Physician : The hormone melatonin has shown promise as a medication for sleep disorders when taken in synthesized form. Because the long-term side effects of synthetic melatonin are unknown, however, I cannot recommend its use at this time. Patient : Your position is inconsistent with your usual practice. You prescribe many medications that you know have serious side effects, so concern about side effects cannot be the real reason youwill not prescribe melatonin. The patient’s argument is flawed because it fails to consider that

Statements:

I The employees of the biggest bank in the country have given an indefinite strike call starting from third of the next month.

II The employees of the Central Government have withdrawn their week long demonstrations.

Statements:

I The literacy rate in the district has been increasing for the last four years.

II The district administration has conducted extensive training programme for the workers involved in the literacy drive.

Statements:

I The prices of petrol and diesel in the domestic market have remained unchanged for the past few months.

II The crude oil prices in the international market have gone up substantially in the last few months.

Statement: There is a substantial increase in the number of accidents causing deaths and severe injuries due to malfunctioning of the traffic signals.

Courses of Action:

I The traffic police should immediately post traffic personnel at the junctions.

II The signal system should immediately be repaired or replaced.

Statement: The killer entric fever has so far claimed 100 lives in some tribal villages in M.P. during the past three weeks.

Courses of Action:

I The residents of these villages should immediately be shifted to a non-infected area.

II The Government should immediately send a medical squad to this area to restrict spread of the killer disease.

Joe is younger than Kathy.

Mark was born after Joe.

Kathy is older than Mark.

If the first two statements are true, the third statement is

The Shop and Save Grocery is south of Greenwood Pharmacy.

Rebecca’s house is northeast of Greenwood Pharmacy.

Rebecca’s house is west of the Shop and Save Grocery.

If the first two statements are true, the third statement is

Statements:

Some saints are balls. All balls are bats. Some tigers are balls.

Conclusions:

I Some bats are tigers.

II Some saints are bats.

III All bats are balls.

QAR, RAS, SAT, TAU, _____

Q.201 Statements: All film stars are playback singers. All film directors are frilm stars. Conclusions: I. Al film directors are playback singers. II. Some film stars are film directors

ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES (WRONG TERAM
Case II: FINDING THE WRONG TERM IN THE GIYEN SERIES
Q(7). Find the wrong number in the sequence: 7.26,63,126,215,142,511

Statements:

(I) The children are being aggressive today.

(II) There is no specific limit for children to use mobile screens.

PMC Practice 13
Logical Reasoning
Cause and Effect
Elimination Tool:

Verbal Classification

If a – b = 3 and a2 + b2 = 29, find the value of ab.

Logical Reasoning
Logical Problems
Elimination Tool:

Which one of the following is different?

PMC Practice 5
Logical Reasoning
Logical Deduction
Elimination Tool:

Discernible and Palpable have _________ letters in common.

PMC Practice 3
Logical Reasoning
Logical Deduction
Elimination Tool:

On the day Bilal is born,
Jamila weighs more than Javed.
Javed weighs less than Junaid.
Of the three babies, Junaid weighs the most.
If the first two statements are true, the third statement is:

PMC Sample 1
Logical Reasoning
Logical Deduction
Elimination Tool:

ZA5, Y4B, XC6, W3D, _____

PMC Sample 3
Logical Reasoning
Letters and Symbols Series
Elimination Tool:

Statement and argument:

Statement: Should the public sector undertakings be allowed to adopt a hire-and-fire policy?

Arguments:

(I) Yes, as this will help the public sector undertakings to get rid of non-performing employees and will also help to reward the performing employees.

(II) No, the management may not be able to implement the policy in an unbiased manner and the employees will suffer due to the high-handedness of the management.

PMC Practice 13
Logical Reasoning
Critical Thinking
Elimination Tool: