Situation Reaction Test problems
- 1. Your maid has invited you to her daughter's wedding, you would
Options- A. completely ignore her
- B. attend the wedding
- C. buy a gift for her daughter and help in wedding
- D. congratulate her and make up some excuse for not being able to attend Discuss
Correct Answer: buy a gift for her daughter and help in wedding
Explanation:
Clearly, the situation demands helping the maid by contributing towards the wedding as much as one can. Hence, the best answer is option (c).
- 2. You are a member of the sports team of your college. One day due to misunderstanding, other members stop talking to you. You
Options- A. ask someone to mediate
- B. wait till they come and start talking again
- C. keep to yourself and let things take their time for improving
- D. go forward and start talking Discuss
Correct Answer: go forward and start talking
Explanation:
As you are a member of the team, so to maintain the healthy relationship with other team members you must try to clear the misunderstandings by talking to the other members.
- 3. You are a guest at a dinner. The host asks you to take one more chapatti after your stomach is full. You would
Options- A. make a bad face at him
- B. take the chapatti
- C. politely say that the food was too good and you have already eaten much
- D. make a blunt refusal Discuss
Correct Answer: politely say that the food was too good and you have already eaten much
Explanation:
In the given situation, you must be polite enough to the host of the dinner while refusing to take more chapatti. So, the action given in option (c) is appropriate.
- 4. Your classmate, who got you in a fix recently with a teacher, has met with an ancient. You
Options- A. feel the God taught him/her a lesson
- B. carry on with life unaffected
- C. tell others that this is the way one suffers for making others suffer
- D. decide to visit him/her in the hospital Discuss
Correct Answer: decide to visit him/her in the hospital
Explanation:
In the given situation, you must have to show humanity but not revenge here on moral ground. So, here the best action is to visit him/her in the hospital.
- 5. Your colleague is not performing his duties upto the mark. You will
Options- A. just do your part of the duties and enjoy your work
- B. take advantage of it to promote yourself
- C. report to the seniors
- D. try and handle his customers to maintain the company's status Discuss
Correct Answer: try and handle his customers to maintain the company's status
Explanation:
In the given situation as a committed employee, you have to try and handle your colleague customers to maintain the company's status.
- 6. You are in a bus. The bus reaches your stop but still you have not purchased the ticket because of heavy rush. What will you do?
Options- A. Jump out quickly to avoid embarrassment
- B. Call the conductor give him the money and get the ticket
- C. Hand the money to someone sitting nearby to give it to the conductor
- D. Give the money to the driver Discuss
Correct Answer: Call the conductor give him the money and get the ticket
Explanation:
As you have travelled in the bus but was unable to purchases the ticket during the journey due to heavy rush, you must give the money to the conductor and get the ticket before leaving the bus.
- 7. You are in the middle of an important dinner party when the waiter spills steaming hot soup all over the boss'lap. How would you cope?
Options- A. You panic and start shouting on the waiter
- B. Arrange for the first aid and make arrangements to rush him of her off to the hospital
- C. You dab frantically at the ruined outfit with a napkin while screaming at the waiter
- D. You pour the entire contents of a jug of water over his lap, explaining that your prompt action will prevent burns and then lay out a change of clothes in the guest bedroom and return to the party while the boss changes Discuss
Correct Answer: You pour the entire contents of a jug of water over his lap, explaining that your prompt action will prevent burns and then lay out a change of clothes in the guest bedroom and return to the party while the boss changes
Explanation:
In the given situation, pouring water over your boss lap is required as it will prevent burns. Also, the dinner party is equally important, you can arrange changing of clothes for your boss and return to the party.
- 8. You are getting late for your college and no bus is available. In such a situation
Options- A. you start walking
- B. you drop the idea of going to college that day and return home
- C. you think about other possible conveyance
- D. you wait patiently for the bus though you are late for the class Discuss
Correct Answer: you think about other possible conveyance
Explanation:
As you are getting late for the college and no bus is available. In that situation you must have go for other possible conveyance, so as to reach the college at time other option are not the solution to this problem.
- 9. You are head of your office. Some media people came to your office and request you to brief them about the pension plan of your office. You will
Options- A. ask the media people to come some another day
- B. immediately accept the offer and brief them
- C. get them turned out of your office
- D. ask them to wait and to consult the officials concerned Discuss
Correct Answer: ask them to wait and to consult the officials concerned
Explanation:
Here, options (a) and (c) are not appropriate as these are not valid on ethical grounds while option (b) is also not valid as you are the head of the office and you have certain important tasks to accomplish.
In this case, option (d) would be the the best course of action as there are certain officials for each work in every office, so one has to consult them,
- 10. You are the manager of the department. You get to know that one of the subordinates is having a problem with his family, since his father is supposed to undergo bypass surgery but at the same time the subordinate is very important for the current project which you have undertaken. The subordinate wants two week's leave. What would you do?
Options- A. Give him your support by assuring him that his duty towards his father is more important
- B. Not empathise with the empoyee's situation and ask him to say
- C. Get an extension for project to be submitted as the employee is very efficient and you cannot trust anyone else
- D. Transfer the work to some other employee of similar caliber Discuss
Correct Answer: Transfer the work to some other employee of similar caliber
Explanation:
As both completion of your project and your subordinate attending to his father are important. So, you must transfer your subordinate work to some other employee of similar caliber.
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