Tips for IAS Prelims 2012 Paper II (CSAT): General Mental Ability

The questions under this section cover areas like sequence, series, progression, venn diagram, permutations and combination. Question here also were not very complicated and a basic understanding was good enough to solve them. The students should practice this section from standard text books covering these areas and one should try to avoid very lengthy question some of which are of the types appearing in MBA examinations.

Example :

1. If Yellow is called Green, Green is called Black, Black is called White, White is called Red, Red is called Blue, Blue is called Orange then what is the colour of milk ?
(a) White
(b) Black
(c) Red
(d) Green

2. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which is the one that does not belong to the group ?
(a) Silver
(b) Gold
(c) Nickel
(d) Brass