All Free Analytical and Logical Reasoning MCQs with Answers

• A. seat 4
• B. seat 5
• C. seat 6
• D. seat 3

Explanation: Three seats to the right of seat 2 means 2 plus 3, which is seat 5. Counting the starting seat as one of the three is the common slip and…

• A. eight
• B. two
• C. four
• D. none

Explanation: With two people on each side, both occupy positions along the side rather than at the corners themselves, so no one sits at a corner.

• A. three
• B. two
• C. four
• D. five

Explanation: Excluding the two end seats leaves the three middle positions, seats 2, 3 and 4.

• A. three
• B. six
• C. nine
• D. twelve

Explanation: The number of arrangements of three distinct people is 3 factorial, that is 3 multiplied by 2 multiplied by 1, which gives 6.

• A. the person immediately on their right
• B. the person two places to their left
• C. the same person
• D. the person sitting opposite them

Explanation: Half of six is three, so a move of three places lands directly across the circle.

• A. at either end of the block M, N, O
• B. only at the right end
• C. only at the left end
• D. between M and N

Explanation: The clues lock M, N and O into a fixed block in that order, so the only free positions for P are before M or after O.

• A. on Y's right
• B. on Y's left
• C. opposite Y
• D. behind Y

Explanation: People facing north share the reader's orientation, so left and right are the same for both, and X remains on Y's left.

• A. listing every possible order
• B. subtracting the arrangements where A and B are together from the total arrangements
• C. assuming A always sits first
• D. ignoring the restriction

Explanation: Counting the unwanted cases and subtracting them from the total is far quicker than enumerating what remains, and it is the standard…

• A. Q or T
• B. T only
• C. R only
• D. P or S

Explanation: Q, R and T occupy positions one, two and five, leaving positions three and four for P and S in either order, so the middle seat is taken…

• A. six
• B. four
• C. twelve
• D. twenty four

Explanation: Circular arrangements of n people number n minus 1 factorial, because fixing one person removes the equivalent rotations, so for four…

• A. three
• B. two
• C. four
• D. one

Explanation: Sara is 5th from the right, so she is 12 minus 5 plus 1, that is the 8th from the left, while Bilal is 5th, and the children between them…

• A. His brother or himself
• B. His father
• C. His uncle
• D. His cousin

Explanation: The grandfather's only son must be the speaker's own father, so the person in the photograph is his father's son, which is either the…

• A. Sister
• B. Wife
• C. Daughter
• D. Mother

Explanation: B and C are siblings, so they share the same parents, and since A is the mother and D the father of that pair, A is D's wife.

• A. Father
• B. Brother
• C. Son
• D. Nephew

Explanation: Q being R's daughter makes R a parent, and P as Q's brother shares those parents, so P is R's son.

• A. His sister
• B. His aunt
• C. His mother
• D. His cousin

Explanation: The grandmother's only child must be Ali's own parent, so the woman is that parent's daughter, making her Ali's sister.

• A. Father
• B. Uncle
• C. Brother
• D. Grandfather

Explanation: A and C are B's children, and D is B's brother, so D is the paternal or maternal uncle of A depending on B's gender.

• A. Nephew
• B. Daughter
• C. Niece
• D. Cannot be determined

Explanation: If X is Y's father then Y is X's child, and since Y is not a son, Y must be a daughter.

• A. Brother
• B. Father in law
• C. Husband
• D. Uncle

Explanation: The only daughter of her father is the woman herself, so the man whose wife she is must be her husband.

• A. Sister
• B. Mother
• C. Aunt
• D. Cousin

Explanation: N and P are both children of O, and M as N's sister shares those parents, so M and P are siblings and M is P's sister.

• A. Her brother
• B. Her son
• C. Her nephew
• D. Her cousin

Explanation: The only daughter of her mother is the speaker herself, so the boy's mother is the speaker and the boy is her son.