Statement - Conclusions Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: Only conclusion II follows

Holding a job open for a good orator shows that one is wanted - conclusion II. Conclusion I generalises far beyond this one offer: nothing here says that good orators are never out of work. Only II follows.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Some men who are soldiers serve their country.

The statement is about soldiers, so anything concluded must stay within that group. Some men who are soldiers serve their country does exactly that. The others go beyond it: that men generally serve, that only soldiers serve, or that women do not - none of which the statement says.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Only one worker in the factory has exactly five children

One worker has five children and nobody else in the factory has five, so exactly one person there has that number. The other options add what is not given: how many children the rest have, or whether anyone has more.

Answer: D

Correct answer: TV promotes a feeling of helpless vulnerability in viewers

The statement combines two effects - viewers are made to feel that violent crime is very likely to touch them, and are at the same time made passive. Fear plus passivity is precisely helpless vulnerability. The others go beyond it: nothing is said about viewers turning criminal, about their actual risk, or about whether they should watch.

Answer: E

Correct answer: None of these

Nothing says the forest holds only sandal and Ashoka trees, so the numbers cannot be pinned to those two species. Without that, none of the four statements can be established: the flowering half and the old three-quarters may fall among the trees of other kinds. None of these follows.

Answer: B

Correct answer: The demand for more universities is being stepped up.

A government moves to permit private universities when the existing ones cannot meet the need, so a rising demand for university places is what the bill responds to. The others do not follow: a bill to permit such universities suggests they are not permitted yet, and nothing is said about how directions are issued.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Glittering things may be deceptive.

The proverb warns that a bright surface is no guarantee of worth - that appearances can mislead, which is what “glittering things may be deceptive” says. It does not tell us what else glitters, nor that only gold does.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Some dresses in that shop are expensive.

If most of the dresses are expensive then certainly some are, so that conclusion follows with no further assumption. The others do not: “most” leaves the rest unaccounted for, and dresses that are not expensive need not be cheap - they may be moderately priced - still less can anything be said about the handloom ones.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Seventh floors have lifts.

A building with a seventh floor has more than three floors, so by the rule given it must have a lift. The others fail: buildings of two or three floors have no lift, so not all floors can be reached by one, and nothing says lifts serve only the upper floors.

Answer: C

Correct answer: No library is without books.

“Every library has books” and “no library is without books” say the same thing in different words, so that conclusion follows exactly. The others reverse the statement - claiming books are found only in libraries - or add what is not given about readers.