NMAT 2026 Quiz 11: Practice Questions with Solutions

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An office planned to have a fun game competition. Captains nominated from different departments led groups named Conjurer, Wizard, Magus, Mystic and Occultist. The captains were from Operations, HR, Marketing, Finance and Legal, and each of the captains ate either sweets, fruits, cereals, milk products or was vegan. The captains were either Frequent, Business, Rare, Occasional, or Fun travellers.

Members of the Magus and Wizard groups could eat Cereals and Fruits respectively and they were neither from HR, Legal or Operations.
HR loved sweets and travelled only occasionally. Marketing neither travelled frequently nor rarely.
Operations did not travel for fun and did not belong to the Conjurer, Mystic or Magus group.
The legal team captain was neither vegan, nor liked sweets nor cereals, and also did not travel rarely or frequently.
Mystic group had milk-based products but did not travel occasionally or for fun.
The person who travelled frequently headed the Occultist team.
Finance did not have cereals.

Q1. Which group enjoys milk-based products? Correct Option E … Explanation: The clue set states directly that the Mystic group had milk-based products. The rest of the grid confirms it: Magus and Wizard belong to Marketing or Finance, and since Finance did not have cereals, Magus = Marketing (cereals) and Wizard = Finance (fruits). Operations is neither Conjurer, Mystic nor Magus, so Operations = Occultist. Legal ate neither vegan food, sweets nor cereals, and fruits are already with Finance, so Legal = milk products = Mystic, leaving Conjurer = HR (sweets) and Occultist = Operations (vegan). Options A, B, C and D are ruled out because Occultist is vegan, Conjurer has sweets, Wizard has fruits and Magus has cereals. Hence, option E. Q2. What kind of food did the Occultist group enjoy? Correct Option B … Explanation: Operations did not belong to Conjurer, Mystic or Magus, and Wizard is already fixed as Finance, so Operations headed the Occultist team. Sweets belong to HR (Conjurer), cereals to Magus, fruits to Wizard and milk products to Mystic/Legal, so the only food item left for Occultist is vegan. This also sits well with the condition that the frequent traveller headed the Occultist team while Operations did not travel for fun. Options A, C, D and E are each already allotted to another group. Hence, option B. Q3. What kind of a traveller is the marketing person? Correct Option A … Explanation: Marketing is the Magus group. HR is the occasional traveller and Marketing travelled neither frequently nor rarely, while the frequent traveller is Occultist/Operations. Legal (Mystic) could not travel rarely, frequently, occasionally or for fun, so Legal = business. That leaves only rare and fun for Finance (Wizard) and Marketing (Magus), and since Marketing cannot be a rare traveller, Marketing = fun and Finance = rare. Options B, C, D and E are each blocked by the conditions on Marketing, the Occultist head and Legal respectively. Hence, option A. Q4. Which of the following combinations is correct? Correct Option D … Explanation: The completed grid is Conjurer–HR–Sweets–Occasional, Wizard–Finance–Fruits–Rare, Magus–Marketing–Cereals–Fun, Mystic–Legal–Milk products–Business and Occultist–Operations–Vegan–Frequent. Option D matches this line exactly. Option A is wrong because Magus belongs to Marketing and ate cereals, not fruits. Option B is wrong because Wizard belongs to Finance and travelled rarely, not frequently. Option C is wrong on every count, since Occultist is Operations, vegan and a frequent traveller. Option E is wrong because Mystic is Legal, ate milk products and travelled for business. Hence, option D.

Five people—A, B, C, D, and E—purchased dresses on five different occasions. Each person spent a different amount on the dress, with the amounts being more than ₹1000.

C purchased the dress immediately after the person who spent ₹1600.
Exactly one person purchased a dress between C and D.
Exactly three people purchased dresses between D and the person who spent ₹2100.
A purchased the dress immediately before the person who spent ₹4500.
The total amount spent by A and D was ₹5000.
B spent ₹500 more than E.
E purchased the dress before B.

Q5. How much did D spend on purchasing the dress? Correct Option D … Explanation: Since exactly three people bought dresses between D and the ₹2100 spender, they occupy the first and fifth positions; combined with exactly one person sitting between C and D, this places D fifth, the ₹2100 spender first and C third. The ₹1600 spender must then be second and C, seated third, spent ₹4500, which makes A the second buyer with ₹1600. As E bought before B, E is the first buyer with ₹2100 and B the fourth, giving B = 2100 + 500 = ₹2600. Finally, A + D = ₹5000 gives D = 5000 − 1600 = ₹3400, so options A, B, C and E are all inconsistent with that total. Hence, option D. Q6. Who was the second person to purchase the dress? Correct Option A … Explanation: The final order of purchase is E (₹2100), A (₹1600), C (₹4500), B (₹2600) and D (₹3400). A must come immediately before the ₹4500 spender and C immediately after the ₹1600 spender, which together place A second and C third. Option C is wrong because C is third, option B is wrong because B is fourth, option D is wrong because D is fifth, and option E is wrong because E is first. Hence, option A. Q7. What is the difference between the amount spent by A and E? Correct Option C … Explanation: A spent ₹1600, being the second buyer placed immediately before C who spent ₹4500, and E spent ₹2100 as the first buyer. The difference is 2100 − 1600 = ₹500. Note that ₹500 also happens to be the gap between B and E, but that is a separate pair and does not change this calculation. Options A, B, D and E do not match the fixed values of A and E in the completed table. Hence, option C. Q8. What is the average amount spent by these five people on purchasing the dress? Correct Option B … Explanation: The five amounts are E ₹2100, A ₹1600, C ₹4500, B ₹2600 and D ₹3400. Their total is 2100 + 1600 + 4500 + 2600 + 3400 = ₹14,200, and dividing by 5 gives an average of ₹2,840. Options A, C, D and E would each require a different total, none of which is consistent with the amounts fixed by the purchase-order and sum conditions. Hence, option B.

A group of 8 people (A through H), consisting of 3 hosts and 5 guests, sat at a rectangular table. Three people sat on each of the two long sides, and two people sat on one short side. One of the short sides was vacant.

Each of the three occupied sides had exactly one host.
H, the head of the host family, sat with D on the short side.
A sat in the middle seat on one of the long sides.
E and F, a guest couple, were seated next to each other.
Neither B nor G is a host.
H was seated to the immediate left of F.

Q9. Who among the following sat opposite a host? Correct Option C … Explanation: H is the host on the short side and D the guest beside him. H sitting to the immediate left of F forces F into the corner seat of a long side adjacent to H, and the guest couple condition places E next to F on that same long side, so that side reads C–E–F. Since E and F are guests, the host on that long side must be the third person, who cannot be B or G, so it is C; A sits in the middle of the other long side and is therefore its host, with B and G in the two end seats in either order. The facing pairs are C–(B/G), E–A and F–(B/G), so E is the only one among the choices sitting opposite a host, namely A. Option A is wrong because A faces the guest E, options B and D face the vacant side and a non-host respectively, and option E is therefore incorrect. Hence, option C. Q10. What is the position of C with respect to D? Correct Option A … Explanation: Moving to the right from D along the seating order, the sequence is H (first), F (second), E (third) and C (fourth), since D and H occupy the short side and the long side beside them reads F, E, C. C's seat is therefore the fourth to the right of D and is fixed regardless of how B and G are arranged on the opposite long side. Options B and C misjudge both the direction and the count, option D is wrong because H is D's immediate neighbour on that side, and option E is wrong because C's seat is fully determined. Hence, option A. Q11. Who sat opposite B? Correct Option E … Explanation: B and G fill the two end seats of the long side on which A sits in the middle, but no clue distinguishes between them, so B may occupy either end. If B takes the seat near the short side he faces F, and if he takes the far seat he faces C. Since two possibilities survive, the person opposite B cannot be fixed, which rules out options B and D even though each is possible in one case. Option A is impossible because A sits on the same side as B, and option C is impossible because E faces A. Hence, option E. Q12. If G exchanges their seat with the host sitting on the opposite side of the table, who will now be a neighbour of G? Correct Option D … Explanation: G sits on the long side occupied by A, so the host on the side opposite to G is C, who occupies the far end seat of the other long side, next to E and next to the vacant short side. After the exchange, G moves into C's seat, where the only occupied adjacent seat belongs to E, making E the new neighbour of G. This holds whichever end seat G originally occupied, since the destination seat is the same in both cases. Options A and C are wrong because A and C are no longer adjacent to that seat after the swap, and options B and C are wrong because D and H sit on the short side, which is not adjacent to C's seat. Hence, option D.

Each of P, Q, R, S, T, U and V was born in a different month viz., January, March, May, June, July, November and December of the same year starting from January and ending in December, but not necessarily in the same order. They all like different colours i.e., yellow, green, purple, red, white, pink and blue, but not necessarily in the same order.

P was born in May. Only two people were born between P and the person who likes pink. U likes white and was born in a month with only 30 days. V was born after the person who likes red colour, but before P. The person who likes yellow colour was born immediately after the person who likes green colour. T was born immediately after S but before the person who likes purple colour. Q does not like purple colour.

Q13. In which month was R born? Correct Option C … Explanation: With P in May, the third slot of the seven months, the pink lover falls in the sixth slot, November. U, who likes white and was born in a 30-day month, therefore takes June, and V is placed in March with the red lover in January. Yellow coming immediately after green then makes March green and May yellow, while T born immediately after S but before the purple lover fits S in July and T in November, ahead of purple in December. As Q cannot like purple, Q takes January with red and R takes December with purple, leaving blue for S. Options A, B, D and E are held by T, S, Q and V respectively. Hence, option C. Q14. How many people were born between S and V? Correct Option B … Explanation: The final order of births is Q (January), V (March), P (May), U (June), S (July), T (November) and R (December). V occupies the second slot and S the fifth, so the people born between them are P in May and U in June, giving a count of two. Options A and C overcount by including V or S themselves or by misreading the order, and options D and E undercount the gap between March and July. Hence, option B. Q15. How many people were born after the person who likes yellow colour? Correct Option D … Explanation: Yellow must come immediately after green, and since V in March takes green, P in May takes yellow. The people born after May are U in June, S in July, T in November and R in December, which makes four. Options A, B and C fall short of the four later births, and option E would require five people after May, which is impossible as only Q and V precede P. Hence, option D. Q16. Who was born in November? Correct Option A … Explanation: November is the sixth slot, which belongs to the pink lover, and T must be born immediately after S but before the purple lover. Since S occupies July and the purple lover occupies December, T is the person born in November, liking pink. Option B is wrong because Q was born in January, option C because V was born in March and option D because R was born in December. Option E is wrong since every month is uniquely fixed by the clues. Hence, option A.

Six people, A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting in a row, facing north. They each study a different subject i.e. History, English, Civics, Accounts, Sociology and Physics, but not necessarily in the same order. Each one of them is wearing a shirt of a different colour i.e. black, red, yellow, white, blue, purple. All the information is not necessarily in the same order.

Only four people sit to the left of F, who studies accounts. Only two people sit between F and the person who wears a blue shirt. B wears a yellow shirt and sits to the immediate left of the person wearing a blue shirt. Only five people sit to the left of the person who studies Civics and wears a black shirt. C studies Physics and sits second to the right of the person wearing a yellow shirt. E is the immediate neighbour of the person who studies Sociology and the person who wears a white shirt. A studies English and does not wear a black shirt. The one who wears a red shirt does not study accounts.

Q17. What colour shirt does F wear? Correct Option C … Explanation: With only four people to his left, F, who studies accounts, takes the fifth seat, and the blue shirt falls in the second seat, which puts B in the first seat wearing yellow. The Civics student in black takes the sixth seat, and C, the Physics student sitting second to the right of the yellow shirt, takes the third, leaving A in the fourth seat and D in the sixth. E's neighbours then make B the Sociology student and C the white shirt, and since the red shirt cannot study accounts, A takes red and F takes purple. Options A, B and E are already held by D, B and C respectively, and option D belongs to A. Hence, option C. Q18. How many people sit to the right of the person who studies History? Correct Option A … Explanation: The final line-up from left to right is B (Sociology), E (History), C (Physics), A (English), F (Accounts) and D (Civics). With Sociology assigned to B, Physics to C, English to A, Accounts to F and Civics to D, History is left for E in the second seat. Four people — C, A, F and D — therefore sit to the right of E. Options B, C, D and E would each place the History student further right than the second seat, which contradicts the fixed positions of C, A, F and D. Hence, option A. Q19. Who sits to the immediate right of the person wearing a purple shirt? Correct Option D … Explanation: The shirt sequence from left to right is yellow (B), blue (E), white (C), red (A), purple (F) and black (D). F, who studies accounts, wears purple in the fifth seat, so the immediate right neighbour is D in the sixth seat, the Civics student in black. Options A and C sit to the far left of F, option B sits two seats to F's left, and option E is the purple wearer himself. Hence, option D. Q20. Which subject does the person wearing red shirt study? Correct Option E … Explanation: The red shirt cannot belong to the accounts student F, and yellow, blue, white and black are already taken by B, E, C and D respectively, so red goes to A in the fourth seat and purple to F. Since A studies English, the red shirt wearer is an English student. Option C is directly ruled out by the condition on the red shirt, options B and D belong to E and B who wear blue and yellow, and option A is wrong because the colour-subject pairing is completely determined. Hence, option E.