Quantitative Ability
Direction: Find the best answer for the questions given below.
1. A vendor bought toffees at 6 for a rupee. How many for a rupee must he sell to gain 20%?
a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) 6
2. Which of the following number is a perfect square?
a) 7799 b) 7755 c) 7766 d) 7744
3. If the digits of the numbers 5 7 2 6 4 8 9 are arranged in ascending order, how many
digits will remain at the same position?
a) None b) One c) Two d) Three
4. If 6 is 24% of a number, what is 40% of the same number?
a) 8 b) 10 c) 15 d) 20
5. A salary of an officer being increased by 10% every year becomes Rs 48400 in the third
year. What was his original salary?
a) Rs 45000 b) Rs 44000 c) Rs 42000 d) Rs 40000
6. 60 is 80% of which number?
a) 60 b) 72 c) 75 d) 80
7. When 10,000 is increased by 0.1%, we get
a) 10001 b) 10010 c) 10100 d) 11000
8. Which of the following numbers is divisible by 12 but not by 8?
a) 72 b) 88 c) 108 d) 120
9. The average of x and y is 40. If z = 10, what is the average of x, y and z?
a) 16.6 b) 20 c) 25 d) 30
10. What is the 0.5 % of 100,000?
a) 0.05 b) 0.50 c) 50 d) 500
11. If a sum of money is divided equally among n children, each child will receive Rs 60. If
another child is added to the group, then when the sum is divided equally among all
children, each child will receive a Rs 50 share. What is the sum of money?
a) Rs 100 b) Rs 120 c) Rs 300 d) Rs 400
12. A vendor bought bananas at 6 for a rupee. How many for a rupee must he sell to gain 20%?
a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) 6
13. If there are 5 routes for traveling between two places A and B, how many option are there
for a person to travel from A to B and return back?
a) 5 b) 10 c) 9 d) 25
14. A student has an average of 86 in three examinations. What grade must he/she receive on
his/her next test to raise his/her average to 88?
a) 94 b) 90 c) 92 d) 100
15. If 8x + 4 = 32, then 2x – 1 =?
a) 9 b) 8 c) 6 d) 5
16. The simplest interest on Rs 600 at 6% for six months is
a) Rs 218 b) Rs 21.80 c) Rs 36 d) 18
Direction: In the questions 37 to 40, find the odd one out.
17. 4, 8, 12, 18, 36, 54, 108
a) 8 b) 12 c) 18 d) 36
18. 10, 25, 45, 54, 60, 75, 80
a) 10 b) 45 c) 54 d) 75
19. 3, 5, 11, 14, 17, 21
a) 21 b) 17 c) 14 d) 3
20. 1, 4, 9, 16, 23, 25, 36
a) 9 b) 23 c) 25 d) 36
Logical Reasoning
Direction: Select the pair of words which best expresses the relationship similar to that expressed
in the pair in bold letters.
21. Library : Books ::
a) School : Student b) CDO : Criminal
c) Forest : Trees d) Gentlemen : Meeting
22. Sugar : Sweet ::
a) Ice : Cold b) Butter : Cow
c) Attack : Fail d) Wine : Grapes
23. Biratnagar : Morang ::
a) Kathmandu : Nepal b) Butwal : Bhairahawa
c) Birgunj : Parsa d) Bharatpur : Ratnanagar
24. Rent : Land ::
a) Wages : Bonuses b) Interest : Capital
c) Share : Profit d) Income : Salary
25. Monday : Tuesday ::
a) January ; February: b) Working day : Holiday
c) December : Sunday d) Winter : Summer
26. Ink : Paper ::
a) Door : Handle b) Dog : Tail
c) Chalk : Blackboard d) Speak : Sing
27. Doctor : Lawyer ::
a) Client : Illness b) Patient : Medicine
c) Medicine : Fee d) Patient : Client
28. Bee : Hive ::
a) People : Meeting b) River : Stream
c) Mouse : Hole d) Fry : Cook
Direction: Choose the word which is least like other words in a group.
29. a) Research scholar b) Lecturer
c) Headmaster d) Principal
30. a) 221 b) 333 c) 556 d) 777
31. a) Tansen b) Dhangadi c) Nepalgunj d) Nagarkot
32. a) Half b) Quarter c) One-third d) Six
33. a) London b) New York c) Colombo d) Jakarta
34. a) 91 b) 112 c) 135 d) 154
35. a) Bagful b) Careful c) Skillful d) Hopeful
Direction: For each question, find the best answer.
36. The parts of human body are
a. Waist b. Belly c. Chest d. Head
e. Neck f. Foot
37. Starting from the foot as we go up, the correct order of parts in a human body is:
a) f, a, b, c, e, d b) f, a, c, b, d, e
c) f, c, a, e, b, d d) f, a, e, b, c, d
38. If 6145 stands for FADE and 9451 stands for IDEA, what does 8978 stand for?
a) THIS b) NIGH c) HIGH d) THAT
39. If BAD is coded as YZW and FIGHT is coded as URTSG, then HIGH will be
coded as
b) PRSP b) TRST c) RSTR d) SRTS
If 2 × 3 = 812, and 4 × 5 = 1620 then 6 × 7 =
c) 6677 b) 6767 c) 2428 d) 2824
40. If LN NP QS DF stands for MORE, and then SU QS TV SU GI stands for
d) FRUIT b) FAITH c) TRUTH d) TREES
