Skip to main content

Free practice section

Topic-wise Practice Questions 2026

One topic at a time, pooled across every exam that sets it. If percentages are what slow you down, drill percentages — not a whole paper that happens to contain four of them. Every question carries a worked explanation, and there is no negative marking anywhere in this section.

Topics
40
Questions
8,023
Exams drawn from
127
Negative marking
None

Quantitative

Arithmetic and data topics that carry a section in almost every government, banking and management paper.

  • Percentage

    212 questions · 40 exams

    Converting between fractions, decimals and percentages, and the successive-change traps built on them.

  • Profit and Loss

    196 questions · 53 exams

    Cost price, selling price, marked price and discount, including successive discounts and false weights.

  • Ratio and Proportion

    224 questions · 50 exams

    Dividing quantities in a ratio, compound ratios, and proportion problems that hide a shared multiplier.

  • Time and Work

    223 questions · 51 exams

    Rates of work, combined effort, alternate-day working, and pipes filling against a leak.

  • Time, Speed and Distance

    185 questions · 43 exams

    Relative speed, trains crossing, boats against a stream, and average speed over unequal legs.

  • Averages

    195 questions · 51 exams

    Mean of a set, weighted averages, and what happens to an average when one member enters or leaves.

  • Simple Interest

    121 questions · 47 exams

    Interest that accrues only on the principal, and the rate, time and principal problems built from it.

  • Compound Interest

    93 questions · 39 exams

    Interest on interest, varying compounding periods, and the gap between simple and compound returns.

  • Number System

    142 questions · 37 exams

    Divisibility, factors, remainders, HCF and LCM, and the unit-digit and last-two-digit shortcuts.

  • Simplification

    146 questions · 23 exams

    BODMAS, surds, fractions and approximation — the speed section of most banking papers.

  • Mensuration

    233 questions · 45 exams

    Area, perimeter, surface area and volume for plane figures and solids.

  • Data Interpretation

    377 questions · 43 exams

    Reading tables, bar charts, pie charts and line graphs, then doing the arithmetic they set up.

  • Probability

    213 questions · 70 exams

    Favourable over total outcomes, dependent and independent events, and conditional probability.

  • Permutations and Combinations

    118 questions · 37 exams

    Counting arrangements where order matters and selections where it does not.

Reasoning

Pure reasoning families — no subject knowledge, only the rules in front of you.

  • Number Series

    383 questions · 45 exams

    Finding the rule behind a sequence, then the missing or wrong term it implies.

  • Coding and Decoding

    312 questions · 46 exams

    Letter, number and symbol codes, including the layered codes that need two rules applied in order.

  • Syllogism

    293 questions · 53 exams

    Deciding which conclusions genuinely follow from given statements, and which only look like they do.

  • Blood Relations

    274 questions · 45 exams

    Family trees built from clues, including coded relations and generation-spanning chains.

  • Direction Sense

    265 questions · 49 exams

    Tracking position and facing through a sequence of turns, then the shortest distance back.

  • Classification

    215 questions · 40 exams

    Odd-one-out across words, numbers and letter pairs, where the rule is never the obvious one.

  • Analogy

    190 questions · 51 exams

    Identifying the exact relationship in one pair and applying it to another.

  • Data Sufficiency

    157 questions · 32 exams

    Judging whether the statements are enough to answer — without wasting time actually answering.

  • Ranking and Order

    220 questions · 38 exams

    Positions from either end, overlapping ranks, and orderings built from comparisons.

  • Alphanumeric Series

    184 questions · 25 exams

    Mixed strings of letters, digits and symbols, counted and scanned against a condition.

  • Puzzles

    101 questions · 16 exams

    Multi-constraint grids — floors, boxes, days, categories — solved by elimination.

  • Coded Inequality

    96 questions · 14 exams

    Chains of greater-than and equal-to, often behind symbols, and the reversals where nothing follows.

  • Seating Arrangement

    77 questions · 23 exams

    Linear and circular seating, including tables where some people face outward.

English

Grammar, vocabulary and comprehension topics set the same way across most English sections.

  • Reading Comprehension

    387 questions · 41 exams

    Passage-based inference, tone and detail questions answerable from the text alone.

  • One-Word Substitution

    265 questions · 41 exams

    The single word that replaces a whole descriptive phrase.

  • Fill in the Blanks

    190 questions · 24 exams

    Single and double blanks decided by grammar, collocation or sense.

  • Sentence Improvement

    179 questions · 23 exams

    Replacing an underlined part with the version that is actually correct.

  • Error Spotting

    235 questions · 25 exams

    Finding the one part of a sentence carrying a grammatical error — or deciding there is none.

  • Synonyms

    265 questions · 32 exams

    Words closest in meaning, where two options are usually close and one is exact.

  • Antonyms

    263 questions · 34 exams

    Words opposite in meaning, including near-opposites set as distractors.

  • Idioms and Phrases

    242 questions · 44 exams

    What a fixed expression means in use, rather than what its words separately say.

  • Cloze Test

    161 questions · 17 exams

    A passage with several blanks, where each choice has to fit both grammar and argument.

  • Active and Passive Voice

    109 questions · 18 exams

    Converting between voices across tenses, questions and imperatives.

  • Direct and Indirect Speech

    82 questions · 16 exams

    Reporting what was said, with the tense, pronoun and time-word shifts that follow.

  • Para Jumbles

    76 questions · 14 exams

    Reordering shuffled sentences into the paragraph they came from.

  • Spelling

    124 questions · 29 exams

    Picking the correctly spelled word, or the misspelled one, from near-identical options.

Want a difficulty ladder instead?

Topic practice sorts by what the question asks. The Logical Reasoning section sorts the same kind of material by how hard it is — hand-graded easy, medium and hard sets you can work up through. Use topic practice when you know which topic is costing you; use the ladder when you want to find your level.

Go to the reasoning difficulty ladder

Questions about topic practice

Are these questions different from the ones in the mock tests?
No, and that is the point. Every question here already appears in the reasoning, quantitative or English section of a mock test on this site. Topic practice is the same corpus cut a different way: instead of one exam’s paper containing eight topics, one topic gathers questions from every exam that sets it. Nothing is duplicated — the pages reference the same questions, so a correction to a bank reaches both at once.
Is there negative marking in topic practice?
No. Every question is worth 1 mark and a wrong answer costs nothing. That is deliberate: this is for drilling one topic until it is quick and accurate, not for rehearsing an exam’s risk calculus. It also means a score here is not comparable with the same questions attempted inside their exam mock, where the real marking scheme applies.
Do these pages change over time?
Yes. A topic page is a view of every question on the site for that topic, so when new mock tests are added their questions join the relevant topic pools automatically. Pools grow; they are never trimmed to keep a set fixed.
Which exams do the questions come from?
Each topic page lists the exams its own pool draws from. Across the section the questions span banking, SSC, railway, defence, law, management and university entrance papers — any exam whose syllabus sets that topic.
How should I use topic practice alongside full mocks?
Attempt a full mock first to find out which topics cost you marks and time, then drill those topics here until they stop costing you, then go back to the mock. Topic practice builds the skill; the mock rehearses the exam.