Reasoning Quiz

Directions (Q. 1 to 5): Answer the questions based on the following information.

Aliya, Bhavana, Chaitanya, Dhruv, Eshwar, Fareeda, Gulshan and Harpreet – are eight students in a college studying in three departments, viz. Science, Arts and Commerce, with not more than three of them in any department. Each of them has a different choice of TV channel which are BBC, HBO, TLC, ESPN, NDTV, MTV, B4U and CNN, not necessarily in the same order.
Dhruv studies Arts and likes neither BBC nor ESPN. Fareeda studies Science with only Aliya, who likes B4U. Eshwar and Harpreet do not study in the same department as Dhruv. Chaitanya likes TLC and does not study Commerce. Gulshan does not study Arts and does not like either ESPN or MTV. One of those who studies Arts likes BBC. The one who likes NDTV studies Science. Those who study Arts like neither MTV nor CNN. Harpreet does not like ESPN. Those who study commerce do not like HBO.

Question.1. Which of the following group of students are studying Arts ?

1) Aliya, Bhavana, Chaitanya

2) Dhruv, Eshwar, Fareeda

3) Bhavana, Chaitanya, Dhruv

4) Eshwar, Aliya, Harpreet

5) Gulshan, Chaitanya, Harpreet

Question.2. Along with whom does Eshwar study?

1) Chaitanya and Aliya

2) Bhavana and Dhruv

3) Fareeda and Dhruv

4) Gulshan and Harpreet

5) None of these

Question.3. Which of the following combinations of student, department and TV channel is correct?

1) Aliya, Science, BBC

2) Chaitanya, Commerce, TLC

3) Dhruv, Science, ESPN

4) Gulshan, Arts, MTV

5) Fareeda, Science, NDTV

Question.4. What is Bhavana’s favouriteTV channel?

1) BBC

2) NDTV

3) MTV

4) CNN

5) B4U

Question.5. Which of the following options shows the favourite TV channels of the Commerce students?

1) CNN, MTV, B4U

2) ESPN, CNN, MTV

3) BBC, MTV, CNN

4) NDTV, ESPN, HBO

5) HBO, TLC, BBC

Directions (6 to 10): Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

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

Input: gone 93 over 46 84 now for 31

Step I: 31 gone 93 over 46 84 now for

Step II: 31 over gone 93 46 84 now for

Step III:31 over 46 gone 93 84 now for

Step IV: 31 over 46 now gone 93 84 for

Step V: 31 over 46 now 84 gone 93 for

and Step V is the last step of the rearrangement of the above input.

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

Question.6. Step III of an Input: 15 window 29 93 86 sail tower buy

Which of the following will be step VI?

1) 15 window 29 tower 86 sail 93 buy

2) 15 window 29 tower 86 93 sail buy

3) 15 window 29 tower 93 86 sail buy

4) There will be no such step

5) None of these

Question.7. Input: station hurry 39 67 all men 86 59

How many steps will be required to complete the rearrangement?

1) Four

2) Five

3) Six

4) Three

5) None of these

Question.8. Step II of an input is: 49 zone car battery 56 87 71 down

Which of the following is definitely the input?

1) car 49 battery zone 56 87 71 down

2) zone 49 car battery 56 87 71 down

3) battery car 49 zone 56 87 71 down

4) Cannot be determined

5) None of these

Question.9. Input: news 79 53 glory for 46 29 task

Which of the following will be step IV?

1) 29 task 46 news 53 glory 79 for

2) 29 task 46 news 53 79 glory for

3) 29 task 46 news 79 53 glory for

4) 29 news 79 53 glory for 46 task

5) None of these

Question.10. Step III of an input is: 27 tube 34 gas chamber row 74 53

Which of the following steps will be the last but one?

1) VI

2) VII

3) VIII

4) V

5) None of these

Solutions:

Solutions for (1 -5):

Answer.1. 3 
Answer.2. 4
Answer.3. 5
Answer.4. 1
Answer.5. 2

Answers for (6 -10):

Answer.6. 1
Answer.7. 2
Answer.8. 4
Answer.9. 2
Answer.10. 4