Analytical Reasoning Questions with Solutions
Analytical reasoning questions give a set of conditions about people, objects or events and ask you to deduce facts from them. They include puzzles on scheduling (who does what on which day), distribution (who owns which item), floor-based puzzles, comparisons, and grouping or selection problems where certain people must or cannot be chosen together. The key is organising the information. Draw a table or grid with the categories as rows and columns, and fill in the definite clues first. Then use the conditional clues to eliminate possibilities, marking crosses for what is impossible and ticks for what is certain. When a clue leaves two possibilities, write both cases and test each against the remaining clues. Usually one case leads to a contradiction. Most puzzles have four or five questions, so time spent setting up a clear grid pays off. Practise the analytical reasoning puzzles below. Each solution shows the grid built step by step.
- Q1.
How many activities are subscribed to by exactly two people each?
A. 3B. 1C. 2D. 4hardAsked in NIMCET 2023View solution › - Q2.
Four passengers in a train find that they form an interesting group. Two of them are lawyers and the other two are doctors. Two of them speak Bengali and the other two speak Hindi and no two of the same profession speak the same language. They also found that two of them are Christians and two are Muslims and no two of the same religion speak the same language. The Hindi speaking doctor is a Christian. Then which of the following statements logically follows?
A. The Bengali speaking lawyer is a MuslimB. The Christian lawyer speaks BengaliC. The Bengali speaking doctor is a ChristianD. The Bengali speaking doctor is a MuslimhardAsked in NIMCET 2017View solution › - Q3.
A team must be selected from ten probables – A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J. Of these, A, C, E and J are forwards, B, G and H are point guards and D, F and I are defenders. The team must have at least one forward, one point guard and one defender. If the team includes J, it must also include F. The team must include E or B, but not both. If the team includes G, it must also include F. The team must include exactly one among C, G and I. C and F cannot be members of the same team. D and H cannot be members of the same team. The team must include both A and D or neither of them. There is no restriction on the number of members in the team. What could be the maximum size of the team that includes G?
A. 4B. 5C. 6D. More than 6hardAsked in NIMCET 2019View solution › - Q4.
Each family in a locality has at most two adults, and no family has fewer than 3 children. Considering all the families together, there are more adults than boys, more boys than girls, and more girls than families. Then the minimum possible number of families in the locality is
A. 4B. 3C. 2D. 5hardAsked in NIMCET 2019View solution › - Q5.
What is the profession of F?
A. TeacherB. Data InadequateC. EngineerD. DoctorhardAsked in NIMCET 2025View solution ›