Reasoning, Aptitude & English for Competitive Exams: 18 MCQs with answers

Reasoning

Reasoning contains 18 topic areas, including Blood Relations, Syllogism, and Seating Arrangement.

Pie Charts

Data Interpretation includes Tables, Bar Charts, Line Graphs, Pie Charts, Combination of Graphs, and Case Studies.

Arithmetic/algebra and Data Interpretation

Aptitude separates into arithmetic/algebra (computation) and Data Interpretation (reading data).

Data Sufficiency

Data Sufficiency is the only topic that appears in both sections. It asks whether the given information is enough.

Spotting Errors

Grammar topics include Spotting Errors, Sentence Improvement, Fill in the Blanks, and Cloze Test.

The category structure

The content changes daily, but the 15-category structure remains constant.

Time and Work

Time and Work is an Aptitude topic. Current Affairs categories include Appointments, Awards, and Schemes.

True

The syllabus covers approximately 64 distinct topic areas across Reasoning, Aptitude, English, and Current Affairs.

Reasoning rewards rule recognition, not rote memorisation.

Each Reasoning topic follows a fixed internal logic. The challenge is recognising which rule applies, not memorising answers.

Use approximation and pattern-spotting instead.

DI rewards approximation and pattern-spotting, not full precision. Exact calculation wastes time.

Grammar tests rule knowledge; vocabulary tests exposure.

Each English sub-skill demands a different habit. Grammar tests rule knowledge; vocabulary tests exposure.

Symbol manipulation → relational logic → verbal logic

Reasoning moves from symbol manipulation (Alphabet Test) to relational logic (Blood Relations) to verbal logic (Syllogism, Assumptions).

Comprehension

Reading Comprehension tests patience and inference — it belongs to the comprehension skill cluster.

Some topics appear more frequently and carry more marks.

DI and Reading Comprehension typically form large blocks; Puzzle Test and Seating Arrangement are high-frequency. Equal time ignores this weighting.

Seating Arrangement and Inequality

This is a Seating Arrangement question, but solving it requires Inequality logic (left/right positioning).

It asks whether information is sufficient, without necessarily solving.

In both Reasoning and Aptitude, Data Sufficiency asks whether the given statements provide enough information — the skill is determining sufficiency without solving.

30 hours

The student spends 40 hours on Data Interpretation (40% of 100) and 30 hours on Reading Comprehension (30% of 100). This totals 70 hours, leaving 30 hours for the remaining topics, which they study equally. Thus, they spend 30 hours on the remaining topics combined.

40%

To find the percentage represented by categories C and D, we subtract the percentages of categories A and B from the total: $100\% - (25\% + 35\%) = 100\% - 60\% = 40\%$. Therefore, categories C and D combined represent 40% of the data.