General Ability

Topic: Comparison Type Questions

Practice Questions
Q 1: Five children were administered psychological tests to know their intellectual levels. In the
report, psychologists pointed out that the child A is less intelligent than the child B. The child C is
less intelligent than the child D. The child B is less intelligent than the child C and the child A is
more intelligent than the child E. Which child is second in the ascending order?
Q 2: There is a group of five girls. Ayesha is second in height but younger than Amna. Komal is
taller than Marina but younger in age. Amna and Marina are of the same age but Amna is tallest
among them. Noshin is taller than Komal and elder to Amna. If they are arranged in the ascending
order of height who will be in second position?
Q 3: Ahmad, Ali, Akbar, Nasir and Shahbaz are students of a college having different heights and
weights. Ahmad weighs thrice as much as Ali and Ali weighs 5 times as much as Akbar. Akbar
weighs half as much as Nasir and Nasir weighs half as much as Shahbaz.
1) Who is the heaviest in weight?
2) Who is the lightest in weight?
3) Shahbaz is lighter in weight than which of the two students?
4) Shahbaz is heavier than which of the two students?
5) Show the descending order of weights of the students?
Q 4: Mushtaq, Pervaiz, Ehsan, Umair and Saleem are friends having different heights and weights.
Mushtaq weighs four times as much as Pervaiz and Pervaiz weighs double than Ehsan, Ehsan
weighs half as much as Umair and Umair weighs half as much as Saleem.
1) Who is the heaviest among five friends?
2) Who is the second heaviest?
3) Who has lowest weight?
4) Who are equal in weight?
5) Mention the descending order.
Q 5: There are five books of different thickness. A is thicker than C and B is thicker than D. E is
not as thick as B, but is thicker than C. D is not as thick as C. Which is the thinnest book?
Q 6: P, Q, R, S, T, V and W are the members of a family. In this family, there are three ladies and
four gents. In this family, two members are managers, two lawyers, one teacher, one engineer and
one doctor. Neither of the lady is a teacher or an engineer. R is a lawyer who is married with P,
the teacher. Engineer V is married to S who is neither lawyer nor doctor. Now two ladies have
same profession. W, who is a manager and his sister is Q.
1. What is the profession of T?
2. What is the profession of Q?
3. Which of the following has the same profession to which W belongs?
Q 7: Ahmad, Khan, Rashid and Waleed are four creative artists of great talent. One is a dancer,
one is a painter, one is a singer and one is a writer, though not necessarily in that order.
I. Ahmad and Rashid were in the audience the night the singer made his debut on the concert
stage.
II. Both Khan and the writer have had their portraits painted from live by the painter.
III. The writer, whose biography of Waleed was a best-seller, is planning to write a biography
of Ahmad.
IV. Ahmad has never heard of Rashid.
1. Which one is a dancer?
2. Which one is a painter?
3. Who belongs to singing field?
4. Which one is a writer?
5. Khan is a ______________?

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