General Mental Ability

🧠 General Mental Ability – Topic Overview

The General Mental Ability section is designed to test a candidate’s logical reasoning, pattern recognition, and analytical thinking — essential for excelling in TNPSC Group I, II, IIA, and IV exams. This section evaluates how efficiently a candidate can process information and solve problems using logic rather than rote memory.

Each topic is explained with clear examples, shortcut techniques, and quizzes, helping learners improve both accuracy and speed.

🔹 Alphanumeric and Alphabetic Series

Understand and decode patterns involving letters, numbers, or a mix of both. Learn to identify sequences, gaps, and position-based logic.

🔹 Analogy

Sharpen your reasoning by identifying relationships between pairs of words, numbers, or symbols. Includes verbal and non-verbal analogies.

🔹 Blood Relation

Learn to decode family-based puzzles using diagrams and logic. Master problems involving terms like brother, uncle, niece, and grandfather.

🔹 Calendar

Understand how to find the day of a given date, calculate odd days, and solve month/year-based questions quickly using smart tricks.

🔹 Clock

Analyze angles between clock hands, time-based mirror images, and how often hands overlap. A high-scoring logical topic.

🔹 Coding and Decoding

Decode hidden patterns or word transformations using letter/number logic. Covers letter shifting, symbol substitution, and matrix coding.

🔹 Dice

Visualize 3D dice problems in 2D. Learn to solve questions about adjacent faces, opposite faces, and dice rotations.

🔹 Letter Series

Find missing letters in sequences based on position, repetition, or alphabet patterns. Helps in sharpening pattern recognition skills.

🔹 Ranking and Order

Master problems that involve ordering people based on height, marks, or position from top/bottom. Learn to solve using position formulas.

🔹 Venn Diagram

Apply logic using diagrams to show relationships between sets or groups. Includes problems involving classification and data intersection.

📘 Ideal For:

TNPSC Group I, II, IIA, IV, VAO aspirants

SSC, RRB, and other competitive exams

Anyone looking to boost logical thinking speed and accuracy