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Understanding Blood Relations Questions | |
Blood Relations: Type of Questions | |
Statement Based Questions | |
Puzzle Based Questions | |
Symbol Based Questions | |
Blood Relations: Tips & Strategies |
Blood relation questions in exams are important because they test your thinking skills. You have to figure out how family members are related, solving puzzles and finding patterns. It's like connecting the dots in a family tree. These questions help show if you're good at figuring things out logically. So, in simple words, they check how smart you are in understanding family connections and solving problems in exams.
Blood Relation refers to the connection between two individuals established through their birth rather than through marriage or any other factors. Blood Relation questions entail the analysis of information depicting the familial relationships among its members. In these questions, a series of relationships is presented in informational form, and candidates are required to determine the relationship between two members of the family based on this provided information.
To remember easily the relations may be divided into two sides as given below:
Relations of Paternal side
Relations of Maternal side
Whatever the questions are, the candidates are always required to identify the relationship between two particular entities.
The types can further be classified as:
Q1: Raja pointed to a lady and said, “She is daughter of the woman who is the mother of the husband of my mother.” Who is the lady, Raja?
(A) Aunt
(B) Grand daughter
(C) Daughter
(D) Sister
Ans: Aunt
Sol: My father is the husband of my mother.
My Father’s mother is my Grandmother.
My Father’s sister is my Grandmother’s daughter.
My father’s sister is my aunt.
Q2: A man pointed to a woman and said, “His mother is your father’s only daughter.” What is the woman’s connection to that person?
(A) Daughter
(B) Sister
(C) Mother
(D) Wife
Ans: Mother
Sol: She is the only daughter of the woman’s father. As a result, the individual is the woman’s son, and the woman is the individual’s mother.
Q3: Anil introduces Rohit as the only son of his father’s wife’s brother. What’s Rohit’s connection to Anil?
(A) Cousin
(B) Son
(C) Uncle
(D) Son-in-law
Ans: Cousin
Sol: My father’s wife is my mother, my mother’s brother is my maternal uncle, and my uncle’s son is my cousin, according to the breakdown of the relationship. As a result, Rohit is Anil’s cousin.
Example: In a family of W, X, Y and Z, W and X are brothers; while Y and Z are sisters. How are X and Y related if W’s son is Z’s brother?
Solution: From the statement, a simple diagram can be sketched to analyse the relation between Y and Z.
Q1 to Q3: Directions to the following questions, Read the given information carefully into answer the questions that follows.
There is a family of six members.
Members are A, B, C, D, E, and F.
A and B are married couple, B being the female member.
B is the daughter-in-law of F.
D is the only son of C.
E is the sister of D.
F's husband is dead.
C is A's brother.
Q1: How is F related to A?
a) Sister
b) Sister-in-law
c) Mother
d) Mother-in-law
Ans: (c)
Sol: F is the mother of A.
Q2: How is E related to C ?
a) Mother
b) Aunt
c) Cousin
d) Daughter
Ans: (d)
Sol: E is C's daughter.
Q3: Who is C to B?
a) Nephew
b) Brother
c) Brother-in-law
d) Son-in-law
Ans: (c)
Sol: C is B's brother-in-law.
Also known as coded blood relation questions, these involve a set of codes. The candidates are required to decode the sentences (or codes) to identify the relation of the given entities.
Example: Consider the following statements and answer the given question.
How is W and Z related from the following statement: W + X * Y / Z?
Solution: This can be solved by dividing the question and solving from left to right. Now a simple diagram can be made by mentioning the gender and their relations as given below:
Thus, it is easily seen that W is the nephew of Z.
Read the following informations carefully and answer the questions given below:
'P # Q' means 'P is the father of Q',
'P + Q' means 'P is the mother of Q',
'P - Q' means 'P is the brother of Q',
'P * Q' means 'P is the sister of Q'.
Q1: If A + B # C - D, then A is D's
a) Father
b) Grandmother
c) Sister
d) Grandfather
Ans: (b)
Sol: A + B # C -D means A is the mother of B,
who is the father of C, who is the brother of D,
i.e. , A is the mother D's father.
So, A is D's grandmother.
Q2: Which of the following shows that A is the aunt of E ?
a) A + B - C * D # E
b) A # B * C + D - E
c) A * B # C * D - E
d) A - B + C # D * E
Ans: (c)
Sol: A is the aunt of E means A is the sister of the father of E
i.e. A * B # E. Clearly,
the code in Answer: (c) indicates the same.
Example: That girl is Ramu’s sister’s uncle’s wife’s daughter. How is that girl related to Ramu?
Solution: This question seems confusing initially; but, breaking the sentence into parts and then analysing the relation can be extremely easy. Now this sentence can be broken as:
Example: That man is Raju’s sister’s mother’s brother. How is that boy related to Raju?
Solution: This question can be either solved with a family tree or by breaking the sentence and relating the relations personally. So, if this question is solved by personal relation, the sentences become easy to analyse.
It should be noted that this approach should only be taken when the question statement is short. For questions with a long sentence, it is suggested to draw the family tree to easily solve the questions.
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