26 November 2025 · Shift 1

Blood relation Open the sentence from the inside outward. 'My son's father-in-law' means the father of the wife of Ramesh's son. The only daughter of that man is therefore that very wife — the wife of Ramesh's son. The wife of one's son is one's daughter-in-law, so 'she' is Ramesh's daughter-in-law and option (a) is correct.

Blood relation Work outward from the innermost phrase. 'The only daughter of my wife's mother' is Amit's wife herself, since she is her mother's only daughter. 'The husband of' that only daughter is therefore Amit. So the woman is the mother of Amit. Hence the woman is Amit's mother and option (a) is correct.

Letter coding Rule given: every vowel moves 3 places forward, every consonant moves 1 place back. In CHAMPION the vowels are A, I, O and the consonants are C, H, M, P, N. Vowels (+3): A → D, I → L, O → R. Consonants (−1): C → B, H → G, M → L, P → O, N → M. Reading the coded letters in the original order gives BGDLOLRM, so option (b) is correct.

Workplace conduct The team's grievance is not the change itself but the fact that they were left out of the decision. Trust and cooperation return only when the leader speaks to them, explains why the change was necessary, and gives them a voice in future decisions. Ignoring the complaints, blaming the whole team, or replacing members punishes the team for the leader's own lapse and destroys cooperation altogether. Hence, option (c) is correct.

Syllogism The first statement is a universal negative: the set of cities and the set of villages are completely separate. The second is a particular affirmative: some villages are towns, so there certainly exist towns that are villages. Those towns lie inside the village circle, and no part of the village circle can be a city; therefore at least some towns are not cities — conclusion I follows. Conclusion II says no town is a village, which flatly contradicts the second statement, so it cannot follow. Only conclusion I follows, so option (a) is correct.

Syllogism 'All diabetics are rich' places the whole set of diabetics inside the set of rich people. 'Some teachers are rich' only tells us that the teacher circle touches the rich circle; it says nothing about where the diabetics sit inside that circle. So a diabetic need not be a teacher at all — conclusion 1 is a possibility, not a certainty, and possibilities are not drawn as conclusions. But every diabetic is rich, so those very people are rich people who are diabetic; hence 'some rich people are diabetic' is certain. Only conclusion 2 can be drawn, so option (d) is correct.

Ranking in a row Total students =30. Reena is 5th from the left and Sushma is 12th from the right. Bring both positions to the same end. Position of Sushma from the left =30-12+1=19. Number of students strictly between them =19-5-1=13. Hence 13 students stand between Reena and Sushma, and option (b) is correct.

Ratio and division Let the three shares be 3x, 4x and 5x. 3x+4x+5x=1200 $12x=1200\Rightarrow x=100$ Y's share $=4x=4\times 100=400$ Hence Y receives ₹400 and option (a) is correct.

Emotional intelligence The project plan was the manager's own responsibility, so an emotionally intelligent response begins with owning the error rather than defending oneself. Accepting the mistake and preparing a concrete plan for improvement restores the team's confidence and stops the same loss from recurring. Blaming the team shifts the guilt, ignoring the problem hides it, and apologising over and over is only self-focused distress that fixes nothing. Hence, option (b) is correct.

Word sequence: learning levels The three given words are not random: Knowledge, Comprehension and Application are the first three levels of Bloom's taxonomy of learning. Each level demands more thinking than the one before — first recalling a fact, then understanding it, then using it in a new situation. The level immediately above Application is Analysis, in which the learner breaks the material into parts and examines how they relate. Memory lies below Knowledge, while Sensation and Information are not levels of this hierarchy at all, so none of them can continue the sequence. Hence, option (b) is correct.

Social intelligence Social intelligence means protecting the truth and the working relationship at the same time. A private conversation lets you state your contribution clearly without humiliating the colleague in front of others, and agreeing on how credit will be shared stops the same thing happening again. Shouting in the meeting, complaining behind his back, or silently refusing to work with him all damage the relationship and still leave the real issue unsettled. Hence, option (c) is correct.

Wrong number series The terms fall steadily, so test them against the cubes of consecutive numbers taken in decreasing order. ${10}^3-3=1000-3=997$, $9^3-3=729-3=726$, $8^3-3=512-3=509$. The rule is therefore $n^3-3$ with $n=10,9,8,\dots$; the fourth term should be $7^3-3=343-3=340$, but the series shows 350. The later terms confirm the rule: $6^3-3=213$, $5^3-3=122$, $4^3-3=61$. So the wrong number is 350 — it should be 340 — and option (c) is correct.

Odd one out Look for what all three words of a set have in common. Burrow, kennel and stable are all dwellings; so are hole, igloo and hut; and so are aquarium, anthill and kennel. In the first set, nest and cave are dwellings, but tiger is the animal itself and not a place of living. That set alone breaks the pattern, so option (a) is the odd one out.

Vowel–consonant pattern Mark every letter of each word as a vowel (V) or a consonant (C). HAND = C V C C, SING = C V C C and COLD = C V C C — one vowel in the second place and consonants elsewhere. SEED = C V V C, because the two vowels E and E stand together in the middle. So SEED does not share the pattern of the other three, and option (d) is correct.

Integrity at work Honesty is tested exactly where no one is watching and the gain would be easy to keep. The staff member could have kept the wallet unnoticed, yet he handed it back to its owner without holding back any part of it. That is honesty in full, so 'partial honesty' does not describe the act, and 'dishonest' is its opposite. He may well deserve appreciation too, but the question asks what the action itself indicates, and it indicates complete honesty. Hence, option (a) is correct.

Workplace ethics The evidence is solid, so the case has to be judged by the rules of the organisation and not by how close the two of you are. A Head of Department is also the custodian of the process, so whatever is done must be defensible before every other employee. Transparent disciplinary action does both: the friend is treated exactly as any other employee would be, and the action stays open to scrutiny. Ignoring the leak is plain favouritism, a private dismissal punishes without an open process, and a transfer merely moves the same risk to another department. Hence option (c) is correct.

Sport and its venue The pair on the right joins a game to the marked-out surface on which it is played: tennis is played on a court. Boxing is contested inside a square roped platform that is called a ring, so 'Ring' completes the same relation. A pitch belongs to cricket or football and a track to athletics, while 'arena' is only a general word for a large venue and names no particular sport. Hence option (a) is correct.

Position in a row X is the 10th person from the left end. Three persons stand between X and Y, so Y stands at 10+3+1=14th place from the left. Y is second from one of the ends; the 14th place from the left cannot also be the 2nd place from the left, so Y is 2nd from the right end. Total persons = place from the left + place from the right -1. Total =14+2-1=15. Hence option (b) is correct.

Logical inference Two opposite movements appear together and inside the same two days: warm clothes sell far more and cold items sell far less. A single cause explains both movements at the same time — the weather has suddenly turned cold. A discount would lift only the sale of warm clothes and would not stop people buying ice cream, and a summer that had just begun would push both sales the other way round. The general liking of customers does not change inside two days, so it cannot explain a sudden swing. Hence option (b) is correct.

Logical inference The study reports two things together: the praise was immediate, and it was given in front of senior officials. The unwanted result therefore need not come from praise itself; it can come from the public setting in which the praise was given. Being singled out before seniors raises what is expected of the employee next, and that pressure shows up as stress, hesitation and lower output. Saying that appreciation 'always' harms performance stretches one study far too far, while calling the data wrong or the employees untruthful rejects the finding instead of explaining it. Hence option (b) is correct.

Direction and distance Take the common starting point as the origin. P walks 18 km north and Q walks 12 km south, so along the north–south line they are 18+12=30 km apart. P is facing north, so on turning right P faces east and covers 40 km. P is now 30 km north of Q and 40 km east of Q, and these two directions are perpendicular. $PQ=\sqrt{{30}^2+{40}^2}=\sqrt{900+1600}=\sqrt{2500}=50$ km. P lies to the north as well as to the east of Q, so P is 50 km north-east of Q. Hence option (d) is correct.

Odd one out Compare the four words by the speed of the movement each of them describes. Walking, strolling and walking slowly are all unhurried ways of moving on foot, and in each of them one foot always stays on the ground. Running is a fast movement in which both feet leave the ground together, so it does not fit the group of slow-paced movements. Hence option (d) is correct.

Number analogy Work on every number as a whole, as the note directs. First pair: $412\times 5=2060$ and 2060+7=2067. Third pair: $125\times 5=625$ and 625+7=632. So the rule is: number $\times 5+7$. Let the missing number be n, then 5n+7=42, so 5n=35 and n=7. Hence option (b) is correct.

Letter series Write the alphabet position of each letter: B = 2, F = 6, K = 11, Q = 17. The gaps are +4, +5 and +6, so every gap is one more than the gap before it. The next gap must therefore be +7, giving the position 17+7=24. The 24th letter of the alphabet is X. Hence option (a) is correct.

Word coding The code letters answer to the word read backwards, so reverse the word first. BRAVE reversed is EVARB; here E → Z, V → Q and A → V are each a shift of -5 (counting back from A continues into Z, Y, X …), while R → N and B → X are each a shift of -4. The same pattern fits STUDY: reversed it is YDUTS, and the shifts -5,-5,-5,-4,-4 give TYPPO. PHONE reversed is ENOHP; E -5= Z, N -5= I, O -5= J, H -4= D and P -4= L. So 'PHONE' is coded as ZIJDL, hence option (c) is correct.