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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 (286 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
- 286
- Practice set
- 25 in 25 min
- Difficulty
- 23/204/59
- Negative marking
- None
Blood Relations questions with solutions
6 from the 286-question pool, worked in full.
1. Pointing to a photograph, Vikas said, "Her father is the only son of my grandfather." How is the woman in the photograph related to Vikas?
- A. Daughter
- B. Mother
- C. Aunt
- D. Sister ✓
Solution. The only son of Vikas's grandfather is Vikas's father. The woman's father is Vikas's father, making the woman Vikas's sister.
2. Sonu is the son of Meena. Meena is the sister of Raj. How is Raj related to Sonu?
- A. Uncle ✓
- B. Father
- C. Brother
- D. Cousin
Solution. Meena's brother Raj is Sonu's maternal uncle.
3. Introducing a girl, Ramesh said, 'She is the daughter of my wife's brother.' How is the girl related to Ramesh?
- A. Daughter
- B. Cousin
- C. Sister
- D. Niece ✓
Solution. Ramesh's wife's brother is his brother-in-law. The brother-in-law's daughter is Ramesh's niece.
4. 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.
5. P is the daughter of Q. Q is the brother of R. R is the mother of S. How is P related to S?
- A. Cousin ✓
- B. Niece
- C. Sister
- D. Aunt
Solution. Q is P's father, and Q is R's brother, so P and R are niece/uncle. R is S's mother, so S is Q's sibling's child. P (Q's child) and S (R's child), with Q and R being siblings, makes P and S cousins.
6. Pointing to a woman, a man said, "She is the daughter of the only son of my grandfather." How is the woman related to the man?
- A. His daughter
- B. His niece
- C. His cousin
- D. His sister ✓
Solution. The only son of the man's grandfather is his own father, so the woman is his father's daughter, that is his sister.
Exams that set Blood Relations
10 categories, led by Banking, Railways, SSC.
Drawn from AFCAT, AILET, ATIT, ATMA, CA Foundation, IBPS Clerk, IBPS PO, IBPS RRB Office Assistant, IBPS RRB Officer Scale I, IBPS SO, IMU-CET, INET, 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?
286, 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 286 questions are graded hard and 8% easy, making it about average for this section, where the mean is 17%.
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