MAT 2008 Question Paper

The letters skipped between adjacent letters are the order of 1,2,3,4 .............. Which alternative follows this rule?

A boy goes to see a film and finds a man who is his relative. The man is the husband of the sister of his mother. How is the man related to the boy?

I am facing west. I turn 45° in the clockwise direction and then 180° in the same direction and then 270° anticlockwise. Which direction am I facing now?

In a month of 31 days, the third Wednesday falls on the 15th. What will be the last day of that month?

When Ranjeev was born, his father was 32 years older than his brother and his mother was 25 years older than his sister. If Ranjeev’s brother is 6 years older than Ranjeev and his mother is 3 years younger than his father, how old was Ranjeev’s sister when he was born?

In a party everyone gave a gift to everyone else. If the total number of gifts exchanged in the party was 600, how many persons were there in the party?

After a get-together every person present shakes the hand of every other person. If there were 105 handshakes in all, how many persons were present in the party?

Four friends were playing a game of cards sitting in a circle. Shankar was on the right of Ram and Gopal was on the left of Arvind. Which of the following pairs were partners?

Four girls (G1, G2, G3, G4) and three boys (b1, b2, b3) are to sit for a dinner such that no two boys should sit together nor two girls. If they are successively sitting, what is the position of b2 and G3?

There are 30 plants of Chiku, Guava, Sitafal and Mango in a row. There is one pair of Mango plants after Chiku and Guava and Mango plants are followed by one Chiku and one Sitafal plant and so on. If the row begins with a plant of Chiku, then which of the following will be the last in the row?