Give your brain a bigger challenge to solve. These questions from Oxford University's admission test will help you polish your problem solving ability.
If you are a student or a professional preparing for exams, these questions can help you a lot.
Solving skills is an important skill that is required to clear exams. Question setters are mostly keen to test the skills of the exam takers. The traditional mode of exams do not have adequate scope to assess the problem solving skills of the participants and this has necessitated the evolution of exams making problem solving more inclusive in the exams.
Problem 1: This question comprises the marks obtained by 10 students: Jez, Kat, Lin, Mia, Nat, Orla, Pia, Quin, Ron and Sam, in the Economics and Statistics paper. The marks have been plotted on a graph and the question is to find which of these have been wrongly plotted.
Answer: Lin's marks have been incorrectly plotted.
Problem 2: In two pie charts, the sales of four departments of an organisation: food, clothes, furniture and stationary- have been depicted. The question is to find the correct order of the departments from highest average amount spent per customer to lowest?
Answer: E is the correct answer. The correct order of the departments from highest average amount spent per customer to lowest is furniture, clothes, stationary and food.
Problem 3: 10 pieces of a toy have been shown in the picture. These pieces have been taken from an assembled toy. The question is which two pieces can not be put together to form a cube.
Answer: The correct answer is 3 and 6. These two pieces when put together can never form a cube.
