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GATE Reasoning and Comprehension: Logical and analytical reasoning – Previous Year Questions

26 GATE previous year questions on Logical and analytical reasoning (Reasoning and Comprehension, Psychology (XH5)) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2026 XH5 (Psychology) Q11 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Aman, Beena, Chiranjeevi and Dhiman are four siblings. Each of them is an expert in one of the performing arts, namely, dance, theatre, guitar and…
  2. GATE 2026 XH5 (Psychology) Q15 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Three statements, S1, S2 and S3 are given, followed with 4 conclusions, C1, C2, C3 and C4. S1: Hostel authorities organised a special lunch on…
  3. GATE 2026 XH5 (Psychology) Q16 (1 mark, Multiple select) – Six statements, S1 to S6, are given. S1: All GATE candidates are engineers. S2: Some GATE candidates are CAT candidates. S3: All GRE candidates are…
  4. GATE 2026 XH5 (Psychology) Q17 (1 mark, Multiple select) – Four couples M-N, O-P, R-L, S-E meet to have a dinner together on an eight-seater rectangular dining table with four seats each on opposite sides. The…
  5. GATE 2026 XH5 (Psychology) Q18 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Me and my spouse have a big family, comprising 8 females and 6 males. We have two sons and two daughters, of whom the eldest is unmarried. Out of my…
  6. GATE 2025 XH5 (Psychology) Q12 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Ankit, Arun, and Ankur have one apple each. Ankur also has one banana. Alam has one mango and one kiwi. Ankit has just bought one pineapple. Who has…
  7. GATE 2025 XH5 (Psychology) Q13 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – If each vowel in the word RESIDE is changed to its previous letter in the English alphabet and each consonant is changed to the next letter in the…
  8. GATE 2025 XH5 (Psychology) Q14 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Vipul, Ahmad, Santosh, and David are playing Carrom. Vipul and Ahmad are partners sitting opposite to each other. David faces towards South. If Vipul…
  9. GATE 2025 XH5 (Psychology) Q18 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – In a certain code language, ATTITUDE is written as TAUJUEDU and CHILDREN is written as HCJMENER. How LANGUAGE is written in that code language?
  10. GATE 2025 XH5 (Psychology) Q23 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Anand, Hari, and Chris are engaged in one of the three type of occupations – clerk, teacher, and plumber, not necessarily in that order. Each person…
  11. GATE 2024 XH5 (Psychology) Q17 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – In a particular code, if “RAMAN” is written as 52 and “MAP” is written as 33, then how will you code “CLICK”?
  12. GATE 2024 XH5 (Psychology) Q18 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – On the basis of the statements given below, which valid assumption(s) can be made? Statements: - Life has suffering - Desire is the cause of suffering…
  13. GATE 2024 XH5 (Psychology) Q19 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – If ‘KARAMCHAND’ is coded as ‘ICPCKEFCLF’ what should be the code of ‘CREATION’?
  14. GATE 2024 XH5 (Psychology) Q20 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Given an input line of numbers and words, a machine rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. Here is an illustration of an input and…
  15. GATE 2024 XH5 (Psychology) Q21 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – In a certain type of code, ‘they play cricket together’ is written as ‘mv kb lb iv’; ‘they score maximum points’ is written as ‘gb lb mb kv’; ‘cricket…
  16. GATE 2024 XH5 (Psychology) Q24 (2 marks, Multiple select) – Which of the following recommended action(s) seem to be appropriate with the stated problem? Stated problem: Many students at educational institutes…
  17. GATE 2024 XH5 (Psychology) Q26 (2 marks, Multiple select) – If A says that his mother is the daughter of B’s mother, then how is B related to A?
  18. GATE 2023 XH5 (Psychology) Q17 (1 mark, Multiple select) – A pandemic like situation hit the country last year, resulting in loss of human life and economic depression. To improve the condition of its…
  19. GATE 2023 XH5 (Psychology) Q18 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Six students, Arif, Balwinder, Chintu, David, Emon and Fulmoni appeared in the GATE-XH exam in 2022. Balwinder scores less than Chintu in XH-B1, but…
  20. GATE 2023 XH5 (Psychology) Q20 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – A code language is formulated thus: Vowels in the original word are replaced by the next vowel from the list of vowels, A-E-I-O-U (For example, E is…
  21. GATE 2023 XH5 (Psychology) Q22 (2 marks, Multiple select) – L is the only son of A and S. S has one sibling, B, who is married to L’s aunt, K. B is the only son of D. How are L and D related? Select the…
  22. GATE 2023 XH5 (Psychology) Q26 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Select the odd word and write the option number as answer: (1) Lek (2) Zloty (3) Diner (4) Drachma (5) Real
  23. GATE 2022 XH5 (Psychology) Q18 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – In a specific language, xer dan means “big horse”, liro cas means “red tomato” and dum cas dan means “big red barn”. The equivalent word for barn in…
  24. GATE 2022 XH5 (Psychology) Q19 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Park street is parallel to Rock street. Garden street is perpendicular (90°) to Lake street. Lake street is parallel to Rock street. For the situation…
  25. GATE 2022 XH5 (Psychology) Q20 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Six examinations are required to be conducted in a week starting from Sunday to Saturday. Hindi is not scheduled on the first day and English is not…
  26. GATE 2022 XH5 (Psychology) Q23 (2 marks, Multiple select) – Vinod has a pre-determined route. Each morning he delivers 37 newspapers to customers in his neighborhood. It takes Vinod 50 minutes to deliver all…