# Syllogism Questions for Bank Exam — Free Verified Practice | Deduce > Practise syllogism questions for bank exam reasoning free: treat statements as given, test every diagram, separate definite conclusions from possibilities. Source: https://deducepuzzles.com/reasoning/syllogism --- ## Syllogism questions for bank exam prep — free, verified practice Syllogism is the most reliably scoreable topic in banking reasoning: the rules are fixed, no arrangement is needed, and a set of four or five questions can be cleared in two to three minutes. The catch is that it punishes intuition harder than any other topic, because the answer often contradicts what common sense suggests. ### How to solve syllogism questions for bank exam papers - Accept the statements, however absurd “All chairs are dogs” is to be treated as simply true. Marks are lost far more often to smuggled real-world knowledge than to faulty logic, so read the statements as pure set relationships. - Draw the relationship, not the sentence “All A are B” is a circle A inside circle B. “Some A are B” is two overlapping circles. “No A are B” is two separated circles. “Some A are not B” places part of A outside B, and says nothing about the rest. - Look for a counter-diagram, not a confirming one A conclusion follows only if no legal diagram breaks it. So actively try to draw the arrangement where it fails. Succeeding proves it does not follow; failing after honest attempts proves it does. - Know the reversals that are always safe “Some A are B” always gives “some B are A”. “All A are B” gives “some B are A”. But “all A are B” never gives “all B are A”, and “some A are not B” never reverses to “some B are not A”. - Handle possibility conclusions separately A conclusion phrased “some A being B is a possibility” asks the opposite question: it is true whenever at least one legal diagram allows it, and false only when every diagram forbids it. ### What each statement pair can prove | Statements | What follows | | --- | --- | | All A are B · All B are C | All A are C, and some C are A | | All A are B · Some B are C | Nothing definite — the C part may miss A entirely | | Some A are B · All B are C | Some A are C | | No A are B · All C are B | No C are A | | Some A are not B · All B are C | Nothing definite | | Two “some” statements | Never a definite conclusion on their own | ### Practise syllogism questions for bank exam right now Every question below was generated by the same engine that mints the Deduce daily puzzle, and machine-proven to have exactly one correct answer before it reached this page. The walkthrough is the engine's own, step for step. #### Question 1 Take the two statements to be true even if they differ from commonly known facts, then decide which conclusion logically follows. Statements: Some painters are dancers. All dancers are writers. Conclusion I: Some painters are writers. Conclusion II: Some writers are painters. - Only conclusion I follows - Only conclusion II follows - Either conclusion I or II follows - Neither conclusion I nor II follows - Both conclusions I and II follow - Conclusion I ("Some painters are writers") is true in every situation the statements allow. - Conclusion II ("Some writers are painters") is true in every situation the statements allow. - So both conclusions follow. #### Question 2 Take the two statements to be true even if they differ from commonly known facts, then decide which conclusion logically follows. Statements: All cows are pets. All pets are lions. Conclusion I: Some cows are lions. Conclusion II: All cows are lions. - Only conclusion I follows - Only conclusion II follows - Either conclusion I or II follows - Neither conclusion I nor II follows - Both conclusions I and II follow - Conclusion I ("Some cows are lions") need not follow — the statements allow a situation where it is false. - Conclusion II ("All cows are lions") is true in every situation the statements allow. - So only conclusion II follows. #### Question 3 Take the two statements to be true even if they differ from commonly known facts, then decide which conclusion logically follows. Statements: Some horses are birds. Some birds are tigers. Conclusion I: No horses are tigers. Conclusion II: Some horses are tigers. - Only conclusion I follows - Only conclusion II follows - Either conclusion I or II follows - Neither conclusion I nor II follows - Both conclusions I and II follow - Conclusion I ("No horses are tigers") need not follow — the statements allow a situation where it is false. - Conclusion II ("Some horses are tigers") need not follow — the statements allow a situation where it is false. - Conclusions I and II are a complementary pair — exactly one must be true in every case, but the statements do not fix which. So either I or II follows. ### Common mistakes #### Using what you know about the world If the statements say all birds are stones, then within the question all birds are stones. Every appeal to outside knowledge is an error, no matter how obviously true it feels. #### Reading “some A are not B” as “some A are B” They are different claims and neither implies the other. “Some A are not B” is compatible with no A being B at all, which is exactly the case that breaks most wrong answers. #### Confusing definite with possible “Some A are C” and “some A being C is a possibility” have opposite tests. The first needs every diagram to agree; the second needs only one. Check the wording before you decide. ### Keep the streak going One puzzle a day, timed on the server, with a national and state leaderboard and a streak that survives as long as you do. Practising a topic once is worth little; the aspirants who move are the ones who show up daily. [See what Deduce does](https://deducepuzzles.com/features) or [read the rules first](https://deducepuzzles.com/how-to-play). ### FAQ #### Do I need Venn diagrams for syllogism questions? You need the reasoning they represent, and for most candidates drawing them is the fastest route to it. The critical habit is not drawing one diagram but searching for a diagram that satisfies the statements and breaks the conclusion — that search is what separates a definite conclusion from a merely plausible one. #### Can two “some” statements ever give a conclusion? Not on their own. “Some A are B” and “some B are C” leave open a diagram where the A part of B and the C part of B do not overlap, so no definite link between A and C exists. You can still get valid possibility conclusions and the safe reversals such as “some B are A”. #### What is a possibility conclusion? It is a conclusion phrased as “some A being B is a possibility”. It is true when at least one diagram consistent with the statements allows it, and false only when every legal diagram forbids it. This is the exact opposite of the test for a definite conclusion, which is why the two are so often mixed up. #### How much time should a syllogism set take? Two to three minutes for a five-question set is a realistic target once the rules are automatic. 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