Reasoning Quiz for Banking entrance exams

Dear readers,

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

1. Which of the following should
come next in the given sequence of numbers?

2 4 3 2 4 3 1 2 4 3 1 2 2 4 3 1 2 3
2 4 3 1 2 3

(1)
2     (2) 3    (3) 4    (4) 5     (5) None of these

2. How many meaningful English
words can be formed with the letters EDOM using each letter only once in each
word ?

(1)
None      (2) One       (3) Two          (4) Three               (5) More than three

3. Four of the following five are
alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the one that does not
belong to that group ?

(1)
Nephew         (2) Cousin          (3) Mother           (4) Brother            (5) Sister

4. How many pairs of letters are
them in the word SECURITY each of which has as many alphabets between them as
there are in the English alphabetical series ?

(1)
None      (2) Two         (3) Three         (4) Four            (5) More than four

5. In a certain code. STAR is
written as 5$*2 and TORE is written as $32@. How is OATS written in that code?

(1)
3*5$           (2) 3*$5           (3) 3$*5          (4) 35*$            (5) None of these

Directions (Q.6-10) In each of the
questions below, are given four statements followed by four conclusions
numbered I, II, III and IV. You have to take the given statements to be true
even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the
conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows
from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

6. Statements: Some doctors are
lawyers. All teachers are lawyers. Some engineers are lawyers. All engineers
are businessmen.

Conclusions:

I. Some teachers are doctors.

II. Some businessmen are lawyers.

III. Some businessmen are teachers

IV. Some lawyers are teachers.

(1)
None follows

(2)
Only II follows

(3)
Only III follows

(4)
Only II and IV follow

(5)
None of the above

7. Statements: All plastics are
glasses. Some sponges are glasses. All sponges are clothes. All clothes are
liquids.

Conclusions:

I. All liquids are sponges.

II. Some plastics are clothes.

III. All glasses are plastics.

IV. All liquids are clothes.

(1)
None follows

(2)
Only either II or IV follows

(3)
Only IV follows

(4)
Only III and IV follow

(5)
None of the above

8. Statements: All sands are
beaches. All shores are beaches. Some beaches are trees. All trees are hotels.

Conclusions:

I. Some shores are hotels.

II. All beaches are shores.

III. Some beaches are hotels.

IV. Some sands are trees.

(1)
None follows

(2)
Only II follows

(3)
Only either I or III follows

(4)
Only IV follow

(5)
None of the above

9. Statements: All parrots ate
pigeons. Some crows are pigeons. Some sparrows are crows. All sparrows are
koels.

Conclusions:

I. Some koels are crows.

II. Some parrots are crows.

III. Some sparrows are pigeons.

IV. No crow is a parrot.

(1)
Only I follows

(2)
Only III follows

(3)
Only I and either II or IV follow

(4)
Only either I or III follows

(5)
None of the above

10. Statements:  All chairs are tables. All tables are
cushions. Some cushions are trolleys. All trolleys are lamps.

Conclusions:

I. Some lamps are tables.

II. Some trolleys are chairs.

III. Some cushions are lamps.

IV. All chairs are cushions

(1)
Only I follows

(2)
Only III and IV follows

(3)
Only either I or II follows

(4)
All follows

(5)
None of the above

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Answers:

1(3)           2(3)           3(2)        4(3)         5(2)         6(4)        
7(1)         8(5)       9(3)         10(1)

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