Direction: Study the information carefully and answer the questions given below. Seven persons have to attend a seminar in seven different months i.e. January, March, April, May, July, August, September. Each of them works in seven different professions, i.e. Dentist, Surgeon, Police officer, Boxer, Journalist, Singer, and engineer but not necessarily in the same order. U is an engineer and attended the seminar on the month which has 30 days. Two persons attend seminars between U and the one who is a police officer. S attends the seminar just before the one who is a journalist. Three persons attend seminar between R and Q and both of them doesn’t attend seminar either in March or May. The one who is a boxer attends the seminar just after the dentist. The one who is a surgeon attends the seminar just after the one who is an engineer. R attend seminar after U. Q and S both are not Police. Boxer attends the seminar in March. T attend the seminar after P but before V. Who attends the seminar in May?

Correct — A.
Rule: place the fixed clues first, then the ones that hang off them.

Boxer = March, so the dentist, just before, = January.
U's month has 30 days: April or September. The surgeon is just after U, so U = April, surgeon = May.
Two persons between U and the police officer → police = August.

R is after U, not in May, with three persons between R and Q.
R = August puts Q in March; R = September puts Q on U's April. So R = July, Q = January.

Journalist and singer are left for July and September.
S is just before the journalist and is not police, so the journalist is July and S = May → option (a).

Why the others are wrong

• (b)
  U — U is the engineer in April. September also has 30 days, but someone must follow U as surgeon, so U cannot be last. May is the surgeon's month.
• (c)
  Q — Q is barred from May by the stem, which rules R and Q out of March and May. Four places from R in July puts Q in January, as the dentist.
• (d)
  R — R is barred from May by the stem. R comes after U and four places from Q, which leaves July, where R is the journalist.

A month puzzle is a linear arrangement: the listed months, in calendar order, are the slots. Here there are seven, so May is slot 4 and July slot 5, with no June between them.

Start with the absolute clues (boxer in March, U in a 30-day month). Then use the clues that tie people together (just before, just after, two between), and strike any case that breaks a rule.

Key facts

• Months with 30 days: April, June, September, November.
• Count persons between, not calendar months: April to August here has two persons between, in May and July.
• Full order: Q (January, dentist), P (March, boxer), U (April, engineer), S (May, surgeon), R (July, journalist), T (August, police officer), V (September, singer).

Common traps

• Placing U in September: it has 30 days, but the surgeon must come just after U and September is the last slot.
• Counting June as a slot. June is not in the list, so May and July are neighbours.

No directly related past PYQ was found.