How to solve Seating Arrangement Problems ?

Seating Arrangement or Seating Plan is just a diagram or a set of writteninstructions that determines where people should take their seats. This is one of the crucial and promising sections of banks and other competitive exams. But as we have already discussed in our earlier post, even a single mistake can ruin your entire answer in result ending up with losing 5 marks allotted to this area. So we have to be little cautious while doing seating arrangement problems.

Syllogism Shortcuts with Examples - Lesson 2

In our Syllogism Shortcut Lesson 1, we have discussed about the Introduction of Syllogism. So before going to read this Lesson 2, it is advisable to read that Lesson 1 here. In this post we shall discuss some important rules with Examples.

Syllogism Shortcuts - Lesson 1

In almost all competitive exams, there will be a few questions on "Syllogism". In these type of questions they will give two or more statements followed by two or more conclusions. You have to choose which conclusion logically fits the given statements. The answer has to be chosen from the five given choices. Often these statements are funny and seem to be at variance of commonly known facts, but you should take them as they are True. 

Coding and Decoding Questions and Answers

Friends, in our last post we have discussed basic shortcut techniques of Coding - Decoding section of Reasoning (read that post here). Today we shall discuss some example problems of Coding and Decoding with detailed explanations. 

Coding - Decoding of Reasoning - Introduction

Friends, today we shall discuss about the Coding and Decoding type questions of Reasoning section. There are different types of Coding and Decoding questions are there, before going into details lets first understand what is meant by coding and decoding. 

Verbal Reasoning Shortcuts - Direction Sence

Now a days in almost all competitive exams you get questions which test your sense of direction in verbal reasoning section. These questions typically involve a person's moving certain distances in specified directions. Then, the student is asked to find out the net distance traveled between two points. The easiest way of solving these problems is to draw a diagram as you read information about the problem and let the diagram reflect all the information given in the problem.

Verbal Analogy Shortcuts - Introduction

Friends, generally an analogy is a parallel that is drawn between two different, but adequately similar events, situations of circumstances. In Verbal Analogy questions they will ask you to determine the relationship between a pair of words and then recognize a similar or parallel relationship in a different pair of words. You are given a pair of words and must choose from the four pairs given as answer choices another pair exhibiting the same relationship. Therefore a test on  analogy is a test of one's language / vocabulary and also a test of one's ability to reason out relationships.

IBPS Clerks Online Exam Free Mock Tests - Reasoning

Friends, as you know we've already uploaded Complete Study Materials and Mock Tests for IBPS Clerks Online Exam. Today we're providing you with the model mock test of Reasoning Section. We made this by keeping the difficulty level of  IBPS PO Exam 2012 in mind. We intentionally made the questions little hard so that it will give you a better solving experience. And we assure you that the actual IBPS Clerical exam wont be this much hard. All The Best and Happy Preparation :)

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Classification / Odd Man Out Series Problems with Explnations - Alphabets

Friends, Classification / Odd Man out Series is one of the important topic in Reasoning Section. In these type of questions they just give you 5 options and you should find the odd man out from the given set. I mean, if you are given 5 options like Parrot, Crow, vulture, Sparrow and Penguin and ask you to find the Odd man out, then your answer should be Penguin (because all the remaining birds can fly)... Ofcourse, some of you may say "Why not Vulture is the answer? Because its the only bird which eats dead bodies (actually one of my friends asked this question while writing this article). Point.... "May be other birds too will eat dead insects if they starved" I answered.  "Then penguins too can fly for short distances" she replied. Point Again!!! So what will be the correct answer? After all you are not going to argue with the examiner who evaluates your answer sheet (or Optical Marks Reader ofcourse). So, here you should keep in mind that OVER THINKING should be avoided while answering these type of questions. Think twice before marking your answer. Now lets go to the details. To made the concepts clear, we've divided this topic into 3 sections. 

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Water Image / Horizontal Plane in Reasoning

As we've already discussed, Water Image and Mirror Image are two important concepts of Reasoning. These concepts help you solving Non Verbal Reasoning concepts easily (ofcourse, some times verbal reasoning concepts too). In our last post, we've discussed about Mirror Image / Vertical Plane. You can read that post Here. In this post we shall discuss about the Water Image / Horizontal Plane. Simply we can say that the Water Image is nothing but the Reflection in Water. Technically the definition is "In water image / horizontal plane, the LOWER and UPPER parts interchange positions and the LEFT and RIGHT parts remain constant". Have a look at this Cat to make concept clear... Lol ;)

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Mirror Image / Vertical Plane in Reasoning

Mirror Image and Water Image are two different concepts which helps you to solve Reasoning Problems  (especially in Non Verbal Reasoning). In this post we shall discuss about Mirror Image. This Mirror Image is also called as Vertical Plane. Have you ever observed your mirror image? Your right becomes Left and left becomes right.. Right? :P Ok, now there is a technical definition for Mirror Images in Reasoning. Of course, it too almost similar to what we known, but with lil extension. Please keep this definition in your mind. In the mirror image, the RIGHT part of the object appears at the LEFT side and vice - versa. But the UPPER and LOWER parts remain constant. Have a look at this Cat to make the concept clear... Lol ;)

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Place Values of Alphabets - Reasoning Shortcuts

Friends, today we are going to learn about the basic rule for Analytical Reasoning. The Place Values of English Alphabets. These will help you in answering the questions related to Coding and Decoding and Analogy... Yea, I know all of you know alphabets and me too don't want to teach them to you now. But what about the place values? Of course, even a 5th grader will tell the answer by counting if you ask him "What is the place value of S ?". But the problem is, you should react in fractions of a second.  Because you cant spend more than 30 seconds for these type of questions. That means, you should learn by heart. Below we've given you the alphabets with place values, just read them for 10 to 15 times so that the values of these alphabets will register permanently in your mind.

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Seating Arrangement Practice Problems with Explanations for Bank Exams - Reasoning

Seating Arrangement (or Sitting Arrangement as some of us pronounce it) is one of the important topics of the Reasoning section of Bank Exams. The best thing here is, with little concentration and efforts you can get 5 out of 5 (and ofcourse 15 out of 15 in the case of IBPS CWE sometimes) marks easily. And the main disadvantage of these sort of problems is..... even a single mistake can ruin the entire solutions and it may results losing all the marks!!! So its always advisable to check your answers twice before coming to a conclusion and marking the answers. Here we are giving some practice problems of Seating Arrangement problems of the Reasoning Section. Just see the problems and try to solve them on your own. Later you can check with the answers given below with complete solutions. You can check more reasoning related problems with explanations here. Good Day and Happy Reading :)

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Reasoning Ability for SBI Associate Clerical Exam

Basic Concepts of the Reasoning Ability for SBI Associate Clerical Exam

• Analogy 
• Blood Relations
• Coded Relations
• Alpha-Numeric-Symbol Test (Part-I)
• Alpha-Numeric-Symbol Test (Part - II)
• Syllogism
• Ranking Test
• Classifications - with Practice Problems 

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Non Verbal Reasoning for Bank Exams

Study Material for Non Verbal Reasoning

Here is the good news for the people who have been searching for the Material on Non Verbal Reasoning. People have been asking us to upload some material on Non Verbal reasoning, but being lazy bugs we keep on saying "by the next week". But 4 days ago we came to know that there is no proper source to learn non verbal reasoning in internet. So we made this Non Verbal Reasoning Complete Reference Guide of 28 pages. You can download this to your computers and practice when ever you are free. We hope this book will useful for you with its basic types of the non verbal reasoning questions which you will face in the Competitive Exams, important shortcut rules to solve the problems on the series of Non Verbal reasoning problems and with plenty of problem figures and answers figures with explanations. Good Day and Happy Reading :)

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Short Notes on Analytical Reasoning

Reasoning for Bank Exams

Friends, with this post we are giving you the Short Notes on Analytical Reasoning. This pdf file contains the topics Seating Arrangement, Sequencing, Combinations, Comparisons, Selections, Series and Ranking. This pdf file will help you as the Basic reference guide. Espicially for those people who are preparing for SBI Associates and IBPS Clerical Exams. Read more Short-notes on Reasoning for Bank Exams Here. Like our Facebook Page here for Daily updates. Good Day and Happy Reading...

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Classification for Meaningful Words - Practice Problems

In this post, we shall discuss some examples of Classification for Meaningful Words.

• Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?

1. Scientist
2. Engineer          
3. Architect        
4. Teacher
5. Doctor             

                

                 

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Classification - Reasoning

In today’s post we shall discuss another important reasoning topic Classification. The Classification is a process of dividing various objects into Groups on the basis of the properties common to them. The classification  helps us to make a homogeneous group from the given heterogeneous groups.

We can divide the questions on classification in two types…. Those are….

1. Classification for Meaningful Words
2. Classifications for Non-meaningful words.

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Ranking Test

In this type of problems, generally the ranks of a person both from the top and from the bottom are mentioned and the total number of persons is asked. Now a days they are questions in the  form of a puzzles of interchanging seats by two persons. Lets have a look at some models for a clear understanding of the topic.

• Amala is older than Mona and Rama. Anju is older than Mona but younger than Sunny. Rama is older than Sunny. Who among them is oldest?
• A) Sunny          B) Mona              C) Amala  D) Anju           E) None of these
• Ans: C.
• Explanation : Amala >     Mona, Raman ... (Treat this as (I)) ;
• Sunny      >     Mona ... (Treat this as (II));
• Rama      >     Sunny... (Treat this as (III));
• So, combining all, we get Amala  >    Rama      >     Sunny      >      Anju    >    Mona.

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Syllogism Shortcuts for Bank Exams - Pdf Download

The syllogism is another easiest and promising topic for almost all competitive exams (especially bank exams). With little practice and concentration, you can easily score five out of five marks in this topic. The syllogism is nothing but a logical argument, which is composed of three parts. 

Those are 

1. The major premise (All birds are animals).
2. The minor premise (All parrots are birds).
3. The conclusion (All parrots are animals) inferred from the premises. 

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