Tips And Tricks And Shortcuts For Blood Relation

September 11, 2019

Tips and Tricks and Shortcuts to Solve Blood Relation Questions Quickly

Generally, three types of questions are being asked on blood relations namely:

Puzzle based problems
Problems based on conversations or certain
Code based problems.

Relationship	Terms Used
Father’s son or mother’s son	Brother
Father’s daughter or mother’s daughter	Sister
Mother’s brother (younger or elder)	Maternal Uncle
Father’s brother (younger or elder)	Uncle (Paternal)
Father’s sister (younger or elder)	Aunt
Mother’s sister (younger or elder)	Aunt
Son’s wife	Daughter-in-law
Daughter’s husband	Son-in-law
Sister’s husband	Brother-in-law
Husband’s brother or wife’s brother	Brother-in-law
Brother’s wife	Sister-in-law
Husband’s sister or wife’s sister	Sister-in-law
Husband’s father or wife’s father	Father-in-law
Husband’s mother or wife’s mother	Mother-in-law
Brother’s son or sister’s son	Nephew
Brother’s daughter or sister’s daughter	Niece
Uncle’s daughter or aunt’s daughter	Cousin
Uncle’s son or aunt’s son	Cousin
Father’s father or mother’s father	Grandfather
Father’s mother or mother’s mother	Grandmother
Father of grandfather or father of grandmother	Great grandfather
Mother of grandfather or Mother of grandmother	Great grandmother

Tips and Tricks and Shortcuts for Blood Relations- Puzzle based Problems

In this mixed-blood relations will be mentioned. All we have to do is to find out the final association that is asked in the question by the connection between these relations.

Question. 1

Amit and Balu are brothers and Cynthia and Dhara are sisters. Amit’s son is Dhara’s brother. How is Balu related to Cynthia?

Explanation:

Amit and Balu (+ male), Cynthia and Dhara (- female)

Therefore, Balu is the uncle of Cynthia.

Quick Tip:

In mixed-blood relation, we can use certain symbols to avoid confusion. The most convenient method to solve such questions is to draw a diagram based on the information given in the question. Let us understand it with an example.

Follow these symbols to avoid confusion.

Blood Relations Tips and Tricks and Shortcuts- Conversation or statement based Problems

This is the most natural type of blood relation question, wherein one person explains the other person about the relationship between both of them by pointing to a third person or a picture.

Question. 2

Pointing to a woman on the street, Rahul said, “The son of her only brother’s wife’s husband is the brother of my wife.” How is the woman related to Rahul?

Explanation:

The questions say that “son of her (lady’s) brother’s wife’s husband,” i.e., lady’s nephew is his wife’s brother, so the son of her brother’s wife’s husband and brother of a wife are same. Therefore, Rahul is the son – in – law of the lady’s brother. Based on that information we conclude that the lady is the sister of Rahul’s wife’s father or Rahul’s father- in – law.

Tips and Tricks and Shortcuts- Code-based problems:

In Such type of questions, different relations are presented in the form of symbols like D, #, $, %, etc. (These are most commonly used symbols.)

Question. 1

A D B means A is the mother of B
A $ B means A is the sister of B
A * B means A is the father of B
A # B means A is the brother of B

Which of the following means Is R the uncle of T?

A. R*P#SDQ$T
B. S*P#R*U#T
C. P*R$Q$S*T
D. P*R$Q$S*T

Explanation:

A. R*P#SDQ$T
R → P→ S→ Q→ T (R is grandfather of T)

B. S*P#the the R*U#T
S → P →R → U→ T (R is the father of T)

C. P*R$Q$S*T
P→ R → Q→ S → T (R is the uncle of T)

D. P*R$Q$S#T
P→ R→ Q →S → T (R is brother of T)

Hence, option C is the correct one.

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