RANKINGS

1. Sam ranked 9th from the top and 38th from the Ravi’s rank from the start? a)
bottom in the class. How many students are there in 14th b) 15th c) 16th d) 17th
the class? a) 45 b)
46 c) 47 d) 48 10. Bharati is 8 ranks ahead of Divya who ranks
twenty-sixth in a class of 42. What is Bharati’s rank
2. A class of boys stands in a single line. One boy is from the last? a)
nineteenth in order from both the ends. How many 9th b) 24th c) 25th d) 34th
boys are there in the class? a)
27 b) 37 c) 38 d) 39 11. In a row of boys, A is thirteenth from the left and
D is seventeenth from the right. If in this row A is
3. Ajay ranked sixteenth from the top and twenty- eleventh from the right then what is the position of D
ninth from the bottom among those who passed an from the left? a) 6th b)
examination. Six boys did not participate in the 7th c) 10th d) 12th
competition and five failed in it. How many boys are
there in the class? 12. Rajan is sixth from the left end and Vinay is tenth
a) 40 b) 44 c) 50 d) 55 from the right end in a row of boys. If there are eight
boys between Rajan and Vinay, how many boys are
4. If Atul finds that he is twelfth from the right in a there in the row? a) 23 b)
line of boys and fourth from the left. How many boys 24 c) 25 d) 26
should be added to the line such that there are 28
boys in the line? a) 13. In a row of boys, A is fifteenth from the left and B
12 b) 13 c) 14 d) 20 is fourth from the right. There are three boys between
A and B. C is just left of A. What is C’s position from
5. In a row of boys, Jeevan is seventh from the start the right? a) 9th b) 10th c)
and eleventh from the end. In another row of boys, 12th d) 13th
Vikas is tenth from the start and twelfth from the end.
How many boys are there in both the rows together? 14. Rohit is seventeenth from the left end of a row of
a) 36 b) 29 boys and Karan is seventeenth from the right end
37 c) 39 d) None of these in the same row. How many boys are between them in
the row? a) 3 b) 5
6. In a class of 60, where girls are twice that of boys, c) 6 d) Data inadequate
Kamal ranked seventeenth from the top. If there are 9
girls ahead of Kamal, how many boys are after him in 15. In a row of forty children, P is thirteenth from the
rank? a) 3 b) 7 c) 12 d) 23 left and Q is ninth from the right end. How many
children are there between P and R if R is fourth to
7. Nitin ranks eighteenth in a class of 49 students. the left of Q? a) 12 b) 13 c) 14
What is his rank from the last? a) 18 b) d) 15
19 c) 31 d) 32
16. In a class of 35 students, Kunal is placed seventh
8. Manoj and Sachin are ranked seventh and eleventh from the bottom whereas Sonali is placed ninth from
respectively from the top in a class of 31 students. the top. Pulkit is placed exactly in between the two.
What will be their respective ranks from the bottom What is Kunal’s position from Pulkit?
in the class? a) 9 b) 10 c) 11 d) 13

a) 20th and 24th b) 24th and 20th c) 25th and 21st d) 17. Richard is fifteenth from the front in a column of
26th and 22nd boys. There were thrice as many behind him as there
were in front. How many boys are there between
9. Ravi is 7 ranks ahead of Sumit in a class of 39. If Richard and the seventh boy from the end of the
Sumit’s rank is seventeenth from the last, what is
column? a) Malini, who is 17th from the left end, is fourth to the
33 b) 34 c) 35 d) Data inadequate right of Reena, how many girls are there in the row?
a) 37 b)
18. Forty boys are standing in a row facing the North. 43 c) 44 d) Data inadequate
Amit is eleventh from the left and Deepak is thirty-
first from the right end of the row. How far will
Shreya, who is third to the right of Amit in the row, be
from Deepak? a) 2nd b)
3rd c) 4th d) 5th CORRECT ANSWERS
19. In a class, among the passed students, Amisha is 1. b 2. b
twenty-second from the top and Sajal, who is 5 ranks
below Amisha, is thirty-fourth from the bottom. All 3. d 4. b
the students from the class have appeared in the
exam. If the ratio of the students who passed in the 5. e 6. c
exam to those who failed is 4:1 in that class, how
7. d 8. c
many students are there in the class? a) 60 b) 75 c)
90 d) Data inadequate 9. c 10. c

20. In a queue, A is eighteenth from the front while B 11. b 12. b

is sixteenth from the back. If C is twenty-fifth from the
front and is exactly in the middle of A and B, then how 13. a 14. a
many persons are there in the queue? a) 45 b) 46 c)
15. c 16. b
47 d) 48
17. c 18. c
21. N ranks fifth in a class. S is eighth from the last. If
T is sixth after N and just in the middle of N and S, 19. b 20. c
then how many students are there in the class? a) 23
b) 24 c) 25 d) 26 21. b 22. c

22. In a row of girls, there are 16 girls between Priya 23. b 24. e
and Natasha. Priya is thirty-second from the left end
25. b
of the row. If Priya is nearer than Natasha to the right
end of the row, then how far away is Natasha from the
left end of the row? a) Data Inadequate b)
14th c) 15th d) 16th

23. In a row, Shikhar is ninth from the back. Arun’s

place is eighth from the front. Nikhil is standing
between the two. What could be the minimum
number of boys standing in the queue? a)
8 b) 10 c) 12 d) 14

24. In a row of 21 girls, when Monika was shifted by

four places towards the right, she became 12th from
the left end. What was her earlier position from the
right end of the row? a) 9th b) 10th c)
11th d) 12th e) 14th

25. In a row of girls facing North, Reena is 10th to the

left of Pallavi, who is 21st from the right end. If