Reasoning quiz for Banking entrance exams

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This quiz consists of questions from actual past
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Directions 1 to 5: Study the following information
carefully and answer the given questions.

                  
A word and number arrangement machine, when given an input line of words
and numbers, rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The
following is an illustration of input and rearrangement.

Input     :  gone over 35 69 test 72 park 27

Step I    :  27
gone over 35 69 test 72 park

Step II   :  27 test gone over 35 69 72 park

Step III  :  27 test 35 gone over 69 72 park

Step IV  :  27 test 35 park gone over 69 72

Step V   :  27
test 35 park 69 gone over 72

Step VI  :  27 test 35 park 69 over gone 72

Step VII :  27
test 35 park 69 over 72 gone

Step VII is the last step of the rearrangement

As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out
the appropriate step for the given input in each of the following questions.

1.  Input: 86
open shut door 31 49 always 45

How many steps will be required to complete the
rearrangement?

(1)
Five                     (2) Six               (3) Seven               (4) four          (5) none of these

2.  Step III of
an input: 25 yes 37 enemy joy defeat 52 46

Which of the following is definitely the input?

(1) enemy 25
joy defeat yes 52 37 46       (2) 37
enemy 25 joy yes defeat 52 46     (3)
enemy joy defeat 25 52 yes 46 37         
(4) Cannot be determined       
(5) None of these.

3.  Step II of
an input:  18 win 71 34 now if victory
61.

How many more steps will be required to complete the
rearrangement?

(1) Three       
   (2) Four    
      (3) Five           (3) Six      
     (5) More than six

4.  Input:  where 47 59 12 are they going 39

Which of the following steps will be the last but one?

(1) VII                   (2) IV                 (3) V                 (4) VIII              (5) None of these

5.  Step II of
an input: 33 store 81 75 full of goods 52

Which of the following will be step VI?

(1) 33 store 52 of 75 81 full goods

(2) 33 store 52 of 75 full 81 goods

(3) 33 store 52 of 75 goods 81 full

(4) There will be no such step.

(5) None of these

Directions (Q. 6-10): ln each of the question-sets
below, two/three statements are given, followed by two conclusions numbered I and
II. 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 given statements, disregarding commonly
known facts.

Give answer

(1) if only conclusion I follows.

(2) if only conclusion II follows.

(3) if either conclusion I or conclusion II follows.

(4) if neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows.

(5) if both conclusion I and conclusion II follow.

(6-8): Statements: 
 All stars are bottles.

                                   Some
bottles are papers.

                                   No
paper is a calendar.

6.  Conclusions: I. All stars being papers is a possibility.

                            II. No calendar is
a bottle.

7. Conclusions:  I. All
calendars being stars is a possibility.

                            II. At least some
bottles are stars.

8. Conclusions:  I. At least
some calendars are bottles.

                            II. No calendar is
a star.

(9-10):

Statements:     
Some pencils are blankets.  All
blankets are erasers.

9. Conclusions:  
 I. At least some pencils are erasers.

                               II. All erasers
being pencils is a possibility.

10. Conclusions:  
I. No eraser is a pencil.

                                II. All
blankets being pencils is a possibility.

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

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