Puzzle For SBI PO

Directions (Q. 1-5): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions.
Eight persons M, N, O, P, Q, R, S and T belonging to different cities, viz Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai,
Mumbai, Lucknow, Jaipur, Pune and Bangalore, but not necessarily in the same order, went to Hyderabad

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to attend an awareness programme to reduce pollution in our country. Each had a different specialisation,
viz Literature, Science, Economics, Marketing, Designing, Information Technology, Choreography and
Acting, but not necessarily in the same order.
Q is from Chennai. S does not have specialisation in Literature or Science. O is from Lucknow and he
has specialisation in Designing. Neither R nor S has specialisation in Marketing or Information Technology.
One who is from Chennai has specialisation in Choreography. M and N have specialisation either in
Information Technology or in Acting. P does not have specialisation in Marketing and R does not have
specialisation in Science. One who is from Mumbai has specialisation in Literature and one who is from

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Delhi has specialisation in Science. S and T belong either to Pune or to Kolkata. M and S do not belong
to Bangalore and Pune respectively. One who belongs to Jaipur has specialisation in Acting.

1. Which of the following combinations is definitely true in respect of the above information?
1) M Jaipur Information Technology
2) O Mumbai Designing
3) T Pune Marketing
4) P Delhi Literature
5) S Chennai Economics
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2. Who is specialised in Information Technology?
1) M 2) P 3) S
4) Data inadequate 5) None of these

3. The person with specialisation in Information Technology comes from which of the following cities?
1) Lucknow 2) Bangalore 3) Mumbai
4) Delhi 5) None of these
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4. Which of the following persons is from Mumbai?

1) P 2) Q 3) R
4) T 5) None of these

5. Which of the following combinations is false in respect of the given information?

1) R Mumbai Literature
2) N Bangalore Information Technology
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3) S Kolkata Economics
4) Q Chennai Choreography
5) M Lucknow Acting

Directions (Q. 6-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.
Raju, Ram, Rita and Reena are four students of different classroom coaching centres of ABC, a
leading classroom coaching centre for IAS aspirants. Each belongs to a different state, ie UP, Uttarakhand,
Bihar and Odisha, but not necessarily in the same order. ABC arranged an All India Mock-Test series for
all the classroom coaching centres students of ABC in four cities Bangalore, Kolkata, Dehradun and

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Chennai. The students Raju, Ram, Rita and Reena appeared for the test series in different cities. When the
results were declared they got first to fourth position in All-India ranking. They were students of ABC, ie
Lucknow, Delhi, Patna and Cuttack, but not necessarily in the same order.

I. The one who appeared at the Bangalore test centre got the 4th position in All-India ranking. But

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he is not Ram. The one who appeared at Chennai for the test got the first position. The one who belongs
to Uttarakhand got the third position, while the one who studied at the Lucknow centre got the second
position in All-India ranking.
II. Raju and Ram studied neither at the Lucknow centre not at Delhi. They appeared for test
neither at Kolkata nor at Dehradun. They belong neither to Odisha nor to Uttarakhand.
III.The one who studied at the Patna centre does not belong to Bihar. The one who belongs to
Uttarakhand is not Reena. The one who studied in Delhi did not appear for the test at Kolkata centre. The
one who belongs to UP did not appear at Bangalore centre.

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6. In which of the following cities did Raju appear for the test?
1) Bangalore 2) Dehradun 3) Chennai
4) Kolkata 5) Data inadequate

7. Which of the following combinations is definitely true in respect of the given information?
1) Ram Dehradun 2 2) Rita Bangalore 4
3) Reena Kolkata 3 4) Raju Chennai 1
5) None is true
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8. Ram belongs to which of the following states?
1) UP 2) Bihar 3) Odisha
4) Cant say 5) None of these

9. Who got the second position in the All-India ranking?

1) Ram 2) Rita 3) Raju
4) Reena 5) Cant say
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10. Which of the following information is not true regarding Rita?

1) Rita got 3rd position in All-India ranking.
2) Rita belongs to UP.
3) Rita appeared for the test at the Dehradun centre.
4) She was a student of Delhi centre.
5) None of these
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Answers with Explanation

(1-5): Since most of the clues are negative, therefore you are suggested to tabulate the information in
the following table. Put a tick (mark) () if you get a positive clue. Put a cross (mark) () if you get a
negative information.

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Cities Specialisation
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Ba- Ec-
Ch- Luc- Lit- Sci- Ma- Des-
lhi kata enn- mbai kno- pur ne alo- era- enc- om- rke- igni- IT Choreo-
De- Kol- M u- Jai- Pu- ng- on-
graphy
Acting
ai w ture e ting ng
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M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T

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Combining both tables, we get
P e rs o n C i t ie s S p e c ia lis a t io n
M J a ip u r A c tin g
N B a n g a lo r e IT
O L uc k no w D e s ig n in g
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P D e lh i S c ie n c e
Q C he nna i C ho re o gra p hy
R M um b a i L ite r a t u r e
S K o lk a ta E c o n o m ic s
T P une M a r k e tin g

1. 3 2. 5; N 3. 2 4. 3 5. 5
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(6-10):

Te s t
N ame Clas s room State Pos ition
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Raju C uttack Bangalore Bihar 4
Ram P atna C hennai UP 1
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Rita Delhi Dehradun Uttrakhand 3

Reena Lucknow K olkata O disha 2

6. 1 7. 5 8. 1 9. 4 10. 2

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