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Puzzle 1: 1.) There are 4 people of different nationalities viz, French, Belgian, Australian and polish sitting in a row but necessary in that order. 2.) They are wearing shirts of different colours-Blue, Pink, Mustard and Orange. 3.) One is wearing a blazer and one a suit. 4.) The French is wearing a mustard shirt and a sweater 5.) The Australian is not seated at either end. 6.) The person with blazer wears a pink shirt and sits next to Belgian. 7.) The Belgian wears a kimono and is not seated at either end. 8.) The man wearing an orange shirt wears a suit and is seated at one end. Puzzle 2: Six friends Aryan, Rahul, Mayank, Harman, Paritosh and Mandeep married in different hotels viz. Trident Hotels, Oberoi Hotel, Ashoka Hotel, Taj Hotel, Le Meridian and ITC Maurya and all the grooms gifted different cars to their respective brides viz. Duster, Fortuner, Swift, i20, Wagon-R and i10, but not necessarily in the same order. The brides' names were Simran, Harpreet, Vrinda, Priyanka, Gunjan and Aishwarya, once again not following any order. The following are some facts about their weddings. 1.) Mayank gifted his wife Swift on their wedding; however he was not married to Simran or Aishwarya 2.) Aryan gifted his wife Duster and Paritosh gifted i20 to his wife. However neither of them was married to Harpreet or Priyanka. 3.) The bride who was gifted i10 got married in Trident Hotels. 4.) Vrinda's wedding took place in Oberoi Hotel, but she was not gifted Duster. 5.) Simran and Gunjan got married in Trident Hotels and Le meridian and own Swift and i10 but not necessarily following the above mentioned order. 6.) Harman did not gift Fortuner or i10 to his wife and was married in ITC Maurya. 7.) Mandeep was married to Harpreet in Taj Hotel. Puzzle 3: A,B,C,D,E,F,G and H are eight family members sitting around a circular table, facing the centre, but not necessarily in the same order. Each member likes a different genre of music viz. Rock, Metal, House, Jazz, Pop, Trance, R&B, and Folk, but not necessarily in the same order. A is the head of the family and sits third to the left of wife B. G has two sisters and sits second to the right of his grandfather, who likes listening to Rock. D sits on the immediate left of her brother, who sits in front of his father. F sits between the person who like Metal and the person who like Jazz. Her favorite music genre is Pop. B has two sons and one of the son's like Jazz. H sits in front of her mother-in-law who likes Folk music. E's son likes R&B. C and his sister-in- law like Jazz and House respectively. Puzzle 4: Eight Persons A,B,C,D,E,F,G and H are sitting around a circular table and facing towards the centre but not necessarily in the same order. A family has three generations. D's father sits second to the left of his nephew. B is the son of F who is second to the right of her son. D is the father of G and two persons sit between G and E. D's wife is opposite to E. E's brother B is the immediate neighbor of C's son. B is the father of H

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Page 1: Puzzle 1 - golden career...Puzzle 1: 1.) There are 4 people of different nationalities viz, French, Belgian, Australian and polish sitting in a row but necessary in that order. 2.)

Puzzle 1:

1.) There are 4 people of different nationalities viz, French, Belgian, Australian and polish sitting in a row but necessary in

that order.

2.) They are wearing shirts of different colours-Blue, Pink, Mustard and Orange.

3.) One is wearing a blazer and one a suit.

4.) The French is wearing a mustard shirt and a sweater

5.) The Australian is not seated at either end.

6.) The person with blazer wears a pink shirt and sits next to Belgian.

7.) The Belgian wears a kimono and is not seated at either end.

8.) The man wearing an orange shirt wears a suit and is seated at one end.

Puzzle 2:

Six friends Aryan, Rahul, Mayank, Harman, Paritosh and Mandeep married in different hotels viz. Trident Hotels, Oberoi

Hotel, Ashoka Hotel, Taj Hotel, Le Meridian and ITC Maurya and all the grooms gifted different cars to their respective

brides viz. Duster, Fortuner, Swift, i20, Wagon-R and i10, but not necessarily in the same order. The brides' names were

Simran, Harpreet, Vrinda, Priyanka, Gunjan and Aishwarya, once again not following any order. The following are some

facts about their weddings.

1.) Mayank gifted his wife Swift on their wedding; however he was not married to Simran or Aishwarya

2.) Aryan gifted his wife Duster and Paritosh gifted i20 to his wife. However neither of them was married to Harpreet or

Priyanka.

3.) The bride who was gifted i10 got married in Trident Hotels.

4.) Vrinda's wedding took place in Oberoi Hotel, but she was not gifted Duster.

5.) Simran and Gunjan got married in Trident Hotels and Le meridian and own Swift and i10 but not necessarily following

the above mentioned order.

6.) Harman did not gift Fortuner or i10 to his wife and was married in ITC Maurya.

7.) Mandeep was married to Harpreet in Taj Hotel.

Puzzle 3:

A,B,C,D,E,F,G and H are eight family members sitting around a circular table, facing the centre, but not necessarily in the

same order. Each member likes a different genre of music viz. Rock, Metal, House, Jazz, Pop, Trance, R&B, and Folk,

but not necessarily in the same order.

A is the head of the family and sits third to the left of wife B. G has two sisters and sits second to the right of his

grandfather, who likes listening to Rock. D sits on the immediate left of her brother, who sits in front of his father. F sits

between the person who like Metal and the person who like Jazz. Her favorite music genre is Pop. B has two sons and

one of the son's like Jazz. H sits in front of her mother-in-law who likes Folk music. E's son likes R&B. C and his sister-in-

law like Jazz and House respectively.

Puzzle 4:

Eight Persons A,B,C,D,E,F,G and H are sitting around a circular table and facing towards the centre but not necessarily in

the same order.

A family has three generations.

D's father sits second to the left of his nephew.

B is the son of F who is second to the right of her son.

D is the father of G and two persons sit between G and E.

D's wife is opposite to E.

E's brother B is the immediate neighbor of C's son.

B is the father of H

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No male is adjacent to C.

F is the sister of C and C does not sit second to the left of B.

Puzzle 1: Four families decided to go for a picnic to Robber's cave and agreed to meet at a place called Shahastradhara before moving for the picnic. Each family has a husband and a wife. One family has no Kid; while the others have at least one Kid each. Amongst each family with Kids, at least one Kid goes to the picnic. Following is the information about the families. i) The family with two Kids came just before the family with no I ids ii) 3 who does not have any Kids reached just before R's family iii) A and his wife reached last with their only Kid iv) B is not Q’s husband v) B and D are fathers vi) R's and P's daughters go to the same schooI vii) Q came before 3 and met P when she reached the fixed place viii) C stays farthest from the place and he is a good singer ix) D explained that his son could not come because of exams Puzzle 2: Seven students of a school Gaurav Mohit; Saurabh, Priya; Ritika; Gautam and Kajal appeared for their annual exams. Following additional information is known: i) No two students get same marks. ii) Kajal always scores more than Gaurav. iii) Gaurav alwaysscores more than Mohit. iv) In each exam either Saurabh scores the highest marks and Ritika gets the least marks or alternatively Priya scores the highest and Gautam or Mohit scores the least.

Puzzle 3: Eight friends are sitting in a circle facing towards the centre. Each of them likes different subjects i.e. Hindi. Physics, English, Maths. History, Biology, Chemistry and Zoology but not necessarily in the same order. Z, Y, X and W are females and V, U, T and S are males. Neither two female nor two male are adjacent with each other. U: who likes English, is sitting third to the right of X. X is sitting third to the right of V who likes Hindi. No male likes history and Maths. T is not the neighbour of V and U. S is sitting third to the right of Y who likes Chemistry. W, who likes Biology, is sitting between V and U. The one who likes History is not the neighbour of those who like Chemistry and English.

Puzzle 1: P, Q, R, S, W, X, Y, Z are sitting around a circle facing centre but not necessarily in the same order. The husband of Z is sitting second to the right of Q who is sitting between two males. X sits second to the left of the daughter of S. X is the sister of Y. X is not an immediate neighbour of Z's husband. Only one person sits between P and X. P is the father of Y. S who is brother of Z sits to the immediate left of his mother. Only one person sits between Z's mother and W. Only one person sits between Z and Y. Y is mother of R. Y is not an immediate neighbour of W. Puzzle 2: Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting around a round table facing towards the centre of the table in a restaurant. They have ordered for different items (Pizza, Strawberry, Vanilla, Burger, Pastries and Patties)

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as their lunch. They are wearing Tshirts of different colours, i.e. white, black, green, red, yellow and blue. Order of items for the lunch and colours of T-shirts are not necessarily according to the order of their names. The persons who have ordered for Pizza, Vanilla and Pastries are neither in white Tshirt nor in black. The persons who are in green and yellow T-shirts have neither ordered for Pizza nor for Vanilla. A is neither in white T-shirt nor on the immediate left of the person who has ordered for Burger. The only person who is between E and F eats Strawberry. The person who is on the left side of the person in white T-shirt does not eat Patties. D has ordered Burger and the colour of his T-shirt is green. He is facing the person who has ordered for Strawberry. One who has ordered for Pizza is seated opposite to the person wearing blue T-shirt, while the person whose T-shirt is of green colour is on the left of the person who has ordered for Pastries. One who has ordered for Patties is on the immediate right of the person in white T-shirt but on the immediate left of the person who has ordered for Vanilla. C has not ordered for Vanilla while F has not ordered for Pizza.

Puzzle 3: There are five types of cards viz. A, B, C, D and E. There are three cards of each type. These are to be inserted in envelopes of three colours – Red, Yellow and Brown. There are five envelopes of each colour. B, D and E type cards are inserted in red envelopes. A, B and C type cards are to be inserted in yellow envelopes and C, D and E type cards are to be inserted in brown envelopes. Two cards each of B and D type are inserted in red envelopes.

Puzzle 1: Eight players—Hashim Amla, De Villiers, Dale Stein, JP Duminy, Imran Tahir, Morne Morkel, David Miller and Dean Elgar are sitting in three lines L1, L2 and L3. And they are in three different categories, either batsman or bowler or all-rounder. In each line at least two and at most three players are sitting there. And at least two players are in each category but not more than three. De Villiers and Dale Stein are in different lines but not in lineL2, and both are in same categories. Dean Elgar and David Miller are in same line and in same categories, but not all-rounders. JP Duminy and Imran Tahir are in different lines but not in line L1 and in different categories but not all rounder. Hashim Amla is in LineL2 and JP Duminy is not in same line as in Hashim Amla. Both players of lineL2 are bowlers. Morne Morkel is all-rounder and not in line L1. From three all-rounder two are line in L3. Morne Morkel and Dale Stein are in same line and there are three batsmen. Puzzle 2: Seven teachers Prashant, Vidushi, Vandana, Aniket, Neeraj, Meena and Priyanka teach in the science section of XII of a particular school. They teach one of the following subjects Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Physics and Maths Physics and Chemistry are taught by two teachers. Both the Chemistry teachers and one from Zoology and Maths each has cleared UGC (NET). Four female teachers are Vidushi, Vandana, Meena and Priyanka. Of them two are married. Two teachers are members of PTA executive council, out of which only one is male. However, none of the married teachers are its members. All the married teachers except one are class teachers of one class or the other. There are four married teachers Prashant, Vidushi, Aniket and Meena. There are three subject teachers. None of the married women teachers have cleared UGC (NET). Two male teachers have cleared NET out of which one is married. He is Mr.Prashant, a subject teacher. He is not from PCM stream. He teaches Botany or Zoology. The PTA members are subject teachers and not class teachers. PTA members teach same subject. Only Mrs.Vidushi teaches Botany. Priyanka is a class teacher. Puzzle 3:

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In a conference 8 people Pappu, Kalu, Chotu, Bikki, Golu, Tina, Reena and Payal from different cities Begusarai, Khagaria, Munger, Bhagalpur, Mokama, Muzzafarpur, Purnia and Katihar not necessarily in same order sitting around a rectangular table. 3 persons are sitting on each longer side and each on the smaller sides. Bikki is sitting second to the right of the person who is from Katihar. Golu is sitting third to the left of the person who is from Muzzafarpur. Tina and Reena are sitting opposite each other. Chotu is sitting diagonally opposite the person from Purnia. Kalu is sitting opposite the person who is from Begusarai. The person from Bhagalpur is sitting second to the right of the person from Mokama and second to the left of Pappu, who is not sitting near the person who is from Purnia. Reena is sitting on the smaller side and to the right of the person who is from Purnia. Persons from Mokama and Bhagalpur are not on the same side of the table. The person from Bhagalpur is sitting third to the right of the person from Katihar, who is not sitting diagonally opposite the person from Khagaria. The person from Bhagalpur is third to the left of Chotu. Tina sits second to the left of Payal. The person from Khagaria sits opposite to the person from Mokama.

Puzzle 1: Eight people E, F, G, H, J, K, L and M are sitting around a circular table facing the centre. Each of them is of a different profession Chartered Accountant, Columnist, Doctor, Engineer,Financial Analyst, Lawyer, Professor and Scientist but not necessarily in the same order. F is sitting second to the left of K. The Scientist is an immediate neighbour of K. There are only three people between the Scientist and E. Only one person sits between the Engineer and E. The Columnist is to the immediate right of the Engineer. M is second to the right of K. H is the Scientist. G and J are immediate neighbours of each other. Neither G nor J is an Engineer. The Financial Analyst is to the immediate left of F. The Lawyer is second to the right of the Columnist. The Professor is an immediate neighbour of the Engineer. G is second to the right of the Chartered Accountant. Puzzle 2: A building has eight floors from 1 to 8 in such a way that ground floor is numbered 1, the above floor is numbered 2 and so on. The top most floor is numbered 8. Eight persons G, P, M, R, Q, A, D and C are staying each on one of these floors. A is staying on floor 6. There is a gap of three persons between G and R. C is staying on the topmost floor. Neither P nor M is staying on the floor 5. Q is staying middle of P and M. R is staying on the floor 1. M is not an immediate neighbor of G. Puzzle 3:

Eight friends – Romil, Ramesh, Rakesh, Rohit, Rahul, Abhijit, Abhishek and Anil – are sitting around a circular table, not necessarily in the same order. Four of them are facing inside others are facing outside. They are belong to eight different cities – Bhopal, Patna, Kolkata, Delhi, Gwalior, Bengaluru, Chennai and Rajkot, but not necessarily in the same order. Abhijit faces the Centre and sits third to the right of Rakesh. Rohit belongs to Kolkata and faces the person who belongs to Bengaluru. Abhishesk sits third to the right of Ramesh, who stays in Bhopal. The persons who belong to Delhi and Gwalior are facing to the same direction (inside or outside). Rahul is sitting between the person who belongs to Kolkata and the one from Rajkot respectively. Romil belongs to Gwalior and Rakesh belongs to Patna. The person who belongs to Chennai is facing outward and immediate neighbor of Rajkot. Anil is immediate neighbor of the persons who belong to Gwalior and Chennai. Rahul is immediate left of Rohit.

Puzzle 1:

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Brock Lesnar, Shane McMahon, Undertaker, Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, Kevin Owens, Seth Rollins and Rusev are eight fighters sitting around a circular table. Four of them are facing towards the centre and four of them are facing away from the centre. All of them like a different movie, viz. Tamasha, Bajirao, Dilwale, Massan, Airlift, Sultan, Dangal and Ready, but not necessarily in the same order. Dean Ambrose faces towards the centre and likes Tamasha. Both the immediate neighbours of Dean Ambrose face away from the centre and like Dilwale or Massan. Roman Reigns faces away from the centre. Both the immediate neighbours of Roman Reigns do not face away from the centre. Dean Ambrose sits third to the right of Kevin Owens, who likes Airlift and faces away from the centre. Undertaker sits third to the left of Kevin Owens. The one who likes Dilwale sits opposits of Kevin Owens. The one who likes Bajirao is not the immediate neighbour of Kevin Owens and faces away from the centre. Brock Lesnar sits second to the left of Undertaker and does not like Dangal or Ready. The one who likes Dangal sits between Rusev and Kevin Owens. Shane McMahon faces away from the centre and does not like Bajirao. Puzzle 2: Ten persons are sitting in two parallel rows containing five persons each. In row 1, Amitabh, Rakesh, Akshay, Arti and Ritesh are sitting and all of them are facing south. In row 2, Jaya, Poonam, Twinkle, Gaurav and Genelia are sitting and all of them are facing north. In the given seating arrangement, each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row. Moreover, each of them belongs to different cities — Meerut, Gurgaon, Begusarai, Hajipur, Noida, Cuttack, Banaras, Haridwar, Allahabad and Mednipur but not necessarily in the same order. There are only two persons sitting between the person from Merrut, who sits at an extreme end, and Ritesh. Jaya, who sits in the middle of the row, is not an immediate neighbour of Poonam, who is not from Mednipur. Genelia is sitting at an extreme end. Ritesh, from Noida , sits on the immediate right of the person from Gurgaon and faces the immediate neighhour of Poonam. Rakesh is not sitting at the extreme left end. Jaya is not from Allahabad. There is only one person between Akshay and Arti, who is from Meerut. Gaurav, from Cuttack, is an immediate neighbour of the person from Mednipur and does not face the person from Begusarai.Twinkle, who is from Hajipur, is an immediate neighbour of the person from Allahabad, who in turn faces the immediate neighbour of the person from Noida. There are two persons between the person from Banarasand the person from Begusarai. Rakesh is not from Banaras. Genelia is not from Haridwar. Puzzle 3: World Cup is being organised by India. Different teams are participating in the World Cup. Seven teams which are participating are – Pakistan, Australia, Srilanka, India, Kenya, South Africa and West Indies. They will be playing there matches at different places, namely Delhi, Ranchi, Chennai, Nagpur, Chandigarh and Mumbai, but not necessarily in the same order, on different days of the week, starting from Monday. Pakistan will be playing at Ranchi, but neither on Friday nor on Monday. The host country will be playing on Thursday at Nagpur. There is a gap of one day between Pakistan and India match. South Africa will be playing the match before West Indies but after Kenya at Cuttack on Wednesday. West Indies will be playing on the last day of the week. Australia will be playing at Mumbai. No match will be played at Delhi on Monday. The match at Chandigarh will be played on the last day of the week. The match at Chennai will be played on Tuesday. No match will be played at Mumbai on Tuesday and Friday.

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Eight people S, R, N, L, M, T, O and P are sitting in a circle facing the centre. All eight belong to different professions ___ reporter, doctor, cricketer, teacher, accountant, shopkeeper, painter and supervisor. They are not necessarily seated in the mentioned order. M is sitting third to the left of O. The doctor is to the immediate right of M and M is not a reporter. R is sitting fourth to the right of P. Neither R nor P is an immediate neighbour of M. T is a teacher and is sitting third to the right of the doctor. The shopkeeper is sitting second to the left of the teacher. The painter is sitting second to the left of M. S the cricketer is sitting exactly between T and P. The accountant is sitting second to the right of the cricketer. N is sitting third to the left of T. Puzzle 2: Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting in a circle, but not necessarily in the same order. Four of them are facing outside and four of them are facing the centre. E faces outside, Both the immediate neighbours of E face the centre. H sits second to the right of E. B sits third to the left of E. D faces the centre. Both the immediate neighbours of D face outside. G sits second to the left of A. B sits third to the right of H. F is an immediate neighbour of D. C is an immediate neighbour of G. D is not an immediate neighbour of B. Puzzle 3: Eight colleagues, A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H, are sitting around a circular table facing the centre but not necessary in the same order. Each one of them holds a different post - Manager, Compony Secretory, Chairman, President, Vice President, Group Leader, Financial Advisor and Managing Director. A sits third to the right of the Managing Director. Only two people sit between the Managing Director and H. The Vice President and the Company Secretary are immediate reighbours. Neither A nor H is a Vice President or a Company Secretary. The Vice President is not an immediate neighbor of the Managing Director. The Manager sits second to the left of E. E is not an immediate neighbor of H. The Manager is an immediate neighbor of both the Group Leader and the Financial Advisor. The Financial Advisor sits third to the right of B. B is not the Vice President. C sits on the immediate right of the Chairman. A is not the chairman. F is not an immediate neighbor of A. G is not an immediate neighbor of the Manager.

Puzzle 1: There are seven teachers P, Q, R, S, T, U and V in Bank Power. Each one of them teaches a different subject. There are three female and four male teachers, and out of these, there are two pairs of couples. R who teaches Computers is married to the teacher who teaches English. T and V are female teachers who teach History and Economics respectively. P teaches Reasoning and his wife does not teach Economics. Q does not teach English or Mathematics. U and S are male teachers. U is unmarried. One of them teaches Geography. Puzzle 2: Eight players—Sachin, Virender, Mahender, Suresh, Praveen, Rahul, Ravinder, and Dinesh are sitting in three lines L1, L2 and L3. And they are in three different categories, either batsman or bowler or all rounder. In each line at least two and at most three players are sitting there. And at least two players are in each category but not more than three. Virender and Mahender are in different lines but not in line L2, and both are in same categories. Dinesh and Ravinder are in same line and in same categories, but not all rounder. Suresh and Praveen are in different lines but not in line L1 and in different categories but not all rounder. Sachin is in line L2 and Suresh is not in same as in Sachin. Both players of line L2 are bowlers. Rahul is all rounder and not in line L1. From three all rounder two are line in L3. Rahul and Mahinder are in same line, and there are three batsmen.

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Puzzle 3:

Five friends Rosy, Mandy, Denial, Lucky and Ella like five different watches Titan, Samay, Sonata, Citizen and Fastrack 5 different cars Wagon R, Alto, Santro, Swift and Xylo & 5 different pens Reynolds, Parker, Cello, Montex and Elkos. Ella like wagon R car but not like Parker pen and Citizen Watch; lucky likes sonata watch and Reynolds pens but not like Xylo car. Mandy likes Xylo car and Samay watch. Rosy like Santro car and Cello pen, person who likes wagon R car likes Fastrack watch. Elkos pen is liked by a person who has swift car and citizen watch.

Puzzle 1: Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each, in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row -1 - P, Q, R, S, T and V are seated and all of them are facing south. In row-2 - A, B, C, D, E and F are seated and all of them are facing North. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row. P sits third to the left of T. Neither P nor T sits at an extreme end of the line. A sits second to the right of E. Neither A nor E faces T or P. A does not sit at an extreme end. R does not face A and R does not sit at an extreme end of the line. Only one person sits between F and C. Neither F nor C faces T. C does not sit at the extreme end. Only one person sits between V and Q. F is not an immediate neighbour of B and A does not face V. Puzzle 2: Six friends – Deepa, Vandana, Anita, Nikita, Rashmi and Sonika have ordered six different food items which are Chola- Bhatura, Chowmein, Pizza, Burger, Dosa and Idli not necessarily in same order. Each one likes a different type of Ice cream Mango, Strawberry, Black Current, Vanilla, Choco chip and Butter Scotch again not in the same order. Nikita did not like Idli. Rashmi order Pizza and likes Mango ice cream. Anita likes Black Currant ice cream and did not order Idli. The one who likes Vanila ice cream has ordered Dosa, Sonika ordered Burger and does not like Butter Scotch. The one who likes Choco chip has ordered Chowmein. Deepa and Vandana not like Choco chip. Deepa does not like Butter Scotch. Puzzle 3:

R Q, R. S, T, V, W are sitting in a straight line facing north. Each one of them works in different companies viz. Olay, Tressme, Tide, Ford. Ferrari, Sunsilk and Santoor. Q sits fourth to the left of the person working in Sunsilk. Either Q or the person working in Sunsilk sits at the extreme end of the line. Only one person sits between Q and W. W works in Tide. The person working in Olay sits third to the right of S. S is not an immediate neighbor of W. Only one person sits between T and the person who works in Tressme. P and R are immediate neighbors of each other. P does network in Sunsilk. One who works in Ferrari sits third to the right of the one who works in Santoor.

Puzzle 1: A committee has nine members A, B, C, D, E. F. G, H and I and it is divided into three groups, viz Play group, Entertainment group and Food group — with three members in each group. There are certain conditions for the formation of the groups. Only three members will be selected in each group. One person cannot be selected for more than one group. A is in the Play group. H is in the Entertainment

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group. C and D are in the same group but not in the group of I. A and B are not in the same group. E is not in the same group as I but is in the Food group. F is in the group in which either H or B or both of them are present. I and H are not in the same group. F is neither with E nor with I. Puzzle 2: Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting in row - I facing South but not necessarily in the same order and each of them is working in a different company among Microsoft, Amazon, TCS, SAPIENT , HDFC and Axis. Six persons P, Q, R, S, T and U are sitting in row - II facing north but not necessarily in the same order and each of them is working in a different company among Google, Infosys, Accenture, IBM, Capital One and ICICI. Each person in one row faces exactly one person from the other row. A is third from the left end and is opposite the person who is to the immediate right of the IBM employee. The IBM employee is opposite the person who is to the immediate left of the TCS employee. The Google employee and the SAPIENT employee sit at right ends in their respective rows. C is a SAPIENT employee, and is adjacent to E. D sits opposite Q and to the left of A but does not sit at any extreme. B is not adjacent to D but opposite P. The ICICI employee sits neither at an end nor opposite A, but sits to the right of P. The Accenture employee is adjacent to neither the Infosys employee nor the Capital One employee. S sits at an end. R is opposite the Amazon employee but sits at neither end. T is opposite the HDFC employee and the Microsoft employee is second to the right of the Axis employee. The Capital One employee is not adjacent to P. Puzzle 3:

Six exams Maths, science, History, Economics, English and Hindi are to be scheduled starting from 2nd March and ending on 8th march wit Sunday being an off day, not necessarily in the same order. Each of the exam has different time duration: 40 mins, 50 mins, 60 mins, 75 mins, 90 mins and 100 mins, again not necessarily in the same order. 8th march is not sunday and an exam of 40 mins is scheduled on that day. Maths exam is for less than 60 mins and is scheduled immediately before English exam. There are two exams scheduled between Hindi exam which is for 100 mins and History exam which is for 60 mins. English exam is before Sunday and there are two days between sunday and maths exam. Economics exam which is for 75 mins is not scheduled on 2nd march. The exam schedules on saturday is of 100 mins.

Puzzle 1: There are eight friends, namely Aniket, Neeraj, Vineet, Prashant, Saurabh, Santosh, Anand and Trilok. All of them own a different 2- wheeler, namely Bajaj, Hero, Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha, TVS, LML and Harley Davidson, though not necessarily in the same order. All of them are sitting around a circular table facing the centre. Trilok is not a neighbour of Neeraj while Santosh owns neither LML nor Harley Davidson. There is only one person between Aniket and Prashant. Vineet, who owns TVS, is third to the left of the one who owns Honda. The one who is sitting opposite the one who had Hero owns Harley Davidson. Neither Aniketnor Prashant has Honda. There are two persons between Saurabh and Anand, who own Heroand Yamaha respectively, but neither of those two persons is Vineet. Aniket is second to the left of Saurabh and owns Suzuki. Neeraj is an immediate neighbour of Anand. Puzzle 2: (1) There are seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F and G based in Delhi. Each of them is from a different state, has a different profession, and plays a different instrument. (2) C, a doctor, is from Bihar. (3) E and F play mandolin and violin, though not necessarily in that order.

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(4) A is not from Kerala. (5) The person from Kerala is an engineer and plays guitar. (6)The lawyer plays sitar. (7) The businessman from UP plays violin. (8) The teacher and the cricketer play flute and piano, though not necessarily in that order. (9) F is a pilot. (10) The Maharashtrian is a teacher. (11) The Gujarati plays piano. (12) G, a Punjabi, does not play sarod. (13) B is a cricketer. Puzzle 3:

Eight friends−J, K, L, M, N, O, P and Q live on eight different floors of a building but not necessarily in the same order. The lowermost floor of the building is numbered one, the one above that is numbered two and so on till the topmost floor is numbered eight. J lives on floor numbered 4. Only one person lives between J and L. O lives on the floor immediately below L. Only one person lives between O and P. P lives above O. O lives on floor numbered 5. Only one person live between K and N, M lives on an even numbered floor but does not live on floor numbered 8. K lives below Q’s floor A ,B, C, D and E are five men sitting in a line facing to south - while M, N, O, P and Q are five ladies sitting in a second line parallel to the first line and are facing to North. B who is just next to the left of D, is opposite to Q. C and N are diagonally opposite to each other. E is opposite to O who is just next right of M. P who is just to the left of Q, is opposite to D. M is at one end of the line.

Puzzle 1: There are six persons A, B, C, D, E and F in school. Each of the teachers teaches two subjects, one compulsory subject and the other optional subject. D’s optional subject was History while three others have it as compulsory subject. E and F have Physics as one of their subjects. F’s compulsory subject is Mathematics which is an optional subject of both C and E. History and English are A’s subjects but in terms of compulsory and optional subjects, they are just reverse of those of D’s. Chemistry is an optional subject of only one of them. The only female teacher in the school has English as her compulsory subject. Puzzle 2: Five friends P, Q, R, S and T travelled to five different cities of Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad by different modes of transport of Bus, Train, Aeroplane, Car and Boat from Mumbai. The person who travelled to Delhi did not travel by boat. R went to Bangalore by car and Q went to Kolkata by aeroplane. S travelled by boat whereas T travelled by train. Mumbai is not connected by bus to Delhi and Chennai. Puzzle 3:

Madan and Rohit are in the same team of hockey. Parth defeated Rohit in badminton but lost to Sachin in tennis. Nitin teams with Sagar in football and with Sachin in hockey. Rohit defeated Sachin in chess. Those who play cricket do not play badminton, volleyball or tennis. Madan and Parth are in opposite teams of basketball. Nitin represents his state in cricket while Sagar does so at the district level. Boys who play chess do not play football, basketball or volleyball. Madan and Parth are together in the volleyball team. Boys who play football also play hockey.

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Puzzle 1: Twelve members of a family are sitting on two apposite sides of rectangular dining table for a dinner. Two parallel rows of chairs containing six people each are set in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1, A, B, C, D, E and F are seated and all of them are facing south. In row 2, P, Q, R, S, T and O are seated and all of them are facing north, but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them likes different types of food, viz Indian, African, English, French, German, Chinese, Italian, Mexican, Thai, Spanish, Korean and Russian, but not necessarily in the same order. C, who likes German food, sits third to the left of B. C is not an immediate neighbour of either E or A. P, who likes Korean food, sits third to the right of S. Neither P nor S sits at the extreme ends. E, who likes Indian food, faces the one who likes Mexican food. F, who likes English food, faces O, who sits second to the left of T and does not like French food. T is not an immediate neighbour of S. Only two people sit between Q and T, who like Russian and Thai food respectively. D, likes neither African nor French food who sits on the immediate right of the person who likes German food. A, who likes Chinese food, does not face R. The one who likes Spanish food sits second to the left of the person who faces the one who likes English food. Puzzle 2: Eight friends, A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H, are sitting around a square table in such a way that four of them sit on four corners of the square while four sit in the middle of each of the four sides. Each of them likes different motor bikes, viz Avenger, Pulsar, Suzuki, Yamaha, Karizma, Splendour, Apache and Activa. The ones who sit on the four corners face the centre while those who sit in the middle of the sides face outside, but not necessarily in the same order. A, who likes Pulsar, faces the centre and sits third to the right of F. E, who faces the centre, likes Activa and, is not an immediate neighbour of F. Only one person sits between F and G and they like Karizma and Suzuki respectively. D, who does not like Splendour, sits second to the right of B, who likes neither Avenger nor Splendour. D faces the centre. C is not an immediate neighbour of A. H likes Apache. Puzzle 3: Six persons, viz Sinha, Saini, Bhagat, Yadav, Gupta and Mishra plan to go to six different hill stations, viz Manali, Kullu, Mussourie, Rishikesh, Shimla and Nainital. They wish to go in six different months, viz January, March, May, June, August and December. Two of them want to travel by bus and two by rail and others are planning to go either by car or by flight. Following information is also given. I. Gupta goes to Manali but neither by air nor by bus. II.Sinha prefers bus journey but travels neither in August nor in May. III. Neither Mishra nor Saini goes either to Shimla or to Mussourie. IV.Rishikesh is visited in December. V. Persons going to Kullu and Shimla go by bus and car respectively. VI.Mr Bhagat goes to Nainital in March by air but Mishra does not travel in December.

Puzzle 1: There are six boys – Amit, Bhushan, Dhruv, Manoj, Harsh and Arvind. They want to go out with six girls – Neha, Shruti, Kruti, Chanchal, Sujata and Radhika, not necessarily in the same order. The pairs went to a movie, beach, park, play and two of them went to circus. They like different cars, viz Esteem, Matiz, Santro and Tata. But Esteem and Matiz are preferred by two pairs. Further information is as follows: I. Amit and Manoj visit circus but do not like either Esteem or Tata. II. Arvind can’t go out with Sujata. Both of them do not like Santro.

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III. Chanchal and Kruti want to go to movie and park respectively. IV. Dhruv goes out with Radhika to beach but does not like either Matiz or Tata. V. Bhushan goes for a movie and likes Esteem. VI. Harsh can’t go out either with Neha or with Shruti and he does not go to a park either in Santro or in Matiz. Puzzle 2: Eight teachers P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are teaching different subjects viz Electronics, Robotics, Arts, Commerce, Computer, Java, Mechanics and Painting but not necessarily in the same order. All of them are sitting around a circular table but not facing the centre. W sits third to the right of S. P and R and also their immediate neighbors do not teach Electronics. Only one teacher sits between T and the Electronics teacher. Java and Arts teachers are immediate neighbor of each other. P is neither Computer nor Java teacher. Two teachers sit between U and Commerce teacher. U does not teach either Electronics or Arts. P sits third to the left of V. V teaches Robotics. S is not the immediate neighbor of either P or V. The one who teaches Painting is an immediate neighbor of S. Three teachers sit between V and the Mechanics teacher. W is not teaching either Electronics or Painting. Puzzle 3:

Five friends A, B, C, D and E are working in 5 different Companies P, Q, R, S and T and they earn different salaries i.e. Rs 9000, Rs 12000, Rs 15000, Rs 18000 and Rs 21000 and they all are of different ages i.e. 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 years not necessarily in same order. Person who is 29 year old earns highest salary but does not work at P and Q. E does not work at S and T and his age is not 30. The salary of D is less than Rs 15000. The person who is 27 years old earns Rs 18000 per month. A earns Rs 12000 per month but does not work at Q and S. B works at P and earns more than Rs 15000. Person who is 28 years old works at T. 30 years old person earns at least Rs 15000.

Puzzle 1: Shukla, Mishra, Singh, Kulkarni, Rao, Joshi and Nair are to conduct interviews simultaneously either alone or in pairs at four different locations—Surat, Chandigarh, Delhi and Lucknow. Only one wants to travel by rail, two prefer travelling by car and the rest travel by air. Shukla is going to Lucknow but neither by car nor by air. Mishra prefers to travel by car. Neither Joshi nor Nair is going to Delhi. Only those going to Surat travel by road. Kulkarni will assist his friend Mishra. The two managers who go to Delhi travel by air. Puzzle 2: B, M, T, R, K, H and D are travelling in a train compartment with three tier sleeper berth. Each of them has a different profession of Engineer, Doctor, Architect, Pharmacist, Lawyer, Journalist and Pathologist. They occupied two lower berths, three middle berths and two upper berths. B, the engineer, is not on the upper berth. The Architect is the only other person who occupies the same type of berth as that of B. M and H are not on the middle berth and their professions are Pathologist and Lawyer respectively. T is a Pharmacist. D is neither a Journalist nor an Architect. K occupies the same type of berth as that of the Doctor. Puzzle 3:

Eight people A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H work in three different companies: X, Y and Z. Out of these, two are female who work in different companies and have different specializations. Two of them are specialists in

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Finance, two in HR, two in Marketing and one each is an Engineer and a Computer Specialist. D, working in a company X has specialized in HR and her friend G, a Finance Specialist is working in company Z. H, an HR specialist, is working with B, a Marketing Specialist and does not work in company Y. C is not a Computer Specialist. No two people with the same specialization work together. F is a specialist in Marketing working in company Y and his friend A has specialized in Finance and is working company X with only one another Specialist. Not more than three of them work in company Z. No female is an Engineer or a Computer Specialist.

Puzzle 1: L, N, P, R, M, Q, T and Y are the members of a committee sitting around a circular table but not facing the centre. Each member has a different zodiac sign, viz Leo, Virgo, Libra, Cancer, Aries, Gemini, Pisces and Scorpio, but not necessarily in the same order. T is third to the right of P. The one whose sun-sign Leo is second to the left of the one whose sunsign is Libra. Y's sun-sign is Libra and is sitting exactly between P and L. The one whose sun-sign is Pisces sits second to the right of N. The one whose sun-sign is Aries is second to the right of the person whose sun-sign is Gemini. P sits third to the left of the person whose sun-sign is Virgo. Neither Q nor L is the immediate neighbour of N. Q is fourth to the left of L. N's sun-sign is neither Cancer nor Ariel. The person whose sun-sign is Leo is sitting second to the right of the person whose sign is Cancer. R’s sun-sign is Leo and is not an immediate neighbor of N. Puzzle 2: (i) Seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F and G are teaching seven subjects History, Geography, Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology and English from Monday to Friday. Each person teaches a different subject and not more than two subjects are taught on any one of the days. (ii) Chemistry is taught by B on Tuesday. (iii) D teaches on Friday but neither Geography nor Physics. (iv) F teaches History but neither on Thursday nor on Friday. (v) A teaches English on the day on which History is taught. (vi) C teaches Maths on Monday. (vii) Geography and Chemistry are taught on the same day. (viii) G teaches on Thursday Puzzle 3: In row 1, J, K, L and M are sitting and all of them are facing north. In row 2, A, B, C and D are sitting and all of them are facing south. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member sitting in a row faces another member of the other row. (All the information given above does not necessarily represent the order of seating as in the final arrangement.) • The person from Infosys faces the one who is on the immediate left of L. L is neither from Google nor from Facebook. • An immediate neighbour of A faces the person from Accenture. The person from Microsoft faces the person who is on the left of the person from Google. • There is only are person sitting between the persons from Google and TCS but that person is not J. The persons from Google and Facebook are not sitting at the extreme ends. • B sits on the immediate left of the person from Infosys. Persons from IBM and Microsoft are immediate neighbours. C and K are not sitting at any of the ends. • M faces the one who is sitting on the immediate right of the person from Microsoft. A is not from Microsoft or IBM.

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Puzzle 4: Eight friends—Aman, Bharat, Rohit, Dinesh, Ishant, Farhan, Aditya and Hirender—are sitting around a circular table, facing the centre but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them has a different designation, viz Banker, Teacher, Company MD, Politician, Corporate Leader, General Manager, Specialist Officer and CEO. Aman sits third to the right of the CEO. Only two people sit between the CEO and Hirender. The Specialist Officer and the Company MD are immediate neighbours. Neither Aman nor Hirender is either a Specialist Officer or a Company MD. The Specialist Officer is not an immediate neighbour of the CEO. The Banker sits second to the left of Ishant. Ishant is not an immediate neighbour of Hirender. The Banker is an immediate neighbour of both the Politician and the Corporate Leader. The Corporate Leader sits third to the right of Bharat. Bharat is not a Specialist Officer. Rohit sits on the immediate right of the Teacher. Aman is not a Teacher. Farhan is not an immediate neighbour of Aman. Aditya is not an immediate neighbour of the Banker.

Puzzle 1: A committee has nine members A, B, C, D, E. F. G, H and I and it is divided into three groups, viz Play group, Entertainment group and Food group — with three members in each group. There are certain conditions for the formation of the groups. Only three members will be selected in each group. One person cannot be selected for more than one group. A is in the Play group. H is in the Entertainment group. C and D are in the same group but not in the group of I. A and B are not in the same group. E is not in the same group as I but is in the Food group. F is in the group in which either H or B or both of them are present. I and H are not in the same group. F is neither with E nor with I. Puzzle 2: Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting in row - I facing South but not necessarily in the same order and each of them is working in a different company among Microsoft, Amazon, TCS, SAPIENT , HDFC and Axis. Six persons P, Q, R, S, T and U are sitting in row - II facing north but not necessarily in the same order and each of them is working in a different company among Google, Infosys, Accenture, IBM, Capital One and ICICI. Each person in one row faces exactly one person from the other row. A is third from the left end and is opposite the person who is to the immediate right of the IBM employee. The IBM employee is opposite the person who is to the immediate left of the TCS employee. The Google employee and the SAPIENT employee sit at right ends in their respective rows. C is a SAPIENT employee, and is adjacent to E. D sits opposite Q and to the left of A but does not sit at any extreme. B is not adjacent to D but opposite P. The ICICI employee sits neither at an end nor opposite A, but sits to the right of P. The Accenture employee is adjacent to neither the Infosys employee nor the Capital One employee. S sits at an end. R is opposite the Amazon employee but sits at neither end. T is opposite the HDFC employee and the Microsoft employee is second to the right of the Axis employee. The Capital One employee is not adjacent to P. Puzzle 3:

Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each, in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row l, P, Q, R, S, T and V are seated and all of them are facing south. In row 2, A, B, C, D, E and F are seated and all of them are facing north. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row. A sits third to

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right of D. Neither A nor D sits at extreme ends. T faces D. V does not face A and V does not sit at any of the extreme ends. V is not an immediate neighbour of T. B sits at one of the extreme ends. Only two people sit between B and E. E does not face V. Two persons sit between R and Q. R is not an immediate neighbour of T. C does not face V. P is not an immediate neighbour of R.

Puzzle 1: Four students Amit, Bhanu, Sachin and Jagan participated in a quiz competition. It is known that the person who was wearing the black t-shirt won the quiz. All of them were sitting in a row. All of them wore t-shirts of different colours, viz. red, black, white and green. There was only one runner-up and he was sitting beside Jagan. The runner-up was wearing the red t-shirt. Sachin was not sitting at the ends and was not the runner-up. The winner and the runner-up were not sitting adjacent to each other. Jagan was wearing white t-shirt. Amit was not wearing the red t-shirt. Students wearing black t-shirt and white t-shirt were at the ends. Puzzle 2: Six persons Chetan, Gaurav Jatin. Karan, Sahil and Tarun who are wearing Black, White, Red, Green, Blue and YeIlow coloured t-shirts are driving different cars -Verna, City, SX4, Vento, Optra and Civic not necessarily in that order, these persons had participated in a car racing competition at the end of which each of them secured different ranks. It is also known that: (i) Tarun secured 4th position and was driving City (ii) The person wearing blue coloured t-shirt was driving Vento and didn't secure 2nd position (iii) Karan wearing white coloured t-shirt was not driving Verna or Optra and he was not ranked 1st (iv) The person wearing green coloured t-shirt was ranked 6th and he was driving Optra (v)The person who secured 3rd position was driving Civic (vi) The person who secured 1st rank was driving 3X4 and he was not wearing black or red coloured t-shirt (vii) Chetan was wearing yellow coloured t-shirt while Tarun was not wearing red coloured t-shirt Puzzle 3:

Seven students Rahul, Abhinav, Akash, Arnav, Kartik, Paridhi and Saumya are studying in seven different schools- BPS, BSNr CMS, RLB, DPS, SDA and LPS. They like different subjects- Maths, Science, Art, Hindi, English, Moral science and History. They read in different classes IV, V, VI, VII, VIH, IX and X, but not necessarily in the same order, Kartik studies in DPS and he is in class VI. Akash's favourite subject is English and he studies either in BSN or CMS. One who reads in CMS is in class V and likes Science. Paridhi does not like either Art or Moral Science and she is in class X and studies in LPS. One who reads in DPS likes Art. Arnav does not like Science and he is in class IV. Saumya is in class VIH and does not study in 3PS.One who studies in SDA, is in class VII. Rahul is not in class VII. One who is in class IV likes History. Abhinav does not like Hindi and Moral science.

Puzzle 1: Four boys, Pawan, Mahesh, Chandu and Ravi, and four girls, Eti, Seema, Hina and Anita, are sitting around a circular table. Two girls and two boys are not facing the centre. No three girls are sitting together. Chandu is second to the left of Seema, who is not sitting next to Mahesh. Eti is third to the left of Anita and one of them is not facing the centre. Pawan is third to the right of Mahesh, who is facing the centre. Hina and Ravi are facing each other and both are not sitting next to Mahesh or Anita.

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Puzzle 2: A, B, C, D and E are five players, each playing for a different team, viz Red, Blue, Green, Yellow and Black. Each of them likes a different dish, viz Chicken Tikka, Pizza, Burger, Dosa and Gulabjamun, not necessarily in the same order. D plays neither for team Blue nor for team Black but likes Dosa. The player who likes Chicken Tikka plays neither for team Green nor for team Yellow. A plays for team Red but likes neither Pizza nor Burger. C plays for team Green but doesn’t likes Pizza. E likes neither Burger nor Gulabjamun. B likes neither Pizza nor Burger. The one who plays for team Black likes neither Pizza nor Gulabjamun. Puzzle 3: A, B, C, D, E, F and G are seven members of a club. Each of them likes one day of the week, viz Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, not necessarily in the same order. Each of them owns a different car, viz Swift, Alto, Figo, Beat, SX4, Estillo and Optra, not necessarily in the same order. C likes Wednesday and his favourite car is neither SX4 nor Optra. E does not like Monday and his favourite car is Beat. The favourite car of the one who likes Friday is Figo. The one whose favourite car is Estillo likes Tuesday. D likes Saturday and D’s favourite car is not SX4. G’s favourite car is Alto. F likes Thursday. B does not like Estillo.

Puzzle 4:

P, Q, R, S, T, V, W and X are eight persons. Each is a professor of a different subject, viz Maths, Physics, Hindi, English, Geology, Zoology, Botany and History. Each of them pursues a different hobby, viz Singing, Music, Poetry, Shayari, Painting, Tracking, Cooking and Swimming, but not necessarily in the same order. P, who likes Cooking, is a professor of neither History nor Geology. Q is a professor of English and does not like either Singing or Poetry. The one who is a professor of Maths likes Shayari. The one who likes Swimming is a professor of Physics and the one who is a professor of Botany likes Music. X doesn’t like Painting. T and V like Music and Tracking, though not necessarily in the same order. S likes Swimming. W is a professor of Zoology and doesn’t like Singing. The one who is a professor of Geology likes Tracking. R is not a professor of History. The one who is a professor of Hindi doesn’t like either Poetry or Painting.

Puzzle 1: Seven boys A, D, Y, U, P, Q and J live in three different buildings – Ashiana, Top-view and Ridge. Each of them is flying kites of different colours i.e. red, green, blue white, black, yellow and pink, not necessarily in that order. Not more than three or less than two stay in any of the buildings. Q is flying a pink and does not live in Ridge building. U does not live in the same building as A or P and is flying a yellow coloured kite. D lives in Ridge building with only one more person and is flying a green kite. None in the Top-view building flies a white kite. P does not fly a blue kite. Puzzle 2: Six banks clerks Anu, Esha, Indu, Om, Uma and Yogi are working in three SBI associates banks – SBI Patiala, SBI Hyderabad, SBI Mysore. They are belonging to four different cities i.e. Delhi, Dehradoon, Agra and Ajmer. At least one clerk qorks in each bank and at least one clerk belong to each city. Uma works either in SBI Patiala or SBI Mysore. One clerk of SBI Hyderabd belongs to Delhi. Esha eithr belongs to Delhi or Dehradoon and does not work in SBI Hydrerabad. Yogi does not work with Om and Esha. Indu works in SBI Patiala and she is not from Delhi. Both the clerks of SBI Mysore are not from Ajmer. Anu is not from Ajmer and Om work with SBI Patiala. Two persons belong to Delhi and they don’t work with SBI Mysore. Person

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from Agra does not work in SBI Patiala. Uma is from Delhi and Om is not from Dehradoon. Clerks of same bank’s does not belong to same city. Puzzle 3:

Twelve friends are seated along the two rows –(such that facing each other) A, B, C, D, E and F are seated in first row and facing South. P, O, R, S, T and V are seated in Second row and facing North. Q is on the immediate right of S who is facing A. D is on the immediate right of A. P, F and C are at extreme ends and nobody is seated on the right of F. Only V is seated between P and T and he is not facing B. Q is on the immediate left of R.

Bank PO Level Questions :-

I. Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

Eight People – A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H live in eight different floors of building (but not necessarily in the

same order). The lowermost floor of the building is numbered one, the one above that is numbered two,

and so on till the topmost floor is numbered eight. Each one of them also owns a different car, namely

Santro, Brio, Amaze, Civic, Etios, Celerio, Micra and Fabia (but not necessarily in the same order).

F lives an odd numbered floor above the floor numbered four. Only one person lives between F

and the one who owns Amaze. The number of people leaving above F is same as the number of

people living between F and D.

Only three people live between D and the one who owns Celerio. C lives an one of the odd

numbered floors above the one who owns Celerio.

Only two people live between C and the one who owns Santro. The one who owns Micra lives

immediately above G, G owns neither celerio nor Santro. E does not own Micra.

Only three people live between G and A. The one who owns Fabia lives immediately above the

one who owns Brio, but not on the topmost floor.

Only one person lives between the one who owns Fabia and H. Only one person lives between B

and the one who owns Etios.

1. Which of the following Statements is true with respect to the given information?

1. G lives immediately above the one who owns Celerio

2. E lives immediately above C

3. Only three people live between F and the one who owns Fabia.

4. D owns Etios

5. All the given statements are true.

2. Who amongst the following lives exactly between H and the one who owns Brio?

1. D, the one who owns Fabia

2. A, the one who owns Amaze

3. F, E

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4. A, the one who owns Santro

5. E, D

3. Four of the following cars does E own?

1. Civic

2. Celerio

3. Brio

4. Amaze

5. Fabia

4. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which

one of the following does not belong to the group?

1. G – Civic

2. C – Celerio

3. F – Etios

4. H – Fabia

5. D – Amaze

5. How many people live between C and the one who owns Amaze?

1. Four

2. Three

3. Two

4. Five

5. None

Seven people A, B, C, D, E, F and G were appointed to a company on seven different days of the same

week starting from Monday to Sunday(but not necessarily in the same order). Each person also plays a

different game namely – Cricket, Hockey, Football, Squash, Volleyball, Tennis and Kho-Kho.(but

not necessarily in the same order).

Only two people were appointed after the one who plays Hockey. E was appointed on one of the

days after the one who plays Hockey. Only three people were appointed between E and G.

Only one person was appointed between G and the one who plays Volleyball. A was appointed

immediately after the one who plays volleyball. only three people were appointed after the one

who plays Kho-Kho.

C was appointed immediately after F but not on Friday. Only one people was appointed between

F and the one who plays cricket. B was appointed immediately after the one who plays cricket.

More than two people were appointed between D and the one who plays tennis. E does not play

Football and Tennis.

I. Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.

Ten persons from different cities viz. Delhi, Jaipur, Patna, Indore, Mumbai, Chennai,

Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Ranchi and Surat are sitting in two parallel rows containing five people each, in

such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1- A, B, C, D and E are

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seated and all of them are facing south. In row-2 P, Q, R, S and T are seated and all of them are facing

north. Therefore in the given seating arrangement, each

member seated in a row faces another member of the other row.(All the information given above does not

necessarily represent the order of seating in the final arrangement.)

P faces one of the immediate neighbours of the person from Jaipur. P does not face A. The

person from Delhi sits second to the right of the person from Bengaluru.

D faces one of the immediate neighbours of the person from Patna. S is not from Patna. D is not

from Mumbai. R sits second to the left of the persons from Surat. A sits third to the right

of person from Chennai.

Only One person sits between the person from Ranchi and Q. The person from Indore sits to the

immediate right of Q. C sits to the immediate left of the person who faces Q. Only two people sit

between B and E.

The person from Mumbai sits second to the right of the one who faces S. S does not sit at an

extreme end of the line. One of the immediate neighbours of the person from Mumbai faces

Ranchi.

Who amongst the following faces the person from Hyderabad?

A. The person from Delhi

B. D

C. The person from Chennai

D. The person from Ranchi

E. B or E

T is from which of the following cities?

A. Patna

B. Indore

C. Hyderabad

D. Ranchi

E. Mumbai

Which of the following is true regarding C?

A. C sits an extreme end of the line

B. None of the given options is true

C. C is from Bengaluru

D. The person from Indore faces C

E. The person from Hyderabad is an immediate neighbour of C

R is related to Indore in the same way as C is related to Jaipur based on the given

arrangement, To who amongst the following is T related to the following same pattern?

A. Delhi

B. Surat

C. Patna

D. Hyderabad

E. Ranchi

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Who amongst the following sit at extreme end of the row?

A. The person from Delhi and R

B. The persons from Bengaluru and A

C. A and the person from Patna

D. The persons from Chennai and Patna

E. A, E

II. Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.

Eight people L, M, N, O, P, Q, R and S are sitting around a circular table with equal distance

between each other but not necessarily in the same order. Some of them are facing the centre while some

are facing outside.(i.e away from the centre)

M sits third to the left of L. Only three people sit between M and S. P sits to the immediate right

of S.

Immediate neighbours of P face opposite directions(i.e. if one neighbour faces the centre then

the other neighbour faces outside and vice-versa.) Only one person sit between

P and O.

R sits second to the right of O. Both R and N face the same direction as S.(i.e if S faces the

centre then R and N also faces the centre and vice-versa.)

Immediate neighbours of Q faces opposite directions(i.e if one neighbour faces the centre then

the other neighbour faces outside and Vice-versa.)

P does not face outside. O faces a direction opposite to that of M.

How many people sit between L and Q when counted from the left of Q?

A. Five

B. None

C. Four

D. One

E. Two

Which of the following statements is true as per the given arrangement?

A. Q faces the centre

B. Only three people sit between P and L

C. R sits to the immediate right of N

D. None of the given options is true

E. N is an immediate neighbour of O

Who amongst the following sits third to the left of P?

A. Q

B. N

C. M

D. L

E. R

How many people face the centre as per the given arrangement?

A. Four

B. One

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C. Two

D. Three

E. More than four

What will come in place of question mark (?) in the given series based on the positions

as given in the arrangement?

PS LR MP SM ?

A. ON

B. SO

C. NQ

D. OL

E. LS

As per the given arrangement O is related to L in the same way as M is related to S,

Following the same pattern to whom is N related?

A. Q

B. P

C. M

D. R

E. O

I. Study the following information Carefully to answer the given questions

Eight friends A, B, C, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table facing the centre. All of them

have a different hobby viz Watching TV, Singing, Reading Writing, Painting, Dancing, Swimming

and Cooking but not necessarily in the same order.

F is third to the right of D, who does not like Swimming or Cooking. The one who likes Dancing is

an immediate neighbour of G and C. The one who likes Swimming is second to the left of F, who

likes writing. The one who likes cooking is opposite to F. H is not an immediate neighbour either C

or F but is third to the right of B.

The person who likes dancing and reading sit opposite each other. H likes Singing. The one who

likes Swimming sits third to the left of the one who likes Reading. The one who likes Watching TV

and the one who likes Cooking are immediate neighbours. A does not like watching TV. E is second

to the right of A, who is an immediate neighbour of F and H.

Who among the following likes Painting ?

1.D

2.C

3.A

4.B

5.None of these

Which of the following is hobby of C ?

1.Swimming

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2.Cooking

3.Dancing

4.Painting

5.Either 1 or 2

If G is immediate left of B, then who among the following sits between D and E ?

1.H

2.B

3.C

4.E

5.None of these

Who among the following sits on the second to the right of F ?

1.One who like Painting

2.One who likes Dancing

3.One who likes Singing

4.One who likes Cooking

5.None of these

Which of the following is true ?

1.One who likes singing sit opposite to one who likes Dancing

2.A and F are immediate neighbours

3.D sits between one who likes cooking and Singing

4.H sits on the immediate left of one who likes painting

5.None of these

II. Study the following information Carefully to answer the given questions

Eight Children P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are playing musical chairs. All of them are sitting on eight

different chairs which are kept in a circle and face away from the centre. Four of them are wooden Chairs

and four are plastic chairs.

U sits second to the left of W and both of them sits on different types of chair. V sits second to

the left of R and both sit on the same type of chair.

T is on a wooden chair but opposite to U. Q and S are immediate neighbours of U.

P does not sits on a wooden chair and the child who sits opposite to P does not sit on the same

type of chair.

The child who is an immediate neighbour of W and T sits on a plastic chair.

Who among the following sits opposite to R ?

1.R

2.P

3.U

4.Q

5.Can’t be determined

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Who among the following sits third to the right of V ?

1.P

2.Q

3.S

4.U

5.None of these

Which of the following children sit on the plastic chairs ?

1.QSTW

2.QRTS

3.PRUV

4.PWUT

5.None of these

Which of the following does not belong to the group ?

1.WV

2.TR

3.PV

4.QU

5.None of these

5.If Q is sits between W and U then who among the following sits third to the right of S ?

1.U

2.P

3.W

4.V

5.None of these

I.Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

There are six boys M, N, O, P, Q and R. They want to go out with six girls S, T, U, V, W and X, not

necessarily in the same order. The pairs went to different cities Agra, Ooty, Darjeeling, Shimla and two of

them went to Goa. They like different bikes, viz Karizma, Bullet, Passion and Discover. But Karizma and

Bullet are preferred by two pairs.

M and P visit Goa but do not like either Karizma or Discover.

R does not go out with W Both of them do not like Passion.

V and U want to go to Agra and Darjeeling respectively. The persons visiting Ooty like the same

bike as N does.

O goes out with X to Ooty but does not like either Bullet or Discover.

N goes to Agra and likes Karizma.

Q does not go out either with S or T, he does not go to Darjeeling, he likes neither Passion nor

Bullet.

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Who among the following went to Agra ?

1.PS

2.WQ

3.OX

4.NV

5.None of these

If M goes with S then who among the following went goes with P ?

1.V

2.U

3.T

4.W

5.None of these

Who among the following went to ooty ?

1.X

2.U

3.V

4.W

5.None of these

Which of the following bike does O like ?

1.Karizma

2.Discover

3.Bullet

4.Passion

5.None of these

Which of the following is correct ?

1.O-Goa-Passion

2.R-Agra-Discover

3.U-Ooty-Bullet

4.Q-Shimla-Discover

5.None of these

II.Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

There are five executives A, B, C, D and E. Each has a different hobby viz Reading, Shopping, Singing,

Walking and Swimming but not necessarily in the same order. Each executive has friendship with a

persons viz P, Q, R, S and T. Each persons has a different profession viz Doctor, Lawyer, Teacher,

Engineer and Driver.

Among Executives , there are only three females – the one who has friendship with R, the one

whose hobby is Reading and the one who has friendship with the person who is an Engineer.

The female whose hobby is shopping has friendship with the person who is Teacher.

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The Person who is a lawyer has no friendship with the person whose hobby is Singing. S is

neither a lawyer nor a Doctor.T is not Teacher.

The person who has friendship with T is a female but she is not D. E’s hobby is shopping and is

not a male. A and C are not females.

A’s hobby is swimming and is friend neither with T nor with Lawyer.

B’s hobby is walking. Q is a Doctor and he has no friendship with A. The one who is a Doctor has

no friendship with D.

The one whose hobby is singing is a friend of who among the following ?

1.R

2.Lawyer

3.T

4.Doctor

5.None of these

Which of the following pairs correctly represents the pair of friends ?

1.CR

2.AS

3.DT

4.RB

5.None of these

Who among the following is an Engineer ?

1.T

2.S

3.R

4.P

5.None of these

Which of the following represents the group of persons having female friend ?

1.T,R, S

2.S,Q, R

3.R, P, T

4.T,S, Q

5.None of these

Which of the following is the specialisation of S ?

1.Driver

2.Engineer

3.Teacher

4.Doctor

5.None of these

I. Study the following information Carefully to answer the given questions

J, K, L, I, H, Z, Y and X are eight persons of a family. There are three married couples in the family. The

persons are from three generations. All females of this family are married. K and J are the offsprings of I

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while Y and X are the offspring of H and L respectively. Z is the wife of I. L is one of the females and she

is not the wife of J.

Among them there are three Teachers, two Businessmen, two Athletes and one Painter. Each

person has only one occupation. All of them are sitting around a circular table facing the centre.

They sit in such a manner that only one of the grandsons of I is sitting between L and J, while

only H is sitting between K and Z.

One of the sons of I is on the immediate left of I. Only one person is sitting between L and K,but

it is not X. Y, who is not sitting next to K, is also not sitting opposite I. K is not sitting opposite a

female.

The persons who are on the immediate left of Y and immediate right of K are not Teachers while

X is a renowned Painter. The persons who are sitting next to H are neither Businessman nor

Teacher.

Who among the following is Teacher ?

1.L and Z

2.X and I

3.K and L

4.J and H

5.None of these

Who is sitting between K and L ?

1.Businessman

2.Athlete

3.Teacher

4.Painter

5.None of these

Who among the following is son of I ?

1.L

2.J

3.X

4.Y

5.None of these

Who among the following sits third to the right of Athlete ?

1.Businessman

2.Teacher

3.Painter

4.Both 1 and 2

5.None of these

Who among the following sitting opposite to Painter ?

1.X

2.J

3.I

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4.Z

5.None of these

II. Study the following information Carefully to answer the given questions

P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W and X are sitting in a straight line, facing North. Three of them are not males. Two

females sit adjacent to each other. Q is fourth to the left of V, who is second to the right of R, who is not

the immediate neighbour of P.

U is fourth to the right of R and is second to the left of X. S is not an immediate neighbour of

either X or Q.

S is not male. One of the persons sitting on the extreme ends is a female. T is not an immediate

neighbour of either V or U.

No female is an immediate neighbour of U. W does not sit second to the left of P. The immediate

neighbour of S are male.

6. Which of the following is a group of females ?

1.QTS

2.TXP

3.SVR

4.UWX

5.None of these

7. Who is sitting to the immediate left of S ?

1.V

2.Q

3.W

4.R

5.None of these

8. In which of the following combinations is the third person sitting between the first

and the second person ?

1.PWU

2.QTR

3.RST

4.WUP

5.None of these

9. If Q and R, V and U interchange their position then how many persons are sitting

between R and V ?

1.Four

2.Five

3.Six

4.Two

5.None of these

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10. Who among the following sits third to the left of P ?

1.W

2.V

3.R

4.X

5.None of these

.Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

M, N, O, P, Q, R and S are employees of a company. Each of them works in his own cabin

numbered 1 to 7, but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them wears a shirt of different colours –

Blue, Green , Yellow, Sky Blue, Purple, Red and Pink but not necessarily in the same order.

N sits in cabin 4 but he does not wear either purple or sky blue shirt. O wears Blue shirt but he does not

sit in cabin 2 or 6. Q sits in cabin 5 and he wears a Red shirt. The one who wears a Green shirt sits in

cabin 7, P sits in cabin 1. S wears a Pink shirt. M does not sit in cabin 7. The one who wears Sky blue shirt

sits in cabin 2.Either M or R does not sit in cabin 6.

1. M wears a shirt of which of the following colours ?

1.Green

2.Blue

3.Sky Blue

4.Pink

5.None of these

2. S sits in which of the following Cabin ?

1.5

2.3

3.7

4.6

5.None of these

3. Who among the following sits in Cabin 2 ?

1.O

2.M

3.Q

4.R

5.None of these

4. Who among the following wearing blue colour shirt ?

1.O

2.N

3.R

4.T

5.None of these

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5. Which of the following is true ?

1.R-Pink-6

2.O-Red-4

3.1- Red – Q

4.N-Yellow-4

5.None of these

II.Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

Six players Arun, Kamal, Ram, Varun, Yuvraj and Ajay are playing different types of Sports viz Carom,

Chess, Kho-Kho, Tennis, Hockey and Badminton, but not necessarily in the same order. All are wears a T-

shirt of different colour – Violet, Green, Blue, Orange, Red and yellow.They use different types of mobiles

viz Samsung, Lenovo and Nokia but not necessarily in the same order.Atleast two persons use the same

same types of mobiles.

The person who plays Hockey uses Nokia. Ajay uses Nokia and wears Green T-Shirt, but he plays neither

Carom nor Kho-Kho. The one plays Tennis uses Samsung. Kamal uses the same types of mobile phone as

the person who wears a Violet T-Shirt, but he is not a chess Player. The one who is player of Carom uses

Samsung. Varun is a Hockey Player and he wears neither Blue T-shirt nor Yellow T-shirt. Lenovo is used

by a chess player, Yuvraj is a tennis player and wears an orange T-Shirt, but he does not use the same

mobile phone as Ram. Arun does not wear a Red or Yellow shirt. The players who use Nokia play neither

Tennis nor Kho-Kho. The players who wear Orange and Blue T-shirts use the same type of mobile.

6. Yuvraj uses the which of the following mobiles ?

1.Samsung

2.Nokia

3.Lenovo

4.Either Nokia or Lenovo

5.None of these

7. Who among the following is a Badminton Player ?

1.Arun

2.Ram

3.Yuvraj

4.Ajay

5.None of these

8. Kamal wears which colour T-Shirt ?

1.Violet

2.Red

3.Yellow

4.Orange

5.None of these

9. Ram is a ………….. player

1.Kho-Kho

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2.Chess

3.Hockey

4.Carrom

5.None of these

10. Which of the following is not true ?

1.Ajay-Blue-Lenovo

2.Arun-Carrom-Samsung

3.Yuvraj-Tennis-Orange

4.Varun-Red-Nokia

5.None of these

I.Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

Seven employees A, B, C, D, E, F and G working in different companies reach their office by a train which

stops at 5 stations P, Q, R,S and T respectively after leaving station X.

Three of them board the train at Station X. D deboards at the station next to the station at

which F deboards. B does not deboards either with A or with E. G alone boards at station R and

deboards with C after passing one station.

None of them boards at station Q and none of them deboards the train at station P. C boards

with F but does not board with either B or with D.

E boards with two others and deboards alone after D. B and D deboard together at station R.A

travels between two consecutive stations and deboards at the station T. F does not board after E

1. Who among the following board at Station P ?

1.B

2.D

3.C

4.Both 1 and 2

5.Both 1 and 3

2. A boards the train how many station after F deboards ?

1.One

2.Two

3.Three

4.Four

5.None of these

3. After how many station does C deboard ?

1.One

2.Two

3.Three

4.Four

5.None of these

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4. At which of the following station does E deboard ?

1.P

2.S

3.Q

4.R

5.None of these

5. At which of the following station do C and F board the train ?

1.R

2.P

3.X

4.T

5.None of these

II.Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H live on eight different floors of a building but not necessarily in the same order.

The ground floor is numbered one and the floor above it is numbered two and so on. The top most floor is

numbered eight. Each of them likes a different cities viz Agra, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Cochin, Pune,

Kashmir and Chennai but not necessarily in the same order.

The One who likes Mumbai lives on an even numbered floor but not on floor no.8. Only two

persons live between F and the one who likes Mumbai. Only one person live between F and the

one who likes Cochin. Neither E nor C lives on floor no 1. Only one person lives between C and

D,who likes Delhi. A lives immediately above F, who lives on an odd numbered floor.

Only two persons live between E and A. The one who likes Cochin does not live on floor no.1. B

lives on an even numbered floor and immediately above C. The one who likes Kolkata lives on

an even numbered floor and live immediately above the person who likes Chennai. C does not

like Cochin or Chennai. Only two persons live between H and the one who likes Agra. The one

who likes Pune does not live on odd numbered floor. H does not like Kashmir. B lives on floor

no.4.

6. Who among the following live on floor 5 ?

1.A

2.C

3.E

4.G

5.None of these

7. B likes which of the following city ?

1.Agra

2.Chennai

3.Kolkata

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4.Mumbai

5.None of these

8. Who among the following likes Pune ?

1.F

2.H

3.D

4.B

5.None of these

9. Who lives between A and H ?

1.E

2.B

3.C

4.F

5.None of these

10. Which of the following is not correct ?

1.4-B-Mumbai

2.7-F-Chennai

3.5-E-Cochin

4.3-H-Kashmir

5.None of these

Direction(1-5); Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H live on eight different floors of a building but not necessarily in the same order.

The lowermost floor of the building in numbered 1, the above one that is numbered 2 and so on/ Each of

them likes a different fruit, namely Banana, Strawberry, Apple, Turnip, Guava, Kiwi, Mango and Grapes

but not necessarily in the same order.

The one who likes Turnip lives on an even numbered floor. Only three people live between who

likes Turnip and C.Only two people live between C and D. D does not live on the lowermost

floor. Only 3 people live between D and the one who likes Guava.

E lives immediately above A. E lives on an even numbered floor. A does not like Guava. A lives

neither on the floor numbered 3 or 5.Only two people live between A and the one who likes

Mango. Only one person lives between the one who likes Mango and Grapes. The One who likes

Grapes below the one who likes Strawberry.

B lives immediately above G. Only one person lives between G and the one who likes Apple.

The one who likes Kiwi lives immediately above the one who likes Banana. F does not like Turnip

and A does not like Strawberry.

1. Who lives between H and one who likes Mango ?

1.D

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2.F

3.A

4.G

5.None of these

2. B lives on which of the following floor number ?

1.7

2.5

3.4

4.6

5.None of these

3. Which of the following Fruit does A likes ?

1.Banana

2.Strawberry

3.Guava

4.Mango

5.None of these

4. Which of the following is correct ?

1.A-8-Apple

2.C-2-Grapes

3.D-6-Guava

4.E- 4-Turnip

5.None of these

5. The Favourite Fruit of H is ……………………..

1.Apple

2.Kiwi

3.Turnip

4.Grapes

5.None of these

Direction(6-10): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

Ten Persons X, Y, Z, H, I, U, V, W, G and E are sitting in two rows with five persons in each row.

The persons in row one are facing South and the persons in row two are facing North. Each person in row

one faces a person from other row.

All of them likes a different soft drink – Sprite, Slice, Pepsi, Maaza, Fanta, Mirinda, Limca, 7up,

Nimbooz and Cola but not necessarily in the same order.

The persons who likes Fanta and Mirinda sit opposite each other. U sits opposite X, who likes

Sprite. The one who likes Slice sits opposite the one who likes 7up. E is not facing north but sits

third to the left of V, Who likes Slice. There is only one person between Y and Z. I sits at one of

the ends of the row and likes Mirinda. The one who likes 7up is on the immediate right of H, who

does not like Cola. The person who likes Pepsi and Maaza respectively are not facing north. Z

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likes Limca.The one who likes Maaza sits opposite the one who is second to the right of Y. G

does not like Cola. I sits opposite the one who sits second to the left of one who likes Pepsi

6. How many persons sits between H and I ?

1.1

2.4

3.2

4.3

5.None of these

7. Y likes which of the following soft drink ?

1.Maaza

2.Sprite

3.7up

4.Cola

5.Fanta

8. Who among the following sit at the extreme end of the row and are facing south ?

1.W, E

2.U, V

3.V, W

4.H, I

5.None of these

9. Four of the following five alike in a certain way and hence form a group, which of the

one does not belong to that group ?

1.W, H

2.V, Y

3.E, I

4.G, Y

5.U, X

10. Who among the following sits second to the right of one who likes Maaza ?

1.U

2.V

3.W

4.I

5.None of these

I.Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below

There are eight persons in a family M, N, O , P, Q, R, S and T are sitting around a circular table

facing the centre. Among them there are three doctors, two Engineers, two Authors and one Painter. Each

person has only one occupation. There are three married couples in the family and no unmarried female.

Three generation are there in the family

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P has two children. S and T are children of Q and O respectively. R is wife of P and mother of N and M. O

is a female but not wife of M

S, a grandson of P, sits exactly between O and M and only Q sits exactly between N and R. Only one

person sits between O and N but he is not T. N is not the immediate neighbour of S, who is not opposite

to P. N does not sit opposite to a female. One of the sons of P is on immediate left of P. The person who is

on the immediate left of S and the person who is on the immediate right of N are not doctors. The

immediate neighbours of Q are neither an Engineer nor a Doctor. T is a Painter

1. Who among the following sits exactly between P and Q ?

1.Author

2.Doctor

3.Engineer

4.Painter

5.None of these

2. Which of the following does not form a group ?

1.R

2.M

3.Q

4.O

5.None of these

3. Which of the following two members sits adjacent to each other in the arrangement ?

1.QO

2.NT

3.TQ

4.SM

5.None of these

4. Who among the following is Son of Q ?

1.T

2.O

3.S

4.P

5.None of these

5. Who among the following is an Engineer ?

1.P

2.O

3.T

4.Both 1 and 3

5.Both 1 and 2

II .Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below

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A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a square table in such a way that four of them sits at

four corners of the square facing the centre while four others sit in the middle of each of the four sides but

not facing the centre. A sits third to the right of F, who is not facing the centre.

E is not an immediate neighbour of F or A. There is only one person between F and G.

D sits second to the right of B, who is on the immediate left of G

C is not an immediate neighbour of A.

6. Who among the following sits opposite to F ?

1.E

2.C

3.H

4.A

5.None of these

7. Who among the following sits exactly between G and H ?

1.A

2.B

3.D

4.F

5.None of these

8. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence form a group.Which of

the following does not belong to that group ?

1.A

2.B

3.D

4.G

5.None of these

9. What is the position of B with respect to D ?

1.Third to the right

2.Second to the left

3.Immediate right

4.Second to the right

5.None of these

10. If E is facing outside then which will be the immediate right of E ?

1.H

2.F

3.G

4.D

5.None of these

I.Study the following information Carefully to answer the given questions

Page 36: Puzzle 1 - golden career...Puzzle 1: 1.) There are 4 people of different nationalities viz, French, Belgian, Australian and polish sitting in a row but necessary in that order. 2.)

Eleven colleagues P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z are sitting in the first row of the table facing the

chairman. S who is to the immediate left of U is second to the right of R. P is second to the right of T, who

is at one of the ends. Y is an immediate neighbour of P and Q and third to the left of V. W is to the

immediate left of S and third to the right of X.

1. Who is sitting in the middle of the row?

a) Q

b) V

c) R

d) Y

e) None of these

2. Which of the groups of colleagues is sitting to the right of V?

a) RVXY

b) SURX

c) TQWY

d) SURW

e) SUWP

3. Which of the following is true with respect to above arrangement?

a) T and S are sitting at the extreme ends

b) X is between S and R

c) There are two persons between P and X

d) Z and P are immediate neighbours of Y

e) none of these

4. If all the members are made to sit in an alphabetical order from left to right, how

many of them retain the same position?

a) none

b) one

c) two

d) three

e) four

5. Which among the following is sitting third to the left of second from the right end?

a) V

b) U

c) X

d) Y

e) Z

Q(6 -10) Study the given information carefully and answer the questions that follow: –

Eight friends – P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W – are sitting around a circular table facing the centre but not

necessarily in the same order. Each of them likes different cricketers – Kohli, Rohit, Dhawan, Smith,

Warner, Root, Gayle and Nehra.

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There are two persons between those two persons who like Kohli and Rohit and neither of them

sits opposite P. R and V are immediate neighbours and neither of them likes Nehra or Rohit. P,

who likes Gayle, sits second to the right of the girl who likes Nehra. Q and T neither like Nehra

nor sit adjacent to P. T, who likes Rohit, sits second to the left of V, who likes Smith. R does not

like Kohli.

The immediate neighbour of T faces R, who sits third to the left of the one who likes Gayle. U

does not like Nehra. Both S and W do not like Kohli and Dhawan. Q likes Root while S likes

Warner. Q is not an immediate neighbour of P.

6. Which of the following is the favourite cricketer of P?

a) Warner

b) Kohli

c) Dhawan

d) Gayle

e) None of these

7. Dhawan is the favourite cricketer of which of the following?

a) P

b) Q

c) R

d) S

e) None of these

8. Who among the following is exactly between Q and S?

a) R

b) U

c) V

d) T

e) None of these

9. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given arrangement

and thus form a group. Which of the following does not belong to that group?

a) V- Smith

b) P – Gayle

c) Q – Kohli

d) R – Dhawan

e) S – Warner

10. Who is sitting opposite to the person who likes Nehra?

a) Q

b) T

c) P d) R

e) None of these

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Seven actors A, B, C, D, E, F and G act in different types of drama like Action, Thriller, Romantic,

Suspense, Comedy, Horror and Inspirational, but not necessarily in the same order. All the seven actors

are engaged on three different days of the week i.e. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. A is engaged on

Sunday only with E and his drama is Thriller. D is acting in Horror drama and does not act on Tuesday.

The one who is acting in Comedy acts on Monday. B and C do not act on the same day. Those who act on

Sunday do not perform Romantic drama. F acts in Suspense drama but does not act on Monday. G acts on

the same day as F. C acts in Action drama

1. Who acts in Comedy?

a) A

b) B

c) E

d) F

e) none of these

2. Which of the following groups of actors performs on Tuesday?

a) ABG

b) CFE

c) CDE

d) CFG

e) EFG

3. B and D act on which of the following days of the week?

a) Sunday

b) Monday

c) Tuesday

d) Monday and Tuesday

e) none of these

4. E acts in which type of drama?

a) Thriller

b) Action

c) Comedy

d) Horror

e) none of these

5. Which of the following combinations of actor-day-drama is definitely correct?

a) F – Monday – Romantic

b) G – Tuesday – Romantic

c) D – Sunday – Action

d) E – Tuesday – Inspirational

e) None of these

Q(6-10): Study the following information to answer the given Questions

Page 39: Puzzle 1 - golden career...Puzzle 1: 1.) There are 4 people of different nationalities viz, French, Belgian, Australian and polish sitting in a row but necessary in that order. 2.)

A university organised exams for six different subjects i.e. Hindi, Sanskrit, Biology, Marketing, Computer

and Finance on six days of a week, not necessarily in the same order. The exams starts from Monday,

with a holiday on any day of the week, one full day is devoted to one exam. The exam of Hindi is

scheduled immediately after the exam of Sanskrit. The exam of Marketing is scheduled on Wednesday but

not after the exam of Finance. The exam of Biology is scheduled on Friday. There is only one exam

between the exams of Computer and Hindi. There is only one day when no paper is scheduled but that is

not Saturday. The exam of Finance is scheduled just before the holiday

6. On which of the following days is the exam of Computer scheduled?

a) Monday

b) Tuesday

c) Friday

d) Saturday

e) none of these

7. Which two exams are scheduled on the first and last day?

a) Sanskrit and Biology

b) Biology and Finance

c) Sanskrit and Finance

d) Hindi and Finance

e) none of these

8. On which day is a holiday?

a) Sunday

b) Monday

c) Tuesday

d) Wednesday

e) None of these

9. How many exams is/are scheduled between the exams of Hindi and Marketing?

a) one

b) two

c) three

d) four

e) none of these

10. Which of the following combinations is correct?

a) Finance-Thursday

b) Hindi-Monday

c) Computer-Saturday

d) Sanskrit-Monday

e) None of these

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Page 40: Puzzle 1 - golden career...Puzzle 1: 1.) There are 4 people of different nationalities viz, French, Belgian, Australian and polish sitting in a row but necessary in that order. 2.)

A, B, C, D, E and F are six members of a group in which there are three female members. Females work in

three departments –Maintenance, Admission and HR – and sit on three different floors – Ground floor, first

floor and second floor. Person working in the same department are not on the same floor. On each floor

two persons work. No two females work in the same department or sit on the same floor. B and E work in

the same department but not in HR. D works in Admission. E and A are on the ground floor and second

floor respectively and work in the same department. D, a female does not sit on the first floor. C, a male

works on ground floor. F, works on the first floor and D and A work on the same floor

1. Which of the following group of members are female?

a) ABC

b) DEF

c) ACF

d) ADE

e) Can’t be determined

2. Which of the following pair of person work in Admission?

a) AC

b) CD

c) DA

d) Data inadequate

e) none of these

3. Which of the following pair works on second floor?

a) AE

b) AF

c) AD

d) DC

e) None of these

4. F works in which department?

a) Maintenance

b) HR

c) Admission

d) Either HR or Admission

e) None of these

5. Which of the following represents people from all three floors?

a) FBA

b) CFB

c) BEC

d) ADB

e) AFC

Direction(6-10): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

One of the seven Hollywood films—Titanic, Inception, Shutter island, Revenant, X-men, Batman and Ghost

rider—is shown on each day of a Film Festival, starting from Monday and ending on Sunday. Batman film

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is shown on Thursday. X-men film is shown on the day immediately after the day on which Inception film

is shown. X-men film is shown neither on Tuesday nor on Saturday. Only one film is shown between

Batman and Shutter Island film. Two films are shown between Titanic and Inception film. Ghost rider film

is shown neither on Sunday nor on Monday

6. Revenant film is shown on which of the following days?

a) Monday

b) Tuesday

c) Wednesday

d) Thursday

e) Friday

7. How many films are shown between Shutter Island and Inception?

a) One

b) Two

c) Three

d) Four

e) None of these

8. Which of the following movies is shown on Saturday?

a) Ghost rider

b) Shutter Island

c) Titanic

d) Inception

e) None of these

9. On which of the following days is Ghost Rider shown?

a) Tuesday

b) Wednesday

c) Thursday

d) Friday

e) Cannot be determined

10. Which of the following movies is shown just before the Batman film?

a) Ghost Rider

b) Titanic

c) Shutter Island

d) Inception

e) Cannot be determined

Direction(6-10): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

P,Q, R, S, A, B, C and D are eight friends studying in engineering colleges in different streams like

Aeronautical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Electrical

Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Technical Engineering, but not in the same

order. All of them are seated around a circular table, facing away from the centre. P sits third to the left of

the person who studies Electrical Engineering. Only two persons sit between A and C. Neither A nor C

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studies Electrical Engineering and neither of them is an immediate neighbor of P. The person who studies

Technical Engineering sits second to the right of S. S is not an immediate neighbour of P. S does not study

Electrical Engineering and P does not study Technical Engineering. The one who studies Aeronautical

Engineering sits third to the left of B. The one who studies Aeronautical Engineering and the one who

studies Electrical Engineering are not immediate neighbours. Only one person sits between S and the one

who studies Chemical Engineering. The person who studies Electronic Engineering and the one who

studies Computer Engineering are immediate neighbours. Only one person sits between Q and the one

who studies Civil Engineering. The one who studies Civil Engineering is an immediate neighbour of D. C

and Q are not immediate neighbours. S does not study Computer Engineering.

6. How many people sit between A and the one who studies Civil Engineering (when

counted in clockwise direction from A)?

a) one

b) two

c) three

d) four

e) five

7. Who studies Chemical Engineering?

a) R

b) B

c) Q

d) P

e) A

8. Which of the following combinations is, definitely true?

a) S – Electrical Engineering

b) R-Civil Engineering

c) C-Chemical Engineering

d) Q – Electronic Engineering

e) None of these

9. Who studies Aeronautical Engineering?

a) P

b) A

c) Q

d) R

e) S

10. What is the position of the person who studies Mechanical Engineering with respect to

R?

a) Immediate left

b) Second to the left

c) Third to the right

d) Third to the left

e) Second to the right

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Direction(1-5): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

a) A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight students in the class. Three of them study English and Commerce

each and two of them study Sanskrit. Each one of them has a different weight.

b) The heaviest does not study Sanskrit and the lightest does not study English.

c) F is heavier than A and D, but lighter than H and B. E, who does not study English, is heavier than B

and is the second heaviest. G is lighter than D but heavier than A.

d) H, who is fourth from the top, studies Commerce along with D.

e) G does not study either English or Sanskrit. B does not study Sanskrit

1. Who is the heaviest?

a) E

b) B

c) C

d) D

e) none of these

2. Who among the following is lighter than D?

a) C

b) G

c) E

d) F

e) none of these

3. Which of the following pairs studies Sanskrit?

a) FG

b) AC

c) CE

d) BE

e) AE

4. Which of the following groups of students studies English?

a) ABF

b) BCE

c) ABC

d) BCA

e) BCF

5. Who is the lightest person in the students?

a) F

b) D

c) C

d) A

e) none of these

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Direction(6-10): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

There is a group of six persons living in a four-storey building. The persons are P, Q, R, S, T and U. Each

storey of the building has two flats. Thus, there are eight flats in all and two of them are vacant.

a) R is heavier than Q, who in turn is heavier than U.

b) The heaviest of the group lives on the top floor while the lightest lives on the ground floor.

c) T is lighter than S.

d) One of the flats on the first floor is vacant while one on the second floor is also vacant.

e) P is neither the heaviest nor the lightest.

f) There are only two people heavier than R. P is not one of them.

g) Q shares the floor with the heaviest of the group while R shares it with the lightest.

6. Who among the following is the lightest in the group?

a) P

b) R

c) U

d) Q

e) None of these

7. On which floor does P live?

a) ground

b) first

c) second

d) either first or second

8. Who among the following shares the floor with R?

a) Q

b) P

c) S

d) U

e) None of these

9. T and P

a) Lives on the same floor

b) Have two floors between their floors

c) Lives on adjacent floors

d) Have one floor between them

e) None of these

10. Starting from the heaviest of the group, what is the rank of Q in order of weight?

a) 3rd

b) 4th

c) 5th

d) either 4th or 5th

Direction(1-6): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

Page 45: Puzzle 1 - golden career...Puzzle 1: 1.) There are 4 people of different nationalities viz, French, Belgian, Australian and polish sitting in a row but necessary in that order. 2.)

A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight persons. Each is a professor of a different subject like Maths, Physics,

Hindi, English, Geology, Zoology, Botany and History. Each of them having different hobby like Riding,

Music, Poetry, Shayari, Painting, Rafting, Cooking and Swimming but not necessarily in the same order. A

who likes cooking is a professor of neither History nor Geology. B is a professor of English and does not

like either Riding or Poetry. The one who is a professor of Maths likes Shayari. The one who likes

Swimming is a professor of Physics and the one who is a professor of Botany likes Music. H doesn’t like

Painting. E and F like Music and Rafting, though not necessarily in the same order. D likes Swimming. G is

a professor of Zoology and doesn’t like Riding. The one who is a professor of Geology likes Rafting. C is

not a professor of History. The one who is a professor of Hindi doesn’t like either Poetry or Painting.

1. Who among of the following likes Riding?

a) A

b) B

c) D

d) H

e) None of these

2. Who among of the following is a professor of History?

a) E

b) F

c) B

d) H

e) None of these

3. C is a professor of which of the following subjects?

a) Maths

b) Geology

c) Zoology

d) Hindi

e) None of these

4. Which of the following combinations is definitely correct?

a) C-Maths-Music

b) F-Botany-Music

c) D-Zoology-Riding

d) B-English-Painting

e) None is correct

5. Which of the following combinations is incorrect?

a) D-Swimming

b) A-Hindi

c) G-Rafting

d) C-Shayari

e) None of these

6. Which of the following is G’s hobby?

a) Painting

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b) Cooking

c) Riding

d) Poetry

e) None of these

Direction(7-10): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

Seven participants P, Q, R, S, T, U and W are sitting in a straight line facing east. All of them have

participated in a hundred-metre race. Q sits fourth to the right of the person whose rank is 6th in the

race. Either Q or the sixth ranker sits at the extreme end of the line. Only one person sits between Q and

W. W is the third ranker. The person whose rank is first sits third to the left of S. S is not an immediate

neighbour of W. Only one person sits between T and the person who finished at the second place. P and R

are immediate neighbours. P is not at the sixth rank. The person whose rank is fifth sits third to the left of

the person who finished seventh.

7. Who ranked at the fourth place?

a) R

b) S

c) W

d) T

e) None of these

8. T’s rank in the race is-

a) second

b) third

c) fourth

d) first

e) None of these

9. How many persons are sitting between P and U?

a) one

b) two

c) three

d) four

e) None of these

10. Who is sitting third to the right of the person who got 5th rank?

a) R

b) P

c) Q

d) S

e) None of these

Direction(1-5): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

Page 47: Puzzle 1 - golden career...Puzzle 1: 1.) There are 4 people of different nationalities viz, French, Belgian, Australian and polish sitting in a row but necessary in that order. 2.)

There are seven Indian footballers, namely A, B, C, D, E, F and G. Each of them belongs to a different

state like Maharashtra, Jharkhand, UP, Punjab, Delhi, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Moreover, each of them

also has a liking for different foods, namely Chicken Tikka, Veg. Biryani, Fish Curry, Chicken Biryani,

Mutter Paneer, Mutton Curry and Afghani Chicken but not necessarily in the same order.

A, who likes Fish Curry, is neither from Maharashtra nor from Punjab.

E is not from Jharkhand and does not like Chicken Tikka. F, who hails from Tamil Nadu, does not like Veg.

Biryani.

D, who likes Afghani Chicken, is not from Karnataka. The one who is from Jharkhand is fond of Mutton

Curry.

C likes Mutter Paneer and is from UP while B, who likes Veg. Biryani is from Delhi.

1. Who among the following belong to Karnataka?

a) A

b) B

c) C

d) D

e) None of these

2. D belongs to which of the following states?

a) Jharkhand

b) UP

c) Delhi

d) Tamil Nadu

e) can’t be determined

3. Which of the following statements is/are false?

a) A belongs to Karnataka and likes Fish Curry.

b) G likes Mutton Curry.

c) C is from Jharkhand.

d) None is true

e) All are True

4. Who among the following belongs to Punjab?

a) G

b) E

c) D

d) None of these

e) can’t be determined

5. Chicken Tikka is the favourite food of which among the following?

a) F

b) E

c) G

d) A

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Page 48: Puzzle 1 - golden career...Puzzle 1: 1.) There are 4 people of different nationalities viz, French, Belgian, Australian and polish sitting in a row but necessary in that order. 2.)

Eight persons from different companies, like Hero, Honda, Bajaj, TVS, Harley Davidson, Royal Enfield, KTM

and Suzuki are sitting in two parallel rows containing four persons each in such a way that there is an

equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1- P, Q, R and S are sitting and all of them are facing

north. In row – 2, A, B, C and D are sitting and all of them are facing south- Therefore, in the given

seating arrangement each member sitting in a row faces another member of the other row. All the

information given above does not necessarily represent the; order of seating, as in the final arrangement.

The person from Harley Davidson faces the one who sits on the immediate left of R. R is neither

from Honda nor from Bajaj.

An immediate neighbour of A faces the person from Hero. The person from Royal Enfield faces

the person who sits on the left of the person from Honda.

There is only one person sitting between the persons from Honda and KTM but that person is

not R. The persons from Honda and Bajaj are not sitting at the extreme ends. B sits on the

immediate left of the person from Harley Davidson. The persons from TVS and Royal Enfield are

immediate neighbours. C and Q are not sitting at any of the ends.

S faces the one who is sitting on the immediate right of the person from Royal Enfield. A is not

from Royal Enfield or TVS. P does not face Royal Enfield.

6. Who among the following is from Suzuki?

a) A

b) R

c) B

d) S

e) None of these

7. Who is sitting between D and the person from Harley Davidson?

a) The person who is from Bajaj

b) B

c) S

d) The person who faces the one who is from Bajaj

e) None of these

8. R is from which of the following companies?

a) Hero

b) Bajaj

c) Honda

d) TVS

e) None of these

9. Who among the following faces the one who is from Royal Enfield?

a) The person who is from Mahindra

b) R

c) S

d) Q

e) None of these

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10. How many persons are sitting between the S and the person who is from Bajaj?

a) none

b) one

c) two

d) three

e) M=more than Four

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Six persons P, Q, R, S, T and U are sitting around a circular table facing towards the centre of the table in

a restaurant. They have ordered for different items i.e. samosha, cutlet, French fries, omelette, sandwich

and milk-cake. They are wearing T-shirts of different colours, i.e. white, black, green, red, yellow and blue

but not necessarily in the same order.

The person who have ordered for samosha, French fries and Sandwich are neither in white nor

in black T- shirt.

The person who are in green and yellow T-shirts have neither ordered for samosha nor for

French fries

P is neither in white T-shirt nor on the immediate left of the person who has ordered for

omelette.

The only person who is seated between T and U eats cutlet. The person who is on the left side of

the person in white T-shirt does not eat Milk-cake.

S has ordered for omelette and the colour of his T-shirt is green. He is facing the person who

has ordered for Cutlet.

One who has ordered for samosha is seated opposite to the person wearing blue T-shirt, while

the person whose T-shirt is of green colour is on the left of the person who has ordered for

sandwich.

One who has ordered for milk-cake is on the immediate right of the person in white T-shirt but

on the immediate left of the person who has ordered for French fries

R has not ordered for french-fries while U has not ordered for samosha

1. Who among the following is in white T-shirt?

a) P

b) T

c) U

d) R

e) None of these

2. The only person between T and S is wearing T –shirt of which colour?

a) red

b) black

c) yellow

d) green

e) None of these

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3. Who among the following has ordered for sandwich?

a) R

b) S

c) P

d) T

e) None of these

4. Which of the following is correctly matched?

a) R-WHITE-MILKCAKE

b) U-BLACK-SAMOSHA

c) T-RED-SAMOSHA

d) P-WHITE-OMELETE

e) None of these

5. The colour of the T-shirt of the person, who has ordered for milk-cake, is-

a) green

b) yellow

c) blue

d) red

e) None of these

Direction(6-10): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

There are six boys P, Q, R, S, T and U. They want to go out with six girls A, B, C, D, E and F, not

necessarily in the same order. The pairs went to different cities Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and two

of them went to Jaipur. They like different bikes viz KTM, Bullet, Pulsar and Apache. But KTM and Bullet

are preferred by two pairs. Further information is as follows:

P and S visit Jaipur but do not like either KTM or Apache

U does not go out with E. Both of them do not like Pulsar.

D and C wants to go to Delhi and Kolkata respectively. The persons visiting Mumbai like the

same bike as Q does.

R goes out with F to Mumbai but does not like either Bullet or Apache.

Q goes to Delhi and likes KTM.

T does not go out either with A or B; he does not go to Kolkata; he likes neither Pulsar nor

Bullet.

6. Which bike does C like?

a) KTM

b) Bullet

c) Apache

d) Pulsar

e) None of these

7. If P goes out with A, who among the following likes Pulsar ?

a) Q

b) R

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c) T

d) P

e) can’t be determine

8. Who went to Chennai?

a) RF

b) UC

c) QD

d) TE

e) None of these

9. Which bike does C like?

a) Apache

b) Pulsar

c) Bullet

d) KTM

e) None of these

10. Who among the following visits Kolkata?

a) C

b) Q

c) P

d) U

e) Both a and d

Direction(1-5): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

A committee has nine members P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W and X and it is divided into three groups, viz

Shubhas group, Nehru group and Azad group – with three members in each group. There are certain

conditions for the formation of the groups. Only three members will be selected in each group. One person

cannot be selected for more than one group. P is in the Shubhas group. W is in the Nehru group. R and S

are in the same group but not in the group of X. P and Q are not in the same group. T is not in the same

group as X but is in the Azad group. U is in the group in which either W or Q or both of them are present.

X and W are not in the same group. U is neither with T nor with X.

1. R and S are in which of the following groups?

a) Shubhas group

b) Nehru group

c) Azad group

d) Can’t be determined

e) None of these

2. Which of the following statements is true about V?

a) V is in the Shubhas group with W

b) V is in the Azad group with P

c) V is in the Shubhas group with R and S

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d) V is in the Shubhas group with P

e) None of these

3. U is associated with which of the following groups?

a) Azad

b) Nehru

c) Shubhas

d) can’t be determined

e) None of these

4. Which of the following members represents the Azad group?

a) RSP

b) TPQ

c) TRU

d) STR

e) None of these

5. Which of the following combinations is true ?

a) Shubhas group-PQT

b) Azad group – TRQ

c) Nehru group – WUQ

d) Azad group – PXV

e) None of these

Direction(6-10): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

Seven friends P, Q, R, S, M, N and X go to market on different days – Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday for part-time jobs at different places, viz Jaipur, Udaipur,

Ajmer, Delhi, Noida, Bhopal and Indore but not necessarily in the same order. R works at the Ajmer but

goes there neither on Saturday nor on Thursday. M goes on Tuesday and works at Bhopal. P goes on

Friday but works neither at Jaipur nor at Noida. The one who goes on Monday works at Udaipur. The one

who works at Jaipur goes there on Wednesday. N works at Noida. X works at Delhi and goes on Saturday.

S does not go on Monday.

6. Who among the following works at Udaipur?

a) P

b) Q

c) R

d) X

e) None of these

7. On which day does N go to market?

a) Monday

b) Tuesday

c) Wednesday

d) Thursday

e) None of these

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8. Which of the following combinations is true?

a) M – Thursday – Bhopal

b) S – Tuesday – Jaipur

c) R – Sunday – Ajmer

d) N – Friday – Noida

e) None of these

9. Who among the following goes to work on Sunday?

a) Q

b) N

c) M

d) P

e) None of these

10. The person going on Saturday works in which of the following place?

a) Jaipur

b) Bhopal

c) Delhi

d) Indore

e) None of these

I.Study the following information Carefully to answer the given questions

Eight people R,S,T, U, M, N,O and P are sitting in 2 parallel rows containing four people each. R, S, T and

U are sitting in row 1 facing north and M, N,O and P are sitting in row 2 facing south but not necessarily in

the same order. Thus each persons in row 1 faces another person sitting in row 2. Each of the two rows

consists of one Doctor, one Engineer , one Pilot and one Scientists.

The Doctor of row 1 sits second to the right of U. N faces one of the immediate neighbours of U.

Only one persons sits between N and the scientist. The one who faces the scientist of row 2 is an

immediate neighbour of R. Only one person sits between R and the Pilot.

M sits second to the right of P. O does not face T. The scientists of row 1 faces the Engineer of

row 2.T faces one of the immediate neighbours of the Doctor of row 2. The Doctor of row 2 does

not sit at any of the extreme end of the line.

1. Who among the following is Pilot of row 2 ?

1.O

2.P

3.M

4.N

5.None of these

2. Who among the following is immediate neighbours of U ?

1.T and Doctor

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2.R and Engineer

3.T and Pilot

4.S and Scientists

5.None of these

3. The doctor in row 2 faces who among the following ?

1.T

2.Doctor

3.U

4.Engineer

5.Scientists

4. Which is true with respect to the given arrangements ?

1.O sits on the immediate left of Doctor

2.Scientist sits on the immediate right of U

3.Doctor sits on the immediate right of N

4.Engineer in row 2 faces Pilot in Row 1

5.None of these

5. Which of the following pairs sit at the extreme ends of the row ?

1.N R

2.M S

3.O U

4.T S

5.None of these

II.Study the following information Carefully to answer the given questions

Eight friends – A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H – are sitting around a circular table facing the centre but not

necessarily in the same order. Each of them likes a different cricketers – Dhoni, Yuvraj, Sachin, Dravid,

Irfan, Suhaib, Ashwin and Micael.

There are two persons between those two persons who like Dhoni and Yuvraj and neither of

them sits opposite A. C and G are immediate neighbours and neither of them likes Micael or

Yuvraj.A, who likes Ashwin, sits second to the right of the girl who likes Micael. B and E neither

like Micael nor sit adjacent to A. E, who likes Yuvraj, sits second to the left of G, who likes

Dravid. C does not like Dhoni.

The immediate neighbour of E faces C, who sits third to the left of the one who likes Ashwin. F

does not like Micael. Both D and H do not like Dhoni and Sachin. B likes Suhaib while D likes

Irfan. B is not an immediate neighbour of A.

1. Who of the following is the favourite Cricketer of H?

1.Sachin

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2.Micael

3.Dhoni

4.Dravid

5.None of these

2. Sachin is the favourite Cricketer of which of the following persons?

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.D

5.None of these

3. Who among the following sits exactly between A and H?

1.F

2.D

3.E

4.B

5.None of these

4. Which of the following statements is/are true about B?

1.B likes Irfan

2.B sits immediate neighbour of one who likes Sachin

3.B sits between E and D

4.B is immediate left of G

5.None of these

5. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given arrangement

and thus form a group. Which of the following does not belong to that group?

1.A – Ashwin

2.F – Dhoni

3.E – Yuvraj

4.D – Sachin

5.H – Micael

I.Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

Eleven students U, V, W, X, Y, Z, K, L, M, N and O are sitting around a circular table facing the centre, but

not necessarily in the same order. U sits second to the right of Y who is not neighbour of K. M is the

immediate neighbour of U and V and third to the left of K. X, who is on the immediate left of Z is second

to the right of W. O is on the immediate left of X and third to the right of N.

1. Who among the following is fourth to the right of K ?

1.O

2.Z

3.U

4.L

5.None of these

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2. Who among the following sits exactly between M and L ?

1.U

2.V

3.Y

4.W

5.None of these

3. How many persons are there sits between Y and W ?

1.One

2.Two

3.None

4.Three

5.Four

4. Who among the following is third to the left of X ?

1.M

2.V

3.K

4.W

5.None of these

5. Who among the following is immediate neighbour of L ?

1.Y

2.U

3.V

4.Both Y and U

5.None of these

II.Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions

Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table faxing the centre. There are 3

males and 5 females in the group of friends. No 2 males are immediate neighbours of each other. E sits

second to the right of his wife. C sits third to the right of E. F sits second to the right of her husband H. H

is not immediate neighbour of E’s wife. D is a male and G is not immediate neighbour of E. B sits second

to the right of A.

1. Who among the following has a male sitting to the immediate left and right ?

1.A

2.B

3.G

4.H

5.None of these

2. Who among the following is E’s Wife ?

1.A

2.B

3.G

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4.C

5.None of these

3. What is the position of H with respect to G ?

1.Immediate right

2.Third to the left

3.Second to the right

4.Fourth to the left

5.None of these

4. Who among the following does not belong to that group ?

1.C

2.B

3.A

4.F

5.H

5. Who sits between F and G ?

1.A

2.E

3.H

4.D

5.None of these

Directions (Q. 1-5): Read the following information and answer the questions that follow. There are six boys – Amit,

Bhushan, Dhruv, Manoj, Harsh and Arvind. They want to go out with six girls – Neha, Shruti, Kruti, Chanchal, Sujata and

Radhika, not necessarily in the same order. The pairs went to a movie, beach, park, play and two of them went to circus.

They like different cars, viz Esteem, Matiz, Santro and Tata. But Esteem and Matiz are preferred by two pairs. Further

information is as follows: I. Amit and Manoj visit circus but do not like either Esteem or Tata.

II. Arvind can’t go out with Sujata. Both of them do not like Santro.

III. Chanchal and Kruti want to go to movie and park respectively.

IV. Dhruv goes out with Radhika to beach but does not like either Matiz or Tata.

V. Bhushan goes for a movie and likes Esteem.

VI. Harsh can’t go out either with Neha or with Shruti and he does not go to a park either in Santro or in Matiz.

1. If Amit goes out with Neha, who among the following likes Santro car?

1) Neha 2) Chanchal 3) Arvind 4) Can’t be determined 5) None of these

2. Who among the following visits park?

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1) Can’t be determined 2) Harsh 3) Bhushan 4) Arvind 5) None of these

3. Who must go to watch a play?

1) Neha 2) Shruti 3) Sujata 4) Can’t be determined 5) None of these 4. Which car does Dhruv like?

1) Esteem 2) Can’t be determined 3) Tata 4) Matiz 5) None of these

5. Which car must Kruti like?

1) Tata 2) Matiz 3) Santro 4) Can’t be determined 5) None of these

Direction: Read the following information and answer the questions that follow: (1) There are seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F and G based in Delhi. Each of them is from a different state, has a

different profession, and plays a different instrument.

(2) C, a doctor, is from Bihar. (3) E and F play mandolin and violin, though not necessarily in that order. (4) A is not from Kerala. (5) The person from Kerala is an engineer and plays guitar. (6) The lawyer plays sitar. (7) The businessman from UP plays violin. (8) The teacher and the cricketer play flute and piano, though not necessarily in that order. (9) F is a pilot. (10) The Maharashtrian is a teacher. (11) The Gujarati plays piano. (12) G, a Punjabi, does not play sarod. (13) B is a cricketer. 1. Which state does A belong to? A) Gujarat B) Kerala C) Maharashtra D) Can’t say E) None of these 2. Which instrument does B play? A) flute B) piano C) sarod D) Can’t say E) sitar 3. Which instrument does C play? A) mandolin B) sitar C) violin D) None of these E) sarod 4. What is D’s profession? A) Engineer B) Lawyer C) Teacher D) Can’t say E) Cricketer

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5. Which state does E belong to? A) Gujarat B) Kerala C) UP D) Can’t say E) none of these Directions (1-5): Study the following information and answer the given question. Eight friends−J, K, L, M, N, O, P and Q live on eight different floors of a building but not necessarily in the same

order. The lowermost floor of the building is numbered one, the one above that is numbered two and so on till the

topmost floor is numbered eight. J lives on floor numbered 4. Only one person lives between J and L. O lives on the

floor immediately below L. Only one person lives between O and P. P lives above O. O lives on floor numbered 5.

Only one person live between K and N, M lives on an even numbered floor but does not live on floor numbered

8. K lives below Q’s floor. 6. Four of the following five are alike as per the given arrangement and thus form a group. Which of the following

does not belong to that group? (A) PO (B) QL (C) MJ (D) LJ (E) MN 7. Who lives exactly between the floors on which L and J live? (A) K (B) P (C) O (D) N (E) M

8. Who amongst the following lives on floor numbered 2? (A) M (B) L (C) O (D) Q (E) P

9. Which of the following is true about M as per given arrangement? (A) M lives on the lowermost floor. (B) K lives on one of the floor below M. (C) All the given statements are true. (D) Only two people live between M and O. (E) M lives on an odd numbered floor.

10. If L and Q interchange their places and so do M and J, who amongst the following will live between the floors

on which M and P live, as per the given arrangement? (A) Only Q (B) No one (C) Only L (D) Both P and L (E) Both Q and O

Directions (Q. 1-6); Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions. A committee has nine members A, B, C, D, E. F. G, H and I and it is divided into three groups, viz Play group, Entertainment group and Food group — with three members in each group. There are certain conditions for the formation of the groups.

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Only three members will be selected in each group. One person cannot be selected for more than one group. A is in the Play group. H is in the Entertainment group. C and D are in the same group but not in the group of I. A and B are not in the same group. E is not in the same group as I but is in the Food group. F is in the group in which either H or B or both of them are present. I and H are not in the same group. F is neither with E nor with I.

1. C and D are in which of the following groups? A) Play group B) Entertainment group C) Food group D) Both Play and Food group E) Can’t be determined 2. Which of the following statements is true about G? A) G is in the Play group with H. B) G is in the Food group with A. C) G is in the Play group with C and D, D) Can’t be determined E) None of these 3. Which of the following members represents the Food group? A) ECD B) AHG C) CDI D) HBF E) None of these 4. F is associated with which of the following groups? A) Play group B) Food group C) Both Play and Food group D) Entertainment group E) Can’t be determined. 5.A can be grouped with whom among the following? A) GH B) IG C) CD D) CH E) None of these 6.Which of the following combinations is true‘? A) Play group —ABF B) Food group — ECB C) Entertainment group— HFB D) Food group — AIG E) None of these Directions (Q. 7-12 ); Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions. Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting in row - I facing South but not necessarily in the same order and each of them is working in a different company among Microsoft, Amazon, TCS, SAPIENT , HDFC and Axis. Six persons P, Q, R, S, T and U are sitting in row - II facing north but not necessarily in the same order and each of them is working in a different company among Google, Infosys, Accenture, IBM, Capital One and ICICI. Each person in one row faces exactly one person from the other row. A is third from the left end and is opposite the person who is to the immediate right of the IBM employee. The IBM employee is opposite the person who is to the immediate left of the TCS employee. The Google employee and the SAPIENT employee sit at right ends in their respective rows. C is a SAPIENT employee, and is

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adjacent to E. D sits opposite Q and to the left of A but does not sit at any extreme. B is not adjacent to D but opposite P. The ICICI employee sits neither at an end nor opposite A, but sits to the right of P. The Accenture employee is adjacent to neither the Infosys employee nor the Capital One employee. S sits at an end. R is opposite the Amazon employee but sits at neither end. T is opposite the HDFC employee and the Microsoft employee is second to the right of the Axis employee. The Capital One employee is not adjacent to P. 7.Who is sitting opposite the Microsoft employee? A) S B) P C) A D) R E) None of these. 8. In which of this are sitting in extreme ends of Row -1 A) C-F B) E-B C) C-B D) D-F E) None of these 9. What is the position of Amazon Employee with respect to F? A) Third to left B) Second to left C) opposite D) Second to right E) None of these 10. What is the Position of T with Respect to R? A) Second to Right B) Third to Right C) Third to Left D) Can’t Say E) Fourth to Right 11. Which One works in ICICI Bank? A) R B) Q C) T D) U E) P 12. What is the position of U with respect to Q? A) Immediate right B) Immediate left C) Second to the right D) Third to the left E) None of these. Direction for Q. (13- 15) Seven girls Anita, Babita, Charita, Kavita, Ruchita, Sarita and Sunita sitting in a row facing North, not necessarily in the same order. (i) Sarita sits to the left of Babita. (ii) Kavita and Sunita are not adjacent to each other. (iii) Babita sits adjacent to Kavita and Charita. (iv) Sunita sits at an end. (v) Anita sits second to the left of Ruchita and is at an end. 13. Four of the following five pairs are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the pair that does not belong to that group? A) Anita, Kavita

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B) Babita, Anita C) Kavita, Sunita D) Ruchita, Charita E) Kavita , Anita 14. Who sits second to the right of Kavita? A) Anita B) Ruchita C) Babita D) Charita E) None of these 15. Who is/are the neighbour/s of Sunita? A) Babita B) Charita C) Anita D) Ruchita E) None of these