Reasoning For NICL

Directions (Q. 1-6): Study the following information to answer the given questions:

In a certain code, ‘always create new ideas’ is written as ‘ba ri sha gi’, ‘ideas and new thoughts’ is written as ‘fa gi ma ri’, ‘create thoughts and insights’ is written as ‘ma jo ba fa’, and ‘new and better solutions’ is written as ‘ki ri to fa’.

1. What is the code for ‘ideas’?

1) sha

2) ba

3) gi

4) ma

5) Cannot be determined

2. What does ‘fa’ stand for?

1) thoughts

2) insights

3) new

4) and

5) solutions

3. ‘fa lo ba’ could be a code for which of the following?

1) thoughts and action

2) create and innovate

3) ideas and thoughts

4) create new solutions

5) always better ideas

4. What is the code for ‘new’?

1) ki

2) ri

3) to

4) fa

5) ba

5. Which of the following may represent ‘insights always better’?

1) jo ki to

2) ki to ri

3) sha jo ri

4) to sha jo

5) sha to ba

6. What is the code for ‘thoughts’?

1) ma

2) fa

3) ba

4) jo

5) Either jo or fa

7. Read the following information carefully and answer the question which follows.

All existing and upcoming hotels within a 5 km radius of national parks and sanctuaries in India will have to pay 30% of their annual turnover as tax to the government.

Which of the following statements can be inferred from the facts/information given in the above statement?

1) The tax collected from the hotels will be used for the betterment of these national parks and sanctuaries.

2) Hotels which are sponsored by the government will not have to pay any tax even if these are located within the 5 km radius of such wildlife hotspots.

3) The ecosystem of the national parks and sanctuaries is adversely affected even if the hotels are located outside the 5km radius.

4) Government allows the construction of hotels within 5km radius of national parks and sanctuaries.

5) Such a step is taken by the environment ministry to boost eco-tourism and perk up revenue collection of State governments.

8. Read the following paragraph and answer the question  which follows.

Tenants’ associations have demanded a ‘vacancy tax’ on all vacant and unsold flats in Mumbai.

Which of the following would support the demand made by the tenants’ association?

1) House owners too have demanded for laws that make it easier to evict tenants who default on rent payment.

2) Such a tax law would be difficult to implement as it would be difficult to record the number of vacant flats in the city.

3) People with surplus money buy many houses and rent these out while many consumers cannot afford even their first house.

4) The number of vacant flats in Mumbai is much lower than other metros such as Delhi and Chennai where vacancy tax already exists.

5) Such a tax would compel the house owners to sell/ rent properties which in turn would control hoarding and skyrocketing property prices.

Directions (Q. 9-14): In each question below are given two/three statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II.   You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts. Give answer

1) if only conclusion I follows.

2) if only conclusion II follows.

3) if either conclusion I or conclusion II follows.

4) if neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows.

5) if both conclusion I and conclusion II follow.

9. Statements:     All rings are circles.

                             All squares are rings.

                             No ellipse is a circle.

Conclusions:       I. Some rings being ellipses is a possibility.

                             II. At least some circles are squares.

10. Statements:    No house is an apartment.

                              Some bungalows are apartments.

Conclusions:         I. No house is a bungalow.

                               II. All bungalows are houses.

11. Statements:     Some gases are liquids.

                               All liquids are water.

Conclusions:          I. All gases being water is a possibility.

                                II. All such gases which are not water can never be liquids.

 12. Statements:       All minutes are seconds.

                                  All seconds are hours.

                                  No second is a day.

Conclusions:             I. No day is an hour.

                                   II. At least some hours are minutes.

(13-14): Statements:Some teachers are professors.

                                  Some lecturers are teachers.

13. Conclusions:        I. All teachers as well as professors being lecturers is a possibility.

                                    II. All those teachers who are lecturers are also professors.

14. Conclusions:         I. No professor is a lecturer.

                                     II. All lecturers being professors is a possibility.