short trick for blood relation reasoning questions

Short trick for blood relation reasoning questions.Today, we are going to discuss short tricks for blood relation topic which is one of the most important topics of reasoning in competitive exams.

Look, before going into the details, you should know some basic signs that I will use while solving blood relation based questions.

short trick for blood relation reasoning questions

Now, let us take an example.

Read the following carefully to answer these questions.

  SBI PO 2005  

1)’A$B’ means A is the mother of B.
2)’A#B’ means A is the father of B.
3)’A@B’ means A is the husband of B.
4)’A%B’ means A is the daughter of B.

Que: which of the following expression indicates “R is the sister of H”?

Options are:

a)H$D@F#R
b)R%D@F$H
c)R$D@F#H
d)H%D@F$R
e) None of these

Note: This type of question can be a headache for many students because they start solving each and every option to reach the conclusion.but believe me, guys you can eliminate 2 to 3 options just by having a look at the options. Let us see, how?

Solution: So when you come across such type of questions, just implement following steps:

How to solve blood relation reasoning questions using short tricks?

Step 1: Firstly, have a look at the question which says “R is the sister of H”, that means R is female and H can be a male or female.

Step 2: Secondly, have a look at the options (Only Concentrate on Bold Letters). So you come to know that in option (a) and (d), R can be a male or female and it is not certain but according to the question, R has to be female.

Hence, both of these options can be eliminated.

Step 3: Now you are left with option (b), (c), (e).

 Firstly, we'll go for option (b).

D⁺ = F^-
|         |
R^-  -  H

short trick for blood relation reasoning questions.

Here R is female and also the sister of H. so option (b) is our answer. There is no need to check the other options.

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In this way, you can solve this type of questions in minimum time. Needless to say, competitive exams are all about time management. For any queries do comment below.