Arrangements

Prithvi Raj
CAT 2016 – 99.08 %ile.

XAT 2018 – 99.52 %ile

CAT 2020 – 99.11 %ile

SBI PO 2018
TABLE OF CONTENT

1. Introduction

2. Types of Arrangements

3. Linear

4. Circular

5. Matrices

6. Basic Level Questions

7. Intermediate Level Questions

8. Advanced Level Questions

 Introduction

Arrangement questions usually involve a group of objects or people

placed in a set pattern according to the instructions given in the
question.
 Types of Arrangement

There are three main types of arrangements:

1. Linear
2. Circular
3. Matrices
 Linear

In linear arrangement problems we are generally given a set of

information about positioning of different elements with respect to
other elements. This positioning is in a straight line or in a row.
 Linear

Example- Six members of a panel are sitting in a row. E is to the left

of B but on the right of A. F is on the right of B but is on the left of G
who is to the left of C.

What will be the order?

 Circular

Circular arrangement is slightly more complex as here we do not have

any ends. Also, the directions can mean different things depending on
where the person is facing. Circular arrangement also includes
arrangement related to rectangle and hexagon.
 Circular

Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are standing in a circle. Only B is

between D and C. Only A is between E and C. F is to the right of D.
Who is between A and F?
 Circular

K , L , M , P , Q , R , S and T are seated around a square table in such a way that four sit at the
corners and 4 sit at middle seats. Those who sit at corners face out side and those who sit at
middle face towards center. P is 3rd to the right of S and P is facing towards center. Q is 3rd to the
left of M but M is not sitting on middle seats. One person sits between Q and R. R is not neighbor
of M and T is facing towards the center. K is not the neighbor of R.
 Matrix Arrangement

Matrix arrangements work at two or more levels. They require a table

or matrix to be solved.
 Matrix Arrangement
SportsNext TV is broadcasting programmes on Badminton, Cricket, Football, Hockey, Tennis and Volleyball (not necessarily
in the same order) in a week starting from Wednesday.
• Tennis was telecast immediately after Hockey and Football was telecasted on fifth day of the programme.
• Badminton was telecasted on third day after Saturday and Hockey programme was telecasted on fourth day before the
holiday.
• Sixth day of the programme was holiday.
• Volleyball was not telecasted on first day.
Basic Level Questions
1) Six friends A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting in a row facing East. C is between A
and E. B is just to the right of E but left of D, F is not at the right end. Who is
at the right end?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E
2) Six people A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting on the ground in a hexagonal shape.
A is not adjacent to B or C. D is not adjacent to C or E. B and C are adjacent. F is
exactly in between D and C. Who is third to the left of E?
a) B
b) C
c) F
d) D
e) A
3) In a shop, items are kept in six rows stacked on top of each other. Biscuits are
kept above chocolates but below chips. Cakes are at the bottom and peppermints
are below chocolates. If the topmost row contains jam, what is present in the third
row from the top?

a) Chips
b) Chocolate
c) Biscuit
d) Peppermints
e) Cake
4) Ashwini, Priya, Rani, Meeta, Geeta and Mukta are sitting along a circle facing at
the centre. Ashwini is third to the left of Mukta and to the immediate right of Rani.
Priya is second to the left of Geeta, who is not an immediate neighbour of Meeta.
Who is sitting second to the right of Priya?
a) Ashwini
b) Priya
c) Rani
d) Meeta
e) None of these.
Directions for 5-8:
A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are eight employees of an organization working in three departments which are Personnel,
Administration and Marketing with not more than three of them in any department. Each of them has a different choice of
sports from football, cricket, volleyball, badminton, lawn tennis, basketball, hockey and table tennis, not necessarily in the
same order. D works in Administration and does not like either football or cricket. F works in Personnel with only A, who
likes table tennis. E and H do not work in the same department as D. C likes hockey and does not work in Marketing. G
does not work in Administration and does not like either cricket or badminton. One of those who work in Administration likes
football. The one who likes volleyball works in Personnel. None of those who work in Administration likes either badminton
or lawn tennis. H does not like cricket.

Person Sport Department

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
5) Which of the following are part of the Marketing department?
a) BCD
b) DFH
c) EGH
d) BDH
e) EFG
6) Whose favorite sport is Cricket?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E
7) What is G’s favorite sport?
a) Football
b) Basketball
c) Cricket
d) Lawn Tennis
e) Badminton
8) Identify the odd one out.
a) B - Admin
b) D - Admin
c) E - Marketing
d) G - Personnel
e) H - Marketing
Intermediate Questions
Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each such that they are equidistant from each other. In
row 1 : P,Q, R, S, T and V are seated and all of them are facing South. In row 2 : A, B, C, D, E and F are seated and all of
them are facing North. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement, each member seated in a row faces another member
of the other row. S sits third to the right of Q. Either S or Q sits at an extreme end of the line. The one who faces Q sits
second to the right of E. Two people sit between B and F. neither B nor F sits at an extreme end of the line. The immediate
neighbour of B faces the person who sits third to the left of P. R and T are immediate neighbours. C sits second to the left of
A. T does not face the immediate neighbour of D.
1. Identify the odd one out.
a) P
b) C
c) Q
d) D
e) B
2. Who sits opposite of S?
a) A
b) E
c) C
d) D
e) None of these.
3. P is related to F in the same way as S is related to E based on the given
arrangement. Which of the following is R related to, following the same pattern?
a) F
b) D
c) C
d) B
e) None of these.
4. How many people are sitting between B and the one sitting opposite of Q?
a) 0
b) 1
c) 2
d) 3
e) 4
J, P, Q, R, S, T, U and V are four married couples sitting in a circle facing the centre. The
profession of the males within the group are lecturer, lawyer, doctor and scientist. Among the
males, only R (the lawyer) and V (the scientist) are sitting together. Each man is seated besides his
wife. U, the wife of the lecturer is seated second to the right of V. T is the only person seated
between U and V. P is the wife of the doctor. Q is not the doctor but not a wife of anyone either. S is
a male.
5. Who is sitting opposite to the scientist’s wife?
a) P
b) Q
c) S
d) J
e) R
6. Who is sitting opposite to the lecturer?
a) Lawyer
b) Lawyer’s wife
c) Scientist
d) Doctor’s wife
e) Doctor
7. How many people are sitting between the lawyer’s wife and lecturer’s wife if you
move from lawyer’s wife in an anti-clockwise direction?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
e) 5
8. Identify the odd one out.
a) S-T
b) P-V
c) Q-J
d) J-U
e) R-Q
A group of seven friends A, B, C, D, E, F and G, work as Economist, Agriculture Officer, IT Officer, Terminal
Operator, Clerk, Forex Officer and Research Analyst, for Banks - L, M, N, P, Q, R and S, but not necessarily in
the same order. C works for Bank N and is neither a Research Analyst nor a Clerk. E is an IT Officer and
works for Bank R. A works as Forex Officer and does not work for Bank L or Q. The one who is an Agriculture
Officer works for Bank M. The one who works for Bank L works as a Terminal Operator. F works for Bank Q. G
works for Bank P as a Research Analyst. D is not an Agriculture Officer.

Name Bank Name Profession

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
9. What is D’s profession?
a) Economist
b) Clerk
c) Agriculture Officer
d) Terminal Operator
e) None of these
10. Who works for bank S?
a) A
b) B
c) C
d) D
e) E
11. For which bank does B work?
a) S
b) L
c) N
d) M
e) Q
12. Which of the following combination is incorrect?
a) E-R
b) D-L
c) B-S
d) C-N
e) G-P
Advanced Questions
A leading socialite decided to organise a dinner and invited a few of her friends. The men were Maqbool,
Ratan, Dhirubhai and Jackie, while the women were Madhuri, Urmila, Shobha and Monisha. Only the host
and the hostess were sitting at the opposite ends of a rectangular table, with three persons along each side.
The pre-requisite for the seating arrangement was that each person must be seated such that atleast on one
side it has a person of opposite sex. Maqbool is opposite Shobha, who is not the hostess. Ratan has a
woman on his right and is sitting opposite a woman who is not the hostess. Monisha is sitting to the hostess’s
right, next to Dhirubhai. One person is seated between Madhuri and Urmila who is not the hostess.
1. Who is sitting second to the left of the host?
a) Dhirubai
b) Ratan
c) Shobha
d) Urmila
e) None of these.
2. Who is sitting opposite Madhuri?
a) Dhirubai
b) Jackie
c) Ratan
d) Urmila
e) None of these.
3. If Ratan would have exchanged seats with a person four places to his left, which of the following
would have been true after this exchange?
I. No one was seated between two persons of the opposite sex. (e.g. no man was seated between
two women)
II. One side of the table consisted entirely of persons of the same sex.
III. Either the host or the hostess changed seats.

a) Only I.
b) Only II.
c) Both II and III.
d) Both I and II.
e) None of the above
4. How many people are sitting between Urmila and the person opposite Jackie in anti-clockwise
direction moving from Urmila?
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 1
e) 5
Eight Persons (N,P,Q,O,S,U,T,R) are sitting in a straight line of eight vacant seats. Four of them are facing
north and the remaining four persons are facing south. They also like Eight different vegetables - Carrot,
Brinjal, Cabbage, Potato, Tomato, Beans, Broccoli, and Capsicum but not necessarily in same order. Those
Eight people are also sitting in alphabetical order. Person who likes Tomato sits third to the right of P. neither
likes Broccoli nor Carrot. Q faces south. Person who likes Brinjal sits third to the right of person who likes
Potato. Three persons sit between the person who likes Broccoli and Carrot. Person who likes Beans sits third
to the left of the person who likes Tomato. Q sits second to the right of the person who likes Capsicum.
Person who likes Carrot and Broccoli face same direction (i.e. both face either towards south or North).
Person who likes Carrot sits to the immediate left of the person who likes Capsicum. Person who likes
Cabbage sits third to the left of R. Three persons sit between the Person who likes Cabbage and the person
who likes Brinjal.
5. Who sits next fourth to the right of the one who likes capsicum?
a) P
b) Q
c) R
d) S
e) T
6. Identify the odd one out.
a) P
b) O
c) S
d) T
e) U
7. Which of the following pair of vegetables are the favourite of people standing at the ends of the
row?
a) Tomato-Potato
b) Beans-Cabbage
c) Carrot-Cabbage
d) Cabbage-Broccoli
e) None of these.
8. If O is related to Carrot, Q is related to Beans, then what is U related to using the same relation?
a) Tomato
b) Cabbage
c) Potato
d) Broccoli
e) Brinjal
In a Public Sector Undertaking Township, there are five executives – Ambrish, Amit, Rohit, Manu and Tarun. Two of them
play Cricket while the other three play different games viz. Football, Tennis and Chess. One Cricket player and a Chess
player stay in the third flat, whereas the other three stay in different flats, i.e. 2nd, 4th and 5th. Two of these five players are
mechanical engineers while the other three are quality inspector, design engineer and power engineer respectively. The
chess player is the oldest in age while one of the cricket players, who plays at the national level, is the youngest in age. The
age of the other cricket player, who plays at the regional level, lies between the football player and the chess player. Manu
is a regional level player and stays in the 3rd flat while Tarun is a quality inspector and stays in the 5th flat. The football
player is a design engineer and stays in the 2nd Flat. Amit is a power engineer and plays Chess while Ambrish is the
mechanical engineer and plays Cricket at the national level.

Name Flat Sport Age Profession

Ambrish
Amit
Rohit
Manu
Tarun
9. Which of the following people live together?
a) Amit and Ambrish
b) Ambrish and Manu
c) Amit and Tarun
d) Manu and Amit
e) Manu and Ambrish
10. The second youngest player among these plays which sport?
a) Cricket
b) Chess
c) Football
d) Tennis
e) Cannot be Determined.
11. What is the occupation of the person who plays Cricket at a regional level?
a) Design Engineer
b) Quality Inspector
c) Mechanical Engineer
d) Product Engineer
e) Cannot be Determined.
12. Which of the following is a football player?
a) Design Engineer
b) Quality Inspector
c) Mechanical Engineer
d) Product Engineer
e) Cannot be Determined.