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Logical Reasoning Quiz for MBA entrance exams

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This quiz consists of questions from
various past papers of MBA entrance exams. Leave your answers/ responses in the
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Direction for questions 1-2: Each of the questions
below starts with a few statements, followed by four conclusions numbered 1, 2,
3 and 4. You have to consider every given statement as true, even if it does
not confirm to the accepted facts. Read the conclusions carefully and then
decide which of the conclusion(s) logically follow(s) from the given
statements, disregarding commonly known facts.

1. Statements:

a. Some boys are scholars

b. Some teachers are boys

c. All scholars are observers

Conclusions:

1. Some scholars are boys

2. Some scholars are not boys

3. Some observers are boys

4. Some teachers are scholars

Answer:

A. 1, and 3 follow

B. 1, 3 and 4 follow

C. Either 1 or 2 and 3 follow

D. None of the above

2. Statements:

a. All teachers are
professors

b. All professors are
researchers

c. All researchers are
consultants

Conclusions:

1. Some consultants are
teachers

2. All professors are
consultants

3. Some researchers are
teachers

4. All professors are
teachers

Answer:

A. Only 1 and 2 follow

B. Only 1 and 3 follow

C. Either 1 or 4 follow

D. None of the above

Directions for questions 3 –
4: Study the information given below carefully to answer the following
questions.

In a certain code language, the following lines
written as

‘lop eop aop fop’ means ‘Traders are above laws’

‘fop cop bop gop’ means ‘Developers were above
profitable’

‘aop bop uop qop’ means ‘Developers stopped following
traders’

‘cop jop eop uop’ means ‘Following maps were laws’

3. ‘Developers are following
laws’ would be correctly written as

A. ‘bop cop uop eop’

B. ‘lop bop eop uop’

C. ‘oup cop lop aop’

D. None of the above

4. ‘qop gop cop eop’ would
correctly mean:

A. Profitable laws were stopped

B. Developers stopped following laws

C. Traders were above profitable

D. None of the above

Direction for questions 5-6:
In each of the following letter series, some of the letters are missing, which
are given below it. Choose the correct alternative.

5. D _ F _ DEE _ D _ EF _ DE
_ F

A. EFFDED                   B.
EFFDDF                    C. EFFDFE                   D. None of the above

6. _ OPO _ QOPQ _ RQPO _ POR
_ O

A. APRQO                    B.
QPORO                   C. QPROO                   D. None of the above

Directions for questions 7 – 8: In each of the
following questions, find the relationship that can definitely be deduced on
the basis of the relations given. The symbols used to define the relationship
are as follows:

@ means ‘greater than’

# means ‘less than’

$ means ‘not equal to’

% means ‘equal to’

7. If it is given that, 3 M % 2 N and N % 3 O, then:

A. O @ M        B.
M # O          C. 2 O % M      D. None of the above

8. If it is given that, N @ P, P # O, O @ M and N % M,
then:

A. O @ N         B.
O # N           C. O $ N           D. None of the above

Directions for questions 9 – 10: In each question
given below, a statement is followed by three courses of action numbered 1, 2
and 3. You have to assume everything in the statement to be true, and then
decide which of the three suggested courses of action logically follow(s).

9. Statement: School dropout rate is very high in the
rural areas as children support their parents in income earning activities.

Courses of action:

1. Public awareness programme on primary education
should be expanded immediately to educate parents.

2. Compensation should be given to those parents whose
children are in the school.

3. Law on universal education and ban on child labour
should be made rigorous.

A. Only 1 and 2 follow

B. Only 2 and 3 follow

C. Only 1 and 3 follow

D. All follow

10. Statement: In a recent bulletin the Meteorological
Department of India has forecasted severe drought in next cropping season which
may cause failure of crops.

Courses of action:

1. The forecast should be widely published in media.

2. The drought relief team should be ready for relief
work.

3. The people should be advised to go for drought
resistant variety.

A. Only 1 and 2 follow

B. Only 2 follows

C. Only 2 and 3 follow

D. None of the above

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Answers

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

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