Aptitude Skills Lab End Assessment Batch 1

1. What is the missing letter in this series:
a z b ? c x

B

C

W

X

Y

2. What is the missing letter in this series:
c c d ? e f g g h

B

C

D

E

F

3. In a certain code AUDIT is written as 2*67$ and PUB is written as 8*5. How is BUT written in that code?

56$

5*$

57$

6*$

None of these

4. If a = 1, b = 2, c = 3.......z = 26 what is the value of p+q+r ?

33

51

52

48

5. 'Wall' is related to 'Brick' In the same way as 'Book' is related to

Page

Binding

Novel

Story

Author

6. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. which is the one that does not belong to that group?

BD

MO

QS

FI

TV

7. A, e, i, m, q, u, _, _

Y, c

B, f

G, i

None

8. How is my mother's sister's brother's wife's child related to me?

Brother

Uncle

Cousin

Nephew

9. If 'Blue' is called 'Green' . 'Green' is called 'White', 'White' is called 'Red' and 'Red' is called 'Yellow' then what will be the colour of milk?

White

Green

Yellow

Red

None of these

10. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. which is the one that does not belong to that group?

Violet

Blue

Green

Grey

Yellow

11. In a certain code JUNGLE is written as ITMFKD. How is NORM written in that code?

MNQL

OPSN

MPQN

ONSL

None of these

12. How many two digit numbers have their square ending with 8.

13

12

0

11

13. Suresh is five ranks below top student Samir in a class of forty students. What is Suresh's rank from the bottom in the class?

34th

36th

33rd

35th

None of these

14. The sum of three consecutive numbers is 132. Find the square of the largest number.

2026

640

900

2025

15. The 1east perfect square number which is divisible by 3, 4, 5, 6,and 8 is—

900

1600

2500

3600

16. A is 8 miles east of B.C is 10 miles north of B.
D is 13 miles east of C and E is 2 miles north of D.
Find shortest distance between A and E.

5 miles

6 miles

13 miles

18 miles

17. Father,s age is five times his son,s age. Four years back father was 9 times older than his son.Find their present ages

30yrs, 6yrs

25yrs, 5yrs

40yrs, 8yrs

None of these

18. How long will a train 150 metres long and travelling at a speed of 45 kmph, take to cross a platform of length 250 meters?

48 secs

32 secs

30 secs

None of the above

19. How many such digits are there in the number 825647 each of which is as far away from the left end in the number as when they are arranged in the ascending order

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

20. Varun is older than Jayesh. Dinesh is younger than Haresh. Suresh is older than Varun but younger than Dinesh. Who among them is the oldest?

Jayesh

Haresh

Dinesh

Cannot be determined

None of these

21. A train -110 m long passes a man, running at 6 kmph in the direction opposite to that of the train in 6 seconds. The speed of the train is—

54 km/hr

72 km/hr

60 km/hr

66 km/hr

22. 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, __

15

9

13

12

series of prime numbers

Explanation

series of prime numbers

23. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?

13

43

53

73

33

24. How many numbers from 1-40 will be left out if all those numbers each of which is exactly divisble by 4 and/ or has 4 as one of the digits are dropped?

27

30

31

28

None of these

25. If the consonants in the word DROVE are first arranged alphabeticalliy and the vowels are put in between two alphabetical order, which of the following will be the fourth from the right end after the rearrangement?

D

E

R

O

None of these

26. A shopkeeper earns a profit of 12% on selling a book at 10% discount on the printed price. The ratio of the cost price to the printed price of the book is—

99 : 125

55 : 69

50: 61

45 : 56

27. A boat takes 4 hours for travelling downstream from point A to point B and coming back to point A upstream. If the velocity of the stream is 2 kmph and the speed of the boat in still water is 4 kmph, whit is the distance between A and B?

8 km

9 km

4 km

6 km

28. M is towards south of B. B is towards west of N. N is towards. Which direction from M?

North

East

North-East

Cannot be determined

None of these

29. How many meaningful English words can be formed with the letters IEST using each letter only once in each word?

Two

Three

Four

Five

None of these

30. The ratio of the number of boys and girls in a school is 3 : 2. If 20% of the boys and 25% of the girls are scholarship holders, the percentage of the school students who are not scholarship holders, is—

78

80

56

70

31. How many terms of the series -9 , -6 , -3 ,.........must be taken such that the sum may be 66?

11

13

9

10

32. A man covered a-distance of 2000 km in 18 hours partly by bus at 72 kmph and partly by train at 160 kmph. The distance covered by bus is—.

860 km

640 km

1280 km

720 km

33. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. which is the one that does not belong to that group?

16

25

36

289

264

34. 37. In how many years will $1200 amount to $1323 at 5%p.a. compound interest?

3 years

2 1/2 yrs

2 yrs

None of the above

35. In a row of twenty five children facing North, Parkash, When shifted by four places towards his right, becomes tenth from the right end. What was his original position from the left end?

10th

8th

11th

9th

None of these

36. What is twenty percent of 25 % of 20.

2

1

5

4

37. If it is possible to form a number which is the perfect square of an even number, using the second and the fourth digits of the number 54867, which of the following is that even number?

8

6

12

There is no such number

None of these

38. T says, "m is sitting opposite to me' ; R says, 'N is sitting towards right of T'. If both of them are right and they are sitting at the four sides of a rectangular table, Who is sitting towards right of N?

T

R

T or N

Data inadequate

None of thses

39. Plane A leaves San Francisco International Airport for New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, a distance of 2500 miles. At the same time, Plane B, taking the same route in the opposite direction, leaves New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport for San Francisco International Airport. How long will it take Plane A and Plane B to cross, assuming the average speed of Plane A was 475 miles per hour and the average speed of Plane B was 525 miles per hour at the time the two planes passed?

5 hours

4 hours 30 minutes

3 hours 30 minutes

3 hours

2 hours 30 minutes

40. The difference between simple interest and compound. Interest on Rs. 1200 for one year at 10% per annum, reckoned half yearly is—

Rs. 8.80

Rs. 3

Nil

Rs. 13.20

41. There are 30 socks in a bag. Out of these 60 % are green and the rest are blue. What is the maximum number of times that socks have to be taken out so that atleast 1 blue pair is found.

21

2

18

20

42. Walking at 4/5th of his usual speed, a man reaches his office 15 mins late. Find his usual time for reaching the office?

45 mins

2 hrs

1 hr

30 mins

43. A does half as much work as B and C does half as much work as A and B together. If C alone can finish the work in 12 days, then together all will finish the work in—

6 days

7 days

4 days

5 days

44. How many such pairs of letters are there in the words MERIT each of which has as many letters between them in the word as in the English alphabet?

None

One

Two

Three

Four

45. Taps A and B can fill a bucket in 12 minutes and 15 minutes respectively. If both are opened and A is closed after 3 minutes, how much further time would it take for B to fill the bucket?

8 mm. 5 sec

8 mm. 25 sec

7 mm. 45 sec

7 mm. 15 sec

46. Of 500 people surveyed, 78 percent said they use their laptop computers at home, 65 percent said they use them in cafes, and 52 percent said they use them both at home and in cafes. How many of the people surveyed said they do NOT use their laptop computers either at home or in cafes?

60

48

45

40

9

47. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. which is the one that does not belong to that group?

Whale

Crocodile

Frog

Snake

Fish

48. If in a certain code "RANGE" is coded as 12345 and "RANDOM" is coded as 123678, then the code for the word "MANGO" would be

82357

84563

82346

82543

49. A glass was filled with 10 ounces of water, and 0.01 ounce of the water evaporated each day during a twenty-day period. What percent of the original amount of water evaporated during this period?

0.002%

0.02%

0.2%

2%

20%

50. Each of the 45 boxes on shelf J weighs less than each of the 44 boxes on shelf K. What is the median weight of the 89 boxes on these shelves? (1) The heaviest box on shelf J weighs 15 pounds. (2) The lightest box on shelf K weighs 20 pounds.

Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.

Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.

BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.

EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.

Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.