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Rajesh, Ritesh, Rakesh, Ramesh, Raj and Rajan are six students in a class who got the top 6 ranks (not necessarily in that
order). Each student got a different rank from other students. Also each of these six students scored highest marks (in the
class) in exactly one of the six subjects Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English, Hindi and Sanskrit. Following additional
information is known:
(i) Neither Rakesh nor Rajan got the 1st rank
(ii) Student who got highest marks in English got 2 ranks better than Rajesh.
(iii) Student who scored highest in Sanskrit got a better rank than Ramesh’s rank, while Rakesh’s rank is better than Ritesh’s
rank
(iv) Ramesh got 5th rank while the student who got highest marks in Mathematics got 2nd rank.
(v) Rakesh got 2 ranks better than the student who got highest marks in Chemistry.
(vi) Raj scored highest in Physics.

Q1. Who scored highest marks in English?

1) Ritesh 2) Rakesh 3) Rajan 4) Cannot be determined
Q2. Which of these is definitely a correct statement?
1) Student who got highest marks in Chemistry got 6th rank.
2) Rajan got 3rd rank.
3) Rakesh scored highest marks in Hindi.
4) Student who scored highest marks in Sanskrit got 3rd rank.
Q3. Which two of these students definitely got two consecutive ranks?
1) Ritesh and Rajan
2) Students who got highest marks in Hindi and English
3) Students who got highest marks in Chemistry and Hindi
4) Rakesh and Ramesh
Eight persons – A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H decided to attend a pet show organized in their city. Two persons have a dog each,
two persons have a cat each, two persons have a parrot each and two persons do not have any pet. Given below is some
information about the persons, and who reached when, to attend the pet show.
1. The person having a dog came just before the person having a parrot.
2. G, who does not have a dog reached just after B.
3. D has a dog and E has a parrot.
4. F came before H and met C when he reached the show.
5. E and B have the same type of pet.
6. The persons who reached first as well as the person who reached last have a parrot.
7. H, who has a cat, came just before the person having no pet.

Q1. Among the given persons, who was the fourth to reach the pet show?
1) C 2) F 3) H 4) Cannot be determined
Q2. If no person came between the two persons having a cat, then how many persons came between the two persons having a
dog?
1) 2 2) 4 3) 3 4) either 3 or 4
Q3. If F does not have a pet, then which of the given statements are definitely correct?
I. One person having a cat came just after a person having a parrot while the other person having a cat came just after a person
having no pet.
II. C came just after the person having a dog.
III. One of the persons having no pet came just after the person having a dog.
1) Only I and II 2) Only II and III 3) Only I and III 4) I, II and III
Nixon, Clinton, Reagan, Carter, Bush and Obama were six presidents of a country in six conecutive tenures (not
necessarily in the same order). The tenures are four year periods starting from years 1989 i.e., 1989 to 1993, 1993 to
1997 and so on up to 2009-2013 During these six tenures the foreign ministers were Kerry, Albright, McNamara, Schultz,
Baker and Kissinger(not necessarily in the same order). Following additional information is known:
(i) Clinton was the third president after Schultz ended his term as foreign minister.
(ii) Reagan was second president before Baker started his term as foreign minister.
(iii) Schultz was not the foreign minister in the same tenure when Bush was president.
(iv) Nixon was president in the same tenure as Albright was foreign minister.
(v) Neither Albright nor Kissinger was the last among the six foreign ministers.
(vi) Kerry was third of the foreign minister and Carter was the fifth of the presidents.

Q1. Who was the foreign minister from the year 2001 to 2005?
1) Baker 2) Kissinger 3) McNamara 4) Albright

Q2. Which of these is definitely a correct combination of year and the President/Foreign Minister?
1) 1998 – Nixon 2) 2008 – Kissinger 3) 1995 – Albright 4) 1994 – Obama

Q3. Which two of these two share a common tenure?

1) Obama and Schultz 2) Clinton and Kerry 3) Carter and Kissinger 4) Nixon and McNamara
Drona once wanted to test his students in the skills they had learnt from him. So he conducted five competitions/exams one each on
archery, wrestling, spear throw, swimming and vedic theory. Five students Arjun, Yudhisthira, Duryodhan, Dushasan and Bhima
participated in all the competitions. The student winning a particular competition/exam was awarded 5 points; the runner up was
awarded 4 points and so on; and the person who was last was awarded 1 point. Following is known about the outcome of various
competitions:
1. Arjun scored highest points cumulatively
2. Dushasan scored more points than Bhima cumulatively
3. Each student came first in at least one competition and also came last in at least one competition
4. Yudhisthira did not secure the same place in any two of the competitions
5. Bhima was not first in the swimming competition
6. Dushasan came first in Spear throw and came last in Vedic theory
7. Arjun and Yudhisthira secured consecutive positions in all competitions except swimming competition in which Yudhisthira was
last
8. Bhima scored a total of 13 points in all the competitions and stood fourth in both Spear throw competition and Vedic theory exam
9. Duryodhan came second in the wrestling competition while Arjun came first in the vedic theory exam

Q1. How many points did Arjun score in all the competitions together?
1) 18 2) 17 3) 16 4) 19

Q2. Who stood 3rdin wrestling competition?

1) Yudhisthira 2) Duryodhan 3) Arjun 4) Dushasan

Q3. In how many competitions did Dushasan secure third spot?

1) 0 2) 1 3) 2 4) 3
There are five sections of 80 students each— Section A, Section B, Section C, Section D and Section E in National Institute of Management
Ahmedabad (NIMA). In a day, classes on five subjects, namely Finance, HR, Marketing, Strategy and Systems are taught by five professors
in five different slots—Slot 1, Slot 2, Slot 3, Slot 4 and Slot 5. Each subject is taught in each slot and in each section exactly once. Sections
that appear consecutive in alphabetical order are called ‘consecutive sections’. For example sections C and D, Sections A and B etc are
called ‘consecutive sections’. Further it is known that:
1. Except for slot 4, in other slots, Marketing and Systems are offered in consecutive sections.
2. Except for slots 3 and 4, in other slots, Finance and Strategy are offered in consecutive sections.
3. Except for slots 3 and 5, in other slots, HR and Marketing are offered in consecutive sections.
4. Except for section A, in other sections, Marketing and Strategy are offered in consecutive slots.
5. Finance is not the first or the last subject to be taught in Section E.
6. Except for sections C and E, in other sections, Finance and HR are offered in consecutive slots.
7. Finance is offered in the three sections in the following order—Section C, Section B and Section D.

Q1. Which of the following is the order of courses for Section B (starting from Slot 1 to Slot 5 in that order)?
1) HR, Marketing, Systems, Finance, Strategy 2) Strategy, Marketing, HR, Finance, Systems
3) Systems, Marketing, Finance, Strategy, HR 4) Finance, Marketing, Strategy, Systems, HR

Q2. Which of the following is the order of courses for slot 1 (starting from Section A to Section E in that order)?
1) Finance, Strategy, HR, Marketing, Systems 2) Systems, Finance, Marketing, HR, Strategy
3) Strategy, HR, Finance, Systems, Marketing 4) Marketing, Strategy, Systems, HR, Finance

Q3. In how many sections, Systems is taught in a slot immediately following the slot in which Finance is taught?
1) One 2) Two 3) Three 4) Cannot be determined
Alex, Brian, Chris, Dennis, George, Harry, Kenneth and Mike are eight friends. Two of them are alumni of MIT, Stanford,
Harvard and Cambridge Universities each while two of them have specialized in the fields of Finance, Marketing, Operations
and Systems each. Further following information is known:
1) No two alumni of same University specialize in same fields.
2) Harry and Brian are alumni of the same University while Chris and Alex have specialized in the same field.
3) George is an alumnus of Harvard while Dennis is an alumnus of MIT.
4) Kenneth has specialized in Marketing while Mike has specialized in Systems.
5) Two persons who have specialized in Finance are from MIT and Harvard.
6) Alex is not an alumnus of MIT while Chris has not specialized in Finance.
7) Any person who has specialized in Systems is not from MIT while any alumnus of Cambridge has not specialized in Systems.
8) Two alumni of Stanford have specialized in Marketing and Systems.

Q1. Which field has Harry specialized in?

1) Systems 2) Finance 3) Marketing 4) Cannot be determined

Q2. Who among the following is an alumnus of Harvard?

1) Chris 2) Harry 3) Mike 4) Kenneth

Q3. Which of the following combinations is correct?

1) Chris–MIT–Operations 2) Harry–Cambridge–Marketing
3) Kenneth–MIT–Marketing 4) Brian–Harvard–Finance
Four friends A, B, C and D have different native languages. Each friend learns a language that is the native language of
one of the other three friends. Each one of them takes up a job in an embassy of the country whose language one
knows. The native languages of the friends are English, German, Italian and Japanese. A particular language is learnt
by only one person other than the native of that land. Following are the details:
1. B learns D's native language.
2. C joins the German embassy.
3. B joins the embassy of a country whose native language has been learnt by A.
4. C learns A's native language.
5. D joins the Japanese embassy and A joins the English embassy.

Q1. Which language does D learn?

1) English 2) German 3) Italian 4) Japanese

Q2. Which language does A learn?

1) English 2) German 3) Italian 4) Japanese

Q3. The language spoken in A's native country is:

1) English 2) German 3) Italian 4) Japanese
Four people, each in a different profession work in four different organisations. The Receptionist does not stay in Chennai and
does not have two children. The person working with Ajay co-operative Bank does not have children and is not an Accountant.
Two of the four people have only one child each. The Doctor does not stay in Delhi and does not work in Padmavati Hospital.
The person staying in Mumbai has two children. The Manager does not have a child. The person working with Supriya Bank
stays in Kolkata. The person staying in Delhi has one child, the Receptionist does not work with Vinayak Inc.

Q1. If the Receptionist stays in Kolkata, how many children does the Doctor have?
1) 0 2) 1 3) 2 4) Cannot be determined.

Q2. If the Doctor works with Vinayak Inc. Who works with Padmavati Hospital?
1) Manager 2) Receptionist
3) Accountant 4) Cannot be determined

Q3. If the Accountant has two children, where does the Doctor stay?
1) Kolkata 2) Delhi
3) Mumbai 4) Cannot be determined
Anderson, Christopher, Dennis, George, Harry and Kenneth are six persons who won Nobel prizes in years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and
2011 (not necessarily in that order) in six different fields viz., Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Economics, Peace and Medical Science (again not
necessarily in that order). These six people are from six different Universities – MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Cornell, Stanford and Columbia. Two of
the six persons are from USA, two are from Sweden, one is from Germany and one is from France. Following additional information is known:
(i)Person from Columbia University won the prize two years after the person who won the prize in Physics.
(ii)Person from Harvard University won the Nobel prize in chemistry in a year before Christopher won the prize who in turn won the Nobel prize
in a year before George won the prize.
(iii) Kenneth, who is not from USA, won the prize in either Physics or Peace, two years after one of the persons from USA won the prize.
(iv) No two persons from the same country won the prize in two consecutive years.
(v) Person from Germany won the prize in Mathematics four years before the person from Cornell University.
(vi) Person from Stanford University won the prize in Economics.
(vii) George won the prize three years before the person from France won the prize.
(viii) Both Dennis and the person from University of Berkeley are from the same country.

Q1. Which of the six persons was from MIT?

1) George 2) Christopher 3) Either Anderson or Harry 4) Kenneth
Q2. In which year did Dennis win the prize?
1) 2006 2) 2010 3) 2011 4) Cannot be determined
Q3. Which of the below combinations is definitely false?
1) George – University of Berkeley 2) Dennis – Sweden
3) Anderson – Chemistry 4) Christopher – Economics
6 participants A, B, C, D, E, F are running a 6 lap race. For each lap no. 2 participants complete that lap at the same time. Also, each participant
while completing each of the 6 laps has a different rank (1st being the first and 6th being the last). The person who finishes the 6th lap first is the
winner of the race.The following information is also known.
1. C is in the top 3 completing the 2nd, 4th and 6th lap and is in the bottom 3 completing remaining laps
2. E is the 3rd to complete the 4th lap and is not the winner of the race
3. B is the 3rd to complete lap 3 and finishes last in the race
4. D is the 4th to complete lap 4 and the 2nd to complete lap 5
5. Completing the 5th lap, F and E are 5th and 6th (in that order) and completing the 1st lap they are the 1st and 2nd (in that order) .
6. A completes all the laps before C except the 4th and 6th lap and completes the 2nd lap 1st.
7. C and D complete 3rd lap in the 5th and 6th position (in that order)

Q1. Who is the winner of the race ?

1) A 2) C 3) D 4) F

Q2. What is the rank of C while completing lap 5?

1) 5th 2) 4th 3) 6th 4) 2nd

Q3. From the 4thto 5thlap which person improves his position the most?
1) A 2) B 3) D 4) C
A man, a woman and a child named, Wasim, Desai and Shah, not necessarily in the given order, set out for three different destinations from
three different cities. Their place of departure and destination are Baroda, Baluchistan, Chennai, Hyderabad, Lucknow and Nainital, listed
here alphabetically.
I. Desai arrived in Hyderabad on the same day the woman left Lucknow.
II. Baroda was not the destination of the child.
III. Wasim departed from Chennai and did not go to Baluchistan, although one of the others did.

Q1. Who is Wasim?

1) A man 2) A woman 3) A child 4) Cannot be determined

Q2. Where is the child headed to?

1) Baluchistan 2) Baroda 3) Nainital 4) Hyderabad
A team’s batting order has to be decided amongst 5 players. The players are Virendra, Ajay, Sachin, Yuvraj and Anil with averages 20, 48,
36, 35 and 30, not necessarily in the same order. Also their surnames are Kaif, Tendulkar, Kumble, Jadeja and Singh, not necessarily in the
same order. Other facts known about them are:
1. Singh is not the surname of Ajay.
2. The one with the least average comes to bat at position number 1.
3. The one with odd numbered average comes to bat at number 3.
4. Mr. Singh, with the highest average comes to bat immediately after Sachin while Tendulkar comes to bat immediately before Sachin.
5. The two people with their names beginning with the same letter occupy even positions. Average of one of them is less than that of the
other by 18. Kumble never bats at position number 1.
Q1. Whose surname is Kaif?
1) Sachin 2) Virendra 3) Yuvraj 4) Data insufficient

Q2. In the previous question, which additional information will change the answer?
1) [1]. Kaif generally bats before Sachin and Kumble.
2) [2]. Ajay bats between Tendulkar and Virendra.
3) [3]. Yuvraj bats at number 5.
4) [4]. Both [1] and [3] are required.
A website allows its customers to download films from its database. The audio and video quality of a film is rated, each on an integer scale of 0 - 10. The
product of the Audio and Video ratings gives the final rating. The following table gives partial information of the ratings of 8 films A, B, C, D, E, F, G and
H: Further it is known that
1. No film has a final rating of less than or equal to 10.
2. The films are categorised based on the final rating as 'Bad', 'Average*, Good' and the 'Best'.
3. If final rating is in the range of 0 - 20 then the film quality is 'Bad'
4. If the final rating is in the range of 21 - 50 then the film quality is 'Average'.
5. If the final rating is in range of 51 - 75 then the film quality is 'Good'
6. If the final rating is in range of 76 - 100 then the film quality is 'Best'.
7. Exactly two films got equal video ratings.
8. G is categorised as a Sad' quality film.
9. The number of films under each category is the same.
10. E obtained a higher video rating than A and a higher final rating than H.
11. Exactly two films obtained equal audio rating.
12. The audio rating of B was higher than its video rating.

Q1. What is the video rating obtained by A?

1. 5 2. 6 3. 7 4. Cannot be determined
Q2. What is the final rating obtained by D?
1. 42 2. 56 3. 63 4. 70
Q3. Which of the following is true?
(I) Film F obtained the lowest final rating.
(II) The final rating of A is at least 30.
(A) Only I is true (B) Only II is true (C) Both I and II are true (D) Neither I nor II is true.
Puzzle - 1
Puzzle - 8
ANSWER KEY
1,4,3
3,4,1
Puzzle - 2
Puzzle - 9
2,3,3
2,2,4
Puzzle - 3
Puzzle - 10
2,3,1
3, 2, 2
Puzzle - 4
Puzzle - 11
1,4,3
1, 4
Puzzle - 5
Puzzle - 12
2,1,1
4, 4
Puzzle - 6
Puzzle - 13
4,3,1
4,2,2
Puzzle - 7

2,3,1