SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 13 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 1 of 100

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In the following question, select the related word from the given alternatives. Architect : Design :: Chef : ?

(a)Cook
(b)Serve
(c)Recipe
(d)Food

Answer

Why

Correct — D.
Rule: professional : what that professional produces.

An architect's work turns out a design.
A chef's work turns out food.

Chef : Food repeats Architect : Design → option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Cook — Cook names what a chef does, or the chef again as a noun. The pair needs what the chef produces, as the design is what the architect produces.
(b)
Serve — Serve is an action that follows the cooking, not something the chef produces. The architect's side of the pair is a product, the design, so the chef's side needs one too.
(c)
Recipe — Recipe tempts because a recipe, like a design, is a plan. But a recipe is what a chef works from, and what a chef turns out is food.

Concept

A word analogy asks you to name the relation in the first pair, then carry the same relation to the third word.

Architect : Design is worker : output. The architect's finished work is the design of a building. Carried to Chef, the same relation lands on the chef's finished work, food.

Test the relation against every option: cook and serve are actions, and a recipe is what the chef works from.

Design and Cook are verbs as well as nouns, and read as verbs they pair up: architects design, chefs cook. SSC's key does not take that reading. It reads Design as a noun, the architect's output, which leads to Food.

Key facts

An architect's output is the design of a building, which builders then construct.
A recipe is a set of instructions for preparing a dish.
Cook is both a verb and a noun for a person who prepares food.

Study next

Worker : output analogies, such as Author : BookAnalogy pairs whose words work as both noun and verbInstrument : purpose analogies, such as Thermometer : Temperature

Common traps

Picking Cook by reading Design as the architect's activity rather than the architect's output
Picking Recipe because a recipe, like a design, is a plan

13 Sep 2024, 16:00, Reasoning Q.2 pairs a performer with what they produce, Magician : Magic :: Dancer : ?, keyed Dance.

14 Sep 2025, 09:00, Reasoning Q.2 pairs a person with the document they file, Plaintiff : Complaint :: Petitioner : ?, keyed Petition.

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