REASONING - Online Test
Q1.
"You are hereby appointed as a programmer with a probation period of one year and your performance will be reviewed at the end of the period for confirmation."
These questions are based on the information given above and the sentences labelled (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) as given below.
(A) The performance of an individual is generally not known at the time of extending an appointment offer.
(B) Generally an individual tries to prove his worth during the probation period.
(C) There is no guarantee that you will be appointed at the end of the probation period.
(D) Very often, even highly qualified candidates are not fit to work in the environment of an office and have adverse reactions to strict office regulations.
(E) The company makes every candidate go through a compulsory internship period of one year before extending an appointment offer.
Which of the above have been assumed by the company while extending the appointment offer?
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:
These statements provide a reason for the company having an evaluation period for the new appointee.
Q2. “Price is not the same thing as value. Suppose that on a day the price of everything viz., coal, bread, postage stamps, a day’s labour, the rent of houses, etc. were to double. Prices then would certainly rise, but values of all things except one would not.”
The writer wants to say that if prices of all things were doubled
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q3.
Direction: This question is based on the five three digit numbers given below.
134 689 564 319 404
What will be resultant number if the third digit of the highest number divides by the second digit of the lowest number ?
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
Third digit of the highest number (689) = 9
The second digit of the lowest number (134)=3
So, 9/3=3
Q4.
Find the number of triangles in the given figure.
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:
The figure may be labelled as shown.
The simplest triangles are ADE, BDF, DEF and EFC i.e. 4 in number.
There is only one triangle ABC composed of four components.
Thus, there are 4+1 = 5 triangles in the given figure.
Q5.
"You are hereby appointed as a programmer with a probation period of one year and your performance will be reviewed at the end of the period for confirmation."
These questions are based on the information given above and the sentences labelled (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) as given below.
(A) The performance of an individual is generally not known at the time of extending an appointment offer.
(B) Generally an individual tries to prove his worth during the probation period.
(C) There is no guarantee that you will be appointed at the end of the probation period.
(D) Very often, even highly qualified candidates are not fit to work in the environment of an office and have adverse reactions to strict office regulations.
(E) The company makes every candidate go through a compulsory internship period of one year before extending an appointment offer.
Which of the above, if true would most weaken the company's insistence upon a probation period?
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
If the candidate has already been evaluated in a company setup, then there is no need for him to go through a probation period once again. Hence, Option (d) is correct.
Q6.
Consider the table given below in which the numbers bear certain relationship among
themselves along the rows :
| 29 | 13 | 18 |
| 33 | X | 19 |
| 30 | 27 | 3 |
Which one of the following numbers is the missing number indicated above by X?
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
Q7.
Direction: This question is based on the five three digit numbers given below.
134 689 564 319 404
If 1 is added to the first digit and 2 is added to the last digit of each of the numbers , then which of the following numbers will be the second highest number?
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
After the arrangement numbers are,
236, 791, 666, 421, 506
Second highest digit is 666, that means 564 is answer
Q8.
Find the number of triangles in the given figure.
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
The figure may be labelled as shown.
The simplest triangles are EFH, BIC, GHJ, GIJ, EKD and CKD i.e. 6 in number.
The triangles composed of two components each are ABJ, AFJ, GCK, GEK, CED arid GHI i.e. 6 in number.
The triangles composed of three components each are GCD, GED, DJB and DJF i.e. 4 in number.
The triangles composed of four components each are ABF and GCE i.e. 2 in number.
The triangles composed of five components each are ABD and AFD i.e. 2 in number.
There is only one triangle i.e. FBD composed of six components.
Total number of triangles in the figure = 6 + 6 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 1 = 21.
Q9.
" Unemployment allowance should be given to all unemployed Indian youth above 18 years of age."
These questions are based on the information given above and the sentences labelled (A), (B), (C), (D), (E) as given below.
(A) The unemployed youth in India need monetary support.
(B) The youth who are unemployed have no prospective sources of income in the near future.
(C)The government has sufficient funds to support this extra burden on its treasury.
(D) The move to provide unemployment benefits would plunge larger numbers of young people into idleness and apathy and prevent them from looking for jobs in the future.
(E) The youth needs employment benefits to prevent them from the hiring and firing policy of the corporate houses.
Which of the above statements are assumptions that are implicit in the argument presented by the author?
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:
Statement B has no bearing whatsoever on the present state of unemployment of young people in the country, hence to be ruled out. Option C is presumptive and an extrapolation of what is merely a suggestion made by the author. Hence, ruled out. The rest are extensions or critiques of the argument. Only A is a valid assumption.
Q10.
Assume that
- the hour and minute hands of a clock move without jerking.
- the clock shows a time between 8 o’clock and 9 o’clock.
- the two hands of the clock are one above the other.
After how many minutes (nearest integer) will the two hands be again lying one above the other?
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.
