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Reasoning Practice Questions

Reasoning (verbal + non-verbal) is a core, high-scoring section in SSC, banking, railway and police exams — it rewards practice and pattern recognition more than memorisation.

This hub organises reasoning by topic (coding-decoding, blood relations, dice/cubes, direction sense) with worked sample questions, matching how these are actually tested.

Syllabus

Topics covered

Verbal Reasoning

Coding-decoding
Blood relations
Direction and distance sense
Series completion (number/alphabet)
Syllogism
Statement and conclusion

Non-Verbal Reasoning

Dice and cube problems
Mirror and water images
Figure series and classification
Paper folding and cutting

Analytical Reasoning

Calendar problems (day of the week)
Clock problems (angle, mirror time)
Puzzle and seating arrangement (linear/circular)
Jumbling and word-pattern logic

Self-check

Try these reasoning questions

1. If MONDAY is coded as NPOEBZ, how is FRIDAY coded using the same logic?

2. A cube is painted red on all faces and cut into 27 equal smaller cubes. How many small cubes have exactly 2 faces painted?

3. Pointing to a photograph, a man says, 'She is the daughter of my grandfather's only son.' How is the woman related to the man?

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Where this is tested

Related exams

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Common questions

Reasoning FAQ

Is reasoning the same across SSC, banking and railway exams?

The core topics overlap heavily, but the difficulty and question mix (e.g. more puzzles in banking, more figure-based questions in SSC) varies by exam — check the specific exam's syllabus page.

How do I improve speed in dice/cube reasoning?

Practice identifying opposite-face pairs first (a dice has 3 pairs of opposite faces) — most dice questions are solved faster by elimination than by visualising rotation.

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