv. There are exactly two persons who have black hair and a mole on their
right cheek, and exactly three persons who wear pink eye patch and have brown hair.
v. There are exactly three persons who have a mole on their right cheek and wear an 4) Who among the following is of olive
eye patch over their left eye. complexion and has a mole on his right
vi. There are exactly three persons who wear an eye patch over their right eye and cheek?
have brown complexion. a) Gaurav
vii. Bill wears a black eye patch, while Lokesh is of brown complexion. b) Amit
viii. Amit has a mole on his left cheek, while Gaurav does not wear a black eye patch c) Rishi
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d) More than one of the above
 Set - 121

1) Who is the oldest female among the seven?

Seven persons, A through G, live in the same house. Among the seven a) G
persons are five siblings and the spouses of two of the siblings. The b) B
seven persons are each of a different age. None of the seven persons c) F
have any siblings other than those living in the house. The following d) C
information is known about the seven persons:
i. G, who is younger than F, has at least one younger brother, while 2) Who is the spouse of the third oldest person?
neither B nor G are married. a) D
b) C
ii. There are exactly four persons younger than the spouse of one of the
c) F
siblings living in the house.
d) A
iii. There are exactly three persons younger than B and the brother-in-
law of B is older than G. 3) How many persons younger than F are married?
iv. C has at least two sisters and at least one of C’s siblings is older than a) 3
C. b) 2
v. The wife of D is younger than E but is not a sibling of E, while E is a c) 1
younger brother of B. d) 0

4) Who among the following is a younger sister of G?

a) B
b) E
c) C
d) None of the above

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 Set - 122
1) Which of the following courses could not have been opted for by
Pavan?
a) Mathematics b) Physics
c) Economics d) Commerce
Each of five friends, Bala, Charan, Kalyan, Pavan,
and Venky, studying in a university, opted for a 2) Which of the following statements is definitely true?
different course among Mathematics, Physics, a) If Bala opted for Economics, Kalyan opted for Commerce.
Chemistry, Economics, and Commerce. It is known b) If Pavan opted for Mathematics, Venky opted for Economics.
that the total number of students in the university that c) If Venky opted for Physics, Bala opted for Economics.
enrolled for each of these courses was different. d) If Venky opted for Physics, Kalyan opted for Economics.
Further, it is also known that
i. Kalyan opted for the course for which the maximum 3) In how many different ways could the five students have opted for the
number of students had enrolled and it was not five courses?
Mathematics. a) 8 b) 6
c) 4 d) 2
ii. Charan opted for Chemistry, for which a higher
number of students had enrolled than for Commerce
4) Which set of statements given below from among those are sufficient to
and neither of these courses had the lowest determine the exact courses opted for by each of the five friends?
enrolment. i. Bala opted for a course, the enrolment for which was higher than that for
iii. a higher number of students enrolled for the course the course opted for by Venky.
opted for by Pavan than for the course opted for by ii. The number of students who enrolled for Physics was higher than those
Charan. who enrolled for any other course.
iii. Venky opted for Commerce.
iv. More number of students enrolled for Economics than for Chemistry.

a) (i) and (ii) b) (i), (ii) and (iv)

c) (i) and (iv) d) (i), (ii) and (iii)
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 Set - 123

1) Where did Anne go to after leaving the park?

a) The Restaurant
b) The Fair
c) The Library
The following excerpts are taken from the diary of a young girl named d) The Supermarket
Anne:
2) Which place did Anne visit last?
a) The Restaurant
Excerpt 1: “I went to the park immediately after the library closed and b) The Fair
reached the park by 11 a.m.” c) The Park
Excerpt 2: “I went to the Restaurant to have my lunch. I reached the d) The Supermarket
restaurant by 12 noon and had lunch with Bob.”
Excerpt 3: “I met my friend Elisa on my way to the supermarket. We went 3) Whom did Anne meet at the library?
to the supermarket together after which we split up and I headed for a) John
lunch.” b) Charlotte
c) Amanda
Excerpt 4: “Today I spent time with five of my friends, Bob, Elisa, John,
d) Cannot be determined
Charlotte and Amanda, at five different places, the library, the fair, the park,
the restaurant and the supermarket, and then returned home.”
4) If the sum of the time spent by Anne at each place
Excerpt 5: “I planned to meet John the first thing in the morning but instead and the time she took to reach her next destination
met him at the place I visited last.” from that place was half an hour, when did she reach
home after meeting all five friends?
a) 12:30 p.m.
b) 1:00 p.m.
c) 1:30 p.m.
d) 2:00 p.m.
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 Set - 124

1) Who was ranked first in Sincerity?

a) Angus
b) David
c) Eric
In a company, five employees – Angus, Billy, Charlie, David and Eric – d) Cannot be determined
were ranked from 1 to 5 based on two parameters – Sincerity and
Approachability – such that in any parameter, a numerically lower rank is 2) How many of the five employees were ranked
considered better than a numerically higher rank. For any employee, the better than Eric in Approachability?
sum of the ranks across the two parameters is referred to as the Overall a) 0
Rank and it is known that the Overall Rank of each employee was b) 1
distinct. c) 2
d) 3

Further, it is also known that 3) For which employee was the Overall Rank the
i. no employee received the same rank across the two parameters. ii. second best?
Angus was ranked better than Charlie in each of the two parameters. a) Angus
b) David
iii. Billy, who was ranked third in Sincerity, had the numerically highest
c) Charlie
Overall Rank.
d) Eric
iv. the difference in ranks of Charlie and David in Approachability is one.
4) Who among the following was ranked better than
Billy in each of the two parameters?
a) Angus
b) Charlie
c) Eric
d) More than one of the above
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 Set - 126

1) Who was sitting opposite the person sitting in the

Orange chair?
Six persons, Kiran, Lalit, Amit, Pranav, Jiva and Ravi, were sitting in six a) Jiva
equally spaced chairs around a circular table. Each person was sitting in b) Pranav
a chair of a different colour among Red, Black, Orange, Cyan, Green and c) Lalit
Yellow. It is also known that d) Kiran

i. the number of persons sitting between the person sitting in the Red 2) Who is sitting to the left of the person sitting in the
Green chair?
chair and Kiran in the clockwise direction counting from the former to the
a) Pranav
latter was the same as the number of persons sitting between the person
b) Kiran
sitting in the Cyan chair and Pranav in the anticlockwise direction
counting from the former to the latter. c) Jiva
d) Lalit
ii. neither Kiran nor Pranav are sitting in either the Red chair or the Cyan
chair. 3) What is the colour of the chair opposite Lalit?
iii. Amit was sitting two places to the right of the person sitting in the a) Red
Green chair and adjacent to the person sitting in the Yellow chair. b) Green
iv. the person sitting in the Red chair and Jiva are sitting opposite each c) Cyan
other, while the person sitting in the Cyan chair was sitting to the left of d) Yellow
Ravi.
4) Who among the following is sitting two places away
v. neither Kiran nor Ravi was sitting adjacent to Pranav, while Amit was from the person sitting in the Yellow chair?
sitting opposite the person sitting in the Black chair.
a) Kiran
b) Amit
c) Jiva
d) Ravi
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 Set - 129

1) If n = 9, what is the sum of the numbers on the

unit cubes that lie along the diagonal connecting the
unit cube on the bottom right corner towards the front
of the large cube to the unit cube on the top left
A certain number of unit cubes were used to form a large cube of side n units corner towards the front of the large cube?
(where n is a natural number). Each of the unit cubes is numbered with a
positive integer and they were arranged to form the large cube in the 2) If, in the large cube of size n units, the highest
following manner: number on any unit cube is x, which of the following
cannot be the value of x for any n?
a) 10
The unit cube at the bottom left corner towards the front of the large cube is
b) 49
numbered 1 and this is the only unit cube numbered 1.
c) 70
d) 120
The number on any other unit cube in the large cube is one more than the
least number on any of the unit cubes with which it shares a face. 3) If, for the large cube of side n units, where n is
odd, the difference between the number on the unit
cube at the centre of the topmost layer of the large
cube and the number on the unit cube at the bottom
right corner towards the front of the large cube is 16,
what is the value of n

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 Set - 131

Company XYZ Pvt. Ltd. has six employees P, Q, R, S, T and U who joined in
either May or June of 2009 and have salaries (in Rs.’000 per month) of 20, 12,
25, 15, 18 and 10 (not necessarily in the same order). There are three Q1. Which of the following persons did not join in
departments – Finance, Sales and HR – in the company and two persons in June?
each of the departments. a) P
b) T
The following information is also known : c) S
i. P, who does not receive the highest salary, gets a salary which is not less than d) Q
that of S.
ii. No person who joined in May has a salary greater than that of those who Q2.The combined salaries of which of the following
joined in June. persons is the least?
iii. P and T belong to the same department and joined in the same month. a) Q, R
iv. Q and S did not join in the same month. v. R and U joined in the same month b) S, Q
and T joined one month after U. c) S, R
vi. The sum of the salaries of Q and P is same as the sum of the salaries of R d) S, U
and S.
vii. The sum of the salaries of Q and U is the second least among all possible Q3. Which department does R work in?
combinations of the salaries of any two persons.
a) Sales
viii.The person who gets the least salary in the HR department gets a salary,
b) Finance
which is greater than that of the person who gets the highest salary in the
Finance department. c) HR
ix. The person who gets the highest salary in the HR department gets a salary d) Either Sales or HR
which is less than that of the person who gets the least salary in the Sales
department. Q4. The number of employees who joined in May and
do not work in the sales department is

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 Set - 132
There are six persons, A, B, C, D, E and F, who together completed tasks Q1.Suppose the given graph was for the work
1 to 6, with each person doing some part of each task. The following intended to be done, but the persons interchanged
graph shows the distribution of the efforts put in by each of the six their work as follows: First B and C, then C and D,
persons in these six tasks. and then D and E. After this the work is done. Now
if task 3 is considered and the six persons are
ranked according to the distribution of work done in
the descending order, what is the rank of E?
a) 2 b) 3
c) 4 d) 5

Q2.If for task 4, all persons other than A decide to

evenly share their work, what would be the change
in the percentage distribution of work done by E?
a) Reduction of 5.2 percentage points
b) Reduction of 6.4 percentage points
c) Reduction of 7.9 percentage points
d) Reduction of 9.2 percentage points

Q3.Suppose persons B, C and D drop out and the

remaining persons redistribute the work of these
persons equally among themselves. Then, across
all tasks, who has the maximum share in any task?
a) Person E, task 1 b) Person F, task 5
c) Person E, task 6 d) Person E, task 2

Q4.If F dropped out of all the six tasks and his

share of work is equally distributed between C and
D, the number of tasks in which E’s share of work is
30 more than that of C’s share of work is
 Set - 133

Q1. What is the least number of operations required to

rearrange the above given configuration into another
configuration such that, the sum of the numbers in the
rightmost column is nine more than that of the middle column
Consider the 3 × 3 grid of numbers given below. In this grid, an and 18 more than that of the leftmost column, while the sum of
operation is defined as the interchanging of the positions of any the numbers in the top row is three more than that of the
two of the numbers. A configuration is defined as any unique middle row and six more than that of the last row?
arrangement of the numbers in the grid. a) 8
b) 4
c) 6
d) 3

Q2. What is the least number of operations required to

rearrange the above given configuration into another
configuration such that the sum of the numbers in any column
is the same, and the sum of the numbers in any row is the
same, while the number 1 is in the grid in the topmost row and
leftmost column and the number 7 is in the grid in the middle
row and middle column?

Q3.If the grid of numbers were to be a 4 × 4 grid (containing

A 3 × 3 grid with the configuration given above is called a the numbers from 1 to 16), then what is the least possible
standard 3 × 3 grid. number of operations that will always be sufficient to
rearrange the grid of numbers into any given configuration?
a) 8
b) 7
c) 15
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d) 16
 Set - 134

Each of six persons, A through F, receive a different monthly salary

among Rs.10000, Rs.15000, Rs.20000, Rs.25000, Rs.30000 and
Rs.35000, not necessarily in the same order. Among the six persons,
exactly three persons receive a monthly bonus of Rs.15000 each, in
addition to their monthly salaries, while the other three persons do not Q1. What is the total monthly income (in Rs.) of all the
receive any monthly bonus. The monthly income of any person comprises persons who receive a monthly bonus?
the monthly salary and the monthly bonus. It is known that the monthly
income of no two persons is the same. Q2. What is the total monthly income of C?
a) Rs.15000
b) Rs.20000
The following information is known about their monthly incomes: c) Rs.30000
d) Rs.35000
i. A’s monthly income is greater than that of B, whose monthly salary is
greater than that of E. Q3. What is the difference (in Rs.) between the
monthly income of F and the monthly salary of E?
ii. The monthly income of the person with the second highest monthly
salary is Rs.10000 more than the monthly income of the person with the Q4. What is the difference (in Rs.) between the
fourth highest monthly salary. monthly salary of the person with the second highest
iii. F’s monthly income is Rs.5000 more than C’s but the difference monthly income and the monthly income of the
person with the second highest monthly salary?
between their monthly salaries is not Rs.5000.
iv. D, who does not receive any monthly bonus, receives a monthly salary
more than F. v. The monthly income of E is lower than that of D.

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 Total Market Sales Average selling price per mobile of Set - 135
The following graph Year
of Mobiles (₹ Crores) The company SMS (in ₹)
and table give
information regarding Q1. If in the year 2015, the sales of the mobiles of
the sales of mobiles SMS form 25% by volume of the total market sales
of mobiles, what is the average selling price (in
by the company SMS Rs.) per mobile of all the other companies together
and the total market in that year?
sales of mobiles
during the period Q2. In how many of the years from 2010 to 2018,
2009 to 2018 did the value of the sales of the mobiles of SMS
increase and the profit of SMS decrease over the
previous year?
a) Less than 5
b) 5
c) 6
d) 7

Q3. The ratio of the profit earned by SMS in the

Note: The year 2014 to that in the year 2018 is
company SMS a) 5 : 4.
sells only b) 7 : 6.
mobiles. c) 10 : 11.
d) 9 : 10.

Q4. If in any year, the average selling price per

mobile in the total market is less than that of the
mobiles of SMS, then in at least how many of the
given years was the market share by volume of
SMS less than 50% of the total market?
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 Set - 136

1) How many competitors does company ‘S’ have?

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. Cannot be determined

2)What can be the maximum number of companies

that sell their product in only one region?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. More than 2

3)What can be the maximum number of companies

that sell the product in all the four regions?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

4)How many companies sell the product in exactly

two regions?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. Cannot be determined
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 Set - 137

1) If it is known that he read the maximum possible

books on Economics in February, what was the
number of books on Economics that he read in
January?

2) What was the minimum number of books that he

could have read on History in January? (Use
information from the previous question)

3) What was the minimum number of books that he

could have read on Psychology in February if it is
known that he did not read any book on economics
on any Sunday in January? (Use information from the
previous two questions)

4) What was the maximum number of books on

Fiction that he could have read in February? (Use
information from the previous three questions)

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 Set - 138

1) How many questions had 2) Which questions did 3) How many questions in common 4) Which questions did Dev
the correct option as B? Beena answer incorrectly? did both Chirag and Eleen answer answer correctly?
A. One A. 4, 6 and 8 correctly? A. 2, 3, 5 and 9
B. Two B. 4, 5 and 7 A. One B. 2, 3, 7 and 8
C. Three C. 4, 5 and 9 B. Two C. 2, 3, 6 and 9
D. Cannot be determined D. 3, 4 and 9 C. Three D. 2, 3, 5 and 7
D. Cannot be determined
 Set - 139

1) What time is the train 2)How much time is taken 3) If the train begins round 4)If all the halts at station B are reduced by
expected to arrive at C in the by the train to reach D after 1 on 21st January, when 10 minutes and all the halts at station C
3rd round? it starts from C? will it complete round 4? are increased to 35 minutes, then at what
A. 01:00 hrs A. 3 hrs time will the train complete round 3?
B. 02:00 hrs B. 3 hrs and 30 mins A. 07:45 hrs
C. 02:30 hrs C. 2 hrs and 30 mins B. 05:25 hrs
D. 01:30 hrs D. 4 hrs C. 07:55 hrs
D. 08:25 hrs
 Set - 140

1) From which of these countries does country ‘B’

import wheat, such that every country having a wheat
deficit imports from at least two countries?
A. Country ‘D’ and Country ‘I’
B. Country ‘A’ and Country ‘H’
C. Country ‘H’, Country ‘I’ and Country ‘J’
D. Country ‘I’ and Country ‘J’

2) To erase its deficit in rice, from how many countries

does country ‘I’ import rice?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. Cannot be determined

3) From how many different possible countries can

the country having the highest deficit in wheat import?

4) Which of these countries can import wheat from

the maximum number of countries?
A. B
B. F
C. K
D. Both B and F

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 Set - 141

1) If the population of the city in 2012 decreased by

18% as compared to that in 2005, then what was the
percentage increase in the population of the city in
2008 as compared to that in 2005?
A. 14%
B. 12%
C. 6%
D. Cannot be determined

2) If the number of males and females was same in

2005, then what was the difference between the
number of females and males in 2013?

3) In how many of the given years, the number of

males decreased as compared to the previous year?

4) In which year was the change in overall population

over the previous year the maximum?
A. 2006
B. 2007
C. 2010
D. 2012

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 Set - 142

1) Which of the following is true 2) A team of three people – one 3) For the second arrangement, 4) If P1-P2-P3-P4-P5-P6-
about P3? woman and two men was formed how many pairs of members from P7-P8-P9-P10 sit in that
A. He is a man from family A out of the ten people. Which of the the same family exist such that if order, then how many pairs
B. He is a man from family B following cannot be such team? the two persons in the pair swap of males from the same
C. She is a woman from A. P1, P2 and P8 their seats with each other, while family or pairs of females
family A B. P4, P2 and P6 the rest 8 persons remain in their from the same family sit
C. P3, P10 and P8 initial seats, there will be four next to each other?
D. She is a woman from persons of the same gender
family B D. P3, P1 and P4 sitting next to each other?

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 Set - 143

1) Which of the following statements is true?

A. A priced at Rs. 50,000 declined by 60% to Rs.
20,000.
B. A priced at Rs. 20,000 declined by 60% to Rs.
8,000.
C. D priced at Rs. 1,00,000 declined by 60% to Rs.
40,000.
D. D priced at Rs. 1,00,000 declined by 80% to Rs.
20,000

2) What was the amount realized by selling C?

A. Rs. 8,000
B. Rs. 10,000
C. Rs. 40,000
D. Rs. 20,000

3) Stock D _____________.
A. Declined by 16.66%.
B. Increased by 100%.
C. Increased by 150%.
D. Increased by 200%

4) Which stock declined maximum in value terms?

A. C
B. B
C. Both B and C
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 Set - 144
1) Which of the following cannot be determined from the
information given?
A. Number of Indian Classical experts from Tamil Nadu.
B. Number of Sufi Sangeet experts from West Bengal.
Twenty eight music experts from West Bengal, Maharashtra, C. Number of Sufi Sangeet experts from Tamil Nadu.
Tamil Nadu and U ar Pradesh had assembled in Mumbai for a D. Number of Rabindra Sangeet experts from West Bengal.
Sangeet Mahotsav. Each musician was an expert of Indian
2) Which of the following is not possible?
classical (IC) or Carna c classical (CC) or Sufi Sangeet (SS) or
A. Maharashtra sent 2 CC experts and 2 SS experts.
Rabindra Sangeet (RS). B. Tamil Nadu sent 1 CC expert and 1 SS expert.
i. Had there been one expert less from Maharashtra, Tamil C. Maharashtra and U ar Pradesh each sent 1 CC expert.
Nadu and U ar Pradesh each, the number of experts from D. None of these

West Bengal would be twice that from each of the other three 3) Balu and Jay are CC experts who came from Maharashtra
states. which of the following is necessarily true?
A. Either Tamil Nadu or U ar Pradesh sent 2 CC experts.
ii. The number of CC experts was equal to the number of SS
B. Maharashtra sent 1 SS expert and 1 RS expert.
experts and to the number of RS experts. C. Maharashtra did not send 3 experts for any category.
iii. The number of IC experts was 4. D. Tamil Nadu did not send 3 CC experts.
iv. There was at least one musician from each state for every
4) Shyam was the only RS expert from U ar Pradesh. What
category of music. Also, no state had sent more than three can be inferred about the number of CC experts from Uttar
Pradesh? (Refer to the data from previous question).
musicians in any category.
I. At least 2 II. At most 2 III. At most 3
A. II only
B. I and III
C. I only
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D. III only
The incomplete table below gives informa on regarding the number of Set - 145
candidates of different streams at different stages of the admission procedure
viz. Wri en Test, Computer Based Test (CBT), Group Discussion (GD) and
Personal Interview (PI) of the Indian Academy of Business Management
(IABM) for 225 seats of its PGDBM course. A certain number of candidates
gets eliminated after each round. 1) What was the number of Commerce stream
candidates called for the CBT?

2) What was the number of Engineering stream

candidates with work experience to be
shortlisted for the Group Discussion?
A. 864
B. 888
C. 912
The ratios of the number of Engineering freshers (candidates with no work D. 936
experience) to those having work experience is given in the table below:
3) What percentage of Commerce stream
It is also known that: candidates called for the CBT got shortlisted for
(i) The percentages of the total candidates to be the Group Discussion?
eliminated after the Written Test and the CBT A. 30.13%
were 80% and 50% respectively. B. 30.23%
(ii) The total number of candidates called for the C. 40.31%
Interview was 1000. CBT was 5096 and for the Personal D. 40.13%
(iii) Of all the Science stream candidates who took the Written Test, only 21% got
short listed for the CBT. 4) How many students from 'other' stream were
called for the Group Discussion?
(iv) Engineering, Science, Commerce and Other stream candidates short listed
for the Group Discussion were in the ratio 9:2:2:1.
(v) 1188 Engineering freshers took the CBT.
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 Set - 147

Adi, Bindu, Chandni and Deeksha live in different blocks – I, II,

III and IV of the society Imperial Heights not necessarily in the 1) How many possibilities for Adi, Bindu, Chandni
and Deeksha vis – a – vis the blocks in which they
same order. They study in the same school and class, but are in live and the number of students in sections exist?
different sections – A, B, C and D. The sec ons – A, B, C and D
have 43, 38, 39 and 47 students not necessarily in the same 2) If Chandni is in section with 43 students, then
Deeksha is in
order: A. Section B
I. Adi lives in block II. Also, Chandni and Deeksha do not live B. Section C
in blocks IV and III respectively. C. Section D
D. Cannot be determined
II. Adi, Bindu, Chandni and Deeksha are not in sections with
number of students 47, 38, 39 and 43 respectively. 3) If Deeksha is in section with 39 students, then
III. Adi, Bindu, Chandni and Deeksha are not in sec ons C, D, Chandni is in
B and A respectively. A. Section A
B. Section C
IV. The girls living in blocks III, I, IV and II are not in sections C. Section D
with number of students 43, 47, 39 and 38 respectively. D. Cannot be determined
V. The girls living in blocks III, I, IV and II are not in sections A,
4) If Bindu lives in block I and Chandni is in section
C, B and D respectively. with 38 students, then Adi is in
VI. Sections B, D, A and C do not have 39, 47, 38 and 43 A. Section A
B. Section B
students respectively.
C. Section D
D. Cannot be determined

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 Set - 148
The Hockey World cup held last year was conducted as follows:
Teams from ten different countries participated in this tournament. 1) Which team was ranked fourth in Group B after the first round?
These teams were divided into two groups with each group having 5 A. Pakistan B.England
teams. Group A comprised India, Australia, Holland, China and
Malaysia. Group B comprised Pakistan, Spain, Argentina, England and C.Argentina D.Germany
Germany. 2) How many matches in the first round resulted in a draw?
For any team, a match results in a win(W), a draw(D) or a loss(L). A 3) Which of the following teams did not lose a single match in the
team was awarded 5 points for a win and 2 points for a draw. A loss did tournament?
not yield any points. The total points of a team is the sum of the points A.Holland B.Australia
scored in all the matches. C.Malaysia D.Germany
In the first round of matches, each team played with every other team 4) Which of the following teams was the runner-up in the
in its group exactly once. The top two teams (on the basis of total tournament?
points) from both the groups progressed to the second round. A.Australia B.Germany
In the second round, each team played with the other three teams C.Spain D.None of these
once. The team with the highest total points in the second round was
declared the winner, while the second highest was declared the
runner-up in the tournament. The points from the first round do not get
carried over to the second round.

The following data is available about the performance of the

various teams in the tournament:
i. In round 1, the five teams in group A secured 17, 12, 11, 7 and 0
points (in some order)
ii. In round 1, the five teams in Group B secured 20, 9, 7, 6 and 4
points (in some order)
iii. In round 2, the teams that secured 20, 17, 12 and 9 points in the
first round secured 12, 2, 6 and 7 points respectively.
iv. The win-draw-loss summary in the two rounds is given below:

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1) If Charles is wearing a red shirt and Ethan is not
A. wearing a pink shirt then who cannot be adjacent to the
person wearing pink shirt?
B. Officer wearing blue shirt
Six officers Alwyn, Bob, Charles, Dwayne, Ethan and Fredrick, C. Ethan
D. Officer wearing green shirt
wearing white, black, blue, green, pink and red shirts, not
E. Officer wearing black shirt
necessarily in the same order, are to be seated around a circular
table in six symmetrically arranged chairs, all facing the center 2) If Bob is wearing pink shirt and Ethan is not wearing red
shirt, then how many officers will be sitting between the
of the table. officers wearing red and black shirts?
i. Officers wearing white and black shirts are sitting opposite to
each other. 3) If the officer wearing black is on the immediate right side
of Ethan then who is the person on immediate left of Ethan?
ii. Officers with the first letter of their names as vowels are A. Officer wearing blue shirt
neither sitting opposite to each other sittng opposite nor B. Officer wearing green shirt
adjacent to each other. C. Either Dwayne or Fredrick
D. Officer wearing either blue or green shirt
iii. Bob and Charles always sit together.
iv. Officers wearing red and pink shirts are not sittng adjacent 4) Which of the following options is not possible?
to each other. A. Bob is wearing black shirt and Ethan is wearing pink
shirt.
v. Alwyn is wearing a white shirt.
B. Bob is wearing green shirt and Charles is wearing blue
shirt.
C. Dwayne is wearing black shirt and Fredrick is wearing
green shirt.
D. Charles is wearing green shirt and Fredrick is wearing
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Six businessmen from six different states meet at an annual meet of ‘MAKE IN
INDIA’ Forum. Each of them has a different number of notes of Rs. 500 and Rs.
1,000. For example, if one has ‘n’ 1 What is the total amount with the businessman
number of notes of any denomination then no other from Gujarat?
businessman has ‘n’ number of notes of any denomination. The amount with each A. Rs. 27,000
one is a multiple of 1000 and it is in Arithmetic Progression (AP). The minimum and B. Rs. 25,000
maximum number of notes of any denomination with any one is 10 and 24 C. Rs. 23,000
respectively.
D. Rs. 19,000

2) What is the average number of notes of Rs.

Further the following information is known: 1,000 with all the six businessmen?

3) The businessman from Kerala spends 4 notes

The businessman from Gujarat does not have the maximum amount which is Rs. of Rs. 500 and 2 notes of Rs. 1,000 and the
29,000. businessman from Punjab spends 2 notes of Rs.
The businessman from Maharashtra has the least amount. 500 and 3 notes of Rs. 1,000 to buy new products
The businessman from Rajasthan has 24 notes of Rs. 500. in the ‘MAKE IN INDIA’ Forum. What is the overall
Number of Rs. 500 notes with the businessmen from percentage decrease in the total of the amount
with both the businessmen initially?
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Kerala and Punjab is in Arithmetic Progression in same
order.
The businessman from Manipur has 20 notes of Rs. 500 and 11 notes of Rs. 1,000. 4) The businessman from Maharashtra lent 10
notes of Rs. 500 to the businessman from
Number of notes of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 with the
Rajasthan. But later he need to borrow 10 notes
businessman from Maharashtra is consecutive integers. of Rs. 1,000 from him. If he spent the entire
The businessman from Punjab has the least amount among Gujarat, Punjab, amount, how much was his total spending?
Kerala and Rajasthan.

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