List of top Logical Reasoning Questions

The post-truth era is, expectedly, marked by a discerning erosion of public trust in sources of information. Mass media — both traditional and new-age avatars — has borne the brunt of this mistrust. And for good reasons too. Social media, its most popular platform, is a harbinger of falsity. It is thus encouraging to see that at least the old guard of the media ecosystem — the newspaper — continues to defy this discouraging trend. A pan-India survey of media consumption by Lokniti found that print media remains the most trusted source of information. The finding is consistent with the heartening surge in public endorsement of the reliability of newspapers since the pandemic. An earlier survey, which attempted to examine the impact of the lockdown on ‘reading patterns’, had found that the number of readers who used to spend over an hour on newspapers every day had risen to 38%, up from 16% in the pre-lockdown period. The increased trust in newspapers is because the lockdowns coincided with the dissemination of the crudest kinds of misinformation about the pandemic in India and around the world and newspapers played a pivotal role in exposing these lies.
But that is where the good news ends — for the print media, at least. Among other things, the data collated by the survey found deepening footprints of social media in rural and urban constituencies while television continues to dominate the screen. These developments are consistent with global trends that reveal that the newspaper industry is struggling to contain the migration of readers and revenue to other formats, especially digital media. Ironically, the pandemic, which saw a resurgence in collective trust in newspapers, adversely affected the print media as traditional advertisers, reeling under the economic fallouts of Covid-19, cut back on advertisements. But the crisis in print precedes the pandemic. Newspapers have been outpaced by speedier, but also spurious, sources of information. The dominance of the image over text as a cultural phenomenon is another formidable challenge. The print media’s hopes of remaining competitive and profitable must, therefore, centre on using this collective trust as a form of capital. Survival strategies, especially the revenue model, must be re-explored and the emphasis shifted to in-depth analyses of news as well as eyecatching layouts now that newspapers are slower to reach news to the audience.
[Extracted, with edits and revisions, from “Good news: Editorial on print media remaining the most trusted source of information”, The Telegraph]

The depreciation of an economy’s currency is not a matter of concern in itself. The decline in value against major currencies has to be viewed within a set of macroeconomic factors. The recent depreciation of the Indian rupee is a case in point. The rupee has been depreciating for a long time. What are of concern now are the rate at which the depreciation is occurring and the underlying factors causing the change. The Russia-Ukraine war has disrupted supply chains causing commodity prices to rise, leading to a worldwide hardening of inflationary trends. This, in turn, has caused major central banks to raise interest rates, forcing investors back to the safe haven of the US dollar. For India, these headwinds from the global economy have caused several problems. The rise in international prices, especially of crude oil, has led to a higher import bill and, hence, a greater demand for dollars. Higher interest rates in developed country markets have caused a significant outflow of portfolio investments from India, aggravating the already climbing demand for dollars from a rising import bill. By May 2022, foreign institutional investors had pulled out Rs. 1.50 lakh crore from Indian markets.
In the face of these pressures, the rupee, left to itself, would decline in value as the rupee-price of a dollar would increase substantially. One way the Reserve Bank of India could stem the tide would be to sell off dollars in the market to ease the supply situation. However, this would mean that while the value of the rupee could be contained, the nation’s foreign exchange kitty would start to erode further. The RBI has been doing exactly that. The challenge before the RBI is this: how much to let the rupee depreciate and how much to intervene to prop it up? Too much depreciation would raise domestic inflation rates as the rupee-price of imports, especially oil, would raise costs of production. It could trigger a rise in policy-controlled interest rates while closely monitoring inflationary expectations. The biggest challenge is to navigate unpredictable international economic shocks in the near future. The Indian economy’s health is not exactly at its best. Exports may not be able to take advantage of a falling rupee since international demand is expected to stagnate. India’s growth and employment situations are yet to stabilise to what they were about a decade ago. The RBI has difficult choices: controlling inflation versus stimulating growth and stabilising the rupee without severely diminishing the economy’s foreign exchange kitty.
[Extracted, with edits and revisions, from “Stiff test: Editorial on depreciation of rupee & challenges before RBI”, The Telegraph]

Count the number of triangles and square in the given figure.

In a certain code 'I work hard' is coded as 'kom pe seet', 'work is worship' is coded as 'pun te seet' and 'I workship God' is coded as 'pun pan pe'. What is the code of 'hard' ?

Pointing towards Ram, Sita says that he is the son of my husband's father-in-law's wife. How is Ram related to Sita?

Which of the images A to D is next in the sequence (in place of ?)?

Bharti travelled 19 km to the East. She turned left and went 15 km. She again turned left and went 19 km. How far she is from the initial position?

In a competition Alka ranks 11^th from the top and 27^th from the bottom while Anamika ranks 14^th from the top. How many candidates have their names listed below Anamika's in that competition's result?

Select the pair in which the letter groups are similarly related as in the given pair:
CEH: IKN

Select the pair that has the same relationship as the original pair of words given below.
Diva : opera

Which of the figure will complete pattern of fig (x)?

X is facing east, he turns 100° in the clockwise direction and then 145° in the anti - clockwise direction. Which direction X is facing now?

Find the odd one among the following

Which region represents leaders who are neither singers nor Indians?

How many number of rectangles are there in the following figure?

Choose the correct alternative:
Assam: Dispur :: Nagaland: ?

If SPIDER is written as PSDIRE in a certain code, how would COMMON be written in that code?

Choose the correct alternative from the given ones that will complete the series:
3, 5, 35, 10, 12, 35,___,___

If the letter PRABA are coded as 27595 and THILAK are coded as 368451, how can BHARAT be coded?

Find the missing term of the given series :
1, 4, 27, 16, ?, 36, 343

In a certain language, '481' means 'sky is blue'. '246' means 'sea is deep' and '698' means 'sea looks blue'.
What number is the code for 'deep'?

When the following figure is folded to form a cube, how many dots would lie opposite the face bearing five dots ?

A clock seen through a mirror shows quarter to three. What is the correct time shown by the clock?

Choose the correct water image of the given figure :

Select a figure from amongst the four alternatives, which complete the given figure :