List of top General Aptitude Questions asked in GATE CE, GATE CY

Charity : P :: Retaliation : Q
Choose the appropriate pair of words P and Q that fit the analogy.
A paper shown in Panel I is folded along the dashed lines (- - -) to construct a cube. The shaded regions shown in Panel I appear on the outer surface of the cube. Referring to cubes shown in Panel II, which one of the options is correct?
Four hills \(H_1, H_2, H_3\), and \(H_4\) are present in an area. The following observations are made about them:
(i) Neither \(H_2\) nor \(H_3\) is the easternmost hill.
(ii) Neither \(H_2\) nor \(H_3\) is the westernmost hill.
(iii) Neither the easternmost hill nor the westernmost hill is the southernmost hill.
(iv) Two hills are located to the west of \(H_2\).
(v) The southernmost hill has at least two hills to its east.
The southernmost hill is .
A school has 100 students distributed among 1st to 10th standards.
Based on this, which one of the following statements is always correct?
In a group of students, 10 students like Mathematics, 12 students like English, 4 students like both Mathematics and English, and 6 students like neither Mathematics nor English. The number of students in the group is
Consider the cube shown below with its 8 corners labelled a, b, c, d, e, f, g, and h. The figure is representative. All corners are to be colored such that any two corners that are connected by an edge must be of different colors. The minimum number of colors required to achieve this is
"He often the numbers. False claims are not going to help. Honesty trust", said the manager.
Choose the option with the correct order of words to fill the blanks.
As shown in the figure, circle \(C_1\) with center \(O_1\) and radius \(r_1\) touches the square \(VWXY\) at points \(P\) and \(Q\), while circle \(C_2\) with center \(O_2\) and radius \(r_2\) touches the square \(VWXY\) at points \(R\) and \(S\). The two circles touch each other at \(T\).
Given \(r_1 = 1\) cm and \(\overline{VY} = \overline{VW} = 4\) cm, \(r_2 =\) cm.
How many 3-digit numbers can be formed using three distinct single digit prime numbers?
In the sequence of tiles shown below, the missing tile indicated by the question mark should be
Consider an art gallery whose walkways are shown as lines in the diagram. A black dot represents a junction of two walkways. A guard may be placed at a junction to watch over the walkways that join at that junction. The minimum number of guards needed to watch all the walkways is ________.
Four people P, Q, R, and S, of different ages, make the following observations.
P: I am younger than S.
Q: I am neither the youngest nor the oldest.
R: P is older than me.
Based on these observations, the youngest person is ______.
A paper shown in Panel I is folded along the dashed lines (- - -) to construct a cube. The shaded regions shown in Panel I appear on the outer surface of the cube. Referring to cubes shown in Panel II, which one of the options is correct?
Circles \(C_1\), \(C_2\), and \(C_3\), with centers \(O_1\), \(O_2\), and \(O_3\), and radii \(r_1\), \(r_2\), and \(r_3\), respectively, touch each other as shown in the following figure. Given \(r_1 = 2\) cm, \(r_2 = 1\) cm and the angle \(\angle O_1O_3O_2\) is \(90^{\circ}\), \(r_3 =\) _____ cm.
Exacerbate : Mitigate :: ___________
Choose the option with the correct pair of words to fill the blank.
The 2nd of June is a Thursday in a certain year. Which day of the week is the 3rd of July in that year?
Suresh said, "I did it yesterday."
Which one of the following options is the correct form of this sentence in indirect speech?
A coin with heads facing up is shown as a circled letter "H", and a coin with tails facing up is shown as a circled letter "T".
Six coins are placed in the Starting Arrangement, as shown in the figure below. A "step" is defined as interchanging a pair of adjacent coins without flipping them. The minimum number of steps needed to go from the Starting Arrangement to the Final Arrangement, as shown in the figure, is ________.
To continue the sequence of tiles shown, the tile indicated by the question mark should be:
In a population, patients who have high cholesterol also have high blood-pressure (BP). Some patients with high BP also have diabetes. There are no patients who have both high cholesterol and diabetes. Furthermore,
1. the total number of patients with at least one of these conditions is 75,
2. the number of patients with high cholesterol is 10,
3. the number of patients with high BP is 45, and
4. the number of patients with only high BP and no other conditions is 20.
Then the number of patients who have both diabetes and high BP is _______
Which one of the patterns labelled P, Q, R, and S is used to generate the following figure?
The next figure (indicated by '?') in the sequence is
The table lists the unit selling price of five products P, Q, R, S, and T. On a particular day, 250 items were sold with the average selling price of Rs. 60. The following observations were made:
(i) The quantity of S sold was twice that of T.
(ii) The quantity of R sold was thrice that of T.
(iii) The quantity of Q sold was four times that of T.

ProductPQRST
Unit selling price (Rs.)10050406060

What is the quantity of product P sold on that day?
If a positive real \(x\) satisfies the following equation
\[ \log_2 x + \log_{\sqrt{2}} x = 48, \]
then the value of \(x\) is
Consider the following statements about four numbers:
(S1) The average of the four numbers is 25
(S2) Each number is at most 40
(S3) Each number is at least 20

Choose the option that is necessarily correct.