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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 — 274 of them, from 45 exams, weighted towards Banking, SSC, Railways — so you can drill the topic on its own instead of meeting four of them inside a full paper.
22% of the pool is graded hard on this site’s own scale and 8% easy, which is about average for this section.
- Questions
- 274
- Practice set
- 25 in 25 min
- Difficulty
- 22/193/59
- Negative marking
- None
Blood Relations questions with solutions
6 from the 274-question pool, worked in full.
1. P is the son of Q. R is the only daughter of Q. How is R related to P?
- A. Mother
- B. Aunt
- C. Sister ✓
- D. Cousin
Solution. P and R are both children of Q. Since R is female, R is P's sister.
2. Pointing to a girl, a woman said, "She is the daughter of my husband's sister." How is the girl related to the woman?
- A. Daughter
- B. Sister
- C. Cousin
- D. Niece ✓
Solution. The woman's husband's sister is her sister-in-law, and the sister-in-law's daughter is the woman's niece.
3. M is the father of N. N is the sister of O. How is M related to O?
- A. Uncle
- B. Father ✓
- C. Brother
- D. Grandfather
Solution. M is N's father, and N and O are siblings, so M is also O's father.
4. A introduced B saying, 'His father is the only son of my mother.' How is A related to B?
- A. Paternal uncle ✓
- B. Brother
- C. Cousin
- D. Father
Solution. 'The only son of my mother' is A's brother. B's father is A's brother, so A is B's paternal uncle (or aunt).
5. P is the brother of Q. R is the father of P. S is the mother of Q. Which of the following is definitely true?
- A. S is the wife of R ✓
- B. R is the son of S
- C. P is the son of S
- D. Q is the father of P
Solution. R is the father of P, and S is the mother of Q; since P and Q are siblings, R and S are the same couple's parents, making S the wife of R.
6. R is the son of S. T is the only daughter of S. How is T related to R?
- A. Mother
- B. Sister ✓
- C. Aunt
- D. Cousin
Solution. T and R are both children of S. Since T is female, T is R's sister.
Exams that set Blood Relations
10 categories, led by Banking, SSC, Railways.
- 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 (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 Selection Post, SSC Stenographer, Territorial Army, UPSC CSE. Browse all exams.
Blood Relations: frequently asked questions
How many blood relations questions are there?
274, from the 45 exams here whose syllabus sets the topic. 8% are graded easy and 22% 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), SSC (8), Railways (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?
22% of these 274 questions are graded hard and 8% easy, making it about average for this section, where the mean is 17%.
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