IBPS PO Prelims 24 Aug 2025 Shift 1 Solved Paper

Concept:Arrange six persons in a six-level designation hierarchy using the given clues, then count how many people are junior to the Marketing employee.Explanation:Only three people are junior to $A$, so $A$ is at the fourth designation from the bottom, i.e., Lead Strategist.The person in Sales is immediately senior to $A$, so Sales is at Team Head.Sales and Research have a gap of more than one designation, so Research is either at Assistant Manager or Managing Director.This creates two possible cases.Operations and Research have no designation between them, so Operations must be adjacent to Research.$K$ works in Operations and is immediately senior to $H$.This fixes $K$ and $H$ in both cases.$F$ is immediately senior to the person who works in Legal.So $F$ is at Team Head, and $A$ is in Legal.$F$ is senior to $J$, and $J$ does not work in Marketing.So $J$ is placed below $F$, and Marketing is placed at the top.Not more than two designations lie between $D$ and $J$.In Case 2, there are four designations between $D$ and $J$, so Case 2 is eliminated.Case 1 gives the final arrangement.The person who works in Marketing is $D$, who holds the senior-most designation, President Director.Hence, all five other persons are junior to $D$.Answer:More than four (Option E).