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Reasoning :Clock and Calendar Calendar: Import Points to remember A calendar is a particular measure of time. The smallest unit of a calendar is a day which is the average time in which earth turns round once on its axis, The time in which earth travels round the sun is known as a solar year which consists of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 47 ½ seconds or approximately 365.2422 days. Generally we take the year consisting of365 days. The difference between a solar year and a common year is 0.2422 of a day. This difference is taken into .account every fourth year by adding a whole day. Thus every fourth year has a total of 366 days and this year. is called a leap year. This extra day is added to the month of February and as such in every leap year February has 29 days. The number of days more than the complete number of weeks in a given period, are called odd days. In an ordinary year (of 365 days) there are 52 weeks and one odd days. 2 In a leap year (of 366 days) there are 52 weeks ...

Ordering Test  The arrangement of haphazard things in a particular or definite order is called as the ordering. These things may be arranged on the basis of their size, age or characteristic etc. Questions concerning following parts may be asked in this test- . . . 1.   Position series 2. Height series 3. Age series 4. Circular series 5. Line series 6. Square series Position series In these . questions, . the position of· some persons from up or down or from left or right is given and then the total no. of persons is asked. The vice - versa of this . is also possible. Some important formulae for these type of questions- Formula 1 Total no of persons =[Position of person from upward + position of person from downward ]- 1                                     ...

Statement and Conclusion:Tips and tricks to solve faster Statement and conclusion questions are part of logical reasoning section. In these type of questions , a statement will be given followed by a set of conclusions. Candidate need to choose the conclusion that logically follows the statement the most. In some cases conclusions can be directly understood by reading the statement and in other cases the reader needs to analyse it to get the indirect conclusion. A conclusion must be logically derived from given statement. No outside information/knowledge is used to derive a conclusion. So a conclusion is always accurate and logically correct. Conclusion is always provided by the author in the statement/passage directly or indirectly. Do not confuse conclusion with an assumption or inference. Example 1: Statement : Education minister stressed the need to stop the present examination system and its replacement by other methods which would measure the real merit of the students. Concl...

 Statement and Assumptions Questions for Competitive Exams  In this type of questions one statement which is followed by   assumptions , is given . The   candidates have to decide which of the assumptions are implicit in the given statement. Before answering the questions, it is necessary to understand the  meaning of assumption. An assumption is something supposed or taken for granted. The following example will illustrate the idea clearly.   Example -Below is given a statement followed by two assumptions numbered I and II. You have to consider the statement and the following assumptions and decide which of the assumptions is implicit in the statement. Give answer (A) if only assumption I is implicit. Give answer (B) if only assumption II is implicit. Give answer (C) if either I or II is implicit. Give answer (D) if neither I nor II is implicit. Give answer (E) if both I and II are implicit. 1. Statement -Go by aeroplane to reach...

Reasoning Puzzles  In puzzles, candidates are provided with the data  in jumbled or haphazard format. One need to arrange them in an meaningful order or format to decipher the correct information from given data. It checks the candidate’s   mental and analytical ability to decipher and  analyze the given data into a meaningful and judgmental form. Puzzle questions are little bit time consuming ,but systematic method of finding the solutions makes it interesting . Types of Reasoning puzzles based on number of variables Two variable puzzles Three Variable Puzzles Two Variable puzzle Example Study the following information carefully and answer the given question. P, R, T, V, X, Y, and Z are seven different people who belong to different cities, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Bengaluru, Jaipur, and Surat, not necessarily in the same order. P is not from Chennai. V is neither from Surat nor from Bengaluru. Either X or T is from Delhi. Y is from Mumbai. R is not from B...

Alphabet Test for competitive exams Alphabet test analyze your mental ability to identify the position of letters in English alphabets and their applications. Alphabet Test can be of three type. Find out letter with reference to the position of another letter. Arrangement of words in alphabetic/ dictionary order. Number of letters in a word ", which have as many letters between them in the word as in the alphabet. Find out missing letter/combinations of letters in a series. How many meaningful word can be formed from the given word. Alphabet Test Examples: Alphabet Test Type1:Find out letter with reference to the position of another letter 1.In English Alphabet Which letter is the eighth letter to the right of the letter and which is tenth letter to the left of the last but one letter of the alphabet? i)X ii)W iii)I iv)H Ans:(ii) To solve the above question ,let us start from the last  part of question and go in reverse order.  last but one letter of the alphabet = Y tenth...

 Analogy The word ANALOGY has been derived from two words. ANA means ”Relation” and "LOGUS" means Knowledge . The word literally means a similar feature, condition, states etc. a process of reasoning based on ‘’similar feature”, ”a common feature” or ”Correspondence”  Analogy is an important section of General Intelligence because it is the section through which examiners test the candidate’s   ability to compare and establish proper relationship among the given items on the basis of certain similarity .  How to Solve Analogy Questions for exams  In Analogy questions ,a particular relationship is given  and similar relationship has to be identified from  the given alternatives. Analogy questions can be categorized into two types. Semantic Analogy Symbolic /Number Analogy   Semantic Analogy The term "semantic" refers to what language means, or the study of meaning and logic. The relationship between two given words is establish...

Geometric Progression Geometric Progression (GP) is a sequence, in which next term in the sequence is obtained by multiplying the previous term by a fixed number, and the fixed number is called the Common Ratio. Example : 5,15,45,135   … is a GP with first term 5 and common difference 3 General form of Geometric Progression A geometric sequence or a progression is one in which the ratio between two consecutive terms is constant. This ratio is known as the common ratio denoted by ‘r’, where r ≠ 0. The   elements of the sequence be denoted by: a, ar, ar 2 , ar 3 , … , ar n-1   common ratio ‘r’= successive term/preceding term =a 2 /a 1  = a 3 /a 2  = = a n /a n-1  Types of Geometric Progression Geometric progression can be classified as           Finite Geometric Progression (Finite GP)           Infinite Geometric Progression (Infinite GP) Finite G.P. is a sequence that contains finite t...