Tricky Logical Reasoning Questions Answers: Reasoning questions are often asked in the exams of UP Police SI Constable, Bihar Police, Rajasthan LDC, UP Lekhpal, SSC GD, SSC MTS, CHSL, CGL, Bank Clerk, PO and most other types of government jobs. The specialty of Reasoning topics is that the more new and tricky the question is, the more your interest will increase in solving it.

In such a situation, we have brought for you 25 questions from topics like coding-decoding, dice, seating arrangement, blood relation, direction and distance, ranking. These have also been asked in previous examinations. Which you can try and solve for the upcoming government job paper.

1. Just as fish is related to water, similarly bird is related to what? (Delhi Police Constable 2014)

(a) water

(b) food

(c) sky

(d) air

2. Optimistic: Happy :: Pessimistic: ? (SSC CGL 2014)

(a) negligible (insignificant)

(b) selfish

(c) sad

(d) inferior

3. MIKE : OGMC :: CIAD : ? (SSC CGL 2015)

(a) AJCT

(b) EGCB

(c) ENCF

(d) EICB

4. 64: 513:: 144: ? (Revenue Inspector 2014)

(a) 1727

(b) 1729

(c) 1728

(d) 1730

5. Choose odd? (RRB Non-Tech 2016)

(a) Lakshadweep

(b) Puducherry

(c) Nicobar

(d) Andaman

6. Tell different? (SSC CPO 2015)

(a) bbb fff jjj

(b) mmm qqq ttt

(c) kkk ooo sss

(d) ccc ggg kkk

7. If every third letter from the left of the English alphabet is deleted, then what will be the 9th letter from the left in the new series?

(a) M

(b) L

(c) N

(d) O

8. How many such word pairs are there in the word APPLICATION (in the forward direction) which have as many letters between them as there are between them in the alphabet? (SBI Clerk 2016)

(a) one

(b) two

(c) three

(d) four

(e) none of these

9. How many meaningful words can be formed from letters (UTB) using each letter only once in each word? (UBI Clerk 2011)

(a) none

(b) one

(c) two

(d) three

(e) more than three

10. Which of the four options given below represents a meaningful sequence of the four words given below? (SSC Multitasking Staff 2014)

(i) Farmer

(ii) seeds

(iii) food

(iv) Cultivation (plowing)

(a) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i) (b) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)

(c) (iii) (i) (iv) (ii) (d) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)

11. In a certain code language, TORCH is written as IDSNS and PISTA is written as BUTHO. How will BLINK be coded in that code language? (UCO Bank Clerk 2011)

(a) LOJKA

(b) LKJOA

(c) AOJKL

(d) LOKJA

(e) AKJOL

12. If ‘police’ is called ‘teacher’, ‘teacher’ is called ‘politician’, ‘politician’ is called ‘doctor’, ‘doctor’ is called ‘lawyer’ and ‘lawyer’ is called ‘surgeon’, then who will catch the criminals? (SSC (10+2) 2012)

(a) police

(b) lawyer

(c) teacher

(d) doctor

13. If in a code language 125= Go to school, 146= study in school, 135= Run to School then which code will be used for run?

(a) 6

(b) 2

(c) 3

(d) 1

Answer-

14. Arun ranks 17th in a class of 31 students. What is its place in the end? (SSC Constable 2012)

(a) 14

(b) 15

(c) 16

(d) 17

15. ‘Suma’ is shorter than Uma, ‘Neha’ is taller than Suma, ‘Sudha’ is taller than Uma but shorter than Hema. ‘Uma’ is taller than Neha. Who is the tallest among them? (Postal Assistant 2013)

(a) Uma

(b) Sudha

(c) Neha

(d) Hema

Answer-

16. A man walks 6 km towards south, turns left and walks 4 km, then turns left and walks 5 km. In which direction is he facing now? (SSC Multitasking Staff 2014)

(a) South

(b) Answer

(c) East

(d) West

17. Mr. Kumar’s grandfather has one son and no daughter. Mr. Kumar’s daughter has two aunts and three uncles. Hence, what will be the number of granddaughters and grandsons of Mr. Kumar’s grandfather? (MPPSC 2016)

(a) 2,3

(b) 2,4

(c) 3,3

(d) 4,2

18. While introducing a woman, a man said, ‘Her mother is the only daughter of my mother-in-law.’ (UPPSC 2016)

(a) son

(b) brother

(c) uncle

(d) father

19. Last year my age was in perfect square number. Next year it will be in cubic numbers. Tell me my present age in years? (Delhi Police Constable 2014)

(a) 26

(b) 24

(c) 25

(d) 27

20. A,B,C,D,E and F are sitting in a row and E and F are sitting in the middle of the row and A and B are sitting at either end of the row. C is sitting to the left of A, then who is sitting to the right of B? (SSC Multitasking 2014)

(a) A

(b) D

(c) E

(d) F

21. How many such 7s are there in the number sequence given below, which are not immediately preceded by 4 but immediately followed by 2? (Delhi Police Constable 2009)

3 4 7 2 8 7 2 9 4 7 1 3 5 7 2 9 9 7 7 2 5 1 4 7 2 3

(a) one

(b) two

(c) three

(d) four

22. When a die is thrown four times, the following results occur each time. Which of the following numbers will appear opposite to 3 in the dice? (MPPSC Pre 2017)

(a) 1

(b) 4

(c) 5

(d) 6

23. 1,9, 25, 49, ?, 121 (Delhi Police Constable 2008)

(a) 81

(b) 91

(c) 64

(d) 100

24. In any month of 31 days, Thursday falls on the 16th. Which will be the last day of that month? (CGPSC Pre 2013)

(a) Fifth Friday

(b) Fourth Saturday

(c) Fifth Wednesday

(d) Fifth Thursday

(e) none of these

25. If P denotes ‘÷’, Q denotes ‘X’, R denotes ‘+’ and S denotes ‘-‘, then 16Q12P6R5S4=? (SSC (10+2) 2015)

(a) 31

(b) 32

(c) 33

(d) 30

These reasoning questions have been taken from central and state level competitive examinations. If your score is good in these, it means that your practice is good. If you have difficulty in solving any question then work more on that topic now.

1. What is Reasoning and why is it important?

   Reasoning is a subject in which complex and circuitous questions are asked to know the thinking and understanding ability of a person. The questions related to this do not have to be memorized, rather the correct answer is reached using patterns, rules and logic by applying the mind.

2. How many types of reasoning are there?

   Reasoning is mainly of two types. Verbal Reasoning and Non-Verbal Reasoning. In Verbal Reasoning, questions come from topics like coding-decoding, statements and conclusions, blood relations, analogy, classification, number series. Whereas in non-verbal reasoning, questions come on pictures, shapes and patterns. Like mirror image, water image, figure image, paper folding etc.

3. What are the most important topics of reasoning?

   The most important topics of reasoning are considered to be those topics from which there are maximum chances of asking questions in competitive exams. In this, topics like direction knowledge, blood relations, calendar, sitting arrangement, coding-decoding, statement-conclusion, number series, analogy, seating arrangements are considered more important.

4. How to increase the speed of solving reasoning?

   To solve reasoning questions, the most important thing is how much you practice it. You should know about all the subjects in detail. One should also know how to use tricks to solve all the problems. If you work on all these, then gradually with practice your reasoning speed can increase.

5. Is it necessary to have knowledge of mathematics for reasoning?

   No, for Reasoning subject it is not necessary that your Maths be very good. There is more need to understand logic and patterns in this. However, there are some topics in reasoning, where some of your mathematics knowledge is tested. It includes questions on subjects like counting, serial number, age, clock and calendar, direction.

6. How to handle the toughest reasoning questions?

   Questions also come from some difficult topics in Reasoning. If you are weak in this, then you need to pay more attention to these subjects. You can increase speed in this by practice.