SEATING ARRANGEMENT- REASONING STUDY ROOM

Guys Seating arrangement is most important part of reasoning section.It covers 15 marks in the bank exams

There are 4 types of ‘Logical-Arrangement’ questions

1. Circular : Sitting In a Round Table
2. Linear : Sitting in rectangular table or row
3. Traits: List of people given, A lives in Hyderabad and prefers T  and owns Maruti etc.
4. Family trees: A is the father of B who is mother Office…

These problems are quite easy to solve but can be very time-consuming if you do not proceed in a proper manner.

In order to solve seating arrangement questions, first of all diagram should be made. By doing so questions are easily and quickly solved.

Example 1:

1. 6 Boys are sitting in a circle and facing towards the centre of the circle.
2. Rajeev is sitting to the right of mohan but he is not just at the left of Vijay.
3. Suresh is between Babu and Vijay.
4. Ajay is sitting to the left of Vijay.

Who is sitting to the left of Mohan ?

Solution :

Hence, Babu is sitting to the left of Mohan.

Example 2:

1. Eleven students A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J and K are sitting in first line facing to the teacher.
2. D who is just to the left of F, is to the right of C at second place.
3. A is second to the right of E who is at one end.
4. J is the nearest neighbour of A and B and is to the left of G at third place.
5. H is next to D to the right and is at the third place to the right of I.

Who is just in the middle ?

Solution :

Hence, I is just in the middle.

Example 3:

Siva, Sathish, Amar and Praveen are playing cards. Amar isto the right of Sathish, who is to the right of Siva.

Who is to the right of Amar ?

Solution :

Hence Praveen is to the right of Amar.

Example 4:

1. A, B and C are three boys while R, S and T are three girls. They are sitting such that the boys are facing the girls.
2. A and R are diagonally opposite to each other.
3. C is not sitting at any of the ends.
4. T is left to R but opposite to C.

(A). Who is sitting opposite to B ?

(B). Who is sitting diagonally opposite to B ?

Solution :

(A). Hence, R is sitting opposite to B.

(B). Hence, S is sitting diagonally opposite to B.

If you want to practise more question on seating arrangement,below link is given..

PROBLEMS ON SEATING ARRANGEMENT

Dictionary (Alphabet) tests- 2

WORDS	MEANING
1.Sterling	Genuine
2.Sybarite	A luxurious person
3.Sinister	Harmful, dangerous
4.Sagacious	Intelligent, clever
5.Slacker	Very lazy, dull

STUDY ROOM- REASONING (HIGH LEVEL)

Reasoning: Topic wise breakup Bank Exam papers

	TOPICS	Marks
Reasoning Usual	Coding-Decoding	6
	Direction based tests	0
	Dictionary (Alphabet) test	0
	Maths operations, inequalities	3
	Sitting arrangement	13
	Eligibility Test	0
	Odd pair	3
	Data Sufficiency	5
	Input output	3
	Misc.	0
	Subtotal: Reasoning (Usual)	33
Reasoning High Level	Fact-assumption-inference-conclusion	2
	Course of Action	0
	Cause effect	1
	Strong/weak argument	3
	3 statement Syllogism	6
	Subtotal: Reasoning (Higher level)	12
Non Verbal	non-verbal (image based)	5
	Total: Verbal Reasoning (usual+higher)+Non verbal	50

STRATEGY 4 REASONING : Do & Don'ts

How people dig their own graves in Bank PO/Clerk exams?

1. They underestimate the level of competition.
2. They buy the books, magazines, download PDF files from internet and so on. But they only “gather” material. They never “process” the gathered material.
3. They just spend time in day dreaming and facebook, TV, SMS, PC/mobile games, cricket, loitering around etc.
4. They start serious preparation only AFTER receiving the exam call letter.
5. During the exam, they think, “ya ya ya the marketing and English section is “pappu” so I’m going to solve all questions here. And after that, I’ll go to maths and reasoning section.”
6. They get stuck in lengthy calculations of Data interpretation (because they’ve never practiced multiplication and division @home). And often make silly mistakes in calculation =negative marking.
7. They waste lots of minutes in sitting arrangement/eligibility test/non-verbal reasoning type questions.

Ultimately they cannot even cross the sectional cutoffs.( Getting in the final merit list is a far cry.)

So, How to avoid  your grave?

• Maximum revision + Maximum practice @home.
• Mind will always find excuses (my cousin’s wedding, workload @office, I’m not in the mood….) but while you’re making those excuses, someone somewhere is busy reading books and doing sums.
• The train of success doesnot show mercy on anyone, no matter how good the excuse is, this train will not wait for you.
• So always remember Anil Kapoor from Tezaab: “time hotaa nahi hai, time nikaalnaa padtaa hai”. (There is no time as such, but you’ve to take out time (to study)).”
• Donot “HATE” reasoning. In fact, Syllogism, sitting arrangement, eligibility test etc. reasoning questions can be solved with maximum accuracy in short time (once you’ve mastered them). So don’t consider them your enemies, make them your weapons. They’ll be immensely helpful in scoring high marks.
• When you get the question paper, you don’t have to solve all questions in a continuous sequence i.e. Reasoning question from 1 to 50. Then English 1 to 50 then DI from 1 to 50…
• Instead, first try to tick minimum 10-15 in each section first, and then come back and solve remaining questions.

Dictionary (Alphabet) tests- Today Words                                                                       

WORDS	MEANING
1.Obdurate	Wickedness, stubbornly
2.Odious	Hateful, Strong dislike
3.Ominous	Menacing, Fearful
4.Onerous	Troublesome, Oppressive
5.Obnoxious	Very annoying, offensive