Practice Test-2

Number of questions: 30 Time Allowed: 30 mins.

Directions for questions 1 to 5 : Arrange the following 6. Who is the footballer ?

sentences in a logical order and answer the questions (a) Q (b) R
that follow.
(c) S (d) T
A. Absence of other parental figures in the family
7. Who is the table tennis player ?
has worsened the situation.
(a) Q (b) R
B. Drug abuse amongst youngsters seems to be on
the increase. (c) S (d) T
C. The need for many mothers to work has put an 8. Who is the cricketer ?
additional claim on the time available for the (a) Q (b) R
children. (c) S (d) T
D. Breakdown of the extended family has put a lot of
9. Who is the wife of T ?
burden on the parent.
(a) P (b) S
E. Psychologists attribute this to the growing
alienation of the new generation from their parents. (c) R (d) Q
1. Which sentence should be LAST in the paragraph? 10. The three ladies in the group are.
(a) A (b) B (a) PQR (b) PRS
(c) C (d) D (c) QRS (d) PST
2. Which sentence should come FIRST in the Directions for questions 11 and 12: In the following
paragraph? questions, a statement is followed by two explanatory
(a) A (b) B statements numbered I and II. These explanatory
statements have been given to answer the question
(c) E (d) D
asked in the main statement.
3. Which sentence should come FOURTH in the
Choose your answer as:
paragraph?
(a) If the data in statement I alone is sufficient to
(a) A (b) B
answer the question.
(c) C (d) E
(b) If the data in statement II alone is sufficient to
4. Which sentence should come SECOND in the answer the question.
paragraph?
(c) If the data in both the statements together is not
(a) B (b) C sufficient to answer the question
(c) D (d) E (d) If the data in both the statements is needed to
5. Which sentence should come THIRD in the answer the question.
paragraph?
11. A and B are 2 sisters. P is A’s friend. N is P’s
(a) A (b) B brother. X is M’s best friend. Who is Y’s friend?
(c) C (d) D I. Y is sister of X.
Directions for questions 6 to 10: Read the following II. Z is very close to one of X or Y.
information and answer the questions given under
12. A child wants to buy 4 toys from a shop. His dad
There are five persons P, Q, R, S and T. One is a is not allowing him to buy the gun in the shop and
footballer, one is a cricketer, and one a table tennis has told him to buy anything else. The stock of
player. dolls is no more with the shopkeeper. Which toy
P & S are unmarried ladies and do not take part in will the child surely buy?
any game. None of the ladies play football or cricket.
I. The boy is fond of toy cars.
There is a married couple in which T is a husband. Q
is the brother of R and Q is neither a cricketer nor a II. The toy car that the boy selected in the shop
table tennis player. was most costly.
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Directions for questions 13 and 14: Find the missing Conclusions:
number in place of ‘?’ from the options given in the I. Students who are not hardworking are not
questions. intelligent.
13. 5, 9, 15, 23, 33, ? II. No intelligent is hardworking.
(a) 41 (b) 45 19. Statements:
(c) 48 (d) 49 Some cats are rats.
14. 2, 4, 8, 14, 16, 22, ? All bats are rats.
(a) 24 (b) 25 Conclusions:
(c) 26 (d) 29 I. Some rats are bats.
15. If Amar is the son of Mohan and Mohan is the son II. Cats which are not rats are bats.
of Sohan, then how is Sohan related to Amar? 20. Statements:
(a) Father-in-law All books are beautiful.
(b) Grandfather No beautiful is good.
(c) Grandmother Conclusions:
(d) Can’t be determined I. Some books are not beautiful.
16. If ‘A @ B’ means ‘A is sister of B’; ‘A × B’ means II. Some books are good.
‘A is father of B’; and ‘A – B’ means ‘A is brother of 21. In a certain code language ROMAN is coded as
B’; then ‘M is uncle of P’ will be denoted by _____. MZLNQ, what will be the code for ENGLISH in
(a) M @ K × P (b) K – P @ M that code language?

(c) M – K × P (d) M × K – P (a) GRHFKMD (b) GRHKFND

Directions for questions 17 to 20: In the following (c) GRHKFMD (d) GRFHKMD
questions, there are two statements followed by two 22. In a certain code language ‘tin tun ton’ stands for
conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the ‘live the life’, ‘tun kun mun’ stands for ‘life and me’,
given statements to be true even if they seem to be at ‘ton cot nus’ stands for ‘live your dreams’, what
variance with commonly known facts. Read the will be the code for ‘live’ in that code language?
conclusions and then decide which of them logically (a) tun (b) ton
follows. (c) tin (d) mun
Mark answer: 23. Ajay facing east, travelled 10 km straight, took a
(a) If only conclusion I follows left turn and moved another 5 km and then took
another left turn and moved further 10 km. How far
(b) If only conclusion II follows
is he from the starting point?
(c) If both conclusions I and II follow
(a) 15 km (b) 5 km
(d) If neither conclusion I nor II follows
(c) 10 km (d) 20 km
17. Statements:
24. I am facing east. I turn 180° in the clockwise
All Indians are intellectuals. direction and then 135° in the anticlockwise
Some intellectuals are fools. direction. Which direction am I facing now?
Conclusions: (a) East (b) South-east
I. Some Indians are not intellectuals. (c) West (d) South-west
II. All intellectuals are Indians. 25. In the English alphabet, which letter is exactly in
between the 6th letter, from left, and 10th letter
18. Statements:
from right?
Some students are hardworking.
(a) U (b) V
No hardworking is intelligent.
(c) H (d) There is no such letter
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Directions for questions 26 to 30: Answer the 28. If the first half of the above series is reversed and
following questions based on the alphanumeric series the second half is kept the same, how many such
given below. letters would you find which are immediately
O S4L28AJQ 3C7EF 65X9 HG O VIM preceded by a letter and immediately followed by
a number?
26. Three of the following 4 characters are alike, with
(a) 1 (b) 4
respect to their position in the above sequence,
and form a group. Which is the one that does not (c) 2 (d) None of these
belong to that group? 29. Three of the following 4 characters (numbers) are
(a) A (b) E alike, with respect to their positions in the above
sequence, and form a group. Which is the one
(c) J (d) H
that does not belong to that group?
27. Which character is the 7th character to the right
(a) 4 (b) 3
of the 13th character from the left-hand side, if the
(c) 7 (d) 8
second half of the above series is reversed?
30. Which character is the 8th character to the left of
(a) X
the 12th character from the right-hand side, if the
(b) H first half of the above series is reversed?
(c) E (a) 6 (b) L
(d) 3 (c) Q (d) None of these

Answer Key
1. (d) 2. (b) 3. (a) 4. (d) 5. (c) 6. (a) 7. (b) 8. (d) 9. (c) 10. (b)

11. (c) 12. (b) 13. (b) 14. (c) 15. (d) 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (b) 19. (a) 20. (d)

21. (c) 22. (b) 23. (b) 24. (b) 25. (d) 26. (c) 27. (a) 28. (c) 29. (d) 30. (d)
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Explanations
For questions 1 to 5: For questions 17 to 20:
B is the opening sentence as it states the subject of Draw the different types of Venn diagrams based on
the passage i.e. ‘Drug abuse amongst youngsters’. E the given statements. The valid conclusion is the one
follows as the word ‘this’ mentioned in it refers to the which is common in all different Venn diagrams.
‘drug abuse’ mentioned in B. ‘CA’ forms a mandatory 17. d Intel
pair as C continues the point stated in E, that alienation Fools1
Ind
from parents is responsible for increased drug abuse,
by blaming the mother. A follows as it refers to ‘other Fools2
parental figures’ apart from the mother. D is the last
From the given venn diagram we can see that
sentence as it continues the earlier statements in an
neither conclusion I nor II follows.
extended mode. Hence, the correct sequence is
‘BECAD’. 18. b
S H I1
For questions 6 to 10:
I2
The information can be collated in the form of a table
From the given venn diagram we can see that
as shown below.
conclusion II definitely follows.
Person Gender Game Wife/Husband
19. a
P Female – – R
C C B R
Q Male Footballer – B
R Female T.T. Wife of T
(i) (ii)
S Female – –
There are 2 possible venn diagrams for this. When
T Male Cricketer Husband of R
we observe both of them, we see that only
6. a Q is the footballer.
conclusion I definitely follows.
7. b R is the Table Tennis player.
20. d
8. d T is the cricketer. Books Good

9. c R is the wife of T. Be

10. b P & S are ladies as given in the initial information. None of the given conclusions follows.
R is the wife of T. Hence the ladies in the group 21. c The coding follows as
are PRS. R(1) – 1 = M(5) E(1) – 1 = G(7)
11. c Even both the statements together are unable to O(2) – 1 = Z(4) N(2) – 1 = R(6)
answer the problem as the problem involves friends.
M(3) – 1 = L(3) G(3) – 1 = H(5)
12. b Statement II implies that the toy car that the boy
A(4) – 1 = N(2) L(4) – 1 = K(4)
liked was available in the shop. Also given that his
father has allowed him to buy anything other than N(5) – 1 = Q(1) I(5) – 1 = F(3)
toy gun. So he must buy the toy car. S(6) – 1 = M(2)
13. b The series is the 12 + 4, 22 + 5, 32 + 6, 42 + 7, 52 H(7) – 1 = D(1)
+ 8 and the next term would be 62 + 9. 22. b From (I) and (III) we get ‘ton’ = ‘live’.
14. c Multiples of 2 excluding multiples of 3 or 5. 23. b C 10 km
B
15. d Can’t be determined because we don’t know the
sex of Sohan. 5 km

16. c Obviously (c) as M is brother of K who is father

of P O 10 km A
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24. b 180° CW + 135° ACW = 180 – 135 = 45° CW 27. a If the above half of the series is reversed then the
So he will be facing in south-east, which is equal given series would look like as
to 45° clockwise turn. O S 4 L 2 8 A J Q 3 C 7 M I V O G H
N 9 X 5 6 F E
Hence, the 7th character to the right of the 13th
character from the left hand side is X.
28. c If the first half of the series is reversed then the
given series would look like as
W E
45°
7 C 3 Q J A 8 2 L 4 S O E F 6 5 X 9 H
180° G O V I M
135°
There are only two such letters.
29. d Except for the number 8, all the others are between
two English letters.
S 30. d After the reversal of the first half
25. d Tenth letter from right end = 17th letter from left 7C3QJA82L4SOEF65X9HGOVIM
6  17 23
end, so midway letter in  hence, there
2 2 The 12th character from the right is the letter ‘O’
is no such letter. and the 8th character to its left is the ‘J’.
26. c Except for J, all other options are in between a
number or a letter.