PROBATIONARY OFFICER

REASONING ABILITY
CLASSIFICATION (ODDMAN
OUT)
exists between the things, objects, words or
you may land in trouble because every item in
letters. In this test, generally, you are given a
group of four items, out of which three are
similar to one another in some way and the
fourth is different. The candidate is required to
choose the item which does not fit into the
given group.
TYPES OF CLASSIFICATION
(1)

Word classification: In this type similar

gr oups are found among the n ames,
places, things, nouns, verbs, different
sex, r ace or any oth er matter out of
which three things are similar and one
is not.

(2) Alph abet classification : Here some

group of letters are formed according
to a pattern and one of them is differen t.
(3) Number classification: Here out of a
given group of numbers three will be
similar and one will be strange.

the given group will be a stranger in some way or

another. So think of the possible group in which
you can group different items and find the
stranger.
PRACTICE EXERCISE
Directions : Find the odd one out
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HINTS FOR CLASSIFICATION

Verbal classification aims to test your
power of observation and ability to notice
differences and similarities among various objects. So search for the relationship among
the given items. Relationship may be based
on meaning, inter-relationship, consistency
relationship etc.

7.

Search for the similarities among alphabet groups. Particularly vowel-consonant relationship, capital small letter relationship,
repetition and frequency of letters, skipping
pattern in alphabet groups.

10.

Remember that in classification you are

not searching for a stranger but you are classifying different items into a group and one item
which refuses to be a part of the group is the
stranger.

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If you straight away search for a stranger,

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Carrot
Potato
Moon
Pluto
Bigger
Greater
d)
Attachment
Hatred
Bullet
Pistol
Light year b)
Hectare
BEHK
ILNQ
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4465
d)
Chess
Table Tennis
Petrol
Vanaspati d)
428
338
Girls
Friends
Million
Letter
Belief

b) Radish
d) Tomato
b) Mercury
d) Jupiter
b) Faster
Larger
b) Love
d) Affection
b) Rifle
d) Gun
Metre
d) Parsec
b) LORU
d) MPSV
3672
5572
b) Cricket
d) Carrom
b) Diesel
Kerosene
b) 515
d) 326
b) Boys
d) Flowers
b) Powder
d) Compel
b) Shield

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Deceit
d) Brief
Dog show b) Fashion show
Fun fair
d) Painting exhibition
Administrator
b) Doctor
Engineer
d) Professor
Astounded
b) Flabbergasted
Pleased
d) Astonished
Blade
b) Choppers
Knife
d) Hammer
Adult Education
Non formal Education
Total Literacy Campaign
Technical Education
ALMZ
b) CPQX
DEFY
d) BTUY
DEJK
b) MNST
RSXY
d) NOUV
Cotton
b)
Terene
Silk
d) Wool
Miniature
b) Despair
Touched
d) Disgusted
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c) 15 - 180
d) 16 - 176
29. a) Mature
b)
Labour
c) Digest
d) Ripen
30. a) Here
b) Near
c) Where
d) There
31. a) Boxer
b) Player
c) Cricketer
d) Wrestler
32. a) FDEG
b) SPQR
c) MKLN
d) WUVX
33. a) BEFJ
b) DFGJ
c) KNOS
d) QTUY
34. a) TRAIN
b) WHEAT
c) DRIVER
d) PROUD
35. a) WRONG
b) GREEN
c) WHITE
d) RIGHT
36. a) JUDGE
b)
SCANT
c) CROWD
d) FLUSH
37. a) Uranium
b) Plutonium
c) Radium d)
Helium
38. a) March
b) May
c) August
d) November
39. a) Wise
b) Traitor
c) Intelligent d)
Honest
40. a) Herring
b) Whale
c) Shark
d) Cod
In this test, the questions consist of a sort
of direction puzzle. A successive follow-up of
direction is formulated and the candidate is required to ascertain the final direction or the distance between two points. The test is meant to

ANSWERS TO PRACTICE EXERCISE

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2.

(a)

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1 0 . (c)

1 7 . (c)

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8.(b)

1 1 . (c)

1 2 . (d)

13. (a)

1 4 . (c)

1 5 . (d)

16.(a)

1 8 . (d)

1 9 . (c)

2 0 . (c)

21.(d)

2 2 . (b)

2 3 . (a)

2 4 . (d)

2 5 . (b)

2 6 . (c)

2 7 . (a)

28.(d)

29.(b)

3 0 . (c)

3 1 . (b)

32.(b)

3 3 . (b)

3 4 . (c)

3 5 . (d)

36.(a)

37.(d)

3 8 . (d)

3 9 . (b)

40.(b)