CMAT Critical Reasoning Questions

Finding the missing number (?) in the following arrangement:

Find the missing number (?) in the following figure:

A pair of words is given below, which have a certain relationship with each other.
Hope: Aspire
Select a correct option that has the same relationship as the original pair of words.

A cube of white material is painted red on all its surfaces. If it is cut into 125 smaller cubes of same size, then how many cubes will have two sides painted red?

Arrange the following words in a meaningful sequence and choose the most appropriate sequence from the given alternatives.
(A) Police
(B) Punishment
(C) Crime
(D) Court
(E) Judgement
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Arrange the following words in a meaningful sequence and choose most appropriate sequence from the given alternatives.
A. Puberty
B. Adulthood
C. Childhood
D. Infancy
E. Adolescence
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

Choose the correct word from the given alternatives which bears the same relationship to
the third word as the first two.
Anaemia : Blood : : Anarchy : ?

Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the underlined phrase in the following sentence.
The officer was in the soup when there was a raid in his office.

Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R) :

Assertion (A) : The following sentence is an example of a simple sentence :
"Without saying a word, Ashraf ran away from home, in great haste."

Reason (R): A simple sentence is a sentence which contains a main clause and one or more subordinate clauses, dependent on the main clause.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the the options given below :

The speaker in the given excerpt is a ____ speaker

Which of the following is incorrect on the basis of the given excerpt.

Identify the narrative viewpoint employed in the above passage.

Consider the statement and the following assumptions and decide which of the assumptions is implicit in the statement.

Statement:
The entire north India, including Delhi remained 'power less' the whole day of $$19^{th}$$ December as the northern grid supplying electricity to seven states collapsed yet again.

Assumptions :
I. The northern grid had collapsed earlier.
II. The grid system of providing electricity to a group of states is an ineffective type of power supply system.

The following question consists of a statement and argument I and II. Choose the best option.
Statement : Should judiciary be independent of the executive.
Arguments: I. Yes, This would help curb the unlawful activities of the executive.
II. No, the executive would not be able to take bold measures.

Consider the statement given below and the following assumptions and decide which of the assumptions is/are implicit in the statement.

Statement :
You know that your shirt is excellent when people ask about your tailor who tailored the shirt.

Assumptions :
I. People do not ask about your tailor if your shirt is not good .
II. People want to know the criteria of an excellent shirt.

The following question consists of a statement and arguments I and II. Choose the best option :

Statement:
Should there be a compulsory medical examination of both the man and the woman before they marry each other ?

Argument I :
No, this is an intrusion to the privacy of an individual and hence cannot be tolerated.

Argument II :
Yes, this will substantially reduce the risk of giving birth to children with serious ailments.

Given below are two statements : One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).

"I wish it were possible."

Assertion (A) : Despite the fact that the above sentence lacks subject-verb concord, as per the English Grammar, it is a syntactically correct sentence.
Reasons (R) : It is a syntactically correct sentence because in subjunctive mood (of verb) even singular subject is followed by a plural verb.

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :