The worked question on this page is original educational practice. It is not represented as a question from an official previous-year examination paper.
01 / UNDERSTANDING
Review the question
Write original family statements with gender-neutral labels, then ask relations in both directions. This reveals where an answer needs gender information that the original direction did not require.
02 / UNDERSTANDING
The concept in context
Expressions such as only son, brother and spouse add different constraints. Do not infer gender from a name or treat an unstated family convention as a fact. A diagram should preserve uncertainty where needed; if multiple allowed family trees produce different answers, the question may not determine a unique relation.
03 / UNDERSTANDING
A worked learning case
Original educational case. In an original family, Meera is Arjun’s mother, and Kavya is Meera’s sister. Kavya is therefore Arjun’s maternal aunt. If Arjun’s gender were not specified, Kavya’s relation to Arjun would still be aunt, but Arjun’s relation back to Kavya could not be labelled nephew rather than niece merely from a name.
ORIGINAL EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE
Try it before you check.
Original practice: R is the father of S. T is the sister of R. How is T related to S?
Show the answer and reasoning
Paternal aunt.
T is the sister of S’s father, which makes T the paternal aunt of S. T’s gender is supplied by sister, while S’s gender is unnecessary for this direction of the relationship. Beginning at S and moving first to the father and then to his sister keeps the viewpoint consistent throughout.
Two traps to watch for.
- Inferring gender solely from a person’s name.
- Answering the inverse relation instead of the requested viewpoint.
YOUR TOPIC-SPECIFIC LEARNING MAP
Learn from the attempt
Mark the question’s reference person.
Place each generation on a separate level.
Leave unstated gender or links unresolved.
Explain the idea, apply it to a new situation, then check what changed in your reasoning.
BANKERS TUTORIAL · SOURCE NOTES
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