NUMS — Medical & Dental Entry Test
Take the NUMS Logical Reasoning — Deductive Reasoning and Syllogisms (Set 3): 30 multiple-choice questions (40 minutes) with instant scoring and a full…
What this test covers
The first 5 questions of this test, with the correct answer and explanation.
Q1. Statements: Some pilots are engineers. All engineers are athletes. Conclusions: I. Some pilots are athletes. II. All athletes are pilots. Which option is correct?
Answer: A. Only conclusion I follows
Explanation: The pilots who are engineers are also athletes, so I follows. Nothing makes every athlete a pilot, so II fails.
Q2. Statements: All tablets are capsules. No capsules are syrups. Conclusions: I. No tablets are syrups. II. Some syrups are not tablets. Which option is correct?
Answer: C. Both conclusions I and II follow
Explanation: Tablets lie inside capsules, which have no overlap with syrups, so I follows. Syrups exist and none is a tablet, so II follows too.
Q3. Statements: Some roses are not flowers. All flowers are plants. Conclusions: I. Some roses are not plants. II. Some plants are roses. Which option is correct?
Answer: D. Neither conclusion follows
Explanation: The roses that are not flowers may still be plants, so neither conclusion is forced.
Q4. Statements: No sparrows are fish. All fish are creatures. Conclusions: I. Some creatures are not sparrows. II. No sparrows are creatures. Which option is correct?
Answer: A. Only conclusion I follows
Explanation: Reptiles are animals and are not birds, so some animals are not birds (I). Birds may well be animals, so II does not follow.
Q5. Statements: All trains are vehicles. Some buses are vehicles. Conclusions: I. Some buses are trains. II. All buses are trains. Which option is correct?
Answer: D. Neither conclusion follows
Explanation: The buses that are vehicles need not be trains, so neither follows.
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Q6. Statements: Some keys are locks. No locks are doors. Conclusions: I. Some keys are not doors. II. No keys are doors. Which option is correct?
Q7. Statements: All pens are books. Some books are not tables. Conclusions: I. Some pens are not tables. II. Some books are not pens. Which option is correct?
Q8. Statements: All judges are lawyers. All lawyers are citizens. Conclusions: I. All judges are citizens. II. Some citizens are judges. Which option is correct?
Q9. Statements: All apples are fruits. Some fruits are sweets. Conclusions: I. Some apples are sweets. II. Some sweets are fruits. Which option is correct?
Q10. Statements: No Mondays are holidays. Some holidays are weekends. Conclusions: I. Some weekends are not Mondays. II. Some holidays are not Mondays. Which option is correct?
Q11. Statements: Some poets are not writers. No writers are readers. Conclusions: I. Some poets are readers. II. Some poets are writers. Which option is correct?
Q12. Statements: Some doctors are teachers. No teachers are lawyers. Conclusions: I. Some doctors are lawyers. II. Some doctors are not lawyers. Which option is correct?
Q13. If the statement 'Some nurses are not vaccinated' is true, which of the following must also be true?
Q14. If a patient has dengue, then his platelet count falls. Ahmed's platelet count did not fall. What follows?
Q15. If it rains, the cricket match is cancelled. The match was cancelled. Which conclusion is valid?
Q16. Only students who score above 60% receive the scholarship. Sana received the scholarship. Which must be true?
Q17. Unless you register online, you cannot sit the test. Hamza sat the test. What must be true?
Q18. Which statement is logically equivalent to: 'If a figure is a square, then it is a rectangle'?
Q19. Which is the negation of the statement 'All the candidates passed the test'?
Q20. Which is the negation of the statement 'Some students are absent'?
Q21. Asad is taller than Bilal but shorter than Danish. Farhan is shorter than Bilal. Imran is taller than Danish. Who is the third tallest of the five?
Q22. Six students are ranked 1 to 6 in a test (1 is the highest). Zara ranks above Mona. Nida ranks immediately below Zara. Rabia ranks below Mona. Sadia ranks above Zara. Tania ranks last. Mona ranks below Nida. Who is ranked fourth?
Q23. Five parcels P, Q, R, S and T have different weights. P is heavier than Q, R is lighter than Q, S is heavier than P but lighter than T. Which parcel is the second heaviest?
Q24. Pointing to a photograph, Sara said, "The man in it is the husband of my mother's only daughter." How is the man related to Sara?
Q25. Meera's father is the only son of Nadia. Zoya is Meera's daughter. How is Zoya related to Nadia?
Q26. Each of A, B and C is either always truthful or always lies. A says, "B is a liar." B says, "A and C are of the same type." C says, "A is truthful." Who is truthful?
Q27. Ali, Bilal, Chand and Dawood are asked who broke a beaker. Ali: "Bilal did it." Bilal: "Dawood did it." Chand: "I did not do it." Dawood: "Bilal's statement is false." Exactly one of the four statements is true, and exactly one boy broke the beaker. Who broke it?
Q28. Either the generator is faulty or the fuse has blown, but not both. The generator has been tested and works perfectly. What follows?
Q29. A month of 30 days begins on a Wednesday. Which days of the week occur five times in that month?
Q30. Bashir walks 6 km north, turns right and walks 8 km, then turns right again and walks 6 km, and finally turns left and walks 4 km. How far is he from his starting point, and in which direction?