MENTAL ABILITY AND APTITUDE TEST

QUESTION AND ANSWERS 2013

(1) Supervisor
(3) Organisation
(5) Customer

(2) Employee
(4) Union

2. Find the odd one out of the following options

(1) Aunt
(2) Child
(3) Father
(4) Niece
(5) Relation

is Ram related to Mahesh?

(1) Brother
(2) Brother-in-law
(3) Father-in-law
(4) Data not sufficient
(5) None of these

(1) spoon
(3) glass
(5) none of these

(2) jug
(4) saucer

(1) 33
(3) 37
(5) None of these

(2) 40
(4) 73

6. In a certain code COIMB

(1) JOENQF
(3) JOEPSF
(5) None of these
7. Geeta is eld
youngest of t
(1) Seet
(3) Gaya
(5) None

DPJNCBUPSF. How is INDORE written in that code?

t to Deepa. Gayatri is younger than Deepa. No one is elder to Fatima. Who is

(2) Geeta
(4) Data not sufficient

8. R
ng to the immediate left of Harry but not next to Kamal. Mahesh is sitting to the right of Kamal. If the
four
sitting in a circle who is sitting to the immediate right of Harry?
(1) Mahesh
(2) Kamal
(3) Raman
(4) Harry
(5) Cannot be determined
and
without repeating any letter?
(1) Three
(2) One
(3) Two
(4) None
(5) None of these

10. Citizens of which one of he following age-groups (in years) are covered under the New Pension System (NPS) ?
(1) 18 50
(2) 21 55
(3) 25 55
(4) 18 60
(5) None of these
Directions (11-15): Answer question 11 to 15 based on the following sequence:
A $ B # 9 G 3D K M ? C Q 2 X 7 P 5 U 8 I 4 Y ? J
11. How many elements in the above arrangement are both immediately preceded and immediate
number?
(1) One
(2) Two
(3) Three
(4) Five
(5) None of these
12. Which of the following will be the fifteenth element from the left end if all the nu
order from left to right, keeping the position of the other elements in arrangem
(1) 5
(2) 4
(3) 7
(4) 8
(5) None of these
13. How many letters in the above arrangement are immedia
(1) Two
(2) Five
(3) Four
(4) Three
(5) None of these
14. Which of the following will be eigh
(1) #
(2) 7
(3) U
(4) 9
(5) None of these
15. Four of the
a group. Which
(1) G$M
(2) K9Q
(3) ?D7
(4) 2MU
(5) P

(1) in
(2) pe
(3) se
(4) Data not sufficient
(5) None of these

(1) Sister
(2) Cousin

arranged in descending
?

by a symbol?

e twelfth from the left end of the arrangement?

n a certain way based on their position in the above arrangement and so form
oes not belong to that group?

(3) Aunt
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these
18. If the letters of the word OBSERVANT are interchanged, such that the first becomes ninth, second becomes
eighth, and so on, and the position of the fifth letter remains unchanged then what will be the new arrangement of
letters?
(1) TNAVERSBO
(2) TNVARESBO
(3) NTAVERSBO
(4) VANTRESBO
(5) None of these
19. If 1 is coded as ?, 5 is coded as %, 6 is coded as , 3 is coded as +, 7 is coded as # and 4
be the correct form of the number 435671?
(1) ? + % # ?
(2) ? + % ? #
(3) ? + % # ?
(4) ? # % + ?
(5) None of these

at will

20. Which of the following have the same relationship as BREAD:DB

(1) SWORN: NSOWR
(2) FUNDS: FSDUN
(3) GLAZE : EGZAL
(4) LOWER: RLEWO
(5) None of these
Directions (21-25): Read the following information an
Six executive Aman, Bindu, Deepa, Jitu, Kamal and P
computers and chocolates on 3 different channe
visit only one channel and advertise only on
(i) Bindu and Jitu both visit the same channe
(iii) Kamal does not advertise chocola
(iv) No girl advertises soap.
(v) The two executives who adve

en questions:
a e to advertise four products i.e. soap, watches,
me and Fun either alone or in pairs. An executive can
more than two executives can advertise on a channel.
different products.

s visit Spice

21. Who advertises watche

(1) Deepa
(2) Kamal
(3) Aman
(4) Priyanka
(5) None of th
22. Whic
(1) G
(2) C
(3) G
(4) C
(5) C

wing Channel-product pairs in definitely incorrect?

23. Which channel does Kamal visit?

(1) Go
(2) Fun
(3) Come
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these
24. If Bipasha advertises computers which of the following must be true?
(1) Jitu advertises soap
(2) Jitu advertises watches

(3) Kamal advertises computers

(4) Kamal works for Fun
(5) None of these
25. What will Jitu advertise?
(1) Chocolates
(2) Watches
(3) Computers or watches
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these
26. Swaroop and Simple want to attend a seminar together between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday. S
till after her lunch break which begins at 1.30 p.m. Swaroop is free after her meeting which ends a
many hours can the two of them attend the seminar?
(1) 3 hours
(2) 2 hours
(3) 4 hours
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these
27. How many pairs of letters are there in the word ANSWER each of whic
word as there are in the English language?
(1) One
(2) Two
(3) Four
(4) Three
(5) None of these

ave
w

rs between them in the

28. Find the odd one out

(1) 2
(2) 7
(3) 11
(4) 13
(5) 9
29. If all the letters in the word M
preceding them in the English alp
(1) BDHEKLQT
(2) BDEHKLQT
(3) BDEHLKQT
(4) BDEJMLQT
(5) None of the

earranged in alphabetical order and substituted by the alphabet

be the new arrangement of letters?

30. Out of 38
housing society 5 subscribe to Hindi news-papers alone, 12 subscribe to both Hindi and
Marathi
the number of Maranthi news-paper subscribers.
(1) 9
(2) 2
(3) 1
(4) C
etermined
(5) N
se
Directions (31-35): Below are given letters and their numeric codes. Below that are given some conditions to be
followed while codifying the given letter groups in each question. Study them and find out the correct numeric coded

Numeric Codes 2 5 3 7 1 8 4 6 9
Conditions:
(i) If the first and last letters are vowels both are to be coded as ?.
(ii) If the second letter is a vowel and the third letter is a consonant a single code is to be used and both are to be

coded jointly as %.
(iii) If the first letter is a consonant and the last letter is a vowel both are to be coded as?
31. ENIMY
(1) 1%28
(3) 17328
(5) None of these

(2) ?732?
(4) ?7328

32. GENIR
(1) ?173?
(3) 6%79
(5) None of these

(2) 6%39
(4) 61739

33. QUERI
(1) 5%93
(3) ?4139
(5) None of these

(2) ?413?
(4) ?419?

34. EINUM
(1) 1%72
(3) 1374?
(5) None of these

(2) 0%42
(4) 1%43

35. UNGRE
(1) ?769 ?
(3) 47691
(5) None of these

(2) 4769 ?
(4) ?7691

Directions (36-40): In each question below are two st

have to take the two given statements to be true
then decide which of the given conclusions logic
facts.
Give answer (1) if only conclusion I follows
Give answer (2) if only conclusion II f
Give answer (3) if either conclusion I
Give answer (4) if neither conclus
ows.
Give answer (5) if both con
36. Statements: Som
Conclusions:
I. Some ink are
II. All ink are le
37. State
Conclus
I. So
II. N

d by two conclusions numbered I and II. You

eem to be at variance from commonly known facts and
from the two statements disregarding commonly known

ead are ink

ens are refrigerator. Some refrigerators are ACs.

ens.

38. S
All planes are birds. All birds are clouds.
Conclusions:
I. Some planes are clouds.
II. Some clouds are birds.
39. Statements: Some sweets are salt. No salt in spice.
Conclusions:
I.. Some sweets are spice.
II. No spice is salt.

40. Statements: Some papers are plastics. All papers are clothes.
Conclusions:
I. Some plastics are clothes.
II. Some plastics are papers.
Directions (41-45): Each of the following questions below consists a question and two statements numbered I and II
given below it. You have to decide if the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Read
both statements and:
Give answer (1) if the data in statements I alone is sufficient to answer the question while the data in statement II is
not sufficient to answer the question.
Give answer (2) if the data in statement II alone is sufficient to answer the question, while the data
alone is not sufficient to answer the question.
Give answer (3) if the data either in statement I alone or in statement II alone is sufficient to answe
Give answer (4) if the data in both the statements I and II are not sufficient to answer the ques
Give answer (5) if the data in both the statements I and II together are necessary to answer th

42. Who is the oldest among L, M, N, O,P?

I. P is older than M and N but not O.
II. L is older than O.
birthday?
I. Rahul and Shivani are twins.
II. Rahul was born on the last day of February in a leap year
44. What is the strength of the class?
I. Shekhar stood 28 ranks below the top ranker and M
II. Jayesh was 9 ranks below Ramesh who stoo

ho stood 5 ranks below him stood last.

top.

45. How far does Shruti live from the school

II. Gitanjali lives exactly opposite the
Directions (46-50): The fo
972 526 487 359 251
46. If the positions of
arranged in asc
(1) 359
(2) 972
(3) 526
(4) 487
(5) 2

2 kms. to
a e based on the five three digit numbers given below:

nd digits are interchanged which of the following will be third if they are

47. I
to the sum of the digits of each of the above numbers how many will be multiples of 5?
(1) N
(2) One
(3) Two
(4) Three
(5) None of these
48. If 1 is subtracted from the last digit of each of the above numbers the sum of the digits of how many of them are
prime numbers?
(1) None
(2) Two
(3) One

(4) Three
(5) All five
49. If the digits in each of the above numbers are written in reverse order which will be the second highest number?
(1) 251
(2) 359
(3) 487
(4) 526
(5) 972
50. If the positions of the digits of each of the numbers are interchanged such that the first become
becomes third and third becomes firs, which, of the following will be the highest?
(1) 972
(2) 526
(3) 487
(4) 251
(5) 359

Answer Key
1. (3) 2. (5) 3. (2) 4. (2) 5. (2)
6. (3) 7. (4) 8. (2) 9. (1) 10. (4)
11. (4) 12. (3) 13. (2) 14. (1) 15. (5)
16. (4) 17. (2) 18. (5) 19. (1) 20. (5)
21. (3) 22. (4) 23. (1) 24. (2) 25. (3)
26. (1) 27. (2) 28. (5) 29. (2) 30. (5)
31. (3) 32. (2) 33. (4) 34. (5) 35. (1)
36. (1) 37. (3) 38. (5) 39. (2) 40. (5)
41. (4) 42. (5) 43. (2) 44. (1) 45. (3)
46. (1) 47. (4) 48. (3) 49. (3) 50. (5)

Mental Abilit

stions and Answers

ond

Qu e st i o n 1 .
Which of t he follow ing is least like t he ot hers?
A.
B.
C.
D.

cube
sphere
py ram id
circle

A n w se r :
D ( because t he circle is t he only tw o- dim ensional figure)
Qu e st i o n 2 .
Consider a language w hich uses t he follow ing set of charact e
Sm all set : { a b c }
Large set : { A B C }
Punct uat ion set : { x y }
This language m ust follow t he follow ing ru
1. A punct uat ion charact er m us
2. A series can hav e up t o but n
charact ers.
Does t he following series f

ies.
n 4

charact ers,including punct uat ion

e rules of t he language defined above?

axBy
A.
B.

Yes
No

An sw e
A (t
Qu e

s only four charact ers and ends in a punct uat ion character)

Consider t he following flow chart for a custom er:

The person in No.1 is:

A. Married, w it h children
B. Married, w it h at least one son
C. Unm arried, w it h at least one daught er
D. Unm ar ried, w it h at least one son
E. Unm arried, w it h no children

An sw er :
D ( m arried: no; children: yes; m ale c
Qu e st i o n 4 .
Susan can t ype 10 pages in 5
t oget her, h ow m any page

y can t ype 5 pages in 10 m inut es. Work ing

ype in 30 m inut es?

A. 15
B. 20
C. 25
D. 65
E. 75

An s
E (3
t yp

6 10= 60; Susan w ill t y pe 60 pages in 30 m in. 30/ 10= 3; 5* 3= 15; Mary w ill
es in 30 m in. 60+ 15= 75)

Qu e st i o n 5 .
Consider t he following series:
3, 4, 6, 9, 13, ____ What com es next ?

A. 15
B. 16
C. 17
D. 18
E. 19
An sw er :
D ( 3+ 1= 4; 4+ 2= 6; 6+ 3= 9; 9+ 4= 13; 13+ 5= 1 8)

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