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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 ladderQuestions 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.