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Hard-only sprint: Reasoning Ability (25 questions)

A difficult-only Reasoning drill: 25 original hard questions on one 30-minute clock, spanning puzzles, seating, syllogism and inequality, coding and direction sense, each with a worked solution.

Before you start

  • One clock of 30 minutes for 25 hard questions — this is a difficulty-only drill, not the real exam ratio.
  • Every question carries one mark and one fourth of a mark is deducted for a wrong answer. Unanswered questions carry no penalty.
  • All questions are original and modelled on the exam pattern; read the worked solution after each attempt.

Sections in this test

SectionQuestions
Reasoning AbilityReasoning Ability25

Sample questions with worked solutions

A few questions from this test, with the answer key and the method behind it. The full set of 25 runs under a timer, and every solution is on the analysis screen once you submit.

Reasoning Ability · solved example

7 people — P, Q, R, S, T, U, V — sit around a circular table facing the centre. "To the right" means the next seat in the clockwise direction. T sits 5th to the right of P (clockwise). T sits 4th to the right of Q (clockwise). U sits 3rd to the right of P (clockwise). S sits 5th to the right of Q (clockwise). R sits immediately to the right of U (clockwise).

Who sits 5th to the right (clockwise) of U?

  • S
  • QCorrect
  • P
  • T
  • W

Solution

The clockwise order is Q, V, U, R, T, S, P (and repeating), so the person 5th to the right of U is Q.

Reasoning Ability · solved example

3 : 9 :: 5 : ?

  • 9
  • 37
  • 41
  • 25Correct
  • 13

Solution

The rule is: each is the square of the first. Applying it to 5 gives 25.

Reasoning Ability · solved example

4 : 16 :: 11 : ?

  • 111
  • 106
  • 136
  • 121Correct
  • 131

Solution

The rule is: each is the square of the first. Applying it to 11 gives 121.

Reasoning Ability · solved example

Statements: All books are papers. Some papers are files. Conclusions: I. Some books are files. II. Some files are books. Which conclusion(s) follow?

  • Only I follows
  • Only II follows
  • Both I and II follow
  • Neither I nor II followsCorrect
  • Either I or II follows

Solution

The papers that are files need not overlap with books, so neither conclusion is guaranteed.

Reasoning Ability · solved example

7 people — P, Q, R, S, T, U, V — sit in a row facing north. V sits 1st from the right end. 4 people sit between R and V. R sits immediately to the right of U. Q sits immediately to the right of R. 3 people sit between R and T. T sits immediately to the right of S.

Who sits immediately to the right of S?

  • P
  • TCorrect
  • V
  • Q
  • W

Solution

The order is U, R, Q, P, S, T, V from the left, so the person immediately to the right of S is T.

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How this test is marked

Correct answer

+1

Wrong answer

-0.25

Unanswered

0

Because a blank carries no penalty, guessing only pays when you can eliminate at least two options. The analysis screen after the test shows you exactly where guessing cost you marks.