Dear PaGaLGuY readers, General Reasoning forms an integral part of a number of competitive examinations, such as the SSC CGL, SSC CHSL exams, Banking Entrance exams, UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Examination, MBA entrance exams, Combined Defence Service Examination, etc. Given the importance of this section, we bring you a Reasoning Quiz to help you practise and sharpen your reasoning ability.

This quiz has questions from the SSC Combined Graduate Level (Tier – I) exam held in June 2011. Solve this quiz and leave your responses/ answers in the comments section below. We will soon let you know the correct answers!

 In the following questions, a series is given, with one/two term(s) missing. Choose the correct alternative from the given ones that will complete the series. 

1. reoc, pgme, nikg, lkii, ?

(a) acef                  (b) jmgk            (c) efgh                (d) wxyz 

2. 4, 196, 16, 169, ?, 144, 64

(b) 21               (b) 81                  (c) 36                   (d) 32

3. 8, 15, 36, 99, 288, ?

(a) 368               (b) 676             (c) 855                 (d) 908

4. XYZCBAUVWFE??

(a) DR                (b) RS              (c) DS                 (d) MN

5. Out of 100 families in the neighbourhood, 50 have radios, 75 have TVs and 25 have VCRs. Only 10 families have all three and each VCR owner also has a TV. If some families have radios only, how many have only TVs?

(a) 30                  (b) 35               (c) 40                    (d) 45

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