'If Anish had scored hundred runs in today's match, he would have been made the captain of his team. He would have then become the youngest captain in his team's history. Unfortunately, he got out without scoring any runs. Hence, there won't be any change in the captaincy for now.'

Based on the paragraph above, which one of the following statements is true?

A recent survey shows that  of tobacco users were advised tos top consuming tobacco. The survey also shows that 3 out of 10 tobacco users attempted to stop using tobacco.

Based only on the information in the above passage, which one of the following options can be logically inferred with certainty?

Students of all the departments of a college who have successfully completed the registration process are eligible to vote in the upcoming college elections. However, by the time the due date for registration was over, it was found that surprisingly none of the students from the Department of Human Sciences had completed the registration process.

Based only on the information provided above, which one of the following sets of statement(s) can be logically inferred with certainty?

(i) All those students who would not be eligible to vote in the college elections would certainly belong to the Department of Human Sciences.

(ii) None of the students from departments other than Human Sciences failed to complete the registration process within the due time.

(iii) All the eligible voters would certainly be students who are not from the Department of Human Sciences.

Given below are two statements and four conclusions drawn based on the statements.

Statement I: Some bottles are cups.

Statement II: All cups are knives.

Conclusion I: Some bottles are knives.

Conclusion II: Some knives are cups.

Conclusion III: All cups are bottles.

Conclusion IV: All knives are cups.

Which one of the following options can be logically inferred?

The importance of sleep is often overlooked by students when they are preparing for exams. Research has consistently shown that sleep deprivation greatly reduces the ability to recall the material learn. Hence, cutting down on sleep to study longer hours can be counterproductive. Which one of the following statements is the CORRECT inference from the above passage?

An award-winning study by a group of researchers suggests that men are as prone to buying on impulse as women but women feel more guilty about shopping.

Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the given text?

“The hold of the nationalist imagination on our colonial past is such that anything inadequately or improperly nationalist is just not history.”

Which of the following statements best reflects the author’s opinion?

“We lived in a culture that denied any merit to literary works, considering them important only when they were handmaidens to something seemingly more urgent – namely ideology. This was a country where all gestures, even the most private, were interpreted in political terms.”

The author’s belief that ideology is not as important as literature is revealed by the word:

All hill-stations have a lake. Ooty has two lakes.

Which of the statement(s) below is/are logically valid and can be inferred from the above sentences?

(i) Ooty is not a hill-station.

(ii) No hill-station can have more than one lake.

R2D2 is a robot. R2D2 can repair aero planes. No other robot can repair aero planes. Which of the following can be logically inferred from the above statements?

A poll of students appearing for masters in engineering indicated that 60% of the students believed that mechanical engineering is a profession unsuitable for women. A research study on women with masters or higher degrees in mechanical engineering found that 99% of such women were successful in their professions.

Sourya committee had proposed the establishment of sourya institute of technology (SITs) in line with Indian institute of technology (IITs) to cater to the technological and industrial needs of a developing country.        

Which of the following can be logically inferred from the above sentence?

(i) In the initial years, SIT students will get degrees from IIT.

(ii) SITs will have a distinct national objective.

(iii) SIT like institutions can only be established in consultation with IIT.

(iv) SITs will serve technological needs of a developing country.

The given statements is followed by some courses of action. Assuming the statements to be true, decide the correct option.

Statement:

There has been a significant drop in the water level in the lakes supplying water to the city.

Courses of action:

(I) The water supply authority should impose a partial cut in supply to tackle the situation.

(II) The government should appeal to all the residents thought mass media for minimal use of water.

(III) The government should ban the water supply in lower area.

In a press meet on the recent scam, the minister said, “the buck stop here”. What did the minister convey by the statement?

Geneticists say that they are very close to confirming the genetic roots of psychiatric illness such a depression and schizophrenia and consequently, that doctors will be able to eradicate these disease through early identification and gene therapy. On which of the following assumptions does the statement above rely?

The number of people diagnosed with dengue fever (contracted from the bite of a mosquito) in north Indian is twice the number diagnosed last year. Municipal authorities have concluded that measures to control the mosquito population have failed in this region. Which one of the following statements, if true, does not contradict this conclusion?

By the beginning of the 20th century, several hypotheses were being proposed, suggesting a paradigm shift in our understanding of the universe. However, the clinching evidence was provided by experimental measurements of the position of a star which was directly behind our sun.

Which off the following inferences (s) may be drown from the above passage?

(i) Out understanding of the universe changes based on the positions of stars

(ii) Paradigm shifts usually occur at the beginning of centuries

(iii) Stars are important objects in the universe

(iv) Experimental evidence was important in confirming this paradigm shift

Statement: You can always give me a ring whenever you need.

Which one of the following is the best inference from the above statement?

Statement: There were different streams of freedom movements in colonial India carried out by the moderates, liberals, radicals, socialists, and so on.

Which one of the following is the best inference from the above statement?

One of the legacies of the Roman legions was discipline. In the legions, military law prevailed and discipline was brutal. Discipline on the battlefield kept units obedient, intact and fighting, even when the odds and conditions were against them. Which of the following statements best sums up the meaning of the above passage?

The horse has played a little known but very important role in the field of medicine. Horses were injected with toxins of disease until their blood built up immunities. Then a serum was made from their blood. Serums to fight with diphtheria and tetanus were developed this way.

It can be inferred from the passage, that horses were

Modern warfare has changed from large scale clashes of armies to suppression of civilian populations. Chemical agents that do their work silently appear to be suited to such warfare; and regretfully, there exist people in military establishments who think that chemical agents are useful tools for their cause.

Which of the following statements best sums up the meaning of the above passage: