SSB Intelligence Test Verbal Reasoning Mock Test 1
Question #1
Pedology : Soil :: Phycology : ?
Options
1) Fungi
2) Tissues
3) Algae
4) Fossils
Question #2
Mason : Wall :: Carpenter : ?
Options
1) Woods
2) Furniture
3) Carve
4) Labour
Question #3
Lethergy : Alertness :: Lend : ?
Options
1) Give
2) Take
3) Borrow
4) Spend
Question #4
Muslims : Mosque :: Sikhs : ?
Options
1) Golden Temple
2) Medina
3) Temple
4) Gurudwara
Question #5
Reluctant : Keen :: Remarkable : ?
Options
1) Usual
2) Restrained
3) Striking
4) Evocative
Question #6
Fill in the blank with correct nmber which goes with the seqence.
7, ___, 19,28,39.
Options
1) 11
2) 12
3) 13
4) 14
Question #7
Complete the series.
121, 225, 361, _____
Options
1) 441
2) 484
3) 529
4) 729
Question #8
Complete the series.
1,2,6,24, ____.
Options
1) 60
2) 95
3) 120
4) 150
Question #9
Complete the series.
5, 6, 9, 15 , ____, 40.
Options
1) 21
2) 25
3) 27
4) 33
Question #10
Complete the series.
1, 4, 2, 8, 6, 24, 22, 88, ____.
Options
1) 86
2) 84
3) 82
4) 80
Question #11
If MYSTIFY is to OAUVKHA, then NEMESIS is to _______
Options
1) MDLHRDR
2) PGOFUKU
3) PGOKUGU
4) OFNFTJT
Question #12
If MENTION is to LNEITNO, then PATTERN is to ________.
Options
1) APTTREM
2) PTAETNR
3) OTAETNR
4) OTAETRN
Question #13
If CERTAIN is coded as XVIGZRM, then how can MUNDANE be coded?
Options
1) MFMXZMV
2) NFMWZMV
3) NFMWZMX
4) VMZWMFN
Question #14
If DELHI is coded as CCIDD, then how would BOMBAY would be coded?
Options
1) AJMTVT
2) AMJXVS
3) MJXVSU
4) WXYZAX
Question #15
If SYSTEM is to SYSMET and NEARER is to AENRER, then FRACTION is to ______?
Options
1) CARFTINO
2) FRACNOIT
3) CARFTION
4) CARFNOIT
Question #16
Pointing towards a person in a photograph, Ameesha said. "He is the only son of the father of my sister's brother." How is that person related to Ameesha?
Options
1) Mother
2) Father
3) Maternal Uncle
4) Brother
Question #17
Pointing to a photograph, Vipul said, "She is the daughter of my grandfather's only son." How is Vipul related to the girl in the photograph?
Options
1) Father
2) Brother
3) Cousin
4) Niece
Question #18
Q's mother is sister of P and daughter of M. S is daughter of P and sister of T. How is M related to T?
Options
1) Grandmother
2) Father
3) Grandfather
4) Cousin
Question #19
A is B's sister. C is B's mother. D is C's father. E is D's mother. Then how is A related to D?
Options
1) Grandmother
2) Grandfather
3) Daughter
4) Grand Daughter
Question #20
Rajan is the brother of Sachin and Manick is the father of Rajan. Jagat is the brother of Priya and Priya is the daughter of Sachin. Who is the uncle of Jagat?
Options
1) Rajan
2) Sachin
3) Manick
4) None of these
Question #21
One day, Ritesh left home and walked 1 Km southwards, turned right and walked 0.5 Km and turned right and walked 1 Km and turned left and walked 1 Km. How many kilometers will he have to walk to reach his home straight?
Options
1) 1 Km
2) 1.5 Km
3) 2 Km
4) 2.5 Km
Question #22
A man is facing north-west. He turns 90o in the clockwise direction, then 180o in the anticlockwise direction and then 90o in the same direction. Which direction is he facing now?
Options
1) South
2) Southwest
3) West
4) South-east
Question #23
I am facing south. I turn right and walk 20 m. Then I turn right again and walk 10 m. Then I turn left and walk 10 m and then turning right walk 20 m. Then I turn right again and walk 60 m. In which direction am I from the starting point?
Options
1) North
2) North-West
3) East
4) North-east
Question #24
A is 40 m south-west of B. C is 40 m South-east of B. Then, C is in which direction of A?
Options
1) East
2) West
3) North-east
4) South
Question #25
From his house Rakesh went 1.5 Kms to the north. Then he turned West and covered 1 Km. Then, he turned South and covered 0.5 Km. Finally turning to East, he covered 1 Km. In which direction he is from his house?
Options
1) East
2) West
3) North
4) South
Question #26
Arrange the given words in the sequence in which they occur in the dictionary and then choose the correct sequence.
1. Preach 2. Praise 3. Precinct 4. Precept 5. Precede
Options
1) 2, 1, 5, 4, 3
2) 2, 1, 3, 4, 5
3) 2, 5, 1, 4, 3
4) 1, 2, 5, 4, 3
Question #27
Arrange the given words in the sequence in which they occur in the dictionary and then choose the correct sequence.
1. Wrinkle 2. Wriggle 3. Writhe 4. Wretch 5. Wrath
Options
1) 4, 5, 1, 2, 3
2) 5, 4, 2, 1, 3
3) 4, 2, 5, 1, 3
4) 5, 2, 1, 3, 4
Question #28
Arrange the given words in the sequence in which they occur in the dictionary and then choose the correct sequence.
1. Liver 2. Long 3. Late 4. Load 5. Luminous 6. Letter
Options
1) 3, 1, 6, 2, 4, 5
2) 3, 1, 6, 2, 5, 4
3) 3, 6, 1, 2, 4, 5
4) 3, 6, 1, 4, 2, 5
Question #29
Arrange the given words in the sequence in which they occur in the dictionary and then choose the word which comes in the middle.
1. Bhagat 2. Bhagwat 3. Bhagvati 4. Bhagirath 5. Bhagvant
Options
1) Bhagvant
2) Bhagat
3) Bhagirath
4) Bhagvati
Question #30
Arrange the given words in the sequence in which they occur in the dictionary and then choose the word which comes in the middle.
1. Mahender 2. Mahendra 3. Mahinder 4. Mahindra 5. Mohinder
Options
1) Mahender
2) Mahinder
3) Mahendra
4) Mohinder
Question #31
Find the odd one out.
Options
1) Book
2) Paper
3) Pencil
4) Pen
Question #32
Find the odd one out.
Options
1) Birch
2) Spruce
3) Cedar
4) Ebony
Question #33
Find the odd one out.
Options
1) Physics
2) Mechanics
3) Electronics
4) Optics
Question #34
Find the odd one out.
Options
1) Doe
2) Bitch
3) Drone
4) Mare
Question #35
Find the odd one out.
Options
1) Mustard
2) Cashewnut
3) Groundnut
4) Sesame
Question #36
Sentences are jumbled up. Choose the correct sequence to arrange the sentences in correct order.
A. Although there are large regional variations, it is not infrequent to find a large number of people sitting here and there and doing nothing.
B. Once in office, they receive friends and relatives who feel free to call any time without prior appointment.
C. While working, one is struck by the slow and clumsy actions and reactions, indifferent attitudes, procedure rather than outcome orientation, and the lack of consideration for others.
D. Even those who are employed often come late to the office and leave early unless they are forced to be punctual.
E. Work is not intrinsically valued in India.
F. Quite often people visit ailing friends and relatives or go out of their way to help them in their personal matters even during office hours.
Options
1) ECADBF
2) EAADCFB
3) EADBFC
4) ABFCDE
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Question #37
Sentences are jumbled up. Choose the correct sequence to arrange the sentences in correct order.
A. But in the industrial era, if you need to destroy the enemy’s productive capacity means bombing the factories which are located in the cities.
B. So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemy’s productive capacity, what you want to do is burn his fields, or if you’re really vicious, salt them.
C. Now in the information era, destroying the enemy’s productive capacity means destroying the information infrastructure.
D. How do you battle with your enemy?
E. The idea is to destroy the enemy’s productive capacity, and depending upon the economic foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case.
F. With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and be prepared to do battle with its enemy.
Options
1) FDEBAC
2) FCABED
3) DEBACF
4) DFEBAC
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Question #38
Sentences are jumbled up. Choose the correct sequence to arrange the sentences in correct order.
A. Michael Hofman, a poet and translator, accepts this sorry fact without approval or complaint.
B. But thanklessness and impossibility do not daunt him.
C. He acknowledges too—in fact he returns to the point often—that best translators of poetry always fail at some level.
D. Hofman feels passionately about his work, and this is clear from his writings.
E. In terms of the gap between worth and rewards, translators come somewhere near nurses and street-cleaners.
Options
1) EACDB
2) ADEBC
3) EACBD
4) DCEAB
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Question #39
Sentences are jumbled up. Choose the correct sequence to arrange the sentences in correct order.
A. Passivity is not, of course, universal.
B. In areas where there are no lords or laws, or in frontier zones where all men go armed, the attitude of the peasantry may well be different.
C. So indeed it may be on the fringe of the unsubmissive.
D. However, for most of the soil-bound peasants the problem is not whether to be normally passive or active, but when to pass from one state to another.
E. This depends on an assessment of the political situation.
Options
1) BEDAC
2) CDABE
3) EDBAC
4) ABCDE
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Question #40
Sentences are jumbled up. Choose the correct sequence to arrange the sentences in correct order.
A. The situations in which violence occurs and the nature of that violence tends to be clearly defined at least in theory, as in the proverbial Irishman’s question: ‘Is this a private fight or can anyone join in?’
B. So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is calculable.
C. Probably the only uncontrolled applications of force are those of social superiors to social inferiors and even here there are probably some rules.
D. However binding the obligation to kill, members of feuding families engaged in mutual massacre will be genuinely appalled if by some mischance a bystander or outsider is killed.
Options
1) DABC
2) ACDB
3) CBAD
4) DBAC
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Question #41
Rakesh crosses a 600 m long street in 5 minutes. What is his speed?
Options
1) 4.6 Km/hr
2) 7.2 Km/hr
3) 9 Km/hr
4) 11 Km/hr
Question #42
If a person walks at 14 km/hr instead of 10 km/hr, he would have walked 20 km more. The actual distance travelled by him is:
Options
1) 50 Km
2) 56 Km
3) 70 Km
4) 80 Km
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Question #43
A train can travel 50% faster than a car. Both start from point A at the same time and reach point B 75 kms away from A at the same time. On the way, however, the train lost about 12.5 minutes while stopping at the stations. The speed of the car is:
Options
1) 100 kmph
2) 110 kmph
3) 120 kmph
4) 130 kmph
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Question #44
A man complete a journey in 10 hours. He travels first half of the journey at the rate of 21 km/hr and second half at the rate of 24 km/hr. Find the total journey in km.
Options
1) 220 km
2) 224 km
3) 230 km
4) 234 km
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Question #45
In covering a distance of 30 km, Abhay takes 2 hours more than Sameer. If Abhay doubles his speed, then he would take 1 hour less than Sameer. Abhay's speed is:
Options
1) 5 kmph
2) 6 kmph
3) 6.25 kmph
4) 7.5 kmph
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Question #46
What is the meaning of the following idiom?
To leave someone in the lurch.
Options
1) To desert someone in his difficulties.
2) To put someone in difficulty
3) To come to compromise with someone
4) To annoy someone continuously.
Question #47
What is the meaning of the following idiom?
To beg the question.
Options
1) to refer to
2) to take for granted
3) to raise objections
4) to be discussed
Question #48
What is the meaning of the following idiom?
A man of straw
Options
1) A man of no substance
2) A very active person
3) A worthy fellow
4) An unreasonable person
Question #49
What is the meaning of the following idiom?
To hit the nail right on the head.
Options
1) to destroy one's reputation
2) to announce one's fixed views
3) to teach someone a lesson
4) To do the right thing
Question #50
What is the meaning of the following idiom?
TO set one's face against.
Options
1) To oppose with determination
2) To judge by appearance
3) To get out of difficulty
4) To look at one steadily
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