Reasoning Quiz for Banking entrance exams

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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!

Directions (Q. Nos. 1 to 7) Study the
following information to answer the given questions.

Six lectures are scheduled in a week
starting from Monday and ending on Sunday of the same week. Computer Science is
not on Tuesday or Saturday. Psychology is immediately after Organizational
Behaviour. Statistics is not on Friday and there is one day gap between
Statistics and Research Methods. One day prior to the schedule of Economics
there is no lecture (as that day is the ‘off’ day and Monday is not the off
day).

 1. Which of the following is the last lecture scheduled?

(1)
Statistics                (2) Research
Methods            (3) Psychology          (4) Cannot be determined      (5) None of these

2. If Wednesday is the ‘off’ day, the
code would be 2-4, if Thursday was the ‘off’ day, the code would be 3-3. Taking
into account the ‘off’ day, which of the following code is correct?

(1)
2-4             (2) 3-3             (3) 4-2             (4) Cannot be determined    (5)
None of these

 3.
Which lecture is scheduled on Friday?

(1)
Economics             (2) Psychology             (3) Computer Science          (4) Cannot
be determined                 (5) None of
these                   

 4. How many lectures were scheduled between
Economics and Psychology?

 (1) One           (2)
Two            (3) Three         (4) Cannot be determined     (5) None of these

5. On which day is Computer Science scheduled?

(1)
Monday                 (2) Wednesday            (3) Thursday               (4) Cannot be determined    (5)
None of these

6. Which is the ‘off ‘ day?    

(1)
Tuesday     (2) Wednesday           (3) Friday         (4) Cannot be determined           (5)
None of these

7. If someone wants to attend only
two lectures out of Psychology, Research Methods and Computer Science, but
wants the two days to be successive (one after the other), then which lecture
combination may be selected?

 (1) Research Methods, Computer Science

 (2) Psychology, Computer Science

 (3) Psychology, Research Methods

 (4) Any two of the three is possible

 (5) With the condition of successive day it is
not possible

Directions (Q. Nos. 8 to 10) In each
question below is/are given statement/s followed by two assumptions/ inferences
numbered I and II. An assumption is something supposed or taken for granted.
And an inference can be inferred from the given information. You have to
consider the statement/ s and the following assumptions/ inferences and decide
which of the assumptions/ inferences is implicit in the statement/s.

Give
answer (1) if only I is implicit

Give
answer (2) if only II is implicit

Give
answer (3) if either I or II is implicit

Give
answer (4) if neither I nor II is implicit

Give
answer (5) if both I and II are implicit

8. Statement: “Sometimes a
person acting out of conviction, pursuing a dream, represents the spirit of an
entire generation”.

I.
One gets conviction out of one’s action.

II.
Expectations of different generations are not the same.

9. Statement: ‘Take a recruitment
system, for example, the company would make an offer to somebody it had
rejected three months ago! There was no recruitment database that kept record
of that”.

I.
It is possible to devise a system which would indicate those applicants who were
rejected earlier.

II.
This company considers three months’ time too short a period to reconsider
recruitment decision about a candidate.

10. Statement: “Everyone does
not need to build a 100 crore or 1000 crore company. Small vs Big vs Superbig
is a choice that an entrepreneur makes herself/ himself depending upon the
ambitions, values and what she/he likes doing”.

I.
The figures are for the turnover of the company.

II.
There is hardly any distinction between a small or a big company.

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Answers

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

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