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Blood Relations Questions with Answers
Family trees built from clues, including coded relations and generation-spanning chains. This page pools every blood relations question on the site (283 of them, from 45 exams, weighted towards Banking, Railways, SSC) so you can drill the topic on its own instead of meeting four of them inside a full paper.
21% of the pool is graded hard on this site’s own scale and 8% easy, which is about average for this section.
- Questions
- 283
- Practice set
- 25 in 25 min
- Difficulty
- 23/201/59
- Negative marking
- None
Blood Relations questions with solutions
6 from the 283-question pool, worked in full.
1. A is B's father. B is C's sister. C is D's mother. How is A related to D?
- A. D's grandfather ✓
- B. D's father
- C. D's uncle
- D. D's brother
Solution. B and C are siblings, so A is the father of both. C is the mother of D, which makes A the grandfather of D.
2. Ravi said, 'My mother is the sister of Meena's father.' How is Ravi related to Meena?
- A. Brother
- B. Nephew
- C. Uncle
- D. Cousin ✓
Solution. Ravi's mother is Meena's father's sister, meaning Ravi's mother and Meena's father are siblings, making Ravi and Meena cousins.
3. P is the sister of Q. Q is the father of R. How is P related to R?
- A. Mother
- B. Sister
- C. Grandmother
- D. Aunt ✓
Solution. Q is R's father, and P is Q's sibling, so P is R's aunt.
4. A is the mother of B. C is the father of A. D is the brother of C. How is D related to B?
- A. Grandfather
- B. Uncle
- C. Father
- D. Grand-uncle ✓
Solution. C is B's maternal grandfather, since C is the father of A, who is B's mother. D, being C's brother, is therefore B's grand-uncle.
5. In a family, K is L's father, M is L's sister, and N is M's husband. How is N related to K?
- A. Son
- B. Son-in-law ✓
- C. Brother-in-law
- D. Nephew
Solution. M is K's daughter, and N is M's husband, which makes N the son-in-law of K.
6. At a family gathering, Ishaan introduced a woman by saying, "She is the mother of my cousin's only child." How is the woman related to Ishaan?
- A. Ishaan's mother
- B. Ishaan's sister
- C. Ishaan's aunt
- D. Ishaan's cousin's wife ✓
Solution. The mother of Ishaan's cousin's child is Ishaan's cousin's wife (or partner), so the woman is Ishaan's cousin's wife.
Exams that set Blood Relations
10 categories, led by Banking, Railways, SSC.
- AFCAT
- AILET
- ATIT
- ATMA
- CA Foundation
- IBPS Clerk
- IBPS PO
- IBPS RRB Office Assistant
- IBPS RRB Officer Scale I
- IBPS SO
- IMU-CET
- INET
Also set by JAIN JET, KMAT Karnataka, LIC AAO, MAT, MH CET Law, MH CET Law (3-Year LLB), NABARD Grade A, NCHM JEE, NIACL AO, NMAT, RBI Assistant, RBI Grade B, RPF Constable, RPF Sub-Inspector, RRB ALP, RRB Group D, RRB Junior Engineer, RRB Paramedical, RRB Technician, SBI Clerk, SBI PO, SEBI Grade A, SIDBI Grade A & B, SNAP, SSC CGL, SSC CHSL, SSC CPO, SSC GD Constable, SSC Junior Engineer, SSC MTS, SSC Stenographer, Territorial Army, UPSC CSE. Browse all exams.
Blood Relations: frequently asked questions
How many blood relations questions are there?
283, from the 45 exams here whose syllabus sets the topic. 8% are graded easy and 21% hard, which makes blood relations about average for this section, where the mean is 17%.
Which exams ask blood relations questions?
45 of the exams on this site, weighted towards Banking (14), Railways (7), SSC (7). Every question in this pool comes from one of their own mock tests, so the list below is the honest answer to whether the topic is worth your time.
Is blood relations hard?
21% of these 283 questions are graded hard and 8% easy, making it about average for this section, where the mean is 17%.
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