Reasoning Questions for RBI ASSISTANTS Mains 2017

Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.

A, B, C, D, E, F and G are members of a sports club and have liking for different games, viz Carrom, Table Tennis, Badminton, Bridge, Hockey, Football and Lawn Tennis but not necessarily in the same order. Each one of them has a liking for different musical instruments, viz Sitar, Guitar, Harmonium, Flute, Tabla, Banjo and Santoor, not necessarily in the same order.

B likes Carrom and Banjo. E likes to play Bridge but not Harmonium or Tabla. The one who plays Hockey like Sitar. F plays Guitar but not table Tennis or Lawn Tennis. A plays Badminton and Flute. The one who plays Lawn Tennis does not play Tabla. C plays Harmonium and G plays Hockey.

Q1.Who plays Santoor?

(e)None of these

Q2.D plays which game?

(a) Table Tennis

(b) Lawn Tennis

(d) Cannot be determined

(e)None of these

Q3.Which of the following combinations of game-person-musical instrument is definitely correct?

(a) Badminton-B-Flute

(b) Table Tennis-E-Santoor

(d) Table Tennis-C-Tabla

(e)None of these

Q4.Who plays Football?

(e)None of these

Q5.Who plays Table Tennis?

(d) Cannot be determined

(e)None of these

Directions (6-10): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions:

Eight persons from different banks viz. UCO bank, Syndicate bank, Canara bank, PNB, Dena Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Indian bank and Bank of Maharashtra are sitting in two parallel rows containing four people each, in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row-1 A, B, C and D are seated and all of them are facing south. In row-2 P, Q, R and S are seated and all of them are facing north. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row. (All the information given above does not necessarily represent the order of seating as in the final arrangement)

• C sits second to right of the person from Bank of Maharashtra. R is an immediate neighbour of the person who faces the person from Bank of Maharashtra.

• Only one person sits between R and the person for PNB. Immediate neighbour of the person from PNB faces the person from Canara Bank.

• The person from UCO bank faces the person from Oriental Bank of Commerce. R is not from Oriental Bank of Commerce. P is not from PNB. P does not face the person from Bank of Maharashtra.

• Q faces the person from Dena Bank. The one who faces S sits to the immediate left of A.

• B does not sit at any of the extreme ends of the line. The person from Bank of Maharashtra does not face the person from Syndicate bank.

Q6.Which of the following is true regarding A?

(a) The person from UCO bank faces A.

(b) The person from Bank of Maharashtra is an immediate neighbour of A.

(d) A is from Oriental Bank of Commerce.

(e)A sits at one of the extreme ends of the line.

Q7.Who is seated between R and the person from PNB?

(a) The person from Oriental Bank of Commerce

(d) The person from Syndicate bank

Q8.Who amongst the following sit at extreme ends of the rows?

(a) D and the person from PNB

(b) The person from Indian bank and UCO bank

(d) The persons from Syndicate bank and D

Q9. Who amongst the following faces the person from Bank of Maharashtra?

(a) The person from Indian bank

(d)The person from Syndicate bank

(e)The person from Canara bank

Q10.P is related to Dena bank in the same way as B is related to PNB based on the given arrangement. To who amongst the following is D related to, following the same pattern?

(a) Syndicate bank

(b) Canara bank

(d) Indian bank

(e)Oriental Bank of Commerce

Q11.Danyal walks 20 metres towards North. He then turns left and walks 40 metres. He again turns left and walks 20 metres. Further, he moves 20 metres after turning to the right. How far is he from his original position?

(a) 20 metres

(b) 30 metres

(d) 60 metres

(e)None of these

Q12.Deepa moves towards South-East a distance of 7 m, then the moves towards west and travels a distance of 14 m. From here, she moves towards North-West a distance of 7 m and finally she moves a distance of 4 m towards East and stood at the point. How far is the starting point from where she stood?

(e)None of these

Q13.‘A’ is east of ‘B’ and west of ‘C’. ‘H’ is south-west of ‘C’ and ‘B’ is south-east of ‘X’. Who is the farthest west?

(e)Cannot be determined

Q14.Deepak said to Prakash, “That boy playing football is the younger of the two brothers of the daughter of my father’s wife.” How is the boy playing football related to Deepak?

(a) Brother-in-law

(b) Nephew

(d) Brother

(e)None of these

Q15.Pointing to a woman in a photograph, a man says, “She is the mother-in-law of the husband of the only granddaughter of my own mother-in-law.” How is the woman related to the man?

(a) Daughter-in-law

(b) Sister-in-law

(e) None of these