IBPS RRB Clerk Prelims 2025 Reasoning Questions with Solutions

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The position of the fourth element from the left is position 4. Moving six elements to the right targets position 4 + 6 = 10 from the left. Counting from the left end of the given series, the tenth element is T.

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The required pattern is Symbol-Vowel-Digit. Scanning the series gives two occurrences matching this pattern: @ E 9 and ! U 8.

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The total length of the original series is 28 elements. Dropping the last 5 elements leaves 23 elements. The ninth element from the right end of a 23-element series corresponds to position 23 - 9 + 1 = 15 from the left. Counting to the 15th position yields A.

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Counting digits from the right end gives 6 as the first, 4 as the second, 8 as the third, 1 as the fourth, and 5 as the fifth digit. The digit 5 is at position 13 from the left. Moving six positions to the left leads to position 7, where the element is @.

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The required condition is a Digit-Letter-Digit sequence. Checking every letter in the series shows that none has a digit immediately before it and a digit immediately after it.

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Comparing Yellow box sparkle gloves and Light new yellow box shows that yellow is ps and box is rm. Then, comparing Yellow box sparkle gloves with Gloves shiny spectacles yellow leaves gloves as fd.

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In Box shiny new spectacles and Light new yellow box, the common words are box and new, coded as rm and gi. Since box is present in other sentences with code rm, new is uniquely coded as gi.

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From Light new yellow box, yellow is ps, box is rm, and new is gi. Eliminating these leaves light uniquely mapped to hn.

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Given shiny shoes as jI gh, shiny is confirmed as gh, which means spectacles is coded as st. For black spectacles, the code must include st alongside a previously unused code for black, which is satisfied by st op.

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Given white light as th hn and knowing light is coded as hn, white is coded as th. The code for white flower must combine th with a brand new code, making bh th valid.

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Arranging the digits of 589421367 in ascending order yields 123456789. Comparing the original and new digit positions: Position 1: 5 → 1 Position 2: 8 → 2 Position 3: 9 → 3 Position 4: 4 → 4 Position 5: 2 → 5 Position 6: 1 → 6 Position 7: 3 → 7 Position 8: 6 → 8 Position 9: 7 → 9 Only the digit 4 at the fourth position remains unchanged.

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The statement "Only a few artists are creative" means that some artists are creative and some artists are not creative. Thus, conclusion II directly follows from this statement. The statement "All painters are creative" places painters inside the creative category, but does not specify any relationship between artists and painters, so conclusion I does not necessarily follow.

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No direct relation is established between remote and portable from the given statements. Therefore, individually, neither conclusion I nor conclusion II can be determined as definitely true. However, since conclusion I is a positive particular statement and conclusion II is a negative universal statement involving the exact same terms, one of them must hold true. Thus, either conclusion I or II follows.

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All apples are contained within the set of mangoes. Since no apple is a berry, the specific subset of mangoes that consists of apples can never overlap with berries. Hence, some mangoes are definitely not berries. Furthermore, because all apples are inside mangoes, it is impossible for all mangoes to be berries without forcing apples to be berries as well, making the second conclusion impossible.

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Applying the given rules to the word IMAGINED: The vowels I, A, I, E are shifted to their next alphabet positions, yielding J, B, J, F respectively. The consonants M, G, N, D are shifted to their previous alphabet positions, yielding L, F, M, C respectively. Combining these in order gives the word JLBFJMFC, which contains no vowels.

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Based on the given seating rules, four persons sit at corners facing outside (C, H, A, B) and four sit at side middles facing inside (E, D, F, G). The position assignments clockwise around the table are pos 1: C, pos 2: E, pos 3: H, pos 4: D, pos 5: A, pos 6: F, pos 7: B, pos 8: G. Comparing pairs: B and H sit opposite each other (pos 7 and 3), D and G sit opposite each other (pos 4 and 8), E and F sit opposite each other (pos 2 and 6), and A and C sit opposite each other (pos 5 and 1). In contrast, A and F are adjacent to each other at positions 5 and 6.

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In the square table arrangement, positions clockwise are C (pos 1), E (pos 2), H (pos 3), D (pos 4), A (pos 5), F (pos 6), B (pos 7), and G (pos 8). A sits at position 5, which is a corner facing outside. For a person facing outside, right direction corresponds to clockwise movement around the table. Moving 5 positions clockwise from A (pos 5): 1st right is F (pos 6), 2nd right is B (pos 7), 3rd right is G (pos 8), 4th right is C (pos 1), and 5th right is E (pos 2).

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In the circular order of the arrangement, position 4 is occupied by D and position 2 is occupied by E. Counting clockwise from D (position 4), the sequence of seats visited before reaching E (position 2) includes positions 5, 6, 7, 8, and 1. These positions are occupied by A, F, B, G, and C respectively, making a total of five persons between E and D.

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In the arrangement, H (position 3) and C (position 1) are two positions apart around the table. Similarly, F (position 6) and G (position 8) are two positions apart. Following the same pattern of being separated by two positions, D (position 4) is paired with E (position 2).

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According to the seating setup, the four persons sitting at the middle of the four sides face inside, while those at the corners face outside. The middle positions are occupied by E, D, F, and G, all of whom face inside. The corner positions are occupied by C, H, A, and B, all of whom face outside. Among the given choices, both D and G face inside.

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Since all fruits are healthy and a portion of fruits is nutrition, that same portion of fruits is necessarily healthy, which makes some healthy nutrition a definite truth. However, the premise that only a few fruits are nutrition confirms that some fruits are indeed nutrition, making it impossible for no fruits to be nutrition.

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Since all sheets are green and some sheets are not papers, those specific sheets that are not papers must also be green, making it definitely true that some green is not papers. Furthermore, papers can exist completely inside the green region while remaining disjoint from the non-paper sheets, so it is possible for all papers to be green.

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The given statements establish that some fast items are electric and all electric items are silent, which guarantees that some fast items are silent. However, no direct relation is established between cars and electric or between cars and silent, making both conclusions I and III uncertain and not logically following.

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Arranging the eight persons around the square table places D, G, E, and C at corners facing inside, and A, H, B, and F at middle sides facing outside. Positioned at a corner facing inside, moving three places clockwise along C's left leads directly to A.

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F sits at a middle side facing outside, so counting from the left of F proceeds counter-clockwise around the table. The persons encountered before reaching E at a corner are C and B, making a total of two persons.

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E sits at a corner position adjacent to B, who sits at a middle position, making them immediate neighbours. A sits at a middle position facing outside rather than a corner, and C sits at a corner facing inside rather than outside.

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D sits at one of the four corner positions of the square table and faces inside towards the center. In contrast, A, B, F, and H all occupy middle side positions facing outside away from the center.

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E and D both occupy diagonally facing corner positions separated by three persons on either side. Facing across the center of the table, D is positioned directly opposite to E.

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Adding the letter C before the first letter of each three-letter word yields CAPE, CMEK, CSIP, CCUP, and CHBN. Among these combinations, only CAPE forms a recognized standard English word.

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Rearranging the individual letters of each word into alphabetical order transforms APE into AEP, MEK into EKM, SIP into IPS, CUP into CPU, and HBN into BHN. The resulting words starting with vowels are AEP, EKM, and IPS, giving a total of three.

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Changing consonants to their next alphabetical letter transforms the words as follows: APE becomes AQE (vowels A, E), MEK becomes NEL (vowel E), SIP becomes TIQ (vowel I), CUP becomes DUQ (vowel U), and HBN becomes ICO (vowels I, O). Thus, AQE and ICO are the two words that contain more than one vowel.

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Arranging the given five words in dictionary order from left to right gives APE, CUP, HBN, MEK, SIP. Counting from the right end, the first word is SIP and the second word from the right end is MEK.

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Counting from the right end, the first word is HBN, second is CUP, third is SIP, and fourth is MEK. Arranging the letters of MEK in reverse alphabetical order produces MKE, where the second letter is K.

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In the word OPTICAL, the pair O and P are adjacent in both the word and the alphabet (1 letter difference). The pair I (9th letter) and L (12th letter) has two letters between them both in the word (C, A) and in the English alphabet (J, K). Thus, there are exactly two such pairs.

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From the statement J ≥ Z > L ≤ X = N < O, combining the path from L to O gives L ≤ X = N < O, which simplifies strictly to L < O, so L ≤ O cannot be definitively established. For conclusion II, the path between J and N contains opposite inequality signs (> and ≤), so no relation between J and N can be determined.

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From the statement R > B = C ≤ D > E < F = G, comparing E and G gives E < F = G, which simplifies directly to E < G, making conclusion II true. For conclusion I, the path from B to F contains conflicting inequality signs (≤ and >), so no definite relationship exists between B and F.

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From the given statement D > S < T = O ≤ V = W, combining the relations from S to W gives S < T = O ≤ V = W, which simplifies to S < W, making conclusion I true. Similarly, combining from T to W yields T = O ≤ V = W, which simplifies to T ≤ W (or W ≥ T), making conclusion II true.

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In the three-generation family tree, E (male) and A (female) are married in Generation 1 with children C (son) and H (daughter) in Generation 2. G (female) is the sister of E and married to D (male). Since H is the daughter of G's brother E, H is the niece of G.

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The eight family members are organized across three generations as follows: Generation 1 consists of E (male) married to A (female), and D (male) married to G (female, sister of E). Generation 2 consists of C (male, son of E and A) married to F (female), and H (female, daughter of E and A). Generation 3 consists of B (male, son of C and F). The four female members are A, G, F, and H.

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The eight family members consist of four males (B, C, D, E) and four females (A, F, G, H). Since B is a grandson, B belongs to the third generation and is unmarried. Since H is the sibling of C and has no children, H is an unmarried female in the second generation. This leaves three married males (C, D, E) and three married females (A, F, G).

Since B is the grandson of A, A belongs to the first generation and cannot be married to C. Since A is not married to D, A must be married to E. D is also in the first generation and is not married to F, so D must be married to G.

This leaves C in the second generation to be married to F. Since C is the father of B in the third generation, F is the mother of B.

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The floor arrangement from top to bottom is: Floor 3 with F in Flat P and A in Flat Q, Floor 2 with B in Flat P and C in Flat Q, and Floor 1 with D in Flat P and E in Flat Q. Statements I and II are false because E lives in Flat Q and B lives in Flat P, while Statement III is true as both D and E live on Floor 1. Therefore, statements I and II are not true.

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Since F's flat is north-west of C's flat and A lives east of F, F must reside on the topmost floor in the west flat. This places F in Flat P on Floor 3, with A in Flat Q on Floor 3 and C in Flat Q on Floor 2.

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F lives in Flat P on the topmost floor, Floor 3. Since A lives to the east of F on the same floor, A occupies Flat Q on Floor 3.

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The exact floor distribution has F and A on Floor 3, B and C on Floor 2, and D and E on Floor 1. Therefore, C resides on Floor 2 rather than Floor 1.

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F and A live on Floor 3, while D and E live on Floor 1. Thus, F, A, D, and E all reside on the extreme floors, whereas B lives on the middle floor, Floor 2.

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The positions of persons in the row from left to right are: an extreme left person, T, U, three unassigned persons, S, P, one unassigned person, R, V, one unassigned person, Q, and four more persons ending at the extreme right. Since V is at position 3 relative to P at position 0, the person sitting third to the left of V is P.

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From the clues, U is third from the left end, placing T second and one person at the extreme left. With S at position 7 from the left, there are 6 persons to the left of S. To balance the condition that the number of persons to the left of S equals those to the right of V, exactly 6 persons sit to the right of V, making the total number of persons in the row 17.

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In the linear arrangement, U is at position 3 from the left end, while R is at position 10 from the left end. The persons sitting between them are at positions 4, 5, 6, 7 (S), 8 (P), and 9, making a total of six persons.

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Arranging the digits of 628651924 in descending order gives 9, 8, 6, 6, 5, 4, 2, 2, 1. The 3rd digit from the left is 6, the 5th digit is 5, and the 7th digit is 2. Summing these values gives 6 + 5 + 2 = 13.

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Extracting the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 8th letters of the word PHENOMENA yields P, E, O, and N respectively. Using these letters, at least two distinct valid four-letter English words can be formed, namely OPEN and PEON. Since more than one meaningful word is formed, the correct answer is Z.