Advanced Reasoning questions share the 25-minute advanced aptitude block with quantitative questions. The jump from the Foundation section is in structure: instead of one-line puzzles you get data sufficiency, multi-constraint arrangements, decision-making case lets and double-layered coding patterns.
Question types to expect
- Data sufficiency (two-statement format)
- Complex seating and age-ordering puzzles
- Statement–argument and course-of-action questions
- Decision making from eligibility-criteria tables
- Advanced coding-decoding (paired or reversed transformations)
- Multi-statement syllogisms
Practice advanced reasoning questions
Five students B, L, P, R and D sit in a row facing north. Who is immediately to the left of R? Statement I: B is at an extreme end; L sits between B and P. Statement II: One student sits between P and D; D is not to the right of L.
In a certain code, SUM is written as NLVTTR and LATE is written as FDUSZBMK. How will ROAST be written in that code?
Statement: Every institute should be linked with an incubation centre. Argument I: Students will be aware of start-ups and how they benefit society. Argument II: More start-ups will help build the nation's economy. Which argument is strong?
For data sufficiency, resist solving fully — you only need to know whether a unique answer exists. That single habit saves 30–40 seconds per question.