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International Reasoning & Aptitude Olympiad - iRAO 22 CLASS 12 SAMPLE QUESTIONS The Actual Question Paper Contains 40 Questions. The Duration of the Test Paper is 50 Minutes. Directions (Questions 1 & 2): Study the following information 5. Which letter will replace the question mark (?) in the carefully and answer the questions given below: following matrix? Five persons - Amita, Babu, Chanda, Diwakar and Ishu - are travelling by a train. Amita is the mother of Chanda, who is the D M V wife of Ishu. Diwakar is the brother of Amita and Babu is the husband of Amita. F P Z 1. How Babu is related to Ishu? (A) Brother-in-law H S ? (B) Father-in-law (A) D (B) C (C) Father (C) I (D) G (D) Mother-in-law 6. Study the following information and answer the given 2. How Amita is related to Ishu? question. (A) Mother-in-law Point B is 12 metre South of point A, Point C is 24 metre East (B) Niece of point B. Point D is 8 metre South of point C, point D is 12 (C) Sister metre East of point E and point F is 8 metre North of point E. (D) Mother Now, if a man is standing facing North at point C, how far 3. A, B, C, D, E and F, not necessarily in that order, are sitting and in which direction is point F? in six chairs regularly placed around a round table. It is (A) 12 m west (B) 24 m east observed that A is between D and F, C is opposite D, D and E are not on neighbouring chair. Which one of the (C) 12 m east (D) 24 m west following must be true? Directions(Questions 7 & 8): In the following questions, the (A) A is opposite B symbols @, #, %, $ and * are used with the following meanings (B) D is opposite E as illustrated below. (C) C and B are neighbours ‘A @ B’ means ‘A is not smaller than B’ (D) B and E are neighbours ‘A # B’ means ‘A is neither smaller than nor equal to B’ 4. Consider the series given below, and find the next term. ‘A % B’ means ‘A is neither smaller than nor greater than B’ 4 / 12 / 95, 1 / 1 / 96, 29 / 1 / 96, ‘A $ B’ means ‘A is not greater than B’ 26 / 2 / 96, ________. ‘A * B’ means ‘A is neither greater than nor equal to B’ (A) 24 / 3 / 96 Now in each of the following questions, assuming the given statements to be true, find the correct option for the given (B) 25 / 3 / 96 conclusions. (C) 26 / 3 / 96 (D) 27 / 3 / 96 11
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International Reasoning & Aptitude Olympiad - iRAO 22 7. Statements: Directions (Questions 9 & 10): Study the following information C#D, A@B, D*E, B%C to answer the given questions. Conclusion: A test with five sections namely Quant, Reasoning, English, (1) A@C Computer and GA has to be proofread in 6 hours where one hour (2) C#E needs to be spent on each section. (A) Only conclusion 1 is true A break of one hour has to be taken in the third or the fourth hour. Proofreading cannot start with Quant and has to end with (B) Only conclusion 2 is true English. Computer has to immediately follow Reasoning with (C) Either conclusion 1 or 2 is true no break in-between. Quant cannot be done immediately after (D) Neither conclusion 1 nor 2 is true Computers. Quant has to immediately follow GA with no break 8. Statements: in-between. I%J, G$H, H*I, H@K 9. In which hour the break is to be taken? Conclusion: (A) Sixth (B) Fourth (1) I*J (C) Fifth (D) Third (2) G@K 10. Which section is to be proofread immediately after GA? (A) Only conclusion 1 is true (A) English (B) Computers (B) Only conclusion 2 is true (C) Quant (D) Reasoning (C) Either conclusion 1 or 2 is true (D) Neither conclusion 1 nor 2 is true ANSWERS 1. (B) 2. (A) 3. (D) 4. (B) 5. (A) 6. (A) 7. (A) 8. (D) 9. (D) 10. (C) 12