1 General Mental and Psychological Abilities · 1.1.3 Blood relations and direction sense

1.1.3.2 Coded blood relations and family puzzles

In coded relations each symbol stands for one relation; decode the expression pair by pair from left to right into a family tree, take gender only from the relation words, and answer "cannot be determined" when the tree leaves gender or the link open.

  • APPSC Group 1
  • Advanced level
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Key terms

  • coded blood relations
  • symbol relations
  • number codes
  • expression decoding
  • family puzzle
  • three generations
  • married couples
  • gender from relation
  • cannot be determined
  • maternal grandfather
  • sister-in-law
  • niece

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