Logical Reasoning Preparation Plan | Tips | Books

Logical Reasoning is the most important part of the MBA competitive exams. As it covers most of the questions from the exams. If the candidate performs well in this section then surely he will pass with the good marks. It is also a test of time management.

We have tried to suggest a 

1. Logical Reasoning Topics
2. Recommended books
3. Tips & Strategies

keeping all these facts in mind. Let’s start with the understanding of this subject.

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Logical Reasoning Topics:

Any institute have never shared syllabus officially. Barring an exception or two, last 10 years’ question papers have followed this syllabus. Logical Reasoning covers 1/3rd part of the exam.

Important topics under Logical Reasoning are:

No.	Chapter	Expected                  Number of                   Questions
1	Blood Relations	3-5
2	Direction Sense	3-5
3	Puzzles	5-7
4	Arrangements	5-10
5	Data Structures	5-7
6	Series	5-10
7	Coding-Decoding	7-10
8	Clocks and Calendars	5-10
9.	Syllogism	5-10

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Difficulty Level:

Questions from this topic is easy to moderate level. Difficulty level depends on the various competitive exams.

If we look at last 10 years’ question papers of all the exams, They have done all the experiments. But by looking at the last two years’ trends, Logical section should be more or less of a moderate difficulty level.

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Recommended Book by expertise:

1. Logical reasoning book by Arun Sharma.
2. Logical reasoning books RS Agarwal.

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preparation Tips and strategies :

1.Study the question carefully:

A brief explanation of why each choice is correct or incorrect follows each practice question. If you understand this reasoning for the practice items, you will do well on the actual assessment.

2.NEVER assume or use any information that the question fails to give you: 

This is NOT an assessment of how much you know about economics in general. Consider ONLY the information given in each reading passage when choosing among the alternative responses.

3.Read both the passage and the sentence instruction carefully: 

Both must be considered in making your choice.It's important that you read the whole problem, and choose the best hint or clue before starting to solve the problem.

4.Be sure to read all the response choices: 

before choosing one read all the choices, sometimes you get the idea that what will be nearest answer.

5.making a chart or drawing a picture: 

Topics like seating arrangement,syllogism can easily understand by the charts or drawing.

6.Idea behind Logical Reasoning is to use the information and precondition: 

To make conclusion you have to understand the information which is given. 

7.Practice: 

Last but not least is the practice many examples. All types of question should be practised by you. To improve your logical reasoning section practice is the only key.