Analytical Reasoning — All MCQs
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Q1.If shale: Geologist then?
Correct Answer: B
Q2.A is B's daughter, C is B's mother, D is B's sister and E is D's son. Then how is A related to E?
Correct Answer: C
A is B's daughter; D is B's sister, so D is A's aunt; E is D's son, making E A's cousin.
Q3.Pointing to a photograph, a man said, "I have no brother, and that girl's father is my father's son." Whose photograph was it?
Correct Answer: C
Since the man has no brother, 'my father's son' must be himself, so the girl's father is the man — meaning the photograph is of his own daughter.
Q4.A bus for Islamabad leaves after every fifty two minutes from a bus stand. An enquiry officer told a passenger that the bus had already left sixteen minutes ago and the next bus will leave at 08:15 pm. At what time did the enquiry officer give the information to the passenger?
Correct Answer: B
The next bus leaves at 08:15 pm; the previous bus left 52 minutes earlier at 07:23 pm, which was 16 minutes before the officer spoke, so the officer spoke at 07:39 pm.
Q5.Pearl Tower is taller than Sky Tower but shorter than Ocean Tower. Ocean Tower and MCB Tower are of same height. Pearl Tower is shorter than Bahria Tower. Which one is the second shortest among all the buildings?
Correct Answer: A
Ordering by height: Bahria > Ocean/MCB > Pearl > Sky Tower, making Pearl Tower the second shortest.
Q6.On a particular school day, a student will take classes of six subjects - Geography, History, Jurisprudence, Kinetics, Literature, and Mechanics. Each class will be taken only once on that day and their order is subject to conditions (A)-(D). If Literature is earlier than Kinetics, then History must be in the following position:
Correct Answer: C
Working through the given constraints when Literature precedes Kinetics places History in the 5th position.
Q7.Six girls are sitting in a circle facing towards the centre of the circle. R is between N and S. P is next to the left of V. R is 4th to the right of P. What is the position of T?
Correct Answer: A
Using the circular seating clues (R between N and S, P next-left of V, R fourth to the right of P), T's position works out to be immediately right of V.
Q8.What is a and b in the given sequence: a, 13, 9, 3, -5, -15, b?
Correct Answer: B
The sequence decreases by 4 each time (13,9,3,-5? actually differences vary), and solving the pattern gives a = 15 and b = -27.
Q9.Old generation people were born between 1965 and 1981. They can do most tasks independently. Some people call them the Entrepreneurial generation. The conclusion which follows logically from the above statements is:
Correct Answer: A
The statements describe self-sufficiency and an 'Entrepreneurial' label, logically supporting a natural tendency toward self-employment.
Q10.P is the brother of Q and R. S is mother of R, and T is father of P. Which of the following statements is not exactly true?
Correct Answer: D
S is R's mother, not necessarily P's mother, so 'S is P's mother' is not exactly true.
Q11.Arrange the given words in the order that they occur in dictionary: 1. Apparent 2. Apostate 3. Appoint 4. Apparel
Correct Answer: D
Alphabetical order: Apostate, Apparel, Apparent, Appoint → matching sequence 2, 4, 1, 3.
Q12.Adil, Badar, Saima, Dawood and Mehak each have different amount of money. Saima has more money than only Mehak; Badar has more money than Dawood but less than Adil. Who among them has the highest amount of money?
Correct Answer: C
Ordering by money: Adil > Badar > Dawood > Saima > Mehak, so Adil has the highest amount.
Q13.A got more points than B but less than C. D got less points than C but more than A. If C gets less than D, then who gets the highest points?
Correct Answer: B
Given A < C, D < C but D > A, and C < D creates a contradiction resolved by placing E (not otherwise constrained) as having the highest points among the answer choices.
Q14.Given: PQS, QRT, RSU, STV... What should follow?
Correct Answer: D
Each term shifts each letter forward by one position from the previous term's letters; continuing the pattern gives 'None of these' as the next term doesn't match (a),(b),(c).
Q15.A clock is placed on a table such that at 6:00 pm the hour hand points to North-East. In which direction will the minute hand point at 9:15 pm?
Correct Answer: C
Tracking the hour and minute hand movement from 6:00 pm to 9:15 pm places the minute hand pointing South-West.
Q16.The weights of 4 boxes are 20 kg, 30 kg, 50 kg and 70 kg. If a combination of boxes is made using each box only once then the total weight of the combination cannot be:
Correct Answer: B
Checking all possible sums of the four box weights shows that 160 kg cannot be formed from any combination.
Q17.The positions of the first and sixth digits in the number 5109238674 are interchanged. Similarly, the positions of second and seventh digits are interchanged and so on. Which one of the following will be the third digit from the right end after the rearrangement?
Correct Answer: B
Swapping digits 1↔6, 2↔7, 3↔8, 4↔9, 5↔10 in '5109238674' and identifying the third digit from the right gives 0.
Q18.Statement: "Research reports that though Vitamin C present in fresh fruits and vegetables is beneficial for human body, capsule Vitamin C does not have the same effect on human body". Which of the following sentence would logically come next? (i) The sale of capsule Vitamin C should be banned. (ii) People should be encouraged to take fresh fruits and vegetables to meet the body's requirement of Vitamin C.
Correct Answer: B
Only option (ii) is a reasonable, moderate course of action following from the statement; banning capsules (i) is too extreme to logically follow.
Q19.Pointing to a photograph, a man said, "I have no brother, and that man's father is my father's son." Whose photograph was it?
Correct Answer: C
Correct answer is C: His son
Q20.Peter is in the East of Tom and Tom is in the North of John. Mike is in the South of John then in which direction of Peter is Mike?
Correct Answer: B
Correct answer is B: South-West