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Aptitude Test Topic: Analytical Reasoning

Analytical Reasoning questions are designed to assess the ability to consider a group of facts and rules, and, given those facts and rules, determine what could or must be true. The specific scenarios associated with these questions are usually unrelated to law, since they are intended to be accessible to a wide range of test takers. However, the skills tested parallel those involved in determining what could or must be the case given a set of regulations, the terms of a contract, or the facts of a legal case in relation to the law. In Analytical Reasoning questions, you are asked to reason deductively from a set of statements and rules or principles that describe relationships among persons, things, or events.

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Analytical Reasoning: Analytical Reasoning Practice MCQ

After months of talent searching for an administrative assistant to the president of the college, the applicants have been narrowed down to 5--A, B, C, D, E .It was announced that the finalist would be chosen after a series of the all-day group & personal interviews were held. The examining committee agreed upon the following procedure.

  • The interviews will be held once a week.
  • 3 candidates will appear at any all-day interview session.
  • Each candidate will appear at least once.
  • If it becomes necessary to call applicants for additional interviews, no more than 1 such applicant should be asked to appear the next week.
  • Because of detail in the written applications, it was agreed that whenever candidate B appears, A should also be present.
  • Because of travel difficulties it was agreed that C will appear for only 1 interview.

Question Statement:

Which of the following correctly state(s) the procedure followed by the search committee?

  • After the second interview all applicants have appeared at least once.
  • The committee sees each applicant a second time.
  • If a third session, it is possible for all applicants to appear at least twice

I only
II only
III only
Both I and II

Explanation:

Correct Answer: A

  • After the second interview all applicants have appeared at least once ⇒ Condition 2 implies that this statement is true.
  • The committee sees each applicant a second time ⇒ Not true as condition 3 implies that committee sees only 1 candidate twice.
  • If a third session, it is possible for all applicants to appear at least twice ⇒ Condition 1 implies that only 3 candidates appear per session hence committee cannot call all candidates twice.

Hence only I is true.

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You are taking Aptitude Test No. 1

Each aptitude test is comprised of 10 except the last test which might have fewer than 10 in some topics.

You are at question (MCQ) number 7 and Test Number 1 of Analytical Reasoning: Analytical Reasoning. To deal with Analytical Reasoning questions, you must take lesson on the subject. In case of science and Art subjects revise your text books and in case of general aptitude topics take lessons from the topic page.

The question:

Which of the following correctly state(s) the procedure followed by the search committee?
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