Questions on Seating Arrangement for CLAT; Answers Explained with Pictures!
Entrance exams like CLAT, LSAT etc are designed to analyse the aptitude of a candidate. The section relating to Logical Reasoning, specifically, helps judge the reasoning capabilities of a student.
This section can be aced by practicing numerous questions to familiarise oneself with types of questions and the techniques best suited for them. In Logical Reasoning, questions relating to seating arrangement are fairly common.
Here is a quick practice test:
Passage 1
Six panellists Sam, Samiksha, Samar, Sameer, Sameena and Samyuktha are sitting on the stage for a Mental Health Seminar. Analyse the conditions given below and answer the questions that follow:
All the panellists are facing north
Samyuktha is a female and is sitting second to the left of Samar who is not a female.
Samiksha is not sitting at the edge and is sitting third to the right of Sameena.
One person is sitting between Sameena and Sameer and he is a male.
Samar is sitting on the immediate right of Sameena who is not a female.
Questions
1. Who is sitting at the extreme right end of the line?
Samyuktha
Sam
Samar
Cannot be determined
2. Who is sitting between Samyuktha and Sameena?
Sameer
Sam
No one
Cannot be determined
3. Who among the following is sitting at the almost middle position?
Sameer
Sameena
Samyuktha
Samiksha
4. Who among the following is not a male?
Samyuktha
Sameena
Samar
None of the above
5. How many panellists are sitting between Samar and Sam?
One
Two
Three
Zero
Passage 2:
In a kindergarten game, five students Aashi, Ashima, Arushi, Akshay and Abhilash are sitting in a circular pattern facing towards the centre of the circle. Analyse the conditions given below and answer the questions that follow:
Abhilash is sitting second to the right of Akshay who is not a female.
There is one student Ashima (not male) sitting between Akshay and Arushi, on the left of Akshay.
The person sitting immediately to the left of Arushi and immediately to the right of Aashi is a male.
From the right side of Akshay, there is just one person (male) sitting between Abhilash and Akshay.
The person sitting between Abhilash and Ashima is a female.
Questions
1. Who among the following is not a male?
Abhilash
Aashi
Arushi
Akshay
2. How many females are there in that game?
Three
Two
One
Cannot be determined
3. Who among the following is not sitting between Arushi and Akshay?
Ashima
Abhilash
Aashi
None of the above
4. The person sitting immediately next to Aashi is
Male
Female
Either Male or female
Cannot be determined.
5. The gender of how many students cannot be determined?