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VENN DIAGRAMS
1. The diagram represent the student who are singers, dancers Rectangle represents males
and poets. Triangle represents educated
Circle represents urban
Singers P Dancers
Q Square represents civil servants
V
3. Who among the following is an educated male who is not an
U
T R urban resident?
(a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 11
S (d) 9 (e) None of these
Poets 4. Who among the following is neither a civil servant nor
Study the diagram and identify the region which represent educated but is urban and not a male?
the students who are both poets and singers but not dancer. (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 6
(a) P + T + S (b) T (d) 10 (e) None of these
(c) T + V + R + S (d) P + T + U + S 5. Who among the following is a female urban resident and
(e) None of these
also a civil servant?
2. School children (a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 10
a (d) 13 (e) None of these
b 6. Who among the following is an educated male who hails
d c from urban, a civil servants?
f (a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 10
Artist
e (d) 13 (e) None of these
7. Who among the following is uneducated and also an urban
g
male?
Singers (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 11
Above diagram represents school children, artist and singers. (d) 12 (e) None of these
Study the diagram and identify the region. Which represents 8. Who among the following is only a civil servant but neither
those school children who are artist not singers. a male or urban oriented and uneducated?
(a) a (b) b (a) 7 (b) 8 (c) 9
(c) f (d) e (d) 14 (e) None of these
(e) None of these 9. Who among the following is a male urban oriented and also
DIRECTIONS (Qs. 3-9) : The following question are based on a civil servant but not educated?
the diagram given below. (a) 13 (b) 12 (c) 6
(d) 10 (e) None of these
3 10 7 10. Which of the following diagram represents the relationship
among sun, moon and stars?
8 12 6 13

4
9 11 14

5
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
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DIRECTIONS (Qs. 11-14) : Refer to the following Venn DIRECTIONS (Qs. 15-30) : In each of these questions, three
diagram : words are related in some way. The relationship among the words
in question can best represents by one of the five diagram.
HISTORY

16 GEOGRAPHY
(a) (b)
14 13 12
9 18 20 18 9
13 16
15 (c) (d)
MATHEMATICS
19 SCIENCE

11. The number of students who took any three of the above (e)
subjects was
(a) 62 (b) 63 15. Teachers, college, students.
(c) 64 (d) 66 16. Mothers, Homo sapiens, Woman
(e) None of these 17. Cabinet, Home Minister, Minister.
12. The number of students in total, who took History or 18. Parrots, Birds, Mice.
Mathematics or Science, was
19. Professors, Researchers, Scientists.
(a) 183 (b) 190
20. Men, Rodents, Living beings.
(c) 424 (d) 430
21. Parents, Mothers, Fathers.
(e) None of these
22. Nitrogen, Ice, Air.
13. The number of students who took both History and
Geography among other subjects was 23. Musicians, Singers, Women
(a) 62 (b) 63 24. Elephants, Carnivore, Tiger.
(c) 65 (d) 66 25. Fish, Herring, Animal living in water
(e) None of these 26. Hospital, Nurse, Patient.
14. Which subject was taken by the largest number of students? 27. Nose, Hand, Body.
(a) Mathematics (b) Science 28. Rings, Ornaments, Diamond Rings.
(c) Geography (d) History 29. Furniture, Table, Books.
(e) None of these 30. Indoor games, Chess, Table tennis.
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HINTS & SOLUTIONS

1. (b) Area common to singer and poets. = (19 + 15 + 18 + 20 + 18 + 16 + 13) = 119.
2. (b) Number of students who took mathematics
= (9 + 14 + 13 + 20 + 13 + 15 + 18) = 102.
3. (c) Area common to and
15. (c) both students and teachers are parts of college and is
4. (b) circle only
differents.
5. (c) Area not common to rectangle but common to square
16. (b)
and circle.
6. (a) Area common to Rectangle, Circle, Square.
7. (d) Area common to Rectangle and Circle.
8. (a) Only area of square.
Mother Homosapien
9. (c) Area common to rectangle, square and circle.
10. (d) Sun is star. Moon is a satellite.
Woman
Star
17. (b) Home minister is a minister, minister is part of cabinet.
Sun 18. (d) All Parrots are birds, but mice is entirely different.
Moon
19. (a) Some professor may be scientist or researcher.
20. (c) Men, Rodents are entirely differents, but both are living
beings.
11. (a) The required set of students is denoted by region
21. (c) Mother and Father are entirely different but both are
common to any three circle only
parents.
Required number = (13 + 13 + 18 + 18) = 62.
22. (d) Nitrogen is air but ice is differents.
12. (a) The required set of students is denoted by regions
23. (a) All three items are partly related.
lying inside the circles representing History,
24. (d) Tiger is a Carnivore, while elephants is not.
Mathematics and Science. Required number = (9 +
25. (b) Herring is type of fish, fish belongs to the class of
14 + 18 + 15 + 16 + 13 + 13 + 20 + 18 + 13 + 16 + 19) = 183.
animals.
13. (b) The required set of students is denoted by the regions
26. (c) Nurse and Patient are differents but both are parts of
common to the circles representing History and
Hospitals.
Geography.
27. (c) Nose and hand are differents but both are parts of body.
Required number = (20 + 13 + 12 + 18) = 63.
28. (b) All diamonds rings are rings, all rings are ornaments.
14. (b) Number of students who took History
29. (d) Table are furniture but book are differents.
= (16 + 12 + 18 + 20 + 18 + 14 + 13) = 111.
30. (c) Chess and table tennis are differents but both are indoor
Number of students who took Geography
games.
= (9 + 16 + 13 + 20 + 13 + 12 + 18) = 101.
Number of students who took science