Logical Reasoning carries 15 questions in 15 minutes. HCLTech leans heavily on blood relations — recent memory-based papers ask two or three per sitting — along with syllogisms, chained inequalities and arrangement puzzles.
What the logical section covers
- Blood relations (“my grandfather's only son…” formats)
- Syllogisms and two-conclusion problems
- Mathematical inequalities (C < L < O = U = D > S > Y)
- Code-language questions (mapping words to codes)
- Linear arrangements combined with professions
- Series, analogies and directions
Practice HCLTech logical reasoning questions
Pointing to a woman at a family gathering, Ravi remarked: “She is the daughter of my grandfather's only son.” How is this woman related to Ravi?
Statements: All alphabets are numbers; some alphabets are digits. Conclusions: I. At least some digits are numbers. II. No digit is a number.
Statements: Some wins are losses; all trophies are losses. Conclusions: I. All trophies are wins. II. All losses are trophies.
Strategy: for blood relations, resolve the phrase from the inside out (“my mother's only son” = me). For inequalities, redraw the chain as arrows before judging conclusions — it takes ten seconds and prevents the classic reversal mistakes.
Next: Verbal Ability questions, then HCLTech's signature Computer Fundamentals section.