Free reasoning practice sets with answers
Practice sets by topic
Each page carries real questions with the full worked solution, the method that solves that family, and the mistakes that cost marks. All free, no sign-up.
| Seating arrangement | Linear row puzzles — anchor the fixed clues, branch only where a clue leaves real choice. |
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| Circular seating | Facing the centre, a person's left is clockwise. Fix one person and work relative to them. |
| Double-row seating | Two rows facing each other, where left and right invert between the rows. |
| Floor puzzles | Number the floors, place absolute clues first, slide the gap blocks. |
| Box puzzles | The floor-puzzle method applied to a stack, with "above" versus "immediately above". |
| Scheduling puzzles | Days, dates and months as ordered slots with before-after and gap clues. |
| Order & ranking | The position formula, overlapping ranks and comparison chains. |
| Blood relations | Draw the tree by generation, mark gender, read the relation off the diagram. |
| Coding-decoding | Align the letters, measure the shift, test the rule on a second word. |
| Direction & distance | Net displacement on two axes, then Pythagoras for the straight-line distance. |
| Classification | Odd one out, solved with a fixed property checklist rather than inspiration. |
| Syllogism | Accept the statements, hunt for a counter-diagram, separate definite from possible. |
| Coded inequality | Decode the symbols, build one chain, read only what the chain proves. |
| Number series | A fixed checklist: differences, ratios, squares and cubes, then interleaved series. |
| Data sufficiency | Test each statement alone, and stop at sufficiency instead of solving. |
Why these sets differ from a downloaded PDF
A downloaded practice set is fixed, so it can be memorised rather than solved, and if one of its answers is wrong nothing catches it. Deduce mints every question on demand and proves it has exactly one valid answer before serving it. That is why the walkthroughs can be trusted: they are produced by the same code that solved the question, not reconstructed afterwards by a person.
How to use a practice set properly
- Time yourself from the first read. An untimed set measures whether you can solve the question, which you already know. The exam measures whether you can solve it in ninety seconds.
- Review the clue you missed, not the answer. The answer teaches nothing. The clue that would have collapsed the casework two minutes earlier teaches everything.
- Log the mistake type, not the question. "Read two-floors-between as a gap of two" is a pattern you can fix. "Got question 3 wrong" is not.
- Return daily rather than in bulk. Twenty questions once a week builds less speed than three questions every day, because speed is a habit and not a stock.
The daily set
Beyond the topic pages, Deduce serves one fresh puzzle per difficulty every day at midnight IST, timed on the server, with a streak and national and state leaderboards. Pick your exam stream and the daily tunes its topic mix to it. How to play · All reasoning topics · All 28 puzzle types
FAQ
Are these reasoning practice sets really free?
Yes. Every topic page and its questions are free with no sign-up and no email required, and today's daily puzzle is free at all three difficulties. A paid Pro tier exists for the past-puzzle archive and adaptive practice, but nothing on these practice pages sits behind it.
Do the questions repeat if I come back?
No. Every question is generated fresh by the engine rather than drawn from a fixed bank, so reloading a topic page gives you different numbers and a different arrangement. That is deliberate: a practice set you can memorise stops measuring anything after the second attempt.
Which exams are these practice sets suitable for?
IBPS PO and Clerk, SBI PO and Clerk, SSC CGL and CHSL, RBI Grade B, railway exams and state PSC papers — the reasoning and general-intelligence sections all draw on the same families. The daily lets you pick your exam stream so the topic mix leans the right way.
Is a practice set enough on its own for the reasoning section?
No, and it is worth being honest about that. Practice sets build speed and accuracy on families you already understand. Learn unfamiliar theory from a book or a course, take full-length mocks for stamina and section switching, and use daily sets for the habit that turns knowledge into exam speed.
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