Statement and Assumptions Questions for Competitive Exams

Direction: - In each question below is given a statement followed by two assumptions numbered I and II. An assumption is something supposed or taken for granted. You have to consider the statement and the following assumptions and decide which of the assumptions is implicit in the statement.

Given answer

( a ) If only assumption I is implicit.

( b ) If only assumption II is implicit.

( c ) Either I or II is implicit.

( d ) If neither I nor II is implicit.

( e ) If both I and II are implicit. 

Statement: -

A warning in a train compartment –“To stop train, pull chain. Penalty for improper use Rs. 500.”

Assumptions

 I. Some people misuse the alarm chain.

II. On certain occasions, people may want to stop a running train.

Statement:

Provide mid - day meals to the children in primary schools to increase the number of students attending schools.

Assumptions:

I. Mid - day meals will attract the children to the schools.

II. Those children who are otherwise deprived of good food will attend the schools.

Statement:

"If you want to give any advertisement, give it in the newspaper X". -A tells B.

Assumptions:

I. B wants to publicise his products.

II. Newspaper X has a wide circulation.

Statement:

If he is intelligent, he will pass the examination.

Assumptions:

I. To pass, he must be intelligent.

Statement:

Today I must satisfy myself only by looking at a pink-headed duck in an encyclopedia.

Assumptions:

I. Pink headed ducks are as good as extinct now.

II . People refer to encyclopedia to know only about things which do not exist now.