Start learning →

SSC CGL Critical Thinking — practice questions

Explore 58 free Critical Thinking questions in SSC CGL Reasoning. Open each question or exercise to read its content, reference answers and available explanation.

Practise Critical Thinking with Quill →

Critical Thinking questions and exercises with answers

Showing questions 1–30 of 58.

A flaw in the structure of a deductive argument that makes it invalid is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →The Latin phrase non sequitur literally means what?Read the answer and worked solution →Someone says all students of a city are lazy after meeting two such students. Which fallacy is this?Read the answer and worked solution →The post hoc fallacy assumes that if event B follows event A, then what is true?Read the answer and worked solution →What does the Latin phrase post hoc, ergo propter hoc translate to?Read the answer and worked solution →A rooster crows and then the sun rises, so the rooster made the sun rise. This error is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which statement best captures the lesson of the post hoc fallacy?Read the answer and worked solution →Refuting a position the opponent never actually proposed is known as which fallacy?Read the answer and worked solution →A debater makes an opponent's view sound more extreme than it is and then attacks it. What is this?Read the answer and worked solution →Which fallacy is informally called the apples and oranges fallacy?Read the answer and worked solution →A false analogy rests on which kind of flaw?Read the answer and worked solution →Claiming that a lack of proof counts as proof is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Latin term names the fallacy of begging the question?Read the answer and worked solution →Assuming the very conclusion you are trying to prove is a form of what?Read the answer and worked solution →A slippery slope argument claims that one step will lead to what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kind of argument can contain an informal fallacy yet still be formally valid?Read the answer and worked solution →Formal fallacies apply only to which type of argument?Read the answer and worked solution →The faulty generalizations are also known as which kind of fallacies?Read the answer and worked solution →Fallacies of relevance are generally described as doing what?Read the answer and worked solution →In Indian logic, which text collection attributed to Aksapada Gautama lists reasons used in inference?Read the answer and worked solution →In Nyaya, the fallacy where the stated reason proves the opposite of the claim is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →In Nyaya logic, which fallacy is the unproved reason?Read the answer and worked solution →In Nyaya, which fallacy is called the fallacy of irregular reason?Read the answer and worked solution →A deductive argument is called sound when it is valid and also has what?Read the answer and worked solution →The hallmark of a valid deductive inference is that its premises give what level of support to the conclusion?Read the answer and worked solution →What is a main drawback of deductive reasoning?Read the answer and worked solution →Ampliative reasoning differs from deduction because it does what?Read the answer and worked solution →Strong ampliative arguments make their conclusion what?Read the answer and worked solution →Modus ponens is also known by which name?Read the answer and worked solution →If it rains, the road is wet. It rains. What follows by modus ponens?Read the answer and worked solution →

Worked practice questions

A flaw in the structure of a deductive argument that makes it invalid is called what?

  1. A rhetorical device
  2. A sound premise
  3. An inductive leap
  4. A formal fallacy
Show answer and solution

Correct answer: D. A formal fallacy

A flaw in the form of a deductive argument is a formal fallacy, also called a non sequitur.

Open this question →

The Latin phrase non sequitur literally means what?

  1. It is proven
  2. It comes before
  3. It is probable
  4. It does not follow
Show answer and solution

Correct answer: D. It does not follow

Non sequitur is Latin for it does not follow, describing a conclusion unsupported by its premises.

Open this question →

Someone says all students of a city are lazy after meeting two such students. Which fallacy is this?

  1. Post hoc reasoning
  2. Circular reasoning
  3. A straw man attack
  4. Hasty generalization
Show answer and solution

Correct answer: D. Hasty generalization

Judging a whole group from two cases is a sample too small to support the claim, so it is a hasty generalization.

Open this question →

How to practise

  1. Choose a Critical Thinking question and try to work out your answer.
  2. Open the question to check the correct answer and read its worked solution.
  3. Continue in the app for bite-sized lessons, explanations and review with Quill. You can start without creating an account.

Put it into practice

Continue with Critical Thinking practice for SSC CGL. Read explanations as you go. No signup form needed to start.

Practise Critical Thinking →

More Reasoning topics

Coding DecodingVenn DiagramsRelationship ConceptsNumber SeriesProblem SolvingIndexing, Address Matching, Date and City MatchingArithmetical ReasoningAnalogies