Sitting Arrangement – Logical Reasoning – MBA CUET PG – Notes & Practice Questions

• In seating arrangement, we are generally asked to arrange a group of people according to the given conditions. They may have to be seated around a table, the table could be of any shape-circular, square, rectangular, pentagonal or any other. To solve seating arrangement problems on the basis of the information given in the equation.
• These type of questions judge the ability of the candidates to analyze the information and solve the questions by the help of pictorial figures.

Linear arrangement:

In this arrangement, there can be single row or parallel rows facing each other or opposite.

(i) Left→Right

(Directions if the people are facing north)

(ii) Right → Left

(Directions if the people are facing South)

(iii ) Right →Left

    Left → Right

(Directions if the people are seating parallel to each other facing South and North)

Circular Arrangement:

In this Arrangement, people are sitting around a circle facing towards or outside the centre.

(People sitting around the circle facing towards and outside the centre)

Rectangular/Square Arrangement:

In this Arrangement, people are sitting around a rectangle or square facing towards or outside the centre.

(People sitting at middle of the side, facing the centre and people sitting at edge/corner facing outside the centre)

Practice Questions

Directions (1-5): Eight persons are sitting in two parallel lines. In each parallel lines four persons are sitting at equal distance. Line I: P.Q. R. S are sitting. (not necessary, they are sitting in series given above) And they are facing towards north. Line II, A, B, C, D are sitting (not necessary they are sitting in a series given above) they are facing south. They are all sitting in such a way that line I and line II persons facing to each other. Bis second to the left of D. R is sitting to next who is facing D. Only one person is sitting between R and P.C. is not facing to R. Two persons are sitting between R and Q.

1. Who is facing to P?

(a) A

(c) C

(b) B

(d) D

2. Which of the following is sitting to next to the left who is facing D?

(a) P

(b) Q

(c) R

(d) S

3. Which of the following is sitting to next to the left who is facing B?

(a) P

(b) Q

(c) R

(d) S

4. Which of the following statement is true about S?

(a) S is the last person in a line

(b) S is second to the right of Q.

(c) S is not an immediate neighbour of P

(d) None of these

5. Four of the following five are a like in a certain way and makes a group. Which is one that does not belong to that group?

(a) DS

(b) PB

(c) QB

(d) RA