(Sample Material) India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) Study Kit "Reasoning - Statement & Assumptions"
Sample Materials of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) Study Kit
Subject: Reasoning Ability
Topic: Statement & Assumptions
Directions (Q. 56-60): In each question given below is a statement followed by two assumptions (I) and (II). You have to consider the statement and the following assumptions and decide which of the assumptions is implicit in the statement.
1. Statement: What a fool I am to rely on a trickster like Suman?
Assumptions:
(I) Suman is unreliable.
(II) I am a fool.
1. if assumption (I) is implicit; give answer
2. if assumption (II) is implicit; give answer
3. if either (I) or (II) is implicit; give answer
4. if neither (I) nor (II) is implicit; and give answer
5. if both (I) and (II) are implicit.
2. Statement: What a fool I am to rely on trickster like Suman?
Assumptions:
(I) Tricksters are not reliable.
(II) It is foolish to rely on a trickster.
1. if assumption (I) is implicit; give answer
2. if assumption (II) is implicit; give answer
3. if either (I) or (II) is implicit; give answer
4. if neither (I) nor (II) is implicit; and give answer
5. if both (I) and (II) are implicit.
3. Statement: If you are beautiful, we will catch your beauty. If you are not, we will make you beautiful.— An advertisement of a photo studio.
Assumptions:
(I) How to look beautiful is a problem of youngsters.
(II) Nobody desires to be beautiful.
1. if assumption (I) is implicit; give answer
2. if assumption (II) is implicit; give answer
3. if either (I) or (II) is implicit; give answer
4. if neither (I) nor (II) is implicit; and give answer
5. if both (I) and (II) are implicit.
4. Statement: If you are beautiful, we will catch your beauty. If you are not, we will make beautiful.-An advertisement of a photo studio.
Assumptions:
(I) A photograph can be beautiful even if a person is not.
(II) People like to be considered beautiful.
1. if assumption (I) is implicit; give answer
2. if assumption (II) is implicit; give answer
3. if either (I) or (II) is implicit; give answer
4. if neither (I) nor (II) is implicit; and give answer
5. if both (I) and (II) are implicit.
5. Statement: The new education policy envisages major modifications in the educations system.
Assumptions:
(I) Present education system is inconsistent with national needs.
(II) Present education system needs change.
1. if assumption (I) is implicit; give answer
2. if assumption (II) is implicit; give answer
3. if either (I) or (II) is implicit; give answer
4. if neither (I) nor (II) is implicit; and give answer
5. if both (I) and (II) are implicit.
