Draw it
Use symbols such as + for male and − for female, a horizontal line for siblings and a vertical line for parent and child. Place the person named in the question as the anchor and add relations step by step.
Worked example
Pointing to a man, a woman says, "His mother is my mother's only daughter." The woman's mother's only daughter is the woman herself, so she is the man's mother.
Watch for these traps
- Gender-neutral words like "cousin", "sibling" or "child"
- Relations that skip generations, such as "maternal uncle's son"
Practise alongside direction sense and see how the topic appears in MAT logical reasoning and banking reasoning.
