Learning & Immersion for Employability @ GLAU

S11 Ranking Aptitude

Q1. How many 3's are there in the following sequence which are neither preceded by 6 nor
immediately followed by 9?
93 6 6 3 9 5 9 3 7 8 9 1 6 3 9 6 3 9
A. One B. Two C. Three D. Four

Q2. Count each 7 which is not immediately preceded by 5 but is immediately followed by either 2 or
3. How many such 7's are there?
5 7 2 6 5 7 3 8 3 7 3 2 5 7 2 7 3 4 8 2 6 7 8
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

Q3. In a row of trees, one tree is fifth from either end of the row. How many trees are there in the
row?
A. 8 B. 9 C. 10 D. 11

Q4. Raman ranks sixteenth from the top and forty ninth from the bottom in a class. How many
students are there in the class?
A. 64 B. 65 C. 66 D. Cannot be determined

Q5. Sanjeev ranks seventh from the top and twenty-eight from the bottom in a class. How many
students are there in the class?
A. 37 B. 36 C. 35 D. 34

Q6. Manoj and Sachin are ranked seventh and eleventh respectively from the top in a class of 31
students. What will be their respective ranks from the bottom in the class?
A. 20th and 24th B. 24th and 20th C. 25th and 21st D. 26th and 22nd

Q7. Malik is fourteenth from the right end in a row of 40 boys. What is his position from the left end?
A. 21th B. 24th C. 25th D. 27th

Q8. In a group of 40 boys, Raju is 12th from the left end and Raghu is 17th from the right end. If
Dilip is placed exactly between them what is his right hand rank?
A. 22 B. 23 C. 24 D. 25

Q9. In a queue, Amrita is 10th from the front while Mukul is 25th from behind and Mamta is just in
the middle of the two. If there be 50 persons in the queue. What position does Mamta occupy from the
front?
A. 20th B. 19th C. 18th D. 17th

Q10. Thirty-six vehicles are parked in a parking lot in a single row. After the first car, there is one
scooter. After the second car, there are two scooters. After the third car, there are three scooters and so
on. Work out the number of scooters in the second half of the row.
A. 10 B. 12 C. 15 D. 17

Q11. If the numbers from 1 to 45 which are exactly divisible by 3 are arranged in ascending order,
minimum number being on the top, which would come at the ninth place from the top?
A. 1 8B. 21 C. 24 D. 27

Q12. Vimal is 7 ranks ahead of Sathish in a class of 39. If Sathish’s rank is seventeenth from the last,
what is Vimal’s rank from the start?
A. 11th B. 13th C. 16th D. 18th

Q13. In a class of 35 students, Kamal is placed seventh from the bottom whereas Sunil is placed ninth
from the top. Manoj is placed exactly in between the two. What is Kamal’s position from Manoj?
A. 7 B. 9 C. 10 D. 12
 Learning & Immersion for Employability @ GLAU

Q14. In a queue, Vijay is fourteenth from the front and Jack is seventeeth from the end, while Mary is
in between Vijay and Jack. If Vijay be ahead of Jack and there be 48 persons in the queue, how many
persons are there between Vijay and Marry?
A. 8 B. 7 C. 6 D. 5

Q15. In a row of girls, Rita and Monika occupy the ninth places from the right end and tenth place
from the left end, respectively. If they interchange their places, Rita and Monika occupy seventeenth
places from the right and eighteenth place from the left, respectively. How many girls are there in the
row?
A. 25 B. 26 C. 27 D. Data inadequate

Q16. Students line up in a queue in which Ashok stands fifteenth from the left and Sakthi is seventh
from the right. If they interchange their places, Sakthi would be fifteenth from the right. How many
students are there in the queue?
A. 21 B. 22 C. 28 D. 29

Q17. In a row of boys, if A who is tenth from the left and B who is ninth from the right interchange
their positions. A becomes fifteenth from the left. How many boys are there in the row?
A. 21 B. 23 C. 27 D. 28

Q18. In a class of 90, where girls are twice that of boys, Shridar ranked fourteenth from the top, if
there are 10 girls ahead of Shridar, how many boys are after him in rank?
A. 23 B. 26 C. 25 D. 22

Q19. There are five books of different thickness. A is thicker than C and B is thicker than D. E is not
as thick as B, but is thicker than C. D is not as thick as C. Which is the thinnest book?
A. E B. D C. B D. C

Q20. Three persons A, B and C are standing in a queue. There are five persons between A and B and
eight persons between B and C. If there be three persons ahead of C and 21 persons behind A, what
could be the minimum number of persons in the queue?
A. 41 B. 40 C. 28 D. 27

Q21. In a class of 180, where girls are twice the number of boys, Rupesh [a boy] ranked 34th from the
top. If there are 18 girls ahead of Rupesh, how many boys are after him in rank?
A. 45 B. 44 C. 60 D. Can't be determined

Q (22/25). P, Q, R and S are four men. P is heavier than S, who is less rich and shorter than Q, who is
shorter than R but the richest of all. R is heavier than Q but lighter than S and richer than P.

22. Who is the poorest of all?

A. P B. Q C. R D. CND

23. Who is heaviest of all?

A. P B. Q C. R D. S

24. Who is definitely heavier than R and Q, but shorter than Q?

A. P B. Q C. R D. S

25. If P is the third richest, then who is the second richest?

A. P B. Q C. R D. S