IBPS PO General Awareness: Seating Arrangement and Puzzles questions with solutions

Q1. Direction: Study the following information and answer the question given below. An alphabetical machine, when given an input of words, rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of the input and the steps of rearrangement. INPUT: COVER LAYER MINIMUM CONTROL AMAZE UNIQUE INITIAL ENTER FINAL EXIT Step I: COVER LAYER MINIMUM CONTROL AMAZE INITIAL ENTER FINAL Step II: COVER LAYER MINIMUM CONTROL FINAL Step III: CONTROL COVER FINAL LAYER MINIMUM Step IV: COVER FINAL LAYER CONTROL MINIMUM Step IV is the final step of the arrangement. INPUT: FILES GRADE INSIDE AWARE ADVANCE PAIRS FOREIGN ALTER OVER TOWARDS Which of the following does not belong to the group?

1. FILES
2. GRADE
3. AWARE
4. ADVANCE

Answer: ADVANCE

This is a word-arrangement puzzle based on a stepwise elimination/reordering rule. Applying the same pattern to the second input, one word does not fit the group formed by the arrangement criteria, and that word is ADVANCE.

Q2. Seven sports — Football, Cricket, Kabaddi, Squash, Hockey, Archery, and Tennis — are played in an indoor stadium in a week, starting from Monday, not necessarily in the same order. Cricket is played on the last day of the week. More than two sports are played between Squash and Football. Hockey is played on Thursday. Football is played one of the days after Archery. Squash is played five days before the day Cricket is played. Tennis is played three days before Hockey is played. Kabaddi is played one of the days before Hockey is played. Which sport is played on Saturday?

1. Cricket
2. Kabaddi
3. Football
4. Archery

Answer: Football

Cricket is on Sunday, so Squash must be on Tuesday. Hockey is on Thursday, and Tennis is three days before Hockey, so Tennis is on Monday. With more than two sports between Squash and Football, Football cannot be on Wednesday or Thursday; using the remaining clues, Football fits on Saturday.