20 questions in 15 minutes on number and letter series, coding and decoding, analogies, classification, blood relations, direction sense, ranking, calendars, clocks and syllogisms.
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This free practice set from AndamanJobs has 20 questions to be solved in 15 minutes. Every question is listed below with four options. Open Show answer and explanation under a question to see the correct option and why it is correct. Try the timed test above first, then use this list to revise the questions you got wrong.
- Ornithology : Birds :: Entomology : ?
- A. Plants
- B. Insects
- C. Fish
- D. Reptiles
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Answer: B. Insects
Entomology is the study of insects.
- A is the son of C, and C and Q are sisters. Z is the mother of Q, and P is the son of Z. Which of the following is true?
- A. P is the maternal uncle of A
- B. P is the father of A
- C. P is the grandfather of A
- D. A and P are brothers
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Answer: A. P is the maternal uncle of A
Z is the mother of Q, C and P, so P is the brother of C, who is A's mother. P is therefore A's maternal uncle.
- Statements: All pens are books. All books are papers. Conclusion: All pens are papers. Valid?
- A. Yes
- B. Cannot say
- C. Partly
- D. No
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Answer: A. Yes
The chain of inclusion makes the conclusion follow.
- Find the next term: 5, 11, 23, 47, ?
- A. 95
- B. 83
- C. 91
- D. 94
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Answer: A. 95
Each term is double the previous plus one. 47 x 2 + 1 = 95.
- A is the father of B. B is the sister of C. C is the son of D. How is D related to A?
- A. Daughter
- B. Mother
- C. Sister
- D. Wife
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Answer: D. Wife
C is the son of D and the child of A, so D is A wife.
- Statements: All roses are flowers. Some flowers fade quickly. Conclusion: Some roses fade quickly. Is the conclusion valid?
- A. No
- B. Cannot be determined
- C. Yes
- D. Only partly
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Answer: A. No
The flowers that fade quickly need not include any rose, so the conclusion does not follow.
- If 1st January 2024 was a Monday, what day was 1st February 2024?
- A. Tuesday
- B. Friday
- C. Thursday
- D. Wednesday
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Answer: C. Thursday
January has 31 days, and 31 divided by 7 leaves 3. Monday plus 3 is Thursday.
- Find the next term: 3, 8, 18, 38, 78, ?
- A. 148
- B. 156
- C. 158
- D. 160
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Answer: C. 158
Each term is double the previous plus two: 78 × 2 + 2 = 158.
- If A + B means A is the father of B, A − B means A is the sister of B, and A × B means A is the wife of B, then what does P × Q + R mean?
- A. P is the daughter of R
- B. P is the mother of R
- C. R is the father of P
- D. P is the sister of R
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Answer: B. P is the mother of R
P is the wife of Q and Q is the father of R, so P is the mother of R.
- If + means x and x means +, what is 6 + 3 x 2?
- A. 18
- B. 24
- C. 20
- D. 12
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Answer: C. 20
Swapping the symbols gives 6 x 3 + 2 = 18 + 2 = 20.
- Complete the series: 2, 5, 10, 17, 26, ?
- A. 35
- B. 38
- C. 36
- D. 37
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Answer: D. 37
Differences are 3, 5, 7, 9, so the next is 11 and 26 + 11 = 37.
- Five friends sit in a row. Ravi is to the immediate left of Sita, who is to the immediate left of Meera. If Ravi is third from the left, what position is Meera from the left?
- A. Fifth
- B. Third
- C. Fourth
- D. Second
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Answer: A. Fifth
Ravi is third, Sita fourth, Meera fifth.
- How many triangles are formed when both diagonals of a rectangle are drawn?
- A. Four
- B. Six
- C. Eight
- D. Two
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Answer: C. Eight
Both diagonals create four small triangles and four larger ones, eight in total.
- If in a certain language MONDAY is written as NPOEBZ, what is the code for SUNDAY?
- A. TVPEBZ
- B. TVOFBZ
- C. TWOEBZ
- D. TVOEBZ
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Answer: D. TVOEBZ
Each letter moves forward one place.
- If BOOK is coded as 2-15-15-11, how is DESK coded in the same way?
- A. 3-5-19-11
- B. 4-6-19-11
- C. 4-5-18-11
- D. 4-5-19-11
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Answer: D. 4-5-19-11
Each letter is replaced by its position in the alphabet: D=4, E=5, S=19, K=11.
- Six friends sit in a row facing north. Ravi is third from the left and Meera is at the left end. How many people sit between Meera and Ravi?
- A. One
- B. Three
- C. None
- D. Two
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Answer: A. One
Meera is in seat 1 and Ravi in seat 3, so only seat 2 lies between them. One person.
- What is the angle between the hands of a clock at 4:20?
- A. 15 degrees
- B. 10 degrees
- C. 20 degrees
- D. 0 degrees
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Answer: B. 10 degrees
The hour hand is at 4 × 30 + 20 × 0.5 = 130 degrees, the minute hand at 20 × 6 = 120 degrees, a difference of 10 degrees.
- Doctor : Hospital :: Teacher : ?
- A. School
- B. Lesson
- C. Book
- D. Student
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Answer: A. School
A doctor works in a hospital as a teacher works in a school.
- A, C, F, J, ?
- A. M
- B. P
- C. N
- D. O
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Answer: D. O
Gaps increase by one: +2, +3, +4, +5. J + 5 = O.
- If in a certain language PAPER is written as QBQFS, how is PENCIL written?
- A. QFODJM
- B. QFOCJM
- C. QFODIM
- D. PFODJM
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Answer: A. QFODJM
Each letter moves forward one place: P→Q, E→F, N→O, C→D, I→J, L→M.
Reasoning appears in every island paper: 25 marks at Matric level, 50 at Higher Secondary level, 40 in the police paper and 20 of the 200 at graduate level. It is also the section that rewards practice most reliably, because the question types repeat.
Forty-five seconds a question here is deliberate. In the real paper you will not get longer, and the difference between candidates is rarely whether they can solve a series — it is whether they can solve it fast enough to reach the end of the paper.
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