PUZZLE

Directions: Study the following information and answer the given questions.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G and  H are eight friends and sitting around a circular table but not necessarily in the same order. Some of them are facing inside and some of them are facing outside. A sits third to the right of H. There are two people sits between H and B. C sits second to the left of B. There are three people sits between B and E. D is second to the left of F, who is not immediate neighbour of A. Immediate neighbours of H face same direction as H. F sits third to the left of A, who faces centre. The immediate neighbours of A face opposite direction of A.

1. Who is sitting third to the right of F?
  (a) C                            (b) B                              (c) A
  (d) E                            (e) D

2. Who  is facing inside?
  (a) AD                         (b) AGH                         (c) AB
  (d) ADC                      (e) None of these

3. Who sits opposite to H?
  (a) A                            (b) D                                (c) F
  (d) E                            (e) G

4. How many people are sitting between C and B, when counted from the left of C?
  (a) Two                        (b) Three                         (c) One
  (d) Four                       (e) Five

5. Who among the following pairs is sitting exactly between D and C when counted from the right of D?
  (a) HE                          (b) CE                              (c) FH
  (d) BF                          (e) DF



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Answers:
1. (d)
2. (c)
3. (b)
4. (c)
5. (d)

NUMBER SERIES

Directions: What should come in the following number series at the place of (?)?

1.          4,     6,     16,     54,     ?

             (a) 280                                     (b) 232
             (c) 228                                     (d) 224
             (e) None of these


2.          5,     39,     272,     1631,     ?

             (a) 4892                                   (b) 6523
             (c) 8154                                   (d) 9785
             (e) None of these


3.          768,     192,     48,     12,     ?

              (a) 2                                         (b) 3
              (c) 4                                         (d) 1/3
              (e) None of these


4.          12,     16,     32,     68,     ?

              (a) 84                                     (b) 168
              (c) 104                                   (d) 128
              (e) 132

5.          7,     15,     32,     67,     ?

             (a) 138                                    (b) 198
             (c) 137                                    (d) 264
             (e) None of these


6.          748,     737,     715,     682,     638,     ?

             (a) 583                                 (b) 594
             (c) 572                                 (d) 563
             (e) None of these

7.          121,     117,     108,     92,     67,     ?

             (a) 29                                   (b) 37
             (c) 41                                   (d) 32
             (e) None of these

8.          50,     26,     14,     ?,     5,     3.5

             (a) 6                                    (b) 8
             (c) 10                                  (d) 12
             (e) None of these

9.          36,     20,     ?,     8,     6,     5

             (a) 10                                   (b) 12
             (c) 14                                   (d) 16     
             (e) None of these

10.          668,     656,     632,     584,     ?,     296

             (a) 392                                 (b) 432
             (c) 488                                 (d) 536
             (e) None of these

  




Answers:
1. (d)
2. (c)
3. (b)
4. (e)
5. (a)
6. (a)
7. (e)
8. (b)
9. (b)
10. (c)

REASONING ABILITY

Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions.
Seven friends M, N, O, P, Q, R and S have an essay competition on 7 different days of the same week namely, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Each friend also studies in a different standard namely 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th but not necessarily in the same order.
 The one who studies in 1st standard has a competition on Saturday. S studies in 2nd standard and has a competition on Wednesday. N has a competition immediately before Q. N does not have a competition on any of the days after S. The one who studies in the 7th standard does not have a competition on any of the days on or before Friday. The one who studies in 3rd standard has a competition immediately after O. Q does not study in 5th standard. The one who studies in the 6th standard does not have a competition immediately before or after S. R does not have a competition on Sunday and does not study in 3rd standard. P does not have competition on any of the days before M.

Questions:
1. Which of the following standards does R study in?
  (a) 7th                                   (b) 5th                                       (c) 1st
  (d) 2nd                                  (e) 4th

2. Four of the following five form a group as per the given arrangement. Which of the following does not belong to that group?
  (a) O- Tuesday                                      (b) M- Wednesday
  (c) P- Saturday                                      (d) S- Monday
  (e) R- Thursday

3. Based on the given arrangement, which of the following statements is true?
  (a) M has a competition on Saturday
  (b) Q studies in 6th standard
  (c) All the given statements are true
  (d) Only 2 people have their competition between S and P
  (e) R has a competition immediately after M

4.Which of the following combination is definitely correct?
  (a) R- Friday - 1st
  (b) O- Tuesday - 4th
  (c) M- Thursday - 3rd
  (d) Q- Saturday - 5th
  (e) P- Sunday - 7th


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Answers:
1. (c)
2. (c)
3. (e)
4. (e)

SBI PO Prelims Exam Pattren

The SBI PO notification has been released on 21st April 2018. The SBI PO recruitment process is carried out in 3 stages: preliminary, Mains and the final stage is the Personal interview. The candidates are required to qualify in all the stages, however, prelims exam is just to qualify for SBI PO, the score of Mains, as well as performance in GD/Personal interview, will be taken into consideration for the final selection. The preliminary exam is conducted online and is scheduled on 1st, 7th and 8th July 2018.

1. Online Preliminary Examination (Objective Test). 
2. Online Mains Examination (Objective Test).

3. Phase III: Personal Interview Round

Preliminary Examination is the 1st stage of SBI PO recruitment process. This consisting of Objective Test for 100 marks will be conducted online. The test will have 3 Sections (with separate timings of 20 minutes for each section)

Section	No. of Questions	Marks	Duration
English Language	30	30	20 minutes
Quantitative Aptitude	35	35	20 minutes
Reasoning Ability	35	35	20 minutes
TOTAL	100	100	1 Hour

NOUN

Noun
Nouns are words used to refer to people, places, things, and ideas. As a grammatical, class nouns satisfy most or all of the following tests:

• number: they have a singular and plural form

               one car, two cars                        one child, several children

•  determiners: they can be preceded by a, an, or the.

             a child                  an apple                      the cars

• modifiers: they can be modified by an adjective placed before them.

             a young child                    a ripe apple                   the new car

• phrases: they can form the headword of a noun phrase.

          a ripe red apple ready to eat                  the new cars on the forecourt



(Headword/Head:- The head or headword of a phrase is the word on which the phrase is built up)

NUMBER SERIES

Directions: Which of the options given should replace the question mark in the following questions.

1.          380     188     92     20     8     ?

             

             (a) 3                                          (b) 2

             (c) 1                                          (d) 4

2.          8     15     27     44     66     ?

             

              (a) 93                                     (b) 94

              (c) 95                                     (d) 103

3.          10     19     31     46     64     ?

              (a) 82                                      (b) 92

              (c) 102                                    (d) 85

4.          2     10     60     420     3360     ?

              (a) 30240                                 (b) 20160

              (c) 20250                                 (d) 30340

5.          2     7     24     77     ?

              (a) 238                                      (b) 138

              (c) 338                                      (d) 438

6.          20     19     17     ?     10     5

             (a) 12                                         (b) 13

             (c) 14                                         (d) 15

7.           1     6     13     22     33     ?

              (a) 44                                          (b) 45

              (c) 46                                          (d) 47

8.          28     33     31     36     34     ?

             (a) 36                                            (b) 37

             (c) 38                                            (d) 39

 9.          3     8     19     42     89     ?

             (a) 182                                          (b) 184

             (c) 183                                          (d) 185

10.          4     8     14     22     32     44     ?

              (a) 54                                             (b) 55

              (c) 58                                             (d) 57

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 Answers:

1. (b)                                     2. (a)

2. (d)                                     3. (a)

5. (a)                                     6. (c)

7. (c)                                     8. (d)

9. (b)                                    10. (c)

CIRCULAR SEATING ARRANGEMENT

Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions below.Eight people A, B, C, D, W. X, Y and Z are sitting in a circle facing the centre. All 8 people are from the different place i.e. Okhla, Dwarka, Lajpat Nagar, Chanakyapuri, Saket, Mehrauli, Rohini and Karol Bagh but not necessarily in the same order.

• W is sitting 3rd to the left of Y.
• The person who is from Dwarka is to the immediate right of W and W is not from Okhla.
• B is sitting 4th to the right of Z.
• Z is not the neighbour of Y.
• Neither B nor Z is an immediate neighbour of W.
• X is from Chanakyapuri and is sitting 3rd to the right of the person from Dwarka.
• The person from Mehrauli is sitting 2nd to the left of the person from Chanakyapuri.
• The person from Rohini is sitting 2nd to the left of W.
• A, who is from Lajpat Nagar is sitting exactly between X and Z.
• The person from Saket is sitting 2nd to the right of the person from Lajpat Nagar. 
• C is sitting 3rd to the left of X.

Questions:
1. Who amongst the following persons belongs to Okhla?
  (a) Y                     (b) D                       (c) C                        (d) B                       (e) None of these

2.What is A's position with respect to B?
  (a) Third to the right                                              (b) Second to the right
  (c) Third to the left                                                 (d) Second to the left
  (e) Fourth to the right

3. How many people are sitting between Z and C when counted anticlockwise direction from C?
  (a) 1                       (b) 2                       (c) 3                   (d) 4                       (e) None

4. Four of the following 5 pairs are alike in a certain way based on their positions in the above arrangement and so from a group. Which of the following does not belong to that group?
  (a) B- Rohini                                           (b) Z- Mehrauli
  (c) D- Okhla                                            (d) Y- Saket
  (e) X- Dwarka

5. Which of the following statement is false according to the above-mentioned arrangement?
  (a) C is to the immediate right of the Karol Bagh
  (b) The person from Lajpat Nagar is 3rd to the right of the person from Mehrauli
  (c) The person from Dwarka is sitting exactly between the Karol Bagh and the Saket
  (d) D is neither from Chanakyapuri nor from Karol Bagh
  (e) There are only 3 people between A and C.




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Answers:
1. (a)
2. (a)
3. (d)
4. (e)
5. (c)


                                                                                         Year: IBPS PO PRE 2016