Dear Readers,

This quiz consists of actual questions from various Banking entrance
exams held during the last few years. Leave your answers/ responses in the
comments section below and soon we’ll let you know the correct answers!

In each of the questions below, two/three statements are
given followed by two conclusions numbered 1 and 2. You have to take the given statements
to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts and
then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two/three
statements, disregarding commonly known facts.

Give answer

(a) if only conclusion 1 follows.

(b) if only conclusion 2 follows.

(c) if either conclusion 1 or conclusion 2 follows.

(d) if neither conclusion 1 nor conclusion 2 follows.

(e) if both conclusion 1 and conclusion 2 follows.

1. Statements:
 Some exams are tests. No exam is a
question.

  Conclusions:  1. No
question is a test.

                           2.
Some tests are definitely not exams.

(2 and 3)  

Statements: All forces are energies. All energies are powers. No
power is heat.

2. Conclusions:  1. Some forces are definitely not
powers.

                              2.
No heat is force.

3. Conclusions:  1. No energy is heat.

                              2. Some forces being heat is a possibility.

(4 and 5)

Statements: No
note is a coin. Some coins are metals. All plastics are notes.

4. Conclusions:  
1. No coin is plastic.

                               2.
All plastics being metals is a possibility.

5. Conclusions:   1. No
metal is plastic.

                              2.
All notes are plastic.

6. Statements: Some
symbols are figures. All symbols are graphics. No graphic is a picture.

 Conclusions:      1.
Some graphics are figures.

                              2. No symbol is a picture.

7. Statements:
All vacancies are jobs. Some jobs are occupations.

Conclusions:      1.
All vacancies are occupations.

                             2. All occupations being vacancies is a possibility.

8. In a certain code ‘TEAMWORK’ is written as ‘NBFUJQNV’
and ‘SOME’ is written as ‘PTDL’.How is ‘PERSON’
written in that code?

 (a) QDOOPT             (b) QDOMNR            (c) SFQMNR       

(d) SFQOPT           (e) None of these

9. How many such pairs of letters are there in the
word ‘SUBSTANCE’ each of which has as many letters between them in the word (in
both forward and backward directions) as in the English alphabetical series?

 (a) None                 (b) One               (c) Two             (d) Three                 (e) More than three

10. How many meaningful English words not ending with
‘D’ can be made with the third, fifth, seventh and ninth letters of the word ‘STEADFAST’,
using each letter only once in each word? (All letters are counted from left to
right?

 (a) None                 (b) One             (c) Two                (d) Three                 (e) More than three

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Answers

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