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!

Directions (Q. 1-5) In each question below are four
statements followed by four statements conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV.
You have to take the four given statements to be true even if they seem to be
at variance from commonly known facts and then decide which of the given
conclusions logically follows from the four given statements disregarding
commonly known facts. Then, decide which of the answers (1), (2), (3), (4) and
(5) is the correct answer and indicate it on the answer sheet.

1. Statements:  All stones are pearls. Some pearls are shells.
Some shells are boxes. 
No box is container.

Conclusions:

I. Some stones are shells.

II. No pearl is container.

III. No shell is container.

IV. Some pearls are containers.

(1)
Only II follows

(2)
Only II and III follow

(3)
Only either II or IV follows

(4)
Only III follows

(5)
None follows

2.
Statements:  Some rings are
chains. All chains are bangles. All bracelets are bangles. 
Some
bangles are pendants.

Conclusions:

I.
Some rings are bangles.

II.
Some chains are pendants.

III.
Some bracelets are rings.

IV.
No pendant is ring.

(1) None follows

(2) Only I follows

(3) Only II and III follow

(4) Only IV follows

(5) None of the above

3. Statements: Some schools
are colleges. Some colleges are hostels. No hostel is office. All offices are
institutes.

Conclusions:

I. No hostel is institute.

II. Some hostels are schools.

III. Some hostels are institutes.

IV. Some offices are colleges.

(1)
Only I follows

(2)
Only II and III follow

(3)
Only IV follows

(4)
Only either I or III follows

(5)
None of the above

4. Statements: Some pins are
needles. Some threads are needles. All needles are nails. All 
nails are hammers.

Conclusions:

I. Some pins are hammers.

II. Some threads are nails.

III. Some pins are threads.

IV. No pin is thread.

(1)
Only I, II and either III or IV follows

(2)
Only III and IV follow

(3)
Only I and II follow

(4)
All follow

(5)
None of the above

5. Statements:  Some chairs Are rooms. No room is sofa. All
sofas are tables. Some tables 
are desks.

Conclusions:

I. Some sofas are desks.

II. No room is table.

III. Some chairs are tables.

IV. No desk is room.

(1)
None follows

(2)
Only I follows

(3)
Only either II or III follows

(4)
Only III and IV follows

(5) All follows

Directions (Q.6-10) Study the
following information carefully to answer these questions:-

A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are
sitting around a circle facing the centre. F is third to the right of C and
second to the left of H. D is not an immediate neighbour of C or H. E is to the
immediate right of A, who is second to the right of G.

6. Who is second to the left of C?

(1)
A          (2) B            (3) E           (4) D          (5) None of these

7. Who is to the immediate right of
C?

(1)
A            (2) B            (3) D            (4) B or D          (5) None of these

8. Which of the following pairs of
persons has first person sitting to the right of the second 
person?

(1)
CB          (2) AE        (3) FG            (4) HA            (5) DB

9. Who sits between G and D?

(1)
H              (2) D               (3) F            (4) E                 (5) None of these

10. Which of the following is the
correct position of B with respect to H?

I. Second to the right

II. Fourth to the right

III. Fourth to the left

IV. Second to the left

(1)
Only I

(2)
Only II

(3)
Only III

(4)
Both II and III

(5)
None of these

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Answers:

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

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