Prelims · 8 Mental Ability · 8.10 Blood relations and direction sense

8.10.1 Blood relations: direct statements and family trees

Blood-relation questions are solved by drawing a small family tree, starting from the speaker ("my …") and reading the chain of relations one step at a time, while marking each person's gender and generation.

  • APPSC Group 2 · Prelims
  • Standard level
  • 8 min read
  • Full course

Key terms

  • blood relations
  • family tree
  • pointing to a photograph
  • introducing
  • paternal
  • maternal
  • uncle
  • aunt
  • nephew
  • niece
  • brother-in-law
  • sister-in-law
  • daughter-in-law
  • generation
  • gender
  • counting family members

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