CREST Reasoning Olympiad Class 9 Previous Year Paper

Q.1

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?

Q.2

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

Q.3

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.4

If all the vowels in the word “ORGANISATION” are changed to the next letter of the alphabet series and all the consonants are changed into the previous letter of the alphabet series then how many letters occurs twice in the new arrangement?

Q.5

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.6

Which one set of letters when sequentially placed at the gaps in the given letter series shall complete it?

_ R T R B _ T R B R _ R

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

If 'A + B' means that 'A is mother of B', 'A ÷ B', means that 'A is the brother of B', 'A x B' means that 'A is the son of B', 'A - B' means that 'A is the sister of B', then which of the following means that C is the sister of D?

Q.9

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.10

Kevin starts from his house and drives 20 km North. He then turns to his right and drives another 30 km, he takes a left turn and after driving 10 km. He realises that he had taken wrong turn, he again drives back 30 km in opposite direction. In which direction he is from the starting point?