Reasoning Quiz

Directions (1-5): These questions are based on the following information.

Six friends met for dinner, and their names are Shruti, Yukt, Kanika, Paras, Ayush, and Rekha. They are working with 6 different designations. These designations are IT, Sales Agent, Specialist Officer, Analyst, Engineer, and Teacher. They took dinner at a round table. Their arrangement is in following manner-

1. Yukt is in front of Sales Agent. Teacher is second right of Ayush.

2. Kanika is opposite to Shruti, who is immediate left of Specialist Officer.

3. Paras is not a Specialist Officer, but opposite of Analyst.

4. Ayush is immediately right of Engineer and Sales Agent is immediately left of Shruti.

5. IT is between Engineer and Sales Agent.


1. Who is in front of Teacher? 
(a) Shruti
(b) Yukt
(c) Rekha
(d) Kanika
(5) None of these

2. Who is the second right of Analyst?
(a) Specialist Officer
(b) Sales Agent
(c) IT
(d) Engineer
(5) None of these

3. Who is the Specialist Officer?
(a) Rekha
(b) Ayush
(c) Paras
(d) Shruti
(5) None of these

4. What is the sitting position of Yukt?
(a) 2nd left of Shruti
(b) 3rd right of Ayush
(c) diagonally opposite of IT
(d) 2nd right of Shruti
(5) None of these

5. Who among the following is the Engineer?
(1) Rekha
(2) Kanika
(3) Shruti
(4) Paras
(5) Cannot be determined

Directions (6-8): Study the following arrangement of numbers, letters and symbols carefully and answer the questions given below:

P   A   5   $   7   6   S   T   X   !   Y   2   #   3   H   K   *   @   G   4   M   C   1   =   ? 

6. Which of these should come in place of question mark in the following question?

7$6          XT!     #23     @? G       CM1 

(1) K
(2) *
(3) M
(4) #
(5) none of these

7. How many such symbols are there in the series which are immediately followed by a number and preceded by an alphabet?
(1) none
(2) one
(3) two
(4) three
(5) four

8. How many letter and symbol combination are there?
(1) None
(2) one
(3) Two
(4) three
(5) four

9. In a certain code MORNING is written as SPNMFMH. How is SOULFUL written in that code? 
(1) VPTKKTE
(2) VPTKETK
(3) TPVKKTE
(4) TNRKMVG
(5) None of these

10. The positions of how many digits in the number 59164823 will remain unchanged after the digits are rearranged in descending order within the number? 
(1) None 
(2) One
(3) Two
(4) Three
(5) More than three



Solutions (1-5):

1. (4)
2. (3)
3. (1)
4. (4)
5. (2)
Solutions (6-8):
6. (2)
7. (1)
8. (3)
9. (1)

10. (3)
5  9  1  6  4  8  2  3
9  8  6  5  4  3  2  1
So position of only 4 and 2 will remain unchanged.