All Free Analytical and Logical Reasoning MCQs with Answers
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- A. assumes that being natural guarantees safety, which many natural poisons disprove
- B. uses an unreliable source
- C. is circular
- D. attacks the manufacturer
Explanation: Snake venom, arsenic and deadly nightshade are all entirely natural, so the premise does not support the conclusion.
Correct answer: assumes that being natural guarantees safety, which many natural poisons disprove22. Statement: "Two students in this class failed, so the teaching must be poor." The flaw is that it
- A. generalises from a very small and unrepresentative sample
- B. appeals to emotion
- C. presents a false dilemma
- D. reverses cause and effect
Explanation: Two cases say nothing about a whole class, and the failures might reflect absence, illness or individual circumstances rather than…
Correct answer: generalises from a very small and unrepresentative sample- A. circular, assuming what it sets out to prove
- B. based on strong evidence
- C. a false dilemma
- D. an appeal to emotion
Explanation: The conclusion is smuggled into the premise, so the argument goes round in a circle and offers no independent support.
Correct answer: circular, assuming what it sets out to prove- A. Ayesha scored above 90
- B. Ayesha may or may not have scored above 90
- C. Ayesha scored below 90
- D. Ayesha did not sit the exam
Explanation: The statement guarantees a scholarship to high scorers but does not say they are the only recipients, so a scholarship could have been…
Correct answer: Ayesha may or may not have scored above 90- A. Some snakes are warm blooded
- B. No snake is warm blooded
- C. All warm blooded animals are snakes
- D. Some reptiles are snakes only
Explanation: Snakes fall entirely within reptiles, and reptiles are entirely excluded from the warm blooded category, so snakes are excluded too.
Correct answer: No snake is warm blooded- A. suggesting the causal direction may be reversed or confounded
- B. attacking the researchers personally
- C. appealing to authority
- D. using circular reasoning
Explanation: The critic proposes that being overweight leads to skipping breakfast rather than the other way round, which challenges the direction of…
Correct answer: suggesting the causal direction may be reversed or confounded- A. a slippery slope
- B. an appeal to authority
- C. a hasty generalisation
- D. a false dilemma
Explanation: A slippery slope claims that one modest step will inevitably lead to an extreme outcome without showing why each stage must follow.
Correct answer: a slippery slope- A. Some medicines are not affordable for everyone
- B. All medicines are unaffordable
- C. No medicine is affordable
- D. All expensive things are medicines
Explanation: The first statement covers only part of the class of medicines, so any valid conclusion must also be limited to some.
Correct answer: Some medicines are not affordable for everyone- A. Karachi is the best city in Pakistan
- B. Karachi is the most populous city in Pakistan
- C. Karachi should receive more funding
- D. Karachi's weather is unpleasant
Explanation: A fact can be checked against evidence such as census data, whereas best, should and unpleasant all express judgements that different…
Correct answer: Karachi is the most populous city in Pakistan- A. ice cream causes accidents
- B. accidents cause ice cream sales
- C. both rise in hot weather, which is a common cause
- D. the report is fabricated
Explanation: Hot weather increases both outdoor activity, and therefore accidents, and ice cream sales, so the two are linked through a third variable…
Correct answer: both rise in hot weather, which is a common cause- A. the premises are interesting
- B. the premises are true and they logically lead to the conclusion
- C. the conclusion is popular
- D. the argument is long
Explanation: A sound argument requires both true premises and a valid logical structure, and failing either one destroys the support.
Correct answer: the premises are true and they logically lead to the conclusion- A. All erasers are pens
- B. All pens are erasers
- C. Some erasers are not pencils
- D. No pen is an eraser
Explanation: The two statements chain together, so everything in the pen category is inside pencils and therefore inside erasers.
Correct answer: All pens are erasers- A. All books are stories
- B. Some books are stories
- C. No book is a story
- D. All stories are books
Explanation: The books that are novels must also be stories, which guarantees that at least some books are stories, but nothing is known about the…
Correct answer: Some books are stories- A. All employees are lazy
- B. Some employees are not lazy
- C. No employee is lazy
- D. Some teachers are employees only
Explanation: The employees who are teachers cannot be lazy, so at least some employees are not lazy, but the rest are unaccounted for.
Correct answer: Some employees are not lazy- A. It rained
- B. It did not rain
- C. The match was postponed
- D. Nothing can be concluded
Explanation: Denying the consequence of a conditional lets you deny its antecedent, which is the valid form known as modus tollens.
Correct answer: It did not rain- A. Sana passed the entry test
- B. Sana did not pass the entry test
- C. Sana may or may not have passed the entry test
- D. The entry test was easy
Explanation: The statement says passing is sufficient for joining, not that it is the only route, so Sana might have joined through a quota, transfer…
Correct answer: Sana may or may not have passed the entry test- A. Squares are a subset of rectangles
- B. Rectangles are a subset of squares
- C. No rectangle is a square
- D. All rectangles are squares
Explanation: The first premise places squares entirely inside rectangles and the second confirms that rectangles extend beyond squares, so the…
Correct answer: Squares are a subset of rectangles- A. Some cats are wild
- B. All cats are wild
- C. No definite conclusion about cats being wild can be drawn
- D. No cat is wild
Explanation: The wild animals mentioned might be entirely outside the cat group, so nothing definite follows about cats either way.
Correct answer: No definite conclusion about cats being wild can be drawn- A. Bilal is a member
- B. Bilal is not a member
- C. Bilal is a student
- D. Nothing follows
Explanation: The word only makes membership a necessary condition for use, so anyone using the library must be a member.
Correct answer: Bilal is a member- A. C is taller than A
- B. A is taller than C
- C. A and C are of equal height
- D. Nothing can be said
Explanation: Height comparisons are transitive, so the relationship carries through the chain from A to C.
Correct answer: A is taller than C