SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 18 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 13 of 100

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Read the following statement carefully and identify the conclusion that follows. Statement: The price of petrol has increased due to international oil prices. Conclusions: I. Petrol prices are linked to global markets. II. The government has no control over fuel prices.

(a)Only Conclusion I follows
(b)Only Conclusion II follows
(c)Both I and II follow
(d)Neither I nor II follows

Answer

Why

Correct — A.
Rule: a conclusion follows only if the statement makes it definitely true.

I: the price rose due to international oil prices, so petrol prices are linked to global markets. Follows.

II: no control is an absolute claim. The statement names one cause of the rise and says nothing about what the government can or cannot do. Does not follow.

Only Conclusion I follows → option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
Only Conclusion II follows — Only II keeps the conclusion that goes too far. A price rise caused abroad does not show the government has no control; the statement is silent on that.
(c)
Both I and II follow — Both would need II too. No control over fuel prices is far stronger than anything the statement says, so II fails.
(d)
Neither I nor II follows — Neither throws away I. If international prices raised petrol prices, petrol prices are linked to global markets; that is the statement restated.

Concept

Statement-conclusion items reward reading exactly as much as the statement says. Conclusion I restates the cause in general terms: a price that rises because of international prices is linked to global markets.

Conclusion II adds an absolute claim, no control at all. The statement names one cause of one price rise and rules nothing else out. Words like no, all, never and only need a statement just as strong.

Conclusion II may sound like an opinion you have heard before. That does not matter: the test is whether this statement proves it, and it does not.

Key facts

A conclusion follows only if the statement makes it definitely true.
Absolute words such as no, all, never and only need equally strong support in the statement.
Restating the statement's own cause in general terms is a valid conclusion.

Study next

Statement-conclusion items with absolute words in the conclusionCause-and-effect itemsStatement-assumption items

Common traps

Accepting II because it sounds like a common opinion about fuel prices
Rejecting I as too obvious because it restates the statement

19 Sep 2025, 09:00, Reasoning Q.13 sets the same test: India imports large quantities of crude oil, so it is not self-sufficient (follows), but 'All oil consumed in India is imported' does not (keyed a).

17 Sep 2025, 16:00, Reasoning Q.11: a higher import duty makes imported luxury cars dearer (follows), but local makers stopping budget cars does not (keyed a).

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