The previous year question paper for the HR specialist officer examination conducted by IBPS is as given below:

1. How many such pairs of letters are there in the word horizontal, each of which has as many letters between them in the word (in both forward and backward directions) as they have between them in the English alphabetical series?

1) None
2) One
3) Two
4) Three
5) More than three

Directions (2-5): Four of the following five are alike and hence form a group.

Which of the following does not belong to the group?

2.
1) Cricket
2) Volley ball
3) Chess
4) Table-tennis
5) More than three

3.
1) Dogs
2) Cats
3) Goats
4) Giraffes
5) Cows

4.
1) Paragraph
2) Sentence
3) Page
4) Words
5) Alphabets

5.
1) Talking
2) Blinking
3) Writing
4) Sitting
5) Reading

6. How many meaningful words can be formed with the letters SLIKL using each letter only once?
1) One
2) Two
3) Three
4) More than three
5) None

Directions (7-8): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions:

Point B is 12 meters south of point A.
Point C is 24 meters east of point B.
Point D is 8 metres south of point C.
Point d is 12 metres east of point E and
point F is 8 metres north of point E.

7. If a man has to travel to point E from Point A (through these points by the shortest distance). Which of the following points will he pass through first?
1) Point C
2) Point D
3) Point F
4) Point B
5) None

8. If a man is standing facing north at point C, how far and in which direction is point F?
1) 12 metres west
2) 24 metres east
3) 12 metres east
4) 24 metres west
5) None of these

9. In a class of 20 students, Alisha’s rank is 15th from the top. Manav is 4 ranks above Alisha. What is Manav’s rank from the bottom?
1) 10th
2) 11th
3) 9th
4) 12th
5) None of these

10. If each vowel in the word HABITUAL is changed to the next letter in the English alphabetical series and each consonant is changed to the previous letter in the English alphabetical series, which of the following will be fourth from the left?
1) A
2) S
3) J
4) H
5) None of these

Directions (11-14): Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the questions.

Read both the statements and -

Give answer (1) if the data in Statement I alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in Statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question.
Give answer (2) if the data in Statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in Statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question.
Give answer (3) if the date either in Statement I alone or in Statement II alone is sufficient to answer the question.
Give answer (4) if the data even in both the Statements I and II together are not sufficient to answer the question.
Give answer (5) if the data in both the Statement I and II together are necessary to answer the question.

11. In which direction is Raj facing?
I. Raj and Rohan are facing each other.
II. Rohan is facing north-west.

12. Who among Deena, Meena, Teena and Reena is the eldest?
I. Meena is not the eldest.
II. Teena is younger than Reena.

13. How will ‘SOLID’ be coded?
I. All the vowels have to be coded as the alphabet that follows them in the English alphabetical series.
II. C, R and N are coded as B, Q and M respectively and O, U and I are coded as P, V and J respectively and a similar logic is followed for other alphabets.

14. How is J related to N?
I. R is the brother of J and N is the son of R.
II. J is the sister of R and N is the son of R.