Editorial Board Solutions for Chapter: General Mental Ability, Exercise 1: NUMBER, RANKING & TIME SEQUENCE TEST

The train for Lucknow leaves every two and half hours from New Delhi railway station. An announcement was made at the station that the train for Lucknow had left $40$ minutes ago and the next train will leave at $18.00 \mathrm{hrs}$. At what time was the announcement made?

An application was received by inward clerk in the afternoon of a weekday. Next day he forwarded it to the table of senior clerk, who was on leave that day.  The senior clerk next day evening put up the application to the desk officer.  Desk officer studied the application and disposed of the matter on the same day, i.e., Friday.  Which day was the application received by the inward clerk?

There are twenty people working in an office. The first group of five workers between 8.00 am and 2.00 pm. The second group of ten workers between 10.00 am and 4.00 pm.  And the third group of five workers between 12 noon and 6.00 pm. There are three computers in the office which all the employees frequently use. During which of the following hours the computers are likely to be used most?

If Thursday was the day after the day before yesterday five days ago, what is the least number of days ago when Sunday was three days before the day after tomorrow?

If the second day of a month is a Friday, which of the following would be the last day of the next month which has 31 days?

Saturday was a holiday for the Republic day, $14\mathrm{th}$ of the next month is again a holiday for Shivratri. What day is it on the $14\mathrm{th}$?

‘X’ was born on March $6, 1993$.  The same year Independence Day was celebrated on Friday. On which day was ‘X’ born?

If ${30}^{\mathrm{th}}$ January $2003$ was Thursday, what was the day on $2^{\mathrm{nd}}$ March $2003$?