Sample Questions

Statement
Six films (Quest to Hope, Rats, Sam, Terror, Victory, and Wellfleet are scheduled to be screened
at a film festival. No more than two films may be screened during one day, but all of the films
will be screened exactly once during the festival held Wednesday through Sunday. The screening
schedule adheres to these parameters:
The producers of Terror will not allow it to be screened anytime prior to the screening of Victory.
Rats and Sam are complementary shorts and are to be screened the same day. Quest to Hope and
Wellfleet are both black-and-white films and should not be screened the same day.
Question 1 If Victory and Terror are screened the same day, which of the following must be true
about the film festival schedule if it conforms to its parameters?
(A) Quest to Hope and Wellfleet will be screened the same day.
(B) Victory cannot be screened on Sunday.
(C) Sam and Rats will not be screened the same day.
(D) Exactly one day of the schedule will not have any film screening.
(E) Each day of the schedule will have at least one film screening.
Question 2
All of the following conform to the parameters of the schedule EXCEPT
(A) Sam and Wellfleet are both screened on Friday
(B) Wellfleet and Terror are both screened on Thursday
(C) Victory and Wellfleet are both screened on Saturday
(D) Quest to Hope is not screened on Friday
(E) Rats is not screened on Saturday
Question 3 If Quest to Hope, Rats, and Terror are scheduled for Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday, respectively, and if the schedule conforms to the parameters, then it must be true that
(A) Victory is screened on Wednesday
(B) Victory is not screened on Friday
(C) Wellfleet is screened on Friday
(D) Wellfleet is screened on Wednesday
(E) Victory is not screened on Saturday
Ans

1:D

2:A

3:E

Solved Examples (Analytical Reasoning)

Directions: The following questions are based
on a passage or set of conditions. To answer
the question, choose the answer you think is
most appropriate among the given options.
Questions 1-3

Three men (Tahir, Pervaiz and Javed) and

three women (Elena, Ayesha and Kiran) are
spending a few months at Abbottabad. They
are to stay in a row of nine cottages, each
one living in his or her own cottage. There
are no others staying in the same row of
houses.
1.

2.

3.
4.

5.

Ayesha, Tahir and Javed do not want to

stay in any cottage, which is at the end of
the row.
Elena and Ayesha are unwilling to stay
besides any occupied cottage.
Kiran is next to Pervaiz and Javed.
Between Ayesha and Javed's cottage
there is just one vacant house.
None of the girls occupies adjacent
cottages.

6.

The house occupied by Tahir is next to an

end cottage.

1
Which of the above statements can be said
to have been derived from two other
statements?
1.

Statement 1

2.

Statement 2

3.

Statement 3

4.

Statement 5

5.

Statement 6

(D). Statement 5 is the one that is derived

from Statement 2 and Statement 3 because
in these two statements girls are not
surrounded by boys.
2
How many of them occupy cottages next to a
vacant cottage?
1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

(C). We can see that Elena, Ayesha, Javed and

Tahir live next to vacant rooms.
3
Which among these statement(s) are true?
Ayesha is between Elena and Javed.

I.

At the most four persons can have

occupied cottages on either side of them.

II.

Tahir stays besides Pervaiz.

III.
1.

I only

2.

II only

3.

I and III only

4.

II and III only

5.

I, II and III

(C). We can see that Ayesha is in between

Elena and Javed. Moreover, Tahir and Pervaiz
live side by side. So statement I and III are
true.
Questions 4-6

An Internal Services Manager at large

corporation has been assigned the task of
allotting offices to six of the staff members.
The offices are titled A through F.
Mrs. Ruby needs to use the telephone quite
often throuhout the day. Mr. Mujahid and Mr.
Zahid need adjacent offices as they need to
consult each otheroften while working. mrs.
Fauzia is a senior employee and has to be
allotted the office marked E, having the
biggest window.
Mr. Abid requires silence in the offices next
to his. Mr. Shahid, Mr. Mujahid and Mr. Abid
are all smokers. Mr. Fauzia requires nonsmoker neighbours.
Unless specifically stated all the employees
maintain an atmosphere of silence during
office hours.
4
The ideal candidate to occupy the office
farthest from Mr. Zahid would be
1.

Mrs. Fauzia

2.

Mr. Mujahid

3.

Mr. Shahid

4.

Mr. Abid

5.

Mrs. Ruby

(D). Abid will be the farthest person from Mr.

Zahid. Abid (A), Shahid (B), Mujahid (C),
Zahid (D), Fauzia (E) Ruby (F). Abid will live
in A, because he could get silence attaet at
one side of his room.
5
The three employees who are smokers
should be seated in the offices
1.

A, B and D

2.

B, C and F

3.

A, B and E

4.

A, B and C

5.

A, B and F

(D). Abid, Shahid and Mujahid are smokers

live in A, B & C because any one of them
can't live at D & F beacuse Fauzia in office E
wants non-smoker at her adjacent offices.
6
The ideal office for Mr. Mujahid would be

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

(D). Mr. Mujahid would live in office C,

because Zahid and Mujahid live next to each
other. Moreover Mujahid is smoker and can't
live next to Miss Fauzia.