Analytical Reasoning Questions | NTS Test Preparation Series | Step-by-Step Guide | Part - 120

In this video, we will learn the easiest way to solve Analytical Reasoning questions for NTS, PTS, and other competitive exams. We cover step-by-step logic for seating arrangements and distribution puzzles. Topic Covered: Basic concepts of Logic How to draw diagrams for puzzles Past paper MCQ solutions Analytical Reasoning, GAT, HAT, NAT, LAT Six contestants, R, S, T, U, V, and W, are to be placed first (highest) through sixth (lowest), though not necessarily in that order, at the start of a singles Ping-Pong challenge contest Exactly four young musicians are to attend a music workshop. The four are to be chosen from a group of seven eligible musicians: three boys— Fareed, Ghulam, and Hamid—and four girls—Junaid, Kiran, Minahal, and Nirma. The four are to be chosen according to the following conditions: Nine student—O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, and W—are the only student who can serve on three commissions designated A, B, and C, and each student must serve on exactly one of the commissions. A foundation has appointed two review panels to consider all projects to the foundation for funding. The members of one review panel are Kaleem, Liaquat, and Muneer, and they judge the merits of the projects for which funding is sought. The members of the other panel are Waseem, Rizwan, and Sarfraz, and they judge each applicant's qualifications. A project for funding is approved if the combined vote tallies from both panels yield a majority in support; otherwise, the project is rejected. An editor must choose five articles to be published in the upcoming issue of an arts review. The only articles available for publication are theater articles F, G, H and J, and dance articles K, L, M and O. Two families organized a dinner party together. The seating arrangement of the family members are according to the compulsions based on seniority family members. Qadir, Pervaiz, Imran and Nasir sit around a square table with eight chairs, which are equally distributed. Kamal, Hina, Tariq and Kiran join them at the table. Five runners Feroze, Gohar, Hamid, Imran and Majid are assigned to lanes numbered 1 through 5 on a track. Each runner has the option of wearing a knee brace during the competition. Two of the runners are from Lahore, two are from Karachi and one is from Islamabad. Exactly nine books must be arranged from first (leftmost) to ninth (rightmost) on a shelf. Read the following information carefully and answer the questions given below: 1. Seven meetings- A, B, C, D, E, F and G are to be scheduled. One on each day of a week that begins on Monday. The six winners – K,L,M,N,O and P of a national science contest, each won a college scholarship. The prizes for the first through six places were $30,000 $25,000 $20,000 $15,000 $10,000 and $5,000. The following information concers the winners were Six paintings- F G, H, J, K, and L- are to be sold at a three-day auction. The painting are to be divided into three groups- group1, group 2, and group 3- and each group is to be sold on one of the days of the auction. Samples of a yellow feed grain must be tested for contamination by one or more of the toxins. R, S, and T. A sample retains the color it acquires from a test unless another test changes the color of the sample. A commercial grower raises flowers in each of three different growing seasons every year- spring, summer and fall-winter, with the year beginning in spring. Exactly seven different kinds of flowers- Q, R, S, T, W, X and Z- are grown every year. Each kind of flower is grown at least once a year. The flowers are grown according to the following rules: An operating-room schedule is being set up for Monday and Tuesday of a certain week. On each of the days, either one long and two short operations or else four short operations must be scheduled. For each operation, a surgeon- Chakravarty, Silvers, or Tyson- will be scheduled. Patients to be scheduled will be selected from among patients 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Seven dignitaries- F, G, H, I, N, O, and P- are to be seated together at a diplomatic ceremony. They will be seated in a row of seven chairs, numbered from 1 to 7, from front to back. Any seating is acceptable as long as all seven dignitaries are seated, one in each chair, The art director of an advertising company is preparing a sales brochure for a boat-manufacturing company. To represent her client’s line of products, she wants a separate full-page color advertisement in the brochure for each of the following five types of boats Three ladies and four men are a group of friends, ie R, M, T, S, L, W and Z. Each one has a different profession, ie Lawyer, Travel Agent, Air-hostess, Doctor, Professor, Consultant and Jeweller and each one owns a different car, ie Alto, Corolla, Santro, Lancer, Ikon, Scorpio and Esteem, not necessarily in that order.