Seating Arrangement Notes – English Notes for Bank Exam

Job in the banking sector is a dream for millions of aspirants in this country. Banking examination is happening across India every year. Logical reasoning section and seating arrangement section in it is one of the most important and the one with the best scoring chance across all the sections with the difficulty ranging from easy to moderate in any banking examinations. Candidates who have basic idea about the type of questions asked and the format can score good marks in English language section. Seating arrangement questions for IBPS RRB bank exam is also an important portion where candidates have to give priority when they are preparing for the examination and a lot of question is asked from these sections usually in examinations. In this article you can familiarize yourself with the important seating arrangement questions which are also previously asked in the examinations =with answers from the above mentioned section. Also, you can solve and download seating arrangement questions pdf from Entri.

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Seating Arrangement Questions for Banking Exams

Seating Arrangement questions in the banking examination are one of the most important sections of a banking examination and every year many questions are asked from this section. If the candidate is thorough with the concepts and the type of questions that can be asked from this section, they can easily score about 80-100% of marks from this section and can secure a good rank in the final list. This is a very easy and good scoring section and having a thorough idea and good vocabulary can help you hold good marks. Let’s solve some of the previously asked seating Arrangement questions from the section.

Seating Arrangement: Concepts

Seating arrangement questions can be divided in to various categories and here is a list of the different kind of approaches to seating arrangement questions.

• Rectangular Arrangement: Here, you have to arrange people at a rectangular table. You need to keep in mind the directions so that you do not get confused.
• Linear Arrangement: Here, you have to arrange people in a linear form, these type of questions are usually the simplest.
• Circular Arrangement: This type of seating arrangement question is somewhat similar to a rectangular arrangement, except here, people need to arrange it in a circular form.
• Double Row Arrangement: In these seating arrangement questions, people are to be arranged in two rows, usually facing each other.
• Complex Row Arrangement: They are similar to linear arrangement questions in terms of arrangement and properties. Whereas linear arrangement has only one property – complex seating arrangement questions have multiple properties like positioning, objects etc.

Here are some examples for the important seating arrangement questions for bank exams which has the chance to be asked and asked in previous years.

• Nine persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I are watching a movie in a theatre sitting in a row facing North. B is at one end of the row. H is seated adjacent to both F and G. C is to the immediate right of D and at the third place to the right of E. A is immediate left of F. F is at the third place to the left of B. Find out:

  1: Who is at the end of the row?
  2: What is the position of F with respect to D? 

Answer: 1. Keeping in mind the arrangement, E is at the end of the row along with B. 

2. EIADCAFHGB is the arrangement, therefore the answer is D. 

Explanation:

Let us look at the given information correctly and see how we can arrange the people in the correct order. Since the information given says that B is at the end so let’s place B at one of the ends. Now the other clear information that we have is that F is at third place from B so this makes the arrangement F _ _B.

A is left to F, which makes the pattern  AF_ _B. The next information that we have is that H is adjacent to G and F, let’s add that to the pattern now,_ _ _ _ _ AFHGB.

C is at the third place to C from the right which puts E at the other end. Now C is to the immediate right of D which makes the final pattern like this EIADCAFHGB.

• Eleven friends M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting in the first row of the stadium watching a cricket match.

1. T is to the immediate left of P and third to the right of U.
2. V is the immediate neighbour of M and N and third to the left of S.
3. M is the second to the right of Q, who is at one of the ends.
4. R is sitting next to the right of P and P is second to the right of O.

Who is sitting in the center of the row?

1. N
2. O
3. S
4. U

Answer: 4

Explanation:
The arrangement of the persons is
Q W M V N U S O T P R
U is sitting in the center of the row.

Which of the following people are sitting to the right of S?

2. OTPQ
3. OTPR
4. UNVM
5. UOTPR

Answer:  2

Explanation:
The arrangement of the persons is
Q W M V N U S O T P R
OTPR are sitting to the right of S.

Which of the following statements is true with respect to the above arrangement?

1. There are three persons sitting between P and S
2. W is between M and V.
3. N is sitting between V and U
4. S and O are neighbors sitting to the immediate right of T

Answer: 3

Explanation:
The arrangement of the persons is
Q W M V N U S O T P R
Hence N is sitting between V and U.

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