CMAT Logical Reasoning Questions with Answers: PDF Download

Check below CMAT Logical Reasoning questions of previous years, along with solutions. You can practice these questions to prepare for CMAT 2027 exam.  

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CMAT Logical Reasoning questions are usually moderate in terms of difficulty level. Out of the 20 questions most of the questions are doable in least time. CMAT Logical Reasoning section has questions from Analytical Reasoning, Analogy, Direction, Linear Arrangement, Blood Relationship, Ranking, Statement & Assumption, Arguments, Coding-Decoding, Sequencing, Inferences, Arrangement, Number Series, Cause & Effects and Visual Reasoning. To prepare for all these topics, there is no formula to memorise and no theorem to understand. You will have to crack CMAT Logical Reasoning through practice only. If you plan to appear for CMAT 2027 exam, check below some CMAT Logical Reasoning Questions to get an idea of what is it all about.              

CMAT Logical Reasoning Questions

The below listed CMAT LR questions appeared in the official question papers of previous years. You should regularly practice CMAT previous years’ questions as part of your preparation. Also find the answers in PDF uploaded at the end of the questions.

Question 1: The river flows from west to east and on the way then turns left. After going some distance it encounters a hill. It goes around the hill counter-clockwise in a quarter circle, and then turns right. In which direction is the river finally following?

Options:

1. North
2. South
3. East
4. West

Question 2: Based on the statement given below which of the following option is correct - Whenever Preeti’s father is in town, she abstains from school and goes to her aunt’s house.

Options:

1. If Preeti has not abstained from school or she has not gone to her aunt’s house, it means that her father is not in town.
2. If Preeti has not abstained from school but her father is in town, then she will definitely go to her aunt’s house
3. If Preeti has abstained from school but she has not gone to her aunt’s house, it means that her father is not in town.
4. Both (a ) and (c )

Question 3: Four friends, namely, Liyaqat, Lillian, Lima and Lalit are sitting on a horizontally placed wooden bench, all looking towards the same direction.

If: There is at least one person sitting between Lillian and Lima; Liyaqat is towards the right of Lima but not towards the right of Lalit; Lalit is seated immediately next to Lillian; & Lima is seated at one of the extreme corners of the bench.

Which of the following is definitely true.

1. Lillian and Liyaqat are seated immediately next to one another.
2. Liyaqat is seated at one of the extreme corners of the bench.
3. There is at least one person seated between Lalit and Liyaqat.
4. There is at least one person seated between Lalit and Lima.

Question 4: Ali, Benu, Cutty and Dolly play four different games among Basketball, Cricket, Kabaddi and Hockey. Ali does not play Basketball or Cricket. Benu does not play Kabaddi or Hockey. Cutty plays Hockey and Dolly plays either Basketball or Hockey. Who plays cricket?

Options:

1. Ali
2. Benu
3. Cutty
4. Dolly

Question 5: A National Highway road network has parallel and perpendicular roads running north south or east west only. Junctions/Intersections on this road network are marked as R1, R2, R3, R4… All roads are at exactly half a kilometer distance from each other. The following is known about junctions R1, R2, R3, R4, R8 and R24. “R1’ is east of ‘R2’ and west of ‘R3’; ‘R8’ is southwest of ‘R3’ and southwest of R2. ‘R2’ is southeast of ‘R24’. Which junctions are the farthest south and the farthest east?

Options:

1. R1, R2
2. R8, R3
3. R3, R8
4. R2, R8

Question 6: 125 small but identical cubes have been put together to form a large cube. How many such small cubes will be required to cover this large cube completely?

Options:

1. 208
2. 212
3. 254
4. 218

Question 7: Five boys Ganesh, Hitesh, Ishan, Jaikee and Kailash always compete with one another. Ishan gets more marks than Kailash and Jaikee gets less marks than Ganesh. Hitesh gets more marks than Jaikee and Kailash. Whose marks among the following could be the lowest?

1. Ganesh
2. Hitesh
3. Ishan
4. Jaikee

Question 8: Below given question has a main statement followed by four statements labeled A, B, C and D. Choose the ordered pair of statements, where the first statement implies the second and the two statements is logically consistent with the main statement.

1. Figure A is not round in shape
2. Figure A is a cube
3. Figure A is not a cube
4. Figure A is round in shape

Options:

1. CA
2. DB
3. AC
4. AB

Question 9: If a + b means a is sister of b, a - b means a is brother of b, a x b means a is daughter of b, a ÷ b means a is mother of b, Which of the following relationship shows that p and r are wife and husband?

Options:

1. p ÷ q x r
2. p - q x r
3. p + q x r
4. p + q - r

Question 10: In a code language FRIGHTENS is written as 106; SIMILARLY is written as 118; How would DEMONITISATION be written in the same language?

Options:

1. 159
2. 169
3. 167
4. 166

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