Reasoning MCQ Questions for Competitive Exams

The following quiz provides Reasoning MCQ Questions With Answers. Candidates who are preparing for various Government exams must take this quiz series brought to them by Infinity Lectures.

Target: SBI PO, SBI Clerk, RBI Assistant, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, SSC CGL, SSC GD, SSC CPO, SSC MTS, SSC CHSL, Railways, etc.

1. If all the digits in each of the numbers are arranged in ascending order within the numbers, which of the following will be the highest number in the new arrangement of numbers?

467 534 729 853 424

1. 467
2. 534
3. 729
4. 853

2. In a certain code language, SUPPORTERS is written as 8780. How will INEVITABLE be written in that code language?

1. 5940
2. 5841
3. 5742
4. 5040

3. Pointing towards a person in a photograph, Shivani said “He is the only son in law of the father of my brother”. How is that person related to Shivani?

1. Mother
2. Brother
3. Husband
4. Father in law

4. A man is facing north. He turns to 180° in a clockwise direction and another 90° in the same direction and 90° in the anticlockwise direction. Which direction is he facing now?

1. North
2. East
3. West
4. South

5. In a row of boys, if A who is 10th from the left and B who is 9th from the right interchange their positions. A becomes 15th from the left. How many boys are there in the row?

1. 23
2. 31
3. 27
4. 28

6. STATEMENT: How many daughters does W have?
I. B and D are sisters of M.
II. M’s father T is the husband of W.
III. Out of the three children which T has, only one is a boy.

1. Only I and III
2. All I, II and III are required to answer the question.
3. Only II and III
4. Only I and II

7. STATEMENT: Poverty is increasing because the people, who are deciding how to tackle it, know absolutely nothing about the poor.
COURSE OF ACTION:
I. The decision-makers should go to the grass root levels.
II. The decision-makers should come from the poor sections of society.
III. A new set of decision-makers should replace the existing one.

1. Either I or II follows
2. Only I follows
3. Only II follows
4. Both I and II follow

8. STATEMENT: An advertisement in the newspaper- ‘Learn a foreign language course to get a high paying job’
ASSUMPTION:
I. Those who learn a foreign language get highly paid jobs.
II. Only a foreign language can get someone a high paying job.

1. If only I is implicit.
2. If only II is implicit.
3. If either I or II is implicit.
4. If both I and II are implicit.

9. In a certain code language GGOLD is written as IKUTN then how is STARS written in same code language?

1. UXGZS
2. UXFZC
3. UXGZC
4. UXGAC

10. There are six persons A, B, C, D, E and F in a family. C is the sister of F. B is the brother of E’s husband. D is the father of A and grandfather of F. There are two fathers, three brothers and a mother in the group. How is C related to D?

1. Son in law
2. Daughter in law
3. Grandson
4. Granddaughter

11. A child is looking for his father. He went 90m in the east before turning to his right. He went 20m before turning to his right again to look for his father at his uncle’s place 30m from this point. His father was not there. From there he went 100m to his north before meeting his father in a street. Now how far he is from his starting point?

1. 80m
2. 100m
3. 260m
4. 140m

12. Abhinav is 16th from the left end in the row of boys and Vinay is 18th from the right end. Avinash is 11th from Abhinav towards the right end and 3rd from Vinay toward the left end. How many boys are there in a row?

1. 49
2. 47
3. 45
4. 48

13. Who among A, B, C, D, E and F each having different height is tallest?
I. B is taller than A but shorter than E.
II. Only two of them are shorter than C.
III. D is taller than the only F.

1. Only I and II are required
2. Only I and III are required
3. Only II and III are required
4. All I, II and III are required to answer the question

14. In the alphabet series A-Z, if each third letter, starting from C, is represented by the days of the week starting from Sunday, then what is the position of Thursday from the right?

1. 10th
2. 12th
3. 13th
4. 14th

For Q(15-17) Eight person are sitting in a circle P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W all of them facing outside the centre. S and T are not neighbours of W. U sit third to the left of W. V and T are not neighbour of U. Q is not neighbour of W and U. T is not second to the right of W. P is not neighbour of U and Q.

15. What is the position of R?

1. Second to the right of Q
2. Third to the right of Q
3. Sixth to the left of T
4. Fifth to the left of T

16. What is the position of Q with respect to W?

1. Second to the right
2. Third to the left
3. Sixth to the left
4. Either 1 or 3 is true

17. Which of the following condition is true?

1. S is second to the left of W
2. The position of R is not fixed
3. S is third to the left of W
4. S is a neighbour of T and U

18. In an examination, six subjects A, B, C, D, E and F are available for a candidate of which only three have to be offered under the following conditions:-
1) One who offered A had to offer B also.
2) One who offered A could not offer E.
3) One who offered C or D could not offer F.
The distribution of candidates over the subjects was as follows: A-70, B-70, C-90, D-85, E-70, F-35. How many candidates combined C with D?

1. 15
2. 20
3. 35
4. 70

19. Introducing a man, a lady said that “He is the father of my mother’s daughter’s only brother”. How is the man related to the lady?

1. Brother
2. Uncle
3. Cousin
4. Father

20. In a family of eight persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table facing the centre but not necessarily in the same order. Family has three generations, D’s father is sitting third to the left of his nephew. B is the son of F, who is second to the right of her son. D is the father of G and two persons sits between G and E. D’s wife is opposite to E, whose brother B is the immediate neighbour of C’s son. B is the father of H, no male is adjacent to C. F is the sister of C, who is not sitting second to the left of B. How is E related to C?

1. Daughter
2. Niece
3. Son
4. Nephew