The reasoning subject is a crucial component of both Bank and SSC (Staff Selection Commission) exams in India. This subject evaluates candidates’ logical and analytical reasoning abilities. Here is an overview of the reasoning subject in both types of exams:
- Bank Exams: Bank exams, including those conducted by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) and the State Bank of India (SBI), have a reasoning section that is designed to assess a candidate’s ability to think logically and solve complex problems. It typically includes the following types of questions:
- Logical Reasoning: Questions related to patterns, analogies, series, and syllogisms test a candidate’s logical thinking and the ability to identify relationships and patterns among various elements.
- Coding-Decoding: Candidates may be asked to decipher codes or encode words and phrases based on given rules.
- Blood Relations: Questions about family relationships and their representations.
- Direction and Distance: Assess a candidate’s ability to solve problems related to directions and distances.
- Seating Arrangements and Puzzles: Questions on arranging people or objects in a specific order based on given conditions.
- Inequalities: Involves solving inequalities and comparing quantities.
- Data Sufficiency: Candidates are provided with data and need to determine whether the given information is sufficient to answer a question.
- Alphanumeric Series: Questions based on a series of letters and numbers, where candidates need to identify patterns and relationships.
