Rapid Revision · Logical Reasoning
People around a table or in a row, with clues about who sits where. A clean diagram and a fixed facing direction crack almost every one.
If you read nothing else tonight, read these 5 lines.
6 cards, each one idea: what it is, a worked example, and the trap to dodge.
Decide row, single circle, or double row before placing anyone, and note the facing direction, it decides which way left and right point.
8 people around a table facing centre: number seats 1-8 clockwise, then place from there.
Trap: Facing the centre flips left and right versus facing outward. Draw an arrow to remember.
Begin with a fixed fact ('P sits at the head', 'Q is third from the left'). Everything else hangs off that anchor.
'A is to the immediate left of B' places A right next to B. 'A is to the left of B' only means somewhere on that side, leave gaps to fill later.
Trap: Reading 'to the left' as 'immediate left' is the most common seating mistake.
Use blanks for unknown seats and pencil in constraints. 'Exactly two people between X and Y' fixes distances quickly.
'Two persons sit between M and N' in a row of 6 leaves only a few placements to test.
For two rows facing each other, a person in row 1 faces one specific person in row 2. A clue about one row often pins a seat in the other.
Before answering, re-read each clue and tick it against your final diagram. One unused or violated clue means the arrangement is wrong.
A recap is not practice. These are the creators we rate for real depth on seating arrangement; full credit to each.
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