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Reasoning For Competitive Exams

Subject: Entrance and Placement Exams

🧩 63 Practice Tests & Quizzes 📘 89 Study Guides
Introduction

Reasoning is a key part of many competitive exams, as it assesses your ability to think analytically, logically, and critically. The importance of reasoning may vary depending on the specific exam, but it usually carries significant weight in the overall score. 

Some types of reasoning questions that are commonly used in competitive exams include:
Coding-Decoding, Seating Arrangement, Alphanumeric Series, Puzzle Test, Logical Reasoning, Blood Relations. 

Logical reasoning questions can be verbal or non-verbal.

Verbal reasoning questions assess a candidate's ability to solve problems expressed in words. Non-verbal reasoning questions assess a candidate's ability to solve problems expressed in numbers, letters, and figures. 

Here are some tips for improving your logical reasoning skills:
Practice conditional statements
Filter out biases
Play games that require logic
Note patterns in everyday life
Monitor your thinking for logical fallacies
Make observations

Verbal Reasoning Topics:

  • Coding-Decoding
  • Analogy
  • Classification
  • Alphabet Test
  • Word Formation
  • Sitting Arrangement
  • Sense of Direction Test
  • Number, Ranking and Time Sequence Test
  • Puzzles
  • Number Series
  • Letter Series
  • Inserting the Missing Character
  • Problems Based on Ages
  • Blood Relations
  • Clock and Calendar
  • Mathematical Operations and Symbol Notations
  • Logical Order of Words
  • Clerical Aptitude

Logical and Analytical Reasoning Topics:

  • Logic Based Venn Diagrams
  • Eligibility Test
  • Syllogism
  • Statement and Assumption
  • Statement and Conclusion
  • Statement and Argument
  • Statement and Course of Action
  • Verification of Truth of the Statement
  • Data Sufficiency
  • Part III : Non-Verbal Reasoning
  • Mirror Image
  • Water Image
  • Series
  • Analogy
  • Classification
  • Paper Folding and Cutting
  • Grouping of Identical Figures
  • Formation of Figures
  • Counting Figures
  • Embedded Figures
  • Figure Completion
  • Figure Matrix
  • Cube and Dice

Related Topics:

Data Interpretation

Quantitative Aptitude and Numerical Ability For Competitive Examinations


Latest Practice Tests / Quizzes
📝 Logical Reasoning Practice Test: Pattern Completion
📝 Logical Reasoning Practice Test: Figure Classification
📝 Logical Reasoning Practice Test: Missing Figures
Latest Study Guides
📄 Reasoning: How to Solve Word Analogy - Synonyms, Antonyms Worker-Tool Cause-Effect
📄 Reasoning: How to Solve Water Images - Reflection in Water, Difference from Mirror
📄 Reasoning: How to Solve Uncertain Number of Persons in Arrangements
Exam Survival Guides
🛟 Reasoning Puzzles Exam Survival Guide
🛟 Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (General Prep) Exam Survival Guide