BITSAT 2012 Reasoning Sample Paper

The missing number in the given figure is:

What is 30% of 450?

Ten men can finish construction of a wall in eight days. How much men are needed to finish the work in half-a-day?

Find the next number in the series.
1, 2, 9, 28, 65, _______.

A shop gives 10% discount on the purchase of an item. If paid for in cash immediately, a further discount of 12% is given. If the original price of the item is Rs. 250, what is the price of the article if a cash purchase is made?

It was Wednesday on July 15, 1964. What was the day on July 15, 1965?

The average of is 16. Half the sum of is 23. What is the value of ?

What is the perimeter of the rectangle ABCD when AD = 3 and BD = 5 (Shown in figure)

If March 1 of a leap year fell three days after Friday, what day of the week will dawn on November 22?

The radius of the pool in a South Delhi Club is twice the radius of the pool in a North Delhi Club. The area of the pool in South Delhi Club is how many times the area of pool in the North Delhi Club?

How is % expressed as a decimal fraction?

A circle is circumscribed around a square (shown in figure). The area of one of the four shaded portions is equal to . The radius of the circle is:

Find the next number in the series : 235, 346, 457……

A sofaset carrying a sale-price ticket of Rs. 5,000 is sold at a discount of 4%, thereby the trader earns a profit of 20%. The trader’s cost price of the sofaset is:

A man was traveling on a motorcycle at the speed of 50 km/h for hours. Then a car full of youngster overtake him at a speed of 80 km/h. To overtake them he increased his speed to 70 km/h, but he could not overtake the car even after hours. How far did he travel in the total time of 4 hours?

How is expressed as percentage?

There are two urns, one containing two white balls and four black balls, the other containing three white balls and nine black balls. One ball each is drawn out of the two urns. What is the probability of getting two balls of the same colour?

The perimeter of a rectangle is 60 metres. If its length is twice its breadth, then its area is:

In a class there are two sections A and B. If 10 students of section B shift over to section A, the strength of A becomes three times the strength of B. But if 10 students shift over from A to B, both A and B become equal in strength. How many students are there in sections A and B?

Which of the following is the smallest?

A man spends a fixed amount per month on petrol. The trend with every hike in price of petrol is as follows:

Rs./litre : 1.5 2 3 4.5 6
Litres : 60 45 30 20 ?

What will be consumption when there price is Rs. 6 a litre?

The one rupee coin is placed on plain paper. How many coins of the same size can be placed round it so that each one touches the centre and adjacent coins?

The smallest number of 5 digits beginning with 3 and ending with 5 will be:

The first day of the year 1998 was Wednesday. If the birthday of Sucheta falls in 1998 was her birthday?

Sukhbir is taller than Randhir but not as tall as Ajit. If Manoj is taller than Nitin, who is shorter than Ajit, then who among them is the shortest?

The largest continent is:

Which pass was opened between India and China for trade?

If Drowsy is written as HVSAWC, BEAUTY will be written as:

Out of 1, 2, 3 and 4, which figure will come next of figure (I), (II), (III) and (IV)?

The highest railway line has been opened in July 2006 in which country?

7, 7,14, 42, 168, ?

What is earlier name of the present ‘National Library in Kolkata’?

The cube root of 1331 is :

At which inclination earth rotates about its axis

Jagan went to another town covering 240 km by car moving at 60 kmph. Then he covered 400km by train moving at 100 kmph and then rest 200 km he covered by a bus moving at 50 kmph. The average speed during the whole journey was:

The area of a triangle is equal to the area of a square whose each side is 60 metres. The height of the triangle is 90 metres. The base of the triangle will be

A horse is tied at the corner of a rectangular field, whose length is 20m and width is 16m with a rope whose length is 14m. Find the area which the horse can graze?

The capital of Mauritius is

Pedal : Cycling : Oar : ?

Sam and Rita was sitting in a park in the evening looking at the sunset to the horizon. What is the direction of their right hand side?

The highest total runs scored by a team in an ODI circket match is:

A shopkeeper buys 144 eggs at 90 paise each. In the way 20 eggs were broken. He sold the remaining eggs at Rs. 1.20 each. The percentage gain or loss is

In 1858 the first train from Howrah ran to

Who was the Prime Minister of Britain when India got independence?

The ball used in which of the games is usually oval in shape?

What is the value of x if ?

It takes 40 men eight days to earn Rs. 2000. How many men will earn Rs. 200 in two days?

A pipe of 2 inch diameter fills the water tank in one hour. If the diameter of the pipe is 4 inch in what time will the pipe fill the same tank?

If the arithmetic mean of six numbers is 4.5, what is the total sum of these numbers?

There are 40 coins in a bag, consisting of Rs. 5 and Rs. 2 coins. If the total amount is Rs. 140, how many Rs. 2 and Rs. 5 coins are there in the bag?

6(3 – x) – 5 (2x – 4) = 4(3x -) + 14
In the above equation the value of x is:

The first Indian Governor of the RBI was:

X walked 35 metres towards South, then turned left and walked 25 metres, and again turned left and walked for 35 meters. He then turned to his right and walked 20 metres. At what distance and direction from the starting point is X now standing?

The sum of the interior angles of a polygon is twice the sum of its exterior angles. How many sides does the polygon have?

Sam said to Rita “Your mohter’s husband’s sister is my aunt”. How is Rita related to Sam?

Four years ago, the average age of A and B was 18 years. At present the average age of A, Ba nd C is 24 years. What would be the age of C after 8 years?

Unscramble the letters of words and find odd one out:

Which is the greatest five digit number exactly divisible by 279?

Oranges are bought at 5 for Rs. 10 and sold at 6 for Rs. 15. The profit or loss as percentage is:

Which country has won the cricket world cup maximum number of times?

Which of the given Venn diagrams out of 1, 2, 3 or 4 correctly illustrates the relationship among the following classes?
Reptiles, Cobras, Turtles.

Express is decimal:

The marks obtained by 10 students in Science (out of 50) are 30, 41, 40, 41, 30, 41, 30, 28, 41, 40. The modal mark is:

6, 18, 24, 9, 27, 33, 11?, ?

Which of the Venn diagrams relationship among the following classes?
Cars, Scooters, Red.

X gives of his property to his wife and of the rest of his son. The remainder is divided equally to his two daughters. The share of each daughter is:

Karenge ya Marenge (Do or Die) was the slogan of which movement in India?

Xerophytes live predominantly in:

The area of the base of a right cone is 154 and its volume is 308 . The height of the cone is:

The L.C.M. of two numbers is 12 times their H.C.F.. The sum of the H.C.F. and L.C.M. is 403. If one number is 93, then the other number is:

Jamshedpur is located on the bank of:

The wages of 10 workers for a six-day week is Rs. 1200. What are the one day’s wages of 4 workers?

All natural numbers and 0 are called the _____ numbers.

Judge : Justice : Censor: ?