CREST Reasoning Olympiad Class 9 Previous Year Paper

Q.1

The door of Jack's house faces East. From the back side of his house, he walks straight 50 m, then turns to the right and walks 50 m again. Finally, he turns towards left and stops after walking 25 m. Now, Jack is in which direction from the starting point?

Q.2

Answer the question based on the following arrangement:
M 7 Σ 8 L P @ ? 6 N B T Y 3 2 = E $ 4 9 © G H 5

If ‘78’ is to ‘P ? 6’ and ‘?N’ is to ’T32’, then in the same way as'2E' is to ______ in the arrangement.

Q.3

From the given options find the water image of the object given in the question figure:

Q.4

Study the following information carefully and answer the question given below:
(i) 'pa ki top ma' means 'Usha is playing cards'.
(ii) 'kop ja ki ma' means 'Asha is playing tennis'.
(iii) 'ki top sop ha' means 'they are playing football'.
(iv) 'pa sur kop' means 'card and tennis'.

Which word in that language means 'Asha'?

Q.5

In a class of 40 students, 10% are girls. Out of the remaining students. 35% play cricket, 75% play football and some play both cricket and football. Which one of the following diagrams best represents this fact?

Q.6

Select the answer figure in which the question figure is embedded:

Q.7

A word and number arrangement machine when given an input line of words and numbers rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of an input and its rearrangement:
Input: pages 28 empty 24 8 book hide 29 lost 23
Step I: 8 28 empty 24 book hide 29 lost 23 pages
Step II: 8 29 28 empty 24 book hide 23 lost pages
Step III: 8 29 24 28 empty book 23 hide lost pages
Step IV: 8 29 24 23 28 book empty hide lost pages
And Step IV is the last step of the above input. As per the rules followed in the above steps, find out in the following question the appropriate step for the given input.
Input: tears 11 emerge 54 18 again know 49 zebra 24 move 33 64 look

In step III, which of the following element will be fourth from the right end?

Q.8

In making decisions about important question, it is desirable to be able to distinguish between 'strong' arguments and 'weak' arguments. 'Strong' arguments are those which are both important and directly related to the question. 'Weak' arguments are those which are of minor importance and also may not be directly related to the question or may be related to a trivial aspect of the question. The question below is followed by two arguments numbered I and II. You have to decide which of the arguments is a 'strong' argument and which is a 'weak' argument?

Statement- Should there be only two political parties in India?
Arguments
I. Yes, in many developed countries there are only two political parties.
II. No, Indian electorate is not mature to select between only two political parties.

Q.9

In the question given below, there are four statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the four given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions, logically follows from the four statements disregarding commonly known facts:

Statements -
I. Some umbrellas are raincoats.
II. All the raincoats are shirts.
III. No shirt is a blazer.
IV. Some blazers are suits.
Conclusions -
I. Some shirts are umbrellas.
II. Some suits are raincoats.

Q.10

In the following question, choose which number completes the second pair in the same way as the first pair:

DJIH : 31 : : HKCT : ?