Statement & Conclusions shortcuts

important topic in ibps po.from this you can expect 5 question surely.be ready prepare well

This section can be really difficult and actually helps exercising your brain cells. Apart from checking your problem solving skills this also checks your ability of choosing the correct questions to answer, because there will be some questions placed deliberately to trap you & will absorb your time.

To believe it or not but there no direct shortcuts or tricks to solve these questions but you can actually train your brain by practicing hard because that will help you learn various patterns. Anyways don’t worry that much, let’s learns few patterns & understand how this section can also be conquered.

Generally the questions in this section are of the following type

Type 1: Statement: In a cricket match, the total runs made by the team were 200. Out of these 160

runs were made by spinners.

Conclusions:

80% of the team consists of spinners.

The opening batsmen were spinners.

Only conclusion I follows

Only conclusion II follows

Either I or II follows

Neither I nor II follows

Both I and II follow

Solution: Now if we calculate (160/200) *100= 80%. Which simplifies the statement into “80%

runs were made by spinners” but that doesn’t conclude that “80% of the team consists of spinners”. Conclusion 1 is simply to confuse your choice. However Conclusion 2 can be easily

removed as given statement doesn’t talk anything about opening batsman.

Type 2: Choose the conclusion which logically follows given statement

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Statement: Soldiers serve their country.

Men generally serve their country.

Those who serve their country are soldiers.

Some men who are soldiers serve their country.

Women do not serve their country because they are not soldiers.

Solution: Conclusion a b & d can be easily removed as statement doesn’t conclude that only

en serve their country or only soldiers can serve their country. However conclusion b is quite lose but doesn’t include that others can also serve their country. Hence conclusion c logically  follows the given statement because this simply leaves the space that women & others can also

serve country.