Online Logical Reasoning Test - Logical Reasoning Test 6

Which word does NOT belong with the others?

Reptile is to lizard as flower is to

Erratic Behavior occurs when an individual acts in a manner that lacks consistency, regularity, and uniformity. Which situation below is the best example of Erratic Behavior?

Today's high school students spend too much time thinking about trivial and distracting matters such as fashion. Additionally, they often dress inappropriately on school grounds. Rather than spending time writing another detailed dress policy, we should make school uniforms mandatory. If students were required to wear uniforms, it would increase a sense of community and harmony in our schools and it would instill a sense of discipline in our students. Another positive effect would be that teachers and administrators would no longer have to act as clothing police, freeing them up to focus on more important issues.
This paragraph best supports the statement that

In the 1966 Supreme Court decision Miranda v. Arizona, the court held that before the police can obtain statements from a person subjected to an interrogation, the person must be given a Miranda warning. This warning means that a person must be told that he or she has the right to remain silent during the police interrogation. Violation of this right means that any statement that the person makes is not admissible in a court hearing.
This paragraph best supports the statement that

Which of the following, if true, would weaken the speaker's argument?

Statements: Modern man influences his destiny by the choice he makes unlike in the past.

Conclusions:

1. Earlier there were fewer options available to man.
2. There was no desire in the past to influence the destiny.

Statements:

1. The prices of vegetables have been increased considerably during this summer.
2. There is tremendous increase in the temperature during this summer thereby damaging crops greatly.

Statement: The regulatory authority has set up a review committee to find out the reasons for unstable stock prices.

Assumptions:

1. The investors may regain confidence in stock market by this decision.
2. The review committee has the expertise to find out the causes for volatility in the stock market.

Statement: I have written several letters to the branch manager regarding my account in the bank but did not receive any reply so far.

Assumptions:

1. Branch manager is expected to read letters received from the customer.
2. Branch manager is expected to reply to the letters received from the customers.

Statement: The present examination system needs overhauling thoroughly.

Assumptions:

1. The present examination system is obsolete.
2. Overhauling results in improvement.

Statement: The end of a financial year is the ideal time to take a look at the performance of various companies.

Assumptions:

1. All the companies take such a review at the end of a financial year.
2. The performance data of various companies is available.

Statement: Children, who get encouragement, usually perform better. - A note by the Principal to the parents.

Assumptions:

1. Some parents do not encourage children.
2. Parents may follow Principal's advice.

Statement: Exporters in the capital are alleging that commercial banks are violating a Reserve Bank of India directive to operate a post shipment export credit denominated in foreign currency at international rates from January this year.

Courses of Action:

1. The officers concerned in the commercial banks are to be suspended.
2. The RBI should be asked to stop giving such directives to commercial banks.

Statement: Most of those who study in premier engineering colleges in India migrate to developed nations for better prospects in their professional pursuits.

Courses of Action:

1. All the students joining these colleges should be asked to sign a bond at the time of admission to the effect that they will remain in India at least for ten years after they complete education.
2. All those students who desire to settle in the developed nations should be asked to pay entire cost of their education which the government subsidises.

Statement: The Union Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation has fixed an annual target of Rs 10,000 crores by way of tourism earnings towards the end of the current decade.

Courses of Action:

1. There is no need of development of further new tourist spots to meet the target.
2. The Ministry should evolve attractive packages to woo the foreign tourists to meet the target.

Statement: A large number of students who have passed their XII Std. terminal examination in the country could not get admission to colleges as the number of seats available are grossly inadequate.

Courses of Action:

1. The evaluation system of XII Std. terminal examination should be made more tough so that fewer students pass the examination.
2. The Government should encourage the private sector to open new colleges by providing them land at cheaper rate.
3. The rich people should be asked to send their wards to foreign countries for higher studies enabling the needy students to get admission in colleges within the country.

Statement: "A rare opportunity to be a professional while you are at home." - An advertisement for computer literate housewives by a computer company.

Assumptions:

1. Some housewives simultaneously desire to become professional.
2. Computer industry is growing at a fast pace.
3. It is possible to be a professional as well as a housewife.

Statements: All pencils are birds. All birds are skies. All skies are hills.

Conclusions:

1. All pencils are hills.
2. All hills are birds
3. All skies are pencils.
4. All birds are hills.

Statements: All myths are fictions. No fiction is novel. All novels are stories.

Conclusions:

1. No myth is novel.
2. Some fictions are novels.
3. Some fictions are myths.
4. Some myths are novels.