Reasoning for Government Exams: Notes, Questions & Cheatsheets
Everything published for Reasoning, gathered in one place: the study series to work through, practice questions with answers and explanations, and the cheatsheets, tips and word lists worth keeping for revision.
Or take them as a set: the Reasoning practice set
Cheatsheets
Logical Venn Diagrams Cheat Sheet
A quick reasoning revision sheet for logical Venn diagrams — the three ways groups relate (separate, one inside another, overlapping), how to choose the diagram that fits three given terms, and the region-counting type — with worked examples, for fast SSC, Banking and Railway revision.
Blood Relations Cheat Sheet
A quick reasoning revision sheet for blood-relation questions — the key relationship terms, how to draw a family tree with symbols, the generation levels, and the method for the pointing and coded-relation puzzles — with a worked example, for fast SSC, Banking and Railway revision.
Analogy and Classification Cheat Sheet
A quick reasoning revision sheet for analogy and classification — the common relationship types the exam uses (synonym, antonym, part-whole, worker-tool, cause-effect, category), the method for completing an analogy, and the odd-one-out technique for classification — with worked examples, for fast SSC, Banking and Railway revision.
Number and Letter Series Cheat Sheet
A quick reasoning revision sheet for number and letter series — the common patterns of difference, product, squares and cubes, alternating and mixed series, plus position-based letter series — with the step-by-step method for finding the next term and worked examples, for fast SSC, Banking and Railway revision.
Syllogism Cheat Sheet
A quick reasoning revision sheet for syllogism — reading All, Some and No statements, the reliable Venn-diagram method for testing conclusions, the valid combinations, and the either-or and possibility cases — with worked examples, for fast SSC, Banking and Railway revision.
Coding-Decoding Cheat Sheet
A quick reasoning revision sheet for coding-decoding — letter-position values, letter-shift coding, number and symbol coding, and substitution (fictitious-language) coding — with the step-by-step method for finding the rule and a worked example, for fast SSC, Banking and Railway revision.
Direction Sense Cheat Sheet
A quick reasoning revision sheet for direction-sense questions — the compass directions and turns, finding the final direction after left and right turns, the shortest-distance (net displacement) using Pythagoras, and the shadow-direction rule — with a worked example, for fast SSC, Banking and Railway revision.
Mathematical Operations Cheat Sheet
A quick reasoning revision sheet for mathematical operations — applying BODMAS after decoding, the symbol-substitution type where the operators are disguised, and the sign-interchange type — with the step-by-step method, a worked example and the common left-to-right slip to avoid, for fast SSC, Banking and Railway revision.
Machine Input Output Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on machine input-output reasoning for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers how a word-and-number machine rearranges items step by step, the common rule types, how to find the hidden rule, how to reach a later step quickly, and the common traps, with a worked example.
Data Sufficiency Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on data sufficiency for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the golden rule of judging sufficiency without solving, the standard five answer options, a clear step-by-step method for testing each statement, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly before the exam.
Decision Making Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on decision making for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers how these questions give eligibility conditions and a candidate's data, the standard outcomes, how to apply each condition and its exceptions, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly before the exam.
Course of Action Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on course of action for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers what a course of action is, the three tests a good one must pass, when a course of action does not follow, the standard answer choices, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly before the exam.
Logical Sequence Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on logical sequence of words for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers how to arrange words or events in a natural order, the common ordering patterns, the method of spotting the right chain, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly before the exam.
Statement and Arguments Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on statement and arguments for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers what makes an argument strong or weak, the tests you apply to each argument, the standard answer choices, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly before the exam.
Statement and Conclusions Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on statement and conclusions for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers what a conclusion is, the rule that it must follow only from the given statement, when a conclusion does not follow, the standard answer choices, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly.
Conditional Statements Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on conditional statements for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the if-then form, the converse, inverse and contrapositive, which of these are logically equivalent, necessary and sufficient conditions, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly before the exam.
Cause and Effect Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on cause and effect reasoning for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers how to tell a cause from an effect, the standard relationship options, the role of time order, independent events and a common cause, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly.
Statement and Inferences Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on statement and inferences for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers what an inference is, the five-way grading from definitely true to definitely false, how to judge each inference from the passage alone, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly before the exam.
Statement and Assumptions Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on statement and assumptions for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers what an assumption is, the negation test for whether one is implicit, when an assumption is not implicit, the standard answer choices, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly.
Assertion and Reason Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on assertion and reason for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the structure of an assertion-reason question, the standard answer options, the step-by-step method of judging each statement and the link between them, and the common traps, with a worked example to revise quickly.
Inequalities Reasoning Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on reasoning inequalities for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the inequality symbols, how to combine relations into a chain, when a conclusion is definitely true, the coded-inequality type, and the either-or case that trips up most candidates, with clear examples.
Order and Ranking Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on order and ranking for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the total-from-both-ends formula, how to convert a rank from one end to the other, how to handle "between" problems, and the common traps, with worked examples you can revise in a minute.
Seating Arrangement Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on seating arrangement and puzzles for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the linear, circular and rectangular arrangements, the left-right rule for people facing the centre or outward, and a step-by-step method for fixing positions and eliminating the wrong options quickly.
Alphabet Test Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on the alphabet test for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the letter position numbers, the EJOTY memory trick, the opposite-letter rule, and the common question types — nth letter from an end, letters between two, and the middle letter — with the quick formulas.
Calendar Reasoning Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on calendar problems for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It explains the odd-days method, the leap-year rule, the odd days in ordinary and leap years and in 100, 200, 300 and 400 years, and how to find the day of the week for any date, with a worked example.
Clock Reasoning Cheat Sheet
A quick revision cheat sheet on clock problems for SSC, Banking, Railway and state exams. It covers the degrees moved by the hour and minute hands, the formula for the angle between the two hands, how often the hands coincide, point opposite or form a right angle, and the common gaining-time idea, with worked examples.