SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 19 September 2025, Shift 3 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 14 of 100

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Read the following statement carefully and identify the conclusion that follows. Statement: The city traffic department has installed speed bumps on major roads. Conclusions: I. Speed bumps help in reducing accidents. II. Drivers are often overspeeding on major roads.

(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 — C.
Rule: read a deliberate official step for the problem behind it and the result it aims at.

A traffic department puts speed bumps on major roads because vehicles there move too fast. So II, drivers are often overspeeding on major roads, follows as the problem.

Bumps slow vehicles to make the road safer. So I, speed bumps help in reducing accidents, follows as the aim.

Both follow → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Only Conclusion I follows — Only I keeps the aim and drops the problem. Bumps are a response to speeding on those roads, so II follows from the same step.
(b)
Only Conclusion II follows — Only II keeps the problem and drops the aim. The department installs bumps to cut accidents, so I follows as the purpose of the step.
(d)
Neither I nor II follows — Neither reads the statement as a bare fact with no reason behind it. The key reads the installation as a deliberate step, which carries both its cause (II) and its aim (I).

Concept

A statement–conclusion item asks what can be inferred from the statement taken in its ordinary sense. When the statement reports a deliberate step by an authority, the inference runs two ways: to the problem that prompted the step and to the result it is meant to bring.

Here the step is installing speed bumps. The problem is overspeeding (II) and the intended result is fewer accidents (I).

Read strictly, the statement names neither accidents nor speeding. Both are beliefs the department must have held to act, and the key counts those beliefs as following from the action.

Key facts

A deliberate step by an authority points to a problem it responds to.
The same step points to the result it is meant to achieve.
Speed bumps are traffic-calming devices that force vehicles to slow down.

Study next

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Common traps

Rejecting II because the statement never says drivers overspeed, though the step presupposes it
Rejecting I as general knowledge rather than reading it as the purpose of the step

19 Sep 2025, 09:00, Reasoning Q.14 has the same shape: government vehicles are told to avoid sirens except in emergencies, and both the problem (sirens often used unnecessarily) and the aim (less noise pollution) follow, keyed (c).

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