List of top General Aptitude Questions

To continue the sequence of tiles shown, the tile indicated by the question mark should be:
A paper shown in Panel I is folded along the dashed lines (- - -) to construct a cube. The shaded regions shown in Panel I appear on the outer surface of the cube. Referring to cubes shown in Panel II, which one of the options is correct?
To continue the sequence of tiles shown, the tile indicated by the question mark should be
Four people P, Q, R, and S, of different ages, make the following observations.
P: I am younger than S.
Q: I am neither the youngest nor the oldest.
R: P is older than me.
Based on these observations, the youngest person is ______.
The 2nd of June is a Thursday in a certain year. Which day of the week is the 3rd of July in that year?
In a population, patients who have high cholesterol also have high blood pressure (BP). Some patients with high BP also have diabetes. There are no patients who have both high cholesterol and diabetes. Furthermore,
1. the total number of patients with at least one of these conditions is 75,
2. the number of patients with high cholesterol is 10,
3. the number of patients with high BP is 45, and
4. the number of patients with only high BP and no other conditions is 20.
Then the number of patients who have both diabetes and high BP is _______
Consider an art gallery whose walkways are shown as lines in the diagram. A black dot represents a junction of two walkways. A guard may be placed at a junction to watch over the walkways that join at that junction. The minimum number of guards needed to watch all the walkways is ________.
A coin with heads facing up is shown as H and a coin with tails facing up is shown as T.
Six coins are placed in the Starting Arrangement, as shown in the figure below. A "step" is defined as interchanging a pair of adjacent coins without flipping them. The minimum number of steps needed to go from the Starting Arrangement to the Final Arrangement, as shown in the figure, is ________.
Circles \(C_1\), \(C_2\), and \(C_3\), with centers \(O_1\), \(O_2\), and \(O_3\), and radii \(r_1\), \(r_2\), and \(r_3\), respectively, touch each other as shown in the following figure. Given \(r_1 = 2\) cm, \(r_2 = 1\) cm and the angle \(\angle O_1 O_3 O_2\) is 90 degrees, \(r_3 =\) _____ cm.
Exacerbate : Mitigate :: ___________
Choose the option with the correct pair of words to fill the blank.
Suresh said, "I did it yesterday." Which one of the following options is the correct form of this sentence in indirect speech?
Consider the cube shown below with its 8 corners labelled a, b, c, d, e, f, g, and h. The figure is representative. All corners are to be colored such that any two corners that are connected by an edge must be of different colors. The minimum number of colors required to achieve this is ________
Charity : P :: Retaliation : Q

Choose the appropriate pair of words P and Q that fit the analogy.
A school has 100 students distributed among 1st to 10th standards.

Based on this, which one of the following statements is always correct?
In a group of students, 10 students like Mathematics, 12 students like English, 4 students like both Mathematics and English, and 6 students like neither Mathematics nor English. The number of students in the group is ____
As shown in the figure, circle \(C_1\) with center \(O_1\) and radius \(r_1\) touches the square \(VWXY\) at points \(P\) and \(Q\), while circle \(C_2\) with center \(O_2\) and radius \(r_2\) touches the square \(VWXY\) at points \(R\) and \(S\). The two circles touch each other at \(T\).

Given \(r_1 = 1\) cm and \(\overline{VY} = \overline{VW} = 4\) cm, \(r_2 =\) ______ cm.
How many 3-digit numbers can be formed using three distinct single digit prime numbers?
In the sequence of tiles shown below, the missing tile indicated by the question mark should be
Four hills H1, H2, H3, and H4 are present in an area. The following observations are made about them:
(i) Neither H2 nor H3 is the easternmost hill.
(ii) Neither H2 nor H3 is the westernmost hill.
(iii) Neither the easternmost hill nor the westernmost hill is the southernmost hill.
(iv) Two hills are located to the west of H2.
(v) The southernmost hill has at least two hills to its east.
The southernmost hill is ________.
"He often _____ the numbers. False claims are not going to help. Honesty _____ trust", said the manager.

Choose the option with the correct order of words to fill the blanks.
A paper shown in Panel I is folded along the dashed lines (- - -) to construct a cube. The shaded regions shown in Panel I appear on the outer surface of the cube. Referring to cubes shown in Panel II, which one of the options is correct?
Panel I shows a 3 by 3 layout of tiles, where each tile is itself a smaller 3 by 3 grid of filled and open dots. The two tiles in the bottom right corner of Panel I are missing. Panel II shows four candidate pairs of tiles, labelled (i) to (iv), that could fill this missing space.

Two tiles are missing in Panel I. Which one of the options in Panel II is the appropriate choice for the missing tiles?
Expedite, Hasten, Hurry, __________
Fill the blank by choosing a word with a meaning similar to that of the words given above.
The values of Stock A and Stock B on a particular day are Rs. 50 and Rs. 80, respectively. An investor invests Rs. 100 in Stock A and Rs. 80 in Stock B. He sells all the stocks the next day when the value of Stock A is Rs. 55 and Stock B is Rs. 70. The profit made by the investor is Rs. ________
A black square PQRS has been cut into two parts. One part of it is shown in Panel I. Which one of the shapes labelled (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) in Panel II is the other part of the same square?