General Intelligence & Reasoning Questions asked in SSC Multitasking

We are giving 25 questions with answers of General Intelligence and Reasoning  asked in SSC Multi-Tasking Staff Exam (Non Technical) Held on 17-2-2014 1st Sitting. All answers are given in bold letters. These all questions will very helpful to you for the upcoming Multitasking competitive exams and will increase your intelligence skills. 





Directions (1-4) : In each of the following questions, select the related word/letters/number from the given alternatives.

1. Arousal : Need : : Effort : ?
(A) Personality (B) Motive (C) Success (D) Probability

2. ABCD : EFGH : : IJKL : ?
(A) OPQR (B) UVWX (C) MNPQ (D) NOPQ

3. 33, 66, 99, ?
(A) 133 (B) 130 (C) 131 (D) 132

4. Wheat : Cereal : : Water : ?
(A) Petrol (B) Liquid (C) Diesel (D) Kerosene

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Directions (5-7) : In the following question, find the odd word/ number from the given alternatives.

5. (A) Japanese (B) Swiss (C) French (D) German

6. (A) 17 (B) 19 (C) 13 (D) 21

7. (A) Sun (B) Moon (C) Sky (D) Star

8. Which is the wrong term in the series?
25, 36, 49, 81, 121, 169, 225
(A) 36 (B) 121 (C) 49 (D) 81

9. Mani starts from college and walks 3 kms towards East, turns right and walks 2 kms, turns right again and walks. What is the direction he is now facing?
(A) South (B) North (C) West (D) East

10. Arrange the following words as per order in the dictionary.
1. Continuation 2. Contention 3. Contain 4. Continuous 5. Count
(A) 3 2 4 1 5 (B) 3 2 4 5 1 (C) 3 1 2 4 5 (D) 3 2 1 4 5

11. From the given alternative words, select the word which cannot be formed using the letters of the given word–
METEORITES
(A) RIOT (B) ROSE (C) METER (D) REMOVE

12. If JACOB can be written as QZXLY, then KENDY can be written as–
(A) PVWMA (B) PVMWB (C) PUMWB (D) PVMWA

13. Make a meaningful word from the given responses.
AL _ E _
(A) S T (B) L R (C) T R (D) M R

Directions (14 - 15) : In the following questions, a series is given with one term missing. Choose the correct alternative from the given ones that will complete the series.
14. 15, 14, 12, 9, 5, 0, _ ? _
(A) – 11 (B) – 15 (C) – 6 (D) –7

15. 26, 22, 20, 16, 14, ?
(A) 8 (B) 4 (C) 12 (D) 10

16. If '÷' means '–', '–' means '×', '×' means '+' and '+' means '÷' then–
20 × 60 ÷ 40 – 20 + 10 = ?
(A) 80 (B) 60 (C) 40 (D) 0

17. Find the missing figure of the series from the given responses.

Ans : (B)

18. In the given diagram, Circle represents professionals, Square represents dancers, Triangles represents musicians and Rectangle represents Europeans. Different regions in the diagram are numbered 1 to 11. One the basis of the diagram, which among the following represents non-European professional dancers?

(A) 6 (B) 9 (C) 5 (D) 7

19. Select the missing number from the given responses–

(A) 22 (B) 18 (C) 26 (D) 24

20. Find out the number of squares in the given pattern.

(A) 20 (B) 23 (C) 12 (D) 18

21. Which answer figure-will complete the pattern in the question figure ?

Ans : (C)

22. Four corners of a rectangular shaded paper are folded as shown in the figure. Find out from the alternative answers how the folded figure would look.

Ans : (A)

23. Which of the answer figures is the right mirror image of the question figure?

Ans : (C)

24. Find the answer figure where a dot can be placed satisfying the conditions in which the dot is placed in the question figure–

Ans : (A)

25. A word is represented by only one set of numbers as given in anyone of the alternatives. The sets of numbers given in the alternatives are represented by two classes of alphabets as in two matrices given below. The columns and rows of Matrix I are numbered from a to 4 and that of Matrix II are numbered from 5 to 9. A letter from these matrices can be represented first by its row and next by its column, e. g. 'D' can be represented by 03, 22, etc. and 'R' can be represented by 56, 68, etc. Similarly, you have to identify the set for the word 'CAST'.
MATRIX-I
0 1 2 3 4
0 A C B D E
1 M T L K H
2 B M D A T
3 N C B H A
4 E L A K T

MATRIX-I I
0 1 2 3 4
0 P R V O G
1 V O F R I
2 S S P G F
3 J G R O I
4 I F Y P P

(A) 31, 42, 31, 20 (B) 31, 00, 13, 20
(C) 31, 12, 24, 00 (D) 31, 00, 75, 44