RBI OFFICER GRADE ‘B’ PHASE-I EXAM Held on : 17.06.2017(Part-IV)

Total Questions: 50

11. In these questions, three statements followed by two Conclusions numbered I and II have been given. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts and then decide which of the given Conclusions logically follows from the given statements.

From the questions (11-13)
Give answer (1) if both the Conclusion I and Conclusion II. follow
Give answer (2) if either Conclusion I or Conclusion II follows
Give answer (3) if neither Conclusion I nor Conclusion II follows
Give answer (4) if only Conclusion I follows
Give answer (5) if only Conclusion II follows
Statements :
Some planets are stars.
All stars are comets.
No comet is an astronaut.
Conclusions:
I. No star is an astronaut.
II. All astronauts are planets.

Correct Answer: (4)
Solution:

(i) All stars are comets → Universal Affirmative (A-type).
(ii) Some planets are stars → Particular Affirmative (I-type).
(iii) No comet is an astronaut → Universal Negative (E-type).
(iv) Some comets are not astronauts → Particular Negative (O-type).
Conclusion I is the Conclusion (Q).

12. Read the statement above :

Statements :
Some planets are stars.
All stars are comets.
No comet is an astronaut.
Conclusions:
I. Some planets being astronauts is a possibility.
II. At least some comets are planets.

Correct Answer: (1)
Solution:

(i) All stars are comets → Universal Affirmative (A-type).
(ii) Some planets are stars → Particular Affirmative (I-type).
(iii) No comet is an astronaut → Universal Negative (E-type).
(iv) Some comets are not astronauts → Particular Negative (O-type).
Venn diagram of " some planets are not astronauts".


Venn diagrams II supports the Conclusion I.
Conclusion II is the Converse of the Conclusion (P).

13. Read the statement above :

 Statements :
All trains are buses.
All buses are rickshaws.
No rickshaw is a plane.
Conclusions:
I. All trains are rickshaws.
II. All planes being trains is a possibility.

Correct Answer: (4)
Solution:

(i) All stars are comets → Universal Affirmative (A-type).
(ii) Some planets are stars → Particular Affirmative (I-type).
(iii) No comet is an astronaut → Universal Negative (E-type).
(iv) Some comets are not astronauts → Particular Negative (O-type).

14. What should come in place of (?) in the expression P ? U = E > J; E? M P definitely holds true?

Correct Answer: (3) =, =
Solution:

Therefore,

15. Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below :

From the questions (15-20)
Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each, in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row-1 S, T, U, V, W and X are seated and all of them are facing south. In row-2 M, N, O, P, Q and R are seated and all of them are facing north. Therefore in the given sitting arrangement, each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row. No two people with names start-ing with consecutive alphabet is an immediate neighbour of each other. For example, A is not an immediate neighbour of B. B is not an immediate neighbour of either A or C and so on. Each of them also likes a different movies viz. Vertigo, Cinderella, Twilight, Gladiator, Uninhabited, Inception, Frozen, Watchmen, Tangled, Aladdin, Hero and Wanted.
(Please Note: None of the information given is necessarily in the same order.)
T sits at an extreme end of the line. Only two people sit between T and the one who likes Frozen. N sits second to the left of the one who faces the one who likes Frozen. The one who likes Twilight sits second to the right of O. T does not face the one who likes Twilight. Only two persons sit between P and R. U does not sit at an extreme end of the line. X is not an immediate neighbour of T. V faces the one who likes Tangled. Only three people sit between the ones who like Tangled and Vertigo. R likes Inception. Only one person sits between R and M. One of the immediate neighbours of M faces the one who likes Hero. The one who likes Cinderella sits to the immediate left of S. P sits second to the right of the one who likes Aladdin. Only one person sits between the ones who like Watchmen and Wanted respectively. T does not like Wanted. N does not like Gladiator.
Which of the following statements is true as per the given arrangement?
Correct Answer: (2) faces one of the immediate neighbours of W.
Solution:U likes wanted. faces T and T is an immediate neighbour of W.
P is an immediate neighbour of M.
S sits exactly between U and V.

16. Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below :

Who amongst the following likes Uninhabited?

Correct Answer: (5) N
Solution:
N likes Uninhabited.

17. Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below :

Who amongst the following is facing Q?

Correct Answer: (3) The one who likes Watch-men
Solution:
T is facing Q. T likes Watchmen.

18. Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below :

Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given arrangement and hence they form a group. Which one of them does not belong to that group?

Correct Answer: (3) The one who likes Vertigo
Solution:
likes Vertigo. sits at the extreme left end of the Row-2.

19. Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below :

W is related to Cinderella and P is related to Inception in a certain way based on the given arrangement. To which of the following is U related, following the same pattern?

Correct Answer: (1) The one who faces P
Solution:
V likes Cinderella. W sits third to the right of V.
R likes Inception. P sits third to the right of R.
X likes Hero. U sits third to the right of X. X faces P.

20. Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below :

Correct Answer: (4) Second to the left
Solution:
R likes Inception. sits second to the left of R.