CREST Reasoning Olympiad Class 9 Previous Year Paper

Q.1

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

Q.2

In the question given below, there are two statements A and B. These statements may be either independent causes or may be effects of independent causes or of a common cause. One of these statements may be the effect of the other statement. Read both the statements and decide which of the following answer choices correctly depicts the relationship between these two statements.

A. The average day temperature of the city has increased by about 2 degrees in the current year over the average of the past ten years.
B. More people living in rural areas of the state have started migrating to the urban areas in comparison with the earlier year.

Q.3

Find the digit at the face opposite to the face having digit 2 in the dice given below:

Q.4

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.5

Read the information given below carefully and answer the question.

1. P, Q, R, S, T and U are six members of a family, each of them engaged in a different profession - doctor, lawyer, teacher, engineer, nurse and manager.
2. Each of them remains at home on a different day of the week from Monday to Saturday.
3. The lawyer in the family remains at home on Thursday.
4. R remains at home on Tuesday.
5. P, a doctor, does not remain at home either on Saturday or Wednesday.
6. S is neither the doctor nor the teacher and remains at home on Friday.
7. Q is the engineer and T is the manager.

Which of the following combinations is not correct?

Q.6

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.7

In making decisions about important questions, 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?

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

Q.8

Select the option figure which satisfies the same conditions of the placement of dots as in the question figure:

Q.9

Select the option figure which satisfies the same conditions of the placement of dots as in the question figure:

Q.10

Answer the question based on the following arrangement:
8 C M @ N £ T 2 Y 6 S α Q $ 7  W # Z 3 U E % A 4

What is the difference between the total number of symbols and the total number of numerals in the given series?