Canara Bank Probationary Officer Exam Paper
REASONING – MENTAL ABILITY – APTITUDE
1. ‘Captain’ is related to a ‘Team’ in the same way as ‘Director’ is related to
(1) Supervisor
(2) Employee
(3) Organisation
(4) Union
(5) Customer
2. Find the odd one out of the following options
(1) Aunt
(2) Child
(3) Father
(4) Niece
(5) Relation
3. Pointing to a photograph of Mahesh, Ram said. "The father of his sister is the husband of my wife’s mother". How is Ram related to Mahesh?
(1) Brother
(2) Brother-in-law
(3) Father-in-law
(4) Data not sufficient
(5) None of these
4. If ‘fork’ is called ‘plate’, ‘plate’ is called ‘knife’, ‘knife’ is called ‘jug’, ‘jug’ is called ‘glass’, ‘glass’ is called ‘cup’ and ‘cup’ is called ‘fork’, by what do we cut fruit?
(1) spoon
(2) jug
(3) glass
(4) saucer
(5) none of these
5. If ‘a’ is substituted by 26,’B’ by 25 and so on up to ‘Z’ which is substituted by 1, what will be the sum of the numbers substituted for the word ‘XRAY’?
(1) 33
(2) 40
(3) 37
(4) 73
(5) None of these
6. In a certain code COIMBATORE is written as DPJNCBUPSF. How is INDORE written in that code?
(1) JOENQF
(2) JMCPQD
(3) JOEPSF
(4) HMCNQD
(5) None of these
7. Geeta is elder to Seeta but not to Deepa. Gayatri is younger than Deepa. No one is elder to Fatima. Who is youngest of them all?
(1) Seeta
(2) Geeta
(3) Gayatri
(4) Data not sufficient
(5) None of these
8. Raman is sitting to the immediate left of Harry but not next to Kamal. Mahesh is sitting to the right of Kamal. If the four friends are sitting in a circle who is sitting to the immediate right of Harry?
(1) Mahesh
(2) Kamal
(3) Raman
(4) Harry
(5) Cannot be determined
9. How many three letter meaningful English words can be formed from the word NOTE beginning with ‘T’ and without repeating any letter?
(1) Three
(2) One
(3) Two
(4) None
(5) None of these
Directions (11-15): Answer question 11 to 15 based on the following sequence:
A $ B # 9 G 3D K « M ? C Q 2 X 7 P 5 U 8 I 4 Y ? J
11. How many elements in the above arrangement are both immediately preceded and immediately followed by a number?
(1) One
(2) Two
(3) Three
(4) Five
(5) None of these
12.Which of the following will be the fifteenth element from the left end if all the numbers are arranged in descending order from left to right, keeping the position of the other elements in arrangement u n-changed?
(1) 5
(2) 4
(3) 7
(4) 8
(5) None of these
13. How many letters in the above arrangement are immediately followed by a symbol?
(1) Two
(2) Five
(3) Four
(4) Three
(5) None of these
14. Which of the following will be eighth to the left of the twelfth from the left end of the arrangement?
(1) #
(2) 7
(3) U
(4) 9
(5) None of these
15. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on their position in the above arrangement and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to that group?
(1) G$M
(2) K9Q
(3) ?D7
(4) 2MU
(5) PCI
16. In a certain code language’ In ba pe’ means ‘he has won’,'le ki ba’ means ‘she has lost’ and ‘in se pe’ means ‘he always won’. Which word in that language means ‘he’?
(1) in
(2) pe
(3) se
(4) Data not sufficient
(5) None of these
17. X is Y’s brother. S is T’s mother and X’s aunt. How is T related to X?
(1) Sister
(2) Cousin
(3) Aunt
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these
18. If the letters of the word OBSERVANT are interchanged, such that the first becomes ninth, second becomes eighth, and so on, and the position of the fifth letter remains unchanged then what will be the new arrangement of letters?
(1) TNAVERSBO
(2) TNVARESBO
(3) NTAVERSBO
(4) VANTRESBO
(5) None of these
19. If 1 is coded as ?, 5 is coded as %, 6 is coded as «, 3 is coded as +, 7 is coded as # and 4 is coded as ? What will be the correct form of the number 435671?
(1) ? + % « # ?
(2) ? + % ? # «
(3) ? + « % # ?
(4) ? # « % + ?
(5) None of these
20. Which of the following have the same relationship as BREAD:DBARE?
(1) SWORN: NSOWR
(2) FUNDS: FSDUN
(3) GLAZE : EGZAL
(4) LOWER: RLEWO
(5) None of these
Directions (21-25): Read the following information and attempt the given questions:
Six executive Aman, Bindu, Deepa, Jitu, Kamal and Priyanka have to advertise four products i.e. soap, watches, computers and chocolates on 3 different channels, i.e. Go, Come and Fun either alone or in pairs. An executive can visit only one channel and advertise only one product. No more than two executives can advertise on a channel.
(i) Bindu and Jitu both visit the same channel but advertise different products.
(ii) Aman who visits ‘Go’ advertises neither soap nor computers.
(iii) Kamal does not advertise chocolates.
(iv) No girl advertises soap.
(v) The two executives who advertise chocolates visit Spice
21. Who advertises watches?
(1) Deepa
(2) Kamal
(3) Aman
(4) Priyanka(5) None of these
22. Which of the following Channel-product pairs in definitely incorrect?
(1) Go-watch
(2) Come-computer
(3) Go-soap
(4) Come-soap
(5) Come-watch
23. Which channel does Kamal visit?
(1) Go
(2) Fun
(3) Come
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these
24. If Bipasha advertises computers which of the following must be true?
(1) Jitu advertises soap
(2) Jitu advertises watches
(3) Kamal advertises computers
(4) Kamal works for Fun
(5) None of these
25. What will Jitu advertise?
(1) Chocolates
(2) Watches
(3) Computers or watches
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these
26. Swaroop and Simple want to attend a seminar together between 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday. Simple cannot leave till after her lunch break which begins at 1.30 p.m. Swaroop is free after her meeting which ends at noon. For how many hours can the two of them attend the seminar?
(1) 3 ½ hours
(2) 2 ½ hours
(3) 4 ½ hours
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these
27. How many pairs of letters are there in the word ANSWER each of which has as many letters between them in the word as there are in the English language?
(1) One
(2) Two
(3) Four
(4) Three
(5) None of these
28. Find the odd one out
(1) 2
(2) 7
(3) 11
(4) 13
(5) 9
29. If all the letters in the word MERCIFUL are rearranged in alphabetical order and substituted by the alphabet preceding them in the English alphabet what will be the new arrangement of letters?
(1) BDHEKLQT
(2) BDEHKLQT
(3) BDEHLKQT
(4) BDEJMLQT
(5) None of these
30. Out of 38 families in a housing society 5 subscribe to Hindi news-papers alone, 12 subscribe to both Hindi and Marathi newspapers. Find the number of Maranthi news-paper subscribers.
(1) 9
(2) 21
(3) 17
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these
Directions (31-35): Below are given letters and their numeric codes. Below that are given some conditions to be followed while codifying the given letter groups in each question. Study them and find out the correct numeric coded form of the given letter group in each question. If none of the coded forms is correct, your answer will be (5) i.e. ‘None of these’.
Letters M Q I N E Y U G R
Numeric Codes 2 5 3 7 1 8 4 6 9
Conditions:
(i) If the first and last letters are vowels both are to be coded as ?.
(ii) If the second letter is a vowel and the third letter is a consonant a single code is to be used and both are to be coded jointly as %.
(iii) If the first letter is a consonant and the last letter is a vowel both are to be coded as?
31. ENIMY
(1) 1%28
(2) ?732?
(3) 17328
(4) ?7328
(5) None of these
32. GENIR
(1) ?173?
(2) 6%39
(3) 6%79
(4) 61739
(5) None of these
33. QUERI
(1) 5%93
(2) ?413?
(3) ?4139
(4) ?419?
(5) None of these
34. EINUM
(1) 1%72
(2) 0%42
(3) 1374?
(4) 1%43
(5) None of these
35. UNGRE
(1) ?769 ?
(2) 4769 ?
(3) 47691
(4) ?7691
(5) None of these
Directions (36-40): In each question below are two statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the two given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two statements disregarding commonly known facts.
Give answer (1) if only conclusion I follows.
Give answer (2) if only conclusion II follows.
Give answer (3) if either conclusion I or II follows.
Give answer (4) if neither conclusion I nor II follows.
Give answer (5) if both conclusions I or II follow.
36. Statements: Some pencils are lead. All lead are ink
Conclusions:
I. Some ink are pencils.
II. All ink are lead.
37. Statements: Some ovens are refrigerator. Some refrigerators are ACs.
Conclusions:
I. Some ACs are ovens.
II. No. AC is oven.
38. Statements: All planes are birds. All birds are clouds.
Conclusions:
I. Some planes are clouds.
II. Some clouds are birds.
39. Statements: Some sweets are salt. No salt in spice.
Conclusions:
I.. Some sweets are spice.
II. No spice is salt.
40. Statements: Some papers are plastics. All papers are clothes.
Conclusions:
I. Some plastics are clothes.
II. Some plastics are papers.
Directions (41-45): Each of the following questions below consists a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide if the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Read both statements and:
Give answer (1) if the data in statements I alone is sufficient to answer the question while the data in statement II is not sufficient to answer the question.
Give answer (2) if the data in statement II alone is sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement I alone is not sufficient to answer the question.
Give answer (3) if the data either in statement I alone or in statement II alone is sufficient to answer the question.
Give answer (4) if the data in both the statements I and II are not sufficient to answer the question.
Give answer (5) if the data in both the statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question.
41. How is ‘cricket’ written in a code language?
I. ‘Dinesh play cricket’ is written as ‘do si ha’.
II. ‘play cricket now’ is written as ‘ha si ma’.
42. Who is the oldest among L, M, N, O,P?
I. P is older than M and N but not O.
II. L is older than O.
43. When is Rahul’s birthday?
I. Rahul and Shivani are twins.
II. Rahul was born on the last day of February in a leap year.
44. What is the strength of the class?
I. Shekhar stood 28 ranks below the top ranker and Mahesh who stood 5 ranks below him stood last.
II. Jayesh was 9 ranks below Ramesh who stood 27th from the top.
45. How far does Shruti live from the school?
I. Shruti has to cycle 3 kms. To her friend Mina’s house which is 4 kms. From thee school.
II. Gitanjali lives exactly opposite the school and walks 2 kms. to reach Shruti’s house.
Directions (46-50): The following questions are based on the five three digit numbers given below:
972 526 487 359 251
46. If the positions of the firs and second digits are interchanged which of the following will be third if they are arranged in ascending order?
(1) 359
(2) 972
(3) 526
(4) 487
(5) 251
47. If 2 is added to the sum of the digits of each of the above numbers how many will be multiples of 5?
(1) None
(2) One
(3) Two
(4) Three
(5) None of these
48. If 1 is subtracted from the last digit of each of the above numbers the sum of the digits of how many of them are prime numbers?
(1) None
(2) Two
(3) One
(4) Three
(5) All five
49. If the digits in each of the above numbers are written in reverse order which will be the second highest number?
(1) 251
(2) 359
(3) 487
(4) 526
(5) 972
50. If the positions of the digits of each of the numbers are interchanged such that the first becomes second, second becomes third and third becomes firs, which, of the following will be the highest?
(1) 972
(2) 526
(3) 487
(4) 251
(5) 359
Answer Key for Mental Aptitude Reasoning
1. (3) 2. (5) 3. (2) 4. (2) 5. (2)
6. (3) 7. (4) 8. (2) 9. (1) 10. (1)
11. (4) 12. (3) 13. (2) 14. (1) 15. (5)
16. (4) 17. (2) 18. (5) 19. (1) 20. (5)
21. (3) 22. (4) 23. (1) 24. (2) 25. (3)
26. (1) 27. (2) 28. (5) 29. (2) 30. (5)
31. (3) 32. (2) 33. (4) 34. (5) 35. (1)
36. (1) 37. (3) 38. (5) 39. (2) 40. (5)
41. (4) 42. (5) 43. (2) 44. (1) 45. (3)
46. (1) 47. (4) 48. (3) 49. (3) 50. (5)
GENERAL AWARENESS
1. SEBI Chairman is
a) C B Bhave
b) Damodaran
c) O P bhatt
d) Uday Kotak
2. The Vice President of International Olympic Committee is
a) Jiang Xiaoyu
b) Gurilla Lindberg
c) Sun Weide
d) Arun Natarajan
3. Chief Election Commissioner of India is
a) N Gopalaswamy
b) T N Seshan
c) J N Lyngdoh
d) Narin Chawla
4. Which of the following institutions find a place in FORBES 2000 scroll?
a) Canara Bank
b) Bank of India
c) ICICI Bank
d) Vijaya Bank
5. Which of the following companies find a place in FORBES 2000 scroll?
a) ONGC
b) SAIL
c) TCS
d) All of these
6. The acronym NATO stands for
a) North Atlantic Treaty Organisation;
b) North American Trade Organisation
c) New Agreement of Trade Organisation
d) Novel Agreement of Trade Organisation
7. The acronym MCX stands for
a) Multi Currency Exchange of India;
b) Multi commodity Exchange of India
c) Movable Commodity Exchange of India
d) Major Cash Exchange of India
8. The acronym NSEL stands for
a) National Stock Exchange Ltd
b) National Securities Exchange of India ltd
c) National spot Exchange Ltd
d) National Services Exchange Ltd
9. The acronym SDRs refer to
a) Special Drawing Rights of IMF
b) Social Deposit Receipt
c) Savings Deposit Receipt
d) Special Deposit Receipt
10. Tata Motors acquired which of the two companies?
a) Jaguar and Land Rover
b) Jaguar and Reva
c) Jaguar and Maruthi
d) Jaguar and Suzuki
11. Chief Justice of India is
a) R C Lahoti
b) A R Anand
c) Sabharwal
d) K G Balakrishnan
12. The speaker of the Lok Sabha is
a) Dr Manmohan Singh
b) Somnath Chatterji
c) Sonia Gandhi
d) Sheila Dixit
13. India became a sovereign democratic republic on
a) 15th August 1947
b) 26th January 1950
c) 2nd October 1947
d) 1 May 1948
14. The Prime Minister of Pakistan is
a) Yousuf Raza Gillani
b) Benazir Bhutto
c) Zardari Bhutto
d) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
15. The basic income tax exemption limit for 2008-2009 (Previous Year) is
a) Rs 1,10,000
b) Rs 1,50,000
c) Rs 1,55,000
d) Rs 2,50,000
16. The President of India is
a) Pratibha Devisingh Patil
b) Dr A P J Abdul Kalam
c) Dr Manmohan Singh
d) Mr Somnath chatterji
17. Who is the Ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha?
a) The President of India
b) The Chief Justice of India
c) The Vice President of India
d) The Prime Minister of India
18. Sub-Prime Crisis even penetrated strong countries like
a) Mexico
b) Argentina
c) Sudan
d) Hongkong
19. The Chairman of Knowledge Commission of India is
a) Sam Pitorda
b) Vinod Dhall
c) Radhakrishna
d) Srikrishna
20.Which State Government in India has sent the proposal to end 62 year old Pigeon Postal Services
a) UP
b) MP
c) Orissa
d) Kerala
21. Who is the Chairman of Economic Advisory Cuncil to the PM?
a) Bimal Jalan
b) Y V Reddy
c) Dr C Rangarajan
d) M S Swaminathan
22. WTO was started in the year
a) 1947
b) 1985
c) 1995
d) 2005
23. SENSEX refers to
a) Sensitivity Index
b) Index compiled on the basis of stock prices of top 30 companies listed in the Bombay Stock Exchange
c) Index of all stocks listed on the NSE
d) Index of Inflation of our country which is highly sensitive
24. UN Secretary General is
a) Ban-ki Moon
b) Sam Pitardo
c) Kofi Annan;
d) Hammarskjold
25. Taare Zameen Par—depicts difficulties faced by children affected by
a) Dislexia
b) Amnesia
c) Dementia
d) Paralysis
26. India test-fired Agni III on—
(A) May 15, 2008
(B) May 17, 2008
(C) May 20, 2008
(D) May 7, 2008
27. Which one of the following countries is not included in the elite club which India joined after its successful test firing of Agni III—
(A) Russia
(B) U.S.A.
(C) U.K.
(D) France
28. M. Natrajan is—
(A) Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister
(B) Chief Controller and Programme Director of Agni Missile System
(C) Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister
(D) None of the above
29. Currently which one of the following organizations is celebrating its golden jubilee (year) ?
(A) ISRO
(B) CBI
(C) DRDO
(D) NASSCOM
30. India and Malaysia held their joint naval exercise at—
(A) Andman island
(B) Nicobar island
(C) Lumut
(D) Kualalampur
31. SERB stands for—
(A) Social Enlightenment and Research Board
(B) Scientific And Engineering Research Board
(C) Scientists’ and Engineers’ Research Board
(D) Science and Engineering Research Board
32. CEP (Circular Error Probability) is associated with—
(A) Prithvi II
(B) Chandryan I
(C) Narco Analysis test conducted on Aarushis’ alleged murderer
(D) The finalization of Indo-US Nuclear deal
33. The country which recently announced to have its own version of Star Wars—
(A) France
(B) Japan
(C) China
(D) North Korea
34. The Indian state which, in May 2008, launched Food Security Scheme—
(A) Andhra Pradesh
(B) Chhattisgarh
(C) Tamil Nadu
(D) Jammu & Kashmir
35. The most coveted award at the 61st Cannes Film Festival was received by—
(A) ‘Hunger’
(B) Line of Passage
(C) ‘The Class’
(D) Three Monkeys
36. The Winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Contest is—
(A) Ravi Kumar
(B) Sameer Mishra
(C) Kuljit Singh
(D) None of these
37. ‘Travelling Through Conflict’ is a book written by—
(A) Hamid Ansari
(B) Cherie Blair
(C) Balraj Krishna
(D) Salman Rushdie
38. According to the Global Peace Index released in May 2008, the most peaceful country on the earth is—
(A) New Zealand
(B) Norway
(C) Denmark
(D) Iceland
39. Which of the following was recently granted Navratna status to ?
(A) PGCIL
(B) REC
(C) NALCO
(D) All the above
40. In terms of billionnaire population. Mumbai ranks…… at world level ?
(A) Sixth
(B) Fifth
(C) Fourth
(D) Seventh
41. According to a report, the number of Indians who have a problem of loud snoring during sleep is—
(A) 35 million
(B) 36 million
(C) 40 million
(D) 45 million
42. The government has planned to establish ………… universities of global standards across the country ?
(A) 10
(B) 14
(C) 20
(D) 16
43. The government has increased Minimum Support Price of—
(A) Wheat
(B) Paddy
(C) Cane
(D) None of these
44. India recently refused to accept the offer of funds/loans from World Bank for—
(A) Disaster management
(B) North-East projects
(C) Tiger
protection
(D) None of the above
45. Yves Saint Laurent recently died. He was a—
(A) U.S.A. film director
(B) First man to go to Mars mission
(C) Renowned fashion designer
(D) An internationally renowned financial expert