List of top General Aptitude Questions

In Panel I of the figure below, the front view and top view of a structure are shown. Which one of the 3D structures shown in Panel II possesses the views shown in Panel I?
An unbiased six-faced dice whose faces are marked with numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 is rolled twice in succession and the number on the top face is recorded each time. The probability that the number appearing in the second roll is an integer multiple of the number appearing in the first roll is ______.
The next figure (indicated by '?') in the sequence is
'People are crowding around pit into which elephant has fallen. I have never seen an elephant looking more bewildered miserable. Here it is in a most undignified position, thrust into a pit and made to look up a vast, curiosity-stricken crowd.'

Choose the option with the correct sequence of words to fill the blanks.
The table lists the unit selling price of five products P, Q, R, S, and T. On a particular day, 250 items were sold with the average selling price of Rs. 60. The following observations were made:
(i) The quantity of S sold was twice that of T.
(ii) The quantity of R sold was thrice that of T.
(iii) The quantity of Q sold was four times that of T.

ProductPQRST
Unit selling price (Rs.)10050406060

What is the quantity of product P sold on that day?
Consider the following statements about four numbers:
(S1) The average of the four numbers is 25
(S2) Each number is at most 40
(S3) Each number is at least 20

Choose the option that is necessarily correct.
'All the mangoes in the basket are good.'
If the above statement is false, then which one of the following statements is necessarily true?
Consider a string P of length \(l\) that is laid out as a straight-line segment. Another string K is laid out as a semicircular arc with string P as its diameter, as represented in Figure (i). When both the strings are shortened by a length \(x\) they can be re-arranged such that the shortened string K forms a full circle with the shortened string P as its diameter, as represented in Figure (ii). The value of \(x/l\) is ____________
The Roman senator Meritorius, his brother, his son, and his daughter have varying oratory skill levels. They are seated in rows and columns as shown in the figure with exactly one person sitting in each box. It is known that
(i) Meritorius' daughter and his brother are seated in the same column.
(ii) His son is seated diagonally across the sibling of the worst orator.
(iii) The best and worst orators are seated in the same row.
Who is the best orator?
Column 1Column 2
Row 1
Row 2
'The team more than 300 runs in 20 overs rains. However, some players needed to improve their batting skills.'

Choose the option with the correct sequence of words to fill the blanks.
Which one of the patterns labelled P, Q, R, and S is used to generate the following figure?
If a positive real \(x\) satisfies the following equation
\[ \log_2 x + \log_{\sqrt{2}} x = 48, \]
then the value of \(x\) 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 \(90^{\circ}\), \(r_3 =\) _____ cm.
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 the cubes shown in Panel II, which one of the options is correct?
(Panel I shows a flat cross-shaped net of six squares: a vertical strip of four squares one above another, with one extra square attached to the left of the second square in that strip and another extra square attached to its right, all joined along dashed fold lines. Some squares carry grey shaded regions and some are left plain white. Panel II shows two separate solid cubes, labelled (i) and (ii), each with grey shaded regions on some of their visible faces.)
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 _______
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 ______.
Exacerbate : Mitigate :: __________
Choose the option with the correct pair of words to fill the blank.
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 ________.
(The diagram shows five junctions joined in a closed loop shaped like a pentagon: a top junction connects down to an upper-left junction and an upper-right junction, the upper-left junction connects down to a lower-left junction, the upper-right junction connects down to a lower-right junction, and the lower-left and lower-right junctions connect to each other. This gives 5 junctions and 5 walkways in total.)
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.

Starting Arrangement: H H H T T T
Final Arrangement: T T T H H H
The minimum number of steps needed to go from the Starting Arrangement to the Final Arrangement, as shown in the figure, 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?
To continue the sequence of tiles shown, the tile indicated by the question mark should be:
(The tiles in the sequence contain, in order, 0 dots, 1 dot, 1 dot, 2 dots, 3 dots, and 5 dots, followed by a tile marked with a question mark.)
Suresh said, "I did it yesterday." Which one of the following options is the correct form of this sentence in indirect speech?
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 ______.
A box contains 26 cards with all English alphabets from A to Z.
The probability of randomly choosing the card with either 'E' or 'S' from this box 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.