14 November 2025 · Shift 3

Situation judgement A group leader's first duty is to find out why a member is not contributing — illness, difficulty with the topic or some personal problem. Talking to him and guiding him removes the cause, keeps the team together and gets the project moving again, so option (c) is correct. Removing him at once (a) or complaining to the teacher (b) is an extreme first step, and doing his share herself (d) overloads the leader without curing the problem.

Workplace sensitivity The member did not mean to offend anyone; the colour or symbol simply carries a different meaning in another culture. So the team should talk openly about cultural sensitivity and agree to check such choices in future — the hurt is repaired and the mistake is not repeated, which makes option (c) correct. Ignoring it (a) lets the resentment grow, while a public reprimand (b) or removal from the team (d) punishes an unintentional act and damages the team spirit.

Symbol substitution Only two symbols appear in the expression, so replace each of them by the sign it stands for: '!' becomes - and '&' becomes +. The expression becomes 5-14+28-22. Group the additions and the subtractions: (5+28)-(14+22). =33-36=-3 So the required value is -3, i.e. option (d).

Ranking in a row Both positions must be counted from the same end, so change Kajal's rank to a rank from the left. Position from the left = total - position from the right $+1$, so Kajal is 45-38+1=8th from the left. Rahul is 15th from the left and Kajal is 8th from the left, so the students between them are those in places 9 to 14. Number of students between them =15-8-1=6. So 6 students sit between them, i.e. option (d).

Wrong term in a series Take the differences of consecutive terms: 982-986=-4, 974-982=-8, 962-974=-12, 946-962=-16, 926-946=-20. The differences themselves fall by 4 each time, so the next difference must be -24. Hence the term after 926 should be 926-24=902, but the series shows 905. The check works: the difference after that is -28 and 902-28=874, which is exactly the last given term. So the wrong term is 905, i.e. option (c).

Course of action A course of action follows only if it attacks the problem in the statement directly and is practical. Course of Action I does exactly that: if moral values are falling, teaching moral education as a compulsory subject reaches every student, so it follows. Course of Action II is extreme and unrelated — co-curricular activities build discipline, teamwork and character, and stopping all of them would harm students instead of raising moral values, so it does not follow. Only I follows, i.e. option (a).

Letter series Write the place value of each letter: B =2, D =4, F =6, H =8. Every term is 2 more than the one before it, i.e. the series takes alternate letters of the alphabet. So the next place value is 8+2=10, and the 10th letter is J, i.e. option (b).

Logical judgement The action of a few students is disturbing the whole institution, so it cannot be treated as personal expression and left alone (d). A total ban on social media (a) punishes every student for the act of a few and cannot be enforced, and expulsion without evidence (b) is unjust and open to challenge. A digital code of conduct tells students clearly what is not allowed, awareness programmes remove the habit of forwarding unverified posts, and a proper disciplinary process deals with proven offenders. This balanced step treats both the cause and the offence, so option (c) is correct.

Word formation List the letters available in ENVIRONMENT: E, N, V, I, R, O, N, M, E, N, T — that is E twice, N three times, and V, I, R, O, M, T once each. TONE and RENT use T, O, N, E and R, E, N, T, all of which are present. ENTER needs E twice and ENVIRONMENT has two E's, so it can also be formed. MOTHER needs the letter H, which does not occur in ENVIRONMENT at all, so it cannot be formed — option (c).

Mirror image AB is a vertical mirror standing to the right of the figure, so the image is only a left-to-right reversal: heights do not change and nothing is rotated. In the question figure the upright square carrying O is on the right, so in the image it must move to the left, and the tilted square carrying K must move to the right. O stays in the upper part of the upright square and X stays in the small triangle at the bottom with its short tail hanging below, because a vertical mirror changes nothing in the up-down direction. K is an unsymmetrical letter, so in the image it must appear written backwards. Option (b) shows exactly this — square with O on the left, tilted square with a reversed K on the right, X and its tail at the bottom left. In option (a) the K is not reversed, and in options (c) and (d) the tail has moved to the top, so none of them can be the mirror image.

Problem solving In a large company nobody yet knows where the supplies are going, so the first need is information, not punishment. A transparent tracking system records every issue of stock and a feedback loop shows which department consumes far more than it should, so the leak can be located and stopped. This is why option (b) is correct. Punishing without notice (a) or blaming a single department (c) fixes no cause and lowers morale, and ignoring the misuse (d) lets the loss grow.

Problem solving Patient records are confidential by law, so the hospital must be able to show who opened which file and when. Digital record tracking with access logs fixes that accountability, and an awareness campaign teaches the staff why confidentiality matters, so misuse is both detected and prevented. Hence option (b) is correct. Punishing without investigation (a) or publicly blaming a few employees (d) may hit innocent people and leaves the system open, and ignoring the problem (c) risks the patients' privacy altogether.

Letter pair analogy Each letter of the first pair is replaced by its opposite letter, found from 27- (place value), and the two new letters are then written in the reverse order. D =4 gives 27-4=23= W, and F =6 gives 27-6=21= U; writing W and U in reverse order gives UW, which is the given second pair. Apply the same rule to MO: M =13 gives 27-13=14= N, and O =15 gives 27-15=12= L. Writing N and L in reverse order gives LN, i.e. option (a).

Odd pair of numbers Test each pair for cubes of two consecutive natural numbers. $64=4^3$ and $125=5^3$; $8=2^3$ and $27=3^3$; $343=7^3$ and $512=8^3$ — all three follow the rule. In (47, 729), $729=9^3$, but 47 lies between $3^3=27$ and $4^3=64$, so it is not a cube at all. Hence the pair that does not follow the pattern is 47, 729, i.e. option (c).

Paper folding and punching The sheet was folded twice, so it is opened in the reverse order and each opening reflects the cuts in the fold line that is being opened. Open the last fold first: the right half comes back, so the arch punch and the notch on the top edge are copied across the vertical centre line; the arch still opens downwards because a left-right reflection does not turn it over. Now open the first fold: the bottom half comes back as a reflection in the horizontal centre line, so the two punches are copied into the lower half upside down, i.e. opening upwards, and the two notches are copied to the bottom edge. The open sheet therefore has four punches — the upper two opening downwards, the lower two opening upwards — with two notches on the top edge and two on the bottom edge. Only option (d) shows this; in (a) the lower-right punch faces the wrong way, in (b) the upper-left punch does, and in (c) the upper-left punch is turned on its side.

Embedded figure Break the question figure into its three parts: one long straight vertical line, a V whose left arm is a curve bending downward and whose right arm is a straight slant, and a slanting line that rises to a sharp peak and then falls in a long hook. The top of the vertical is where the curved arm begins and the foot of the vertical is where the rising slant begins, so in the answer figure these three parts must sit in exactly this relative position. In option (a) the left edge of the inner square supplies the vertical, the downward curve and the straight slant above it form the V, and the long diagonal rising to a peak with the hook falling from it repeats the lower part exactly. In option (b) the rising slant does not start at the foot of the vertical; in option (c) the second stroke of the upper part slopes downward instead of upward, so no V is formed; in option (d) the curved arm and the straight arm of the V are interchanged. Since rotation is not allowed, only option (a) contains the question figure, so option (a) is correct.

Number grid Read the grid row by row: in every row the fourth number is built from the first three. First row: $\left(10+11+6\right)\times 2=27\times 2=54$. Third row: $\left(13+8+5\right)\times 2=26\times 2=52$. The second row must obey the same rule: $\left(7+?+9\right)\times 2=42$, so 7+?+9=21. Hence ?=21-16=5, and option (c) is correct.

Venn diagram counting "Pens that are pencils" means the items lying inside the triangle and inside the rectangle at the same time, whether or not they also lie inside the circle. Exactly two regions of the figure satisfy this condition. The part of the triangle inside the rectangle but outside the circle holds 10, and the part common to all three figures holds 18. Required number =10+18=28. The region marked 15 lies in the triangle only and the region marked 12 lies in the triangle and the circle but outside the rectangle, so neither of them is counted. Hence option (d) is correct.

Counting triangles Give a name to every corner of the figure and to every point where two lines cross. The left rectangle ACGH, with its two diagonals AG and CH and the cross-line IM, gives 13 triangles: ACH, ACG, AGH, CGH, ACJ, CGJ, GHJ, AHJ, AIO, HIP, JOP, CPM, GOM. The long slant BF cuts CH at K, the middle line CG at L and the horizontal at N, and creates 11 more: BCK, BCL, CKL, BDF, BDN, DFN, EFN, FGL, FHK, KPN, LMN. One triangle is still left over, DEN, formed by the short slant DN with the right edge and the horizontal. Total number of triangles =13+11+1=25. Hence option (c) is correct.

Class relationship diagram Apple and Mango are two kinds of fruit, so each of these two classes lies completely inside the class Fruits. No apple is a mango and no mango is an apple, so the two smaller classes have nothing in common and must not touch each other. The required diagram is therefore one large circle for Fruits containing two separate small circles for Apple and Mango, which is what option (b) shows. Three mutually overlapping circles would wrongly make some apples mangoes, and two circles standing apart would not show that both are fruits. Hence option (b) is correct.

Dictionary order All five words begin with A, so compare the second letter first: Ac in Accommodation, Ad in Administration and Advertisement, Ap in Appointment and Appreciation, and in the alphabet c comes before d, which comes before p. Administration and Advertisement agree up to Ad, so the third letter decides: m comes before v, so Administration comes first. Appointment and Appreciation agree up to App, so the fourth letter decides: o comes before r, so Appointment comes first. The dictionary order is Accommodation (1), Administration (4), Advertisement (5), Appointment (2), Appreciation (3). That is the sequence 1, 4, 5, 2, 3, so option (a) is correct.

Pattern completion The question figure is a rectangle cut by its middle horizontal and middle vertical line into four equal cells, and the missing part is the lower-right cell. Upper-left cell: a slanting line runs from its top-right corner down to the centre of the cell, and from the centre a horizontal line goes right to the middle of the cell's right side. Upper-right cell: a horizontal line starts at the middle of its left side and runs to the centre of the cell, and from the centre a slanting line goes down to the bottom-left corner of the cell. The lower-left cell repeats the design of the upper-left cell, so the lower-right cell must repeat the design of the upper-right cell. The missing cell therefore carries a horizontal line from the middle of its left side to the centre and a slanting line from the centre down to its bottom-left corner, which is exactly what option (c) shows. Hence option (c) is correct.

Odd figure out In each figure count the small shapes drawn at the top and count the number of sides of the large shape drawn below them. In (a) there are 6 circles and the large shape is a hexagon, which has 6 sides; in (c) there are 3 squares and the large shape is a triangle, which has 3 sides; in (d) there are 4 rhombuses and the large shape is a rectangle, which has 4 sides. So in three of the figures the number of small shapes equals the number of sides of the large shape. In (b) there are only 4 circles while the large shape is a pentagon, which has 5 sides, so the rule breaks. Hence option (b) is the odd one out.

Figure series Every figure of the series is a square divided into four cells, and the same four elements occupy the same four cells throughout. So the change from one figure to the next is not a change of place but a change of orientation: at each step one fixed element is turned over while the remaining three are left exactly as they were. Read the given figures in order and note which element has been turned at each step; the same single change has to be made once more to the last figure of the series. The four options differ from one another only in the way these elements are turned, so the answer figure is the one in which the element due to be turned now appears in its turned form and every other element appears unchanged. Only option (d) satisfies this, so option (d) is correct.

Letter coding Write the position numbers of the letters of MANGO and of its code RGSMT and compare them letter by letter. $M\left(13\right)\to R\left(18\right)$ is +5, $A\left(1\right)\to G\left(7\right)$ is +6, $N\left(14\right)\to S\left(19\right)$ is +5, $G\left(7\right)\to M\left(13\right)$ is +6, $O\left(15\right)\to T\left(20\right)$ is +5. So the shift alternates +5, +6, +5, +6, +5. GRAPE obeys the same rule: G+5=L, R+6=X, A+5=F, P+6=V, E+5=J, which gives LXFVJ and confirms the pattern. Apply it to APPLE: A(1)+5=F(6), P(16)+6=V(22), P(16)+5=U(21), L(12)+6=R(18), E(5)+5=J(10). So APPLE is coded as FVURJ, and option (d) is correct.