A person is standing on the first step from the bottom of a. If he has to climb more steps to reach exactly the middle step, how many steps does the stair have?
Reasoning PYQs from 2016
- View Answer
A cube has all its faces painted with different colours. It is cut into smaller cubes of equal sizes such that the side of the small cube is one-fourth the big cube. The number of small cubes with only one of the sides painted is
- View Answer
A person walks 12 km due north, then 15 km due east, after that 19 km due west and then 15 km due south. How far is the from the starting point?
- View Answer
Four friends A, B, C, and D need to cross a bridge. A maximum of two persons can cross it at a time. It is night and they just have one lamp. Persons that cross the bridge must carry the lamp to find the way. A pair must walk together at the speed of the slower person. After crossing the bridge, the person having faster speed in the pair will return with the lamp each time to accompany another person in the group. Finally, the lamp has to be returned at the original place and the person who returns the lamp has to cross the bridge again without the lamp. To cross the bridge, the time taken by them is as follows : A: 1 minute, B: 2 minutes, C: 7 minutes and D : 10 minutes.
What is the total minimum time required by all the friends to cross the bridge?
- View Answer
In a class of 60 students, where the number of girls is twice that of boys, Kamal, a boy, ranked seventeenth from the top. If there are 9 girls ahead of Kamal, the number of boys in rank after him is
- View Answer
Who is the artist?
- View Answer
A person X was driving in a place where all roads ran either north-south or east-west, forming a grid. Roads are at a distance of 1 km from each other in a parallel. He started at the intersection of two roads, drove 3 km north, 3 km west and 4 km south. Which further route could bring him back to his starting point, if the same route is not repeated?
Trusted by 2L aspirants
Practice UPSC Prelims PYQs Smarter

- Track accuracy & weak areas
- See past trends & repeated themes
PYQs by Subject of 2016
Crack UPSC with your
Personal AI Mentor
An AI-powered ecosystem to learn, practice, and evaluate with discipline

