Reasoning Practice Paper for SBI Clerk 2014

Reasoning Practice Paper for SBI Clerk 2014

(Based on Venn Diagrams)

Directions for Questions 1 to 3: The questions are based on the data given below.

In a class of 150 students 55 speak English, 85 speak Hindi and 30 speak neither English nor Hindi.

1) How many speak both English and Hindi ?

1. 10
2. 120
3. 20
4. 45

2) How many speak only Hindi ?

1. 85
2. 55
3. 95
4. 65

3) How many speak at least one of the two languages from English & Hindi ?

1. 110
2. 120
3. 130
4. 100

Directions for Question 4 to 7: The questions are based on the data given below.

In a class, 70 students passed in Mathematics. 50% of the students passed in English. 25% of the students passed in both and 5% of the students passed in neither Mathematics nor English ?

4) How many students are there in the class ?

1. 93
2. 145
3. 100
4. 140

5) How many students passed in only one subject ?

1. 75
2. 53
3. 80
4. 70

6) How many students failed in at least one subject ?

1. 5
2. 25
3. 50
4. 75

7) What is the ratio of the number of students who passed in English to that in Mathematics ?

1. 1:1
2. 2:3
3. 5:7
4. 10:9

Directions for question 8 to 11: The questions are based on the data given below.

In a class there are 70 students. For every 3 students playing Cricket there are 4 students playing Hockey. For every 6 students playing Cricket there are 2 students playing both Cricket and hockey and 2 students playing none.

8) How many students play only Hockey ?

1. 38
2. 30
3. 24
4. 12

9) How many students play Both ?

1. 10
2. 15
3. 18
4. 12

10) If the students who play both Cricket and Hockey stop playing Cricket, then what percentage of the total number of students play Cricket ?

1. 50%
2. 57^1/7%
3. 66
4. 28^4/7%

11) If 50% of those playing only Hockey stop playing Hockey and start playing Cricket, what is the ratio of number of students playing Hockey to those playing cricket ?

1. 3:4
2. 2:5
3. 5:6
4. 5:9

Direction for Question 12 to 15: The questions are based on the data given below ?

In a survey of 150 readers it has been found that 75 read newspaper A, 90 read newspaper B and 70 read newspaper C. 40 read A and B; 35 read B and C; 30 read A and C and 10 read all the three.

12) How many respondents read none of  the newspapers ?

1. 30
2. 20
3. 10
4. 40

13) How many read exactly two newspapers ?

1. 75
2. 105
3. 95
4. 85

14) How many read exactly one newspaper /

1. 35
2. 55
3. 235
4. 120

15) How many read neither A nor B ?

1. 45
2. 70
3. 110
4. 25

Important Links:

• Reasoning Practice Paper for SBI PO
• English Practice Paper for Bank Tests
• Data Interpretation Model1 Practice Paper with Solutions