The basic premise of Syllogism rests on the candidate's ability to discern logic and implied information

from a given set of statements which may not necessarily pass through our common-sense understanding
of things in reality. The idea is to test an exam-taker's ability to adapt his mental comprehension to the
limited domains of compartmentalized scenarios provided by the questions.

Remember, the trick lies in extracting out the 'truth' only from the information given in the statements and
resorting to no extraneous understanding. These questions in the MBA entrances are chiefly devised to
examine a student's focused understanding and his grasp over the theoretical aspects of inductive and
deductive reasoning.
The questions discussed in the session are given below along with their source.

In the following question, two statements are given followed by two

conclusions numbered I and II. You have to assume the statements to be true and then decide which of the
given conclusions logically follows from the given statements.

(a) if only conclusion I follows

(b) if only conclusion II follows
(c) if neither I nor II follows
(d) if both I and II follow

Q1.
Some parrots are crows.
No crow is red.

No parrot is red.
No crow is white.

Q2.
All cows are Shyam.
Some buffaloes are Shyam.

All Shyams are not cows.

Some Shyams are not buffaloes.

Q3.
All trucks fly.
Some scooters fly.

All trucks are scooters.

Some scooters do not fly.
Q4.
All poets are authors.
All singers are authors.

All singers are poets.

Some authors are not singers.

Q5.
Some flies are ants.
All insects are ants.

All flies are ants.

Some ants are insects.

Q6.
All clocks are fans.
All fans are walls.

Some walls are fans.

Some clocks are walls.

Q7.
Some authors are teachers.
No teacher is a lady.

All teachers are authors.

Some ladies are teachers.