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Qs. 1-6. In each of the following questions, a series of numbers is given. Below this series, a number is given. You have to make a similar series of numbers from the given pattern and answer the question that follows: 1. 0 3 8 15 24 35 (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Which of the following numbers will come in place of (D)? (1) 101 (2) 99 (3) 111 (4) 106 (5) 108 2. 83 89 91 97 101 61 (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Which of the following numbers will come in place of (A)? (1) 62 (2) 63 (3) 65 (4) 67 (5) 69 3. 7 12 22 42 82 3 (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Which of the following numbers will come in place of (C)? (1) 10 (2) 8 (3) 11 (4) 14 (5) 13 4. 3 3 6 18 72 2 (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Which of the following numbers will come in place of (D)? (1) 36 (2) 42 (3) 38 (4) 46 (5) 48 5. 6 13 27 48 76 3 (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Which of the following numbers will come in place of (E)? (1) 96 (2) 102 (3) 104 (4) 108 (5) 112 6. 4 3 4 9 32 3 (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Which of the following numbers will come in place of (D)? (1) 27 (2) 21 (3) 8 (4) 14 (5) 19 Qs. 7-10. Which of the number in the following series does not fit? 7. (1) 2 (2) 5 (3) 11 (4) 17 (5) 26 8. (1) 16 (2) 64 (3) 25 (4) 125 (5) 38 9. (1) 51 (2) 53 (3) 59 (4) 61 (5) 67 10. (1) 2 (2) 6 (3) 12 (4) 22 (5) 30 Qs. 11-14. Find out the missing numbers: 11. 4(52)6 3(58)7 1(?)5 (1) 37 (2) 49 (3) 29 (4) 26 (5) None of these 12. 16(?)7 9(16)5 61(121)50 (1) 79 (2) 81 (3) 64 (4) 101 (5) None of these
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Qs. 15-18. Find the odd-man out: 15. (1) FIL (2) HKN (3) MPT (4) RUX (5) YBE 16. (1) JKMP (2) EFHK (3) PQSV (4) WXZC (5) LMPT 17. (1) YWVT (2) PNLT (3) HFEC (4) RPOM (5) FDCA 18. (1) QPSR (2) KJML (3) GFJH (4) TSVU (5) ZYBA Qs. 19-20. Find out the missing set in the following series: 19. AZB CYD ? GWH IVJ (1) EYG (2) EXF (3) EYF (4) EXG (5) EWX 20. BEA GJC LOE QTG ? (1) VZH (2) URE (3) WZI (4) VYI (5) WYI Qs. 21 to 25 are based on the word CONGRATULATE 21. Which of the following words has a letter that is not there in the key-word? (1) RETURN (2) ROTTEN (3) COLLECT (4) RATTLE (5) TURTLE 22. Which of the following words is different from the others? (1) COAT (2) TRUE (3) RATE (4) CUTE (5) GRATE 23. How many sets of two letters each have as many letters between them as they have in the alphabetical order? (1) 7 (2) 8 (3) 9 (4) 10 (5) 11 24. If all the twelve letters in the word were arranged alphabetically, which letter would still be in its old place? (1) G (2) R (3) N (4) T (5) None 25. If the first four letters of the word were written in reverse order, followed by next four letters in reverse order and lastly the last four letters in the reverse order, the letter C would be: (1) between T and O (2) between O and U (3) in the end (4) between N and G (5) between T and U

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NON-VERBAL SERIES Given below are two sets of figures, the Problem Figures and the Answer Figures marked A, B, C, D and E. You have to find out which of the Answer Figures would be the next one in the series of Problem Figures.

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The second figure (II) in each of the following questions bears a certain relationship with figure I. Find out from A, B, C, D and E the figure to replace question-mark so that IV bears the same relationship with III. I II III IV A B C D E
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In Questions 67 to 71, the set of things given in each question is represented by a figure, each circle representing one of items. Your task is to match the set of articles with the right figure. A. 67. eye : face : pupil

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Qs. 72-73. These questions are based on the figure given below: 23. (4) ON, OR, OT, OU, RT, RU, GA, EN, EO and GL. 24. (4) 25. (2) GNOC,UTAR,ETAL For answering the next type of questions, you must study each figure given in the question independently as well as in relationship with other figures. The following points might help in discovering the pattern of the series. (i) The figures may rotate, tilt, may turn upside down, grow bigger or smaller or may just remain as they are. (ii) The figures may move vertically, horizontally, corner to corner, clockwise or anti-clockwise. (iii) The pace of movement may not be the same. Some figures in the same question may have a regular movement, some may cover an extra step or some may have one step, two step movement. (iv) Something may be added or dropped, the dropped figures may reappear again. (v) Some figures may interchange places. 26. (B) 27. (E) 28. (C) 29. (A) 30. (C) 31. (A) 32. (E) 33. (A) 34. (D) 35. (E) 36. (D) 37. (A) 38. (D) 39. (C) 40. (B) 41. (A) 42. (C) 43. (A) 44. (A) 45. (D) 46. (A) 47. (C) 48. (B) 49. (E) 50. (A) 51. (D) 52. (C) 53. (A) 54. (C) 55. (B) 56. (E) 57. (B) 58. (E) 59. (D) 60. (A) 61. (B) 62. (C) The proportion among similar figures is not 3 : 2 : 1. 63. (E) The inner figure ought to have two sides extra. 64. (B) In all the other figures, the number of lines is six. 65. (A) All the other letters are reversed and their right side becomes left side. 66. (A) In all the others, semi-circles face opposite directions. 67. (B) 68. (E) 69. (A) 70. (C) 71. (D) 72. (3) 73. (5) 74. (C)

72. Count the number of triangles in the figure. (1) 9 (2) 11 (3) 12 (4) 14 (5) None of these 73. How many parallelograms are there? (1) 6 (2) 8 (3) 9 (4) 10 (5) 11 74. In which of the answer figure is the question figure embedded:

ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS 1. (2) The series is 12 1; 22 1; 32 1; 42 1; 52 1, hence the new series would be, 6 2 1 (given number); 72 1; 82 1; 92 1; 102 1 ... 2. (4) It is a series of prime numbers, 61; 67; 71; 73; 79 ... 3. (1) Each number is double 2 of the preceding number. Hence the series would be, 3; (3 2) 2; (4 2) 2; (6 2) 2; (10 2) 2 ... 4. (5) The arrangement is 2 1; 2 2; 4 3; 12 4; 48 5; ... 5. (4) Go on adding 7, 14, 21, 28, 35 ... to numbers respectively. 6. (3) The series would be (3 1) 1 = 2; (2 2) 2 = 2; (2 3) 3 = 3; (3 4) 4 = 8; (8 5) 5 = 35. 7. (3) Ought to be 10. Go on adding 3, 5, 7, 9 ... to numbers. 8. (5) Should be 36. The arrangement is 42; 43; 52; 53; 62; 63 ... 9. (1) Ought to be 47 as it is a series of prime numbers. 10. (4) Ought to be 20. It is 1 2 = 2; 2 3 = 6; 3 4 = 12; 4 5 = 20 ... 11. (4) 12 + 52 = 26. 12. (2) (16 7)2 = 92 = 81. 13. (3) 43 29 = 14. 14. (1) 102 and 72 are there. The number is 10 + 7 = 17. 15. (3) 16. (5) 17. (2) 18. (3) 19. (2) First letters are A, C, E, G ... the second Z, Y, X, W ... and the third B, D, F, H, J ... 20. (4) Count the number of letters skipped for first, second and third letter. 21. (3) The word has only one L. 22. (2) In all the others, the order of letters picked up for forming the word has not been changed.

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