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Solved thought questions MCQs — 25 questions on calendar and age reasoning, seating arrangements, direction sense, set problems, number sequences and letter-position puzzles, with verified answers and explanations. Free online practice for FPSC, PPSC, NTS and all one-paper exams. Covers thought questions.
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This is the General Ability: Thought Questions solved MCQ bank from Advanced FPSC & Other Federal Model Papers (Edition 32): 25 published questions (book pp. 786-788, all 25 option-bearing items printed) on calendar and age problems, seating and ordering puzzles, direction sense, set counting, number-sequence counting and letter-position puzzles. Every answer was re-solved from scratch against the printed Answer Key on p. 788, and every question carries a worked explanation.
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Correct Answer: Monday
From 14 June to 14 August is 61 days (16 days left in June, 31 in July, 14 in August), which is 5 odd days; counting 5 days back from Saturday gives Monday.
Correct Answer: Wednesday
2008 is a leap year, so 31 December is 365 days after 1 January, which is 1 odd day; Tuesday plus 1 day is Wednesday.
Correct Answer: Thursday
Arshad was born 10 days after 21 August, on 31 August. Independence Day, 14 August, is Monday, so 28 August is also Monday and 31 August is Thursday.
Correct Answer: 44
Rahan's mother is now 3 x 12 = 36 years old; after 8 years she will be 36 + 8 = 44.
Correct Answer: 3 yrs
Let x be the years ago: 59 - x = 7 x (11 - x), so 59 - x = 77 - 7x, 6x = 18 and x = 3 years.
Correct Answer: 60 yrs
Raheem's father is 6 x 5 = 30 years old, and his grandfather is 2 x 30 = 60 years old.
Correct Answer: P
The order forced by the conditions and the keyed sub-answers is T, Q, P, R, S from the left, so the middle (third) seat is P. Note: condition (i) "R is not next to S" conflicts with this order, in which R and S are adjacent; the conflict is flagged in the notes.
Correct Answer: Q
The order forced by the conditions and the keyed sub-answers is T, Q, P, R, S from the left, so the second seat from the left is Q.
Correct Answer: S
The order forced by the conditions and the keyed sub-answers is T, Q, P, R, S from the left, so the extreme right seat is S.
Correct Answer: L, M, Z, T, Q
L is left of M, M is left of Z, Z is left of T and T is left of Q, giving the single order L, M, Z, T, Q.
Correct Answer: E and B are neighbors
With A opposite C and D between C and F, the remaining seats force E next to B: either way round the table, E and B end up adjacent, while B is not opposite D, E is not opposite C, and F sits between A and D, not between B and A.
Correct Answer: Faheem
The finishing order from fastest is Faheem, then Ali, then Kaber, then Sohail, then Anees, so Faheem was faster than all.
Correct Answer: 17
Ninth from both ends means 8 students on each side of Najma, so the row has 8 + 1 + 8 = 17 students.
Correct Answer: 24 kms - South
East 6 kms and then west 6 kms cancel out, while the two southward legs total 10 + 14 = 24 kms, so he is 24 kms to the south of the starting point.
Correct Answer: North East
From facing south, right turns take him west 20 m, then north 10 m, then east 60 m, leaving him 40 m east and 10 m north of the start, which is north-east.
Correct Answer: 345
Houses with TV or Radio number 180 + 120 - 80 = 220; adding the 125 with neither gives 220 + 125 = 345 houses.
Correct Answer: 20
Students learning Urdu or English number 40 + 35 - 15 = 60, so the remaining 80 - 60 = 20 are learning neither, which is the Arabic group.
Correct Answer: 3
Reading the sequence as one run, 2 is immediately followed by 8 three times: at the start (2, 8), after the 7 (2, 8), and near the end (2, 8 before the final 4, 3).
Correct Answer: 2
The triple 2, 8, 3 occurs twice in the sequence (at the start and after the 7); the final 2, 8 is followed by 4, not 3, so it does not count.
Correct Answer: O
Counting from the right (from A), the ninth letter is I; counting six letters to the left of I in the reversed arrangement (J, K, L, M, N, O) gives O.
Correct Answer: S
Swapping adjacent pairs turns ADMINISTRATIVE into DAIMINTSARITEV. The 4th letter from the left is M (position 4) and the 3rd from the right is T (position 12); the letters between them are I, N, T, S, A, R, I, whose middle letter is S (position 8).
Correct Answer: 60 Kgs
If weight is w, then w = 15 + (3/4)w, so (1/4)w = 15 and w = 60 kgs.
Correct Answer: 14.15 hrs
From 8.15 pm to midnight is 3 hours 45 minutes, plus 10 hours 30 minutes to 10.30 am, giving 14 hours 15 minutes.
Correct Answer: 9
The difference is (1/10) x 20 = 2, so the smaller number is (20 - 2) / 2 = 9.
Correct Answer: 23
50 gifts at two per child were bought for 25 children; with two children absent, 25 - 2 = 23 were present.
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25 questions, all 25 option-bearing items printed in the book (book Q67-91). Printed item 73 is a seating stem, not a question, and printed 91 occurs twice, so the bank renumbers the 25 items sequentially 1-25. No item was dropped.
Calendar-day problems (odd days), age problems, a five-friend seating puzzle and a five-student ordering puzzle, a round-table puzzle, a running-race order, a ninth-from-both-ends row, two direction-sense walks, set counting (TV/Radio houses and Urdu/English learners), counting 8s in a number sequence, a reversed-alphabet letter position, a letter-swap word puzzle, a fractional weight equation, a train journey duration, a sum-and-difference pair, and a gifts-per-child party problem.
Yes. Every published answer was re-solved from scratch and checked against the book's printed Answer Key on p. 788. The key's 25 entries map to the 25 option-bearing items in order, because printed 73 is a stem and printed 91 occurs twice: key labels 67-72 answer printed Q67-72, and key labels 73-91 answer printed Q74 onward, ending with key 90 for the sum-of-two-numbers 91 and key 91 for the birthday-party 91. Under that mapping 21 answers agree with the key and 4 are book-key overrides, published as the verified standard answers: Q67 is Monday, not Sunday (61 days from 14 June to 14 August is 5 odd days back from Saturday); Q69 is Thursday, not Wednesday (Arshad, born 10 days after 21 August, was born 31 August, three days after the Monday 28 August); Q72 is 60 years, not 75 (father 6 x 5 = 30, grandfather 2 x 30 = 60); and Q88 is S, not T (swapping adjacent pairs gives DAIMINTSARITEV, whose 4th letter from the left is M at position 4 and 3rd from the right is T at position 12, and the middle of the seven letters between them is S). The seating stem's condition that R is not next to S also conflicts with the only order satisfying the other conditions and the keyed sub-answers (T, Q, P, R, S); that conflict is flagged in the notes rather than hidden.
Thought-question and mental-ability items of this form appear in FPSC, PPSC, NTS, OTS and other one-paper exams, as well as CSS MPT-style reasoning sections, so the bank is tagged for all of them.
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