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NABARD Development Assistant sets 50 Reasoning Ability questions for 50 marks across 2 stages, so it is worth planning your preparation around the topics below.
The puzzles and seating arrangements carry the most marks and take the most time, so the skill is choosing which set to attempt and which to leave. Clear the quick scoring topics — inequality, syllogism, coding-decoding, blood relations — first, then spend the remaining time on one or two puzzles you can actually finish.
How much Reasoning Ability is worth in each NABARD Development Assistant stage, from the official pattern.
| Stage | Questions | Marks | Time | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preliminary Examination | 20 | 20 | — | 17% |
| Main Examination | 30 | 30 | — | 20% |
Every topic in the official syllabus. The linked ones open a set of solved questions you can practise straight away.
Written to the NABARD Development Assistant pattern, with the answer key and the method behind it — a look at how the section is actually set before you drill the full topic sets.
Ranking · solved example
In a row of 29 people, A is 8th from the left end and B is 10th from the right end. How many people sit between A and B?
Solution
Positions occupied from the two ends are 8 and 10; those between them number 29 − 8 − 10 = 11.
Linear seating arrangement · solved example
Who sits exactly in the middle of the row?
Solution
In a row of seven, the middle position is the fourth seat. In the order V, S, P, T, Q, U, R, seat 4 is T.
Seating arrangement · solved example
Who sits at the extreme left end of the row?
Solution
Working through the clues fixes the row as F, D, A, E, G, B, C from left to right, so F is at the extreme left end.
Syllogism · solved example
Statements: All pens are books. All books are papers. Conclusions: I. All pens are papers. II. Some papers are pens.
Solution
All pens are books and all books are papers chain together, so all pens are papers, which validates conclusion I. Since all pens are papers, at least some papers are pens, which is the valid converse and validates conclusion II. Both follow.
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Untimed drills with the method shown after every question — the step between learning a topic and sitting it under a clock.
Analogy and classification
81 questions, instant feedback
Blood relations and direction sense
108 questions, instant feedback
Seating arrangement
93 questions, instant feedback
Coding, decoding and series
135 questions, instant feedback
Order and ranking
69 questions, instant feedback
Puzzles
99 questions, instant feedback
Syllogism and inequality
126 questions, instant feedback
Reasoning Ability shows up in every NABARD Development Assistant mock test, in the same interface, with sectional locking and negative marking.
NABARD Development Assistant: 30-question practice mock
30 questions | 30 min
NABARD Development Assistant 2026-27 cycle sets 50 Reasoning Ability questions for 50 marks, split across 20 in the Preliminary Examination and 30 in the Main Examination.
Yes. NABARD Development Assistant deducts one fourth of a mark for each wrong answer, Reasoning Ability included, so unsure guesses cost you. One fourth of the marks assigned to a question is deducted for a wrong answer.
The NABARD Development Assistant syllabus lists Puzzles and seating arrangement, Syllogism, Inequality, Blood relations and direction sense, Coding and decoding, Alphanumeric series and more. Weight your revision towards the ones you are weakest on and confirm the emphasis against the paper analysis for recent cycles.
Every Reasoning Ability question on this site is free and written to the exam pattern. Use the topic drills for instant-feedback practice, the daily quiz to keep the section warm, and the NABARD Development Assistant mock tests to sit it under a real clock with negative marking.