If the 4th day of a month is Saturday, which day will be the 5 day before 26th of this month?

The correct answer is B, Tuesday.

If the 4th is Saturday, the 11th, 18th and 25th are also Saturdays. So the 26th is a Sunday. Counting back five days from Sunday gives Saturday (1), Friday (2), Thursday (3), Wednesday (4) and Tuesday (5).

The core concept is day-count arithmetic using remainders when divided by 7. The gap from the 4th to the 26th is 22 days, and 22 leaves a remainder of 1, so the weekday moves forward by one. Calendar questions like this recur in Prelims reasoning sections and build the same date-handling skill that helps with timelines in Mains answers.

• Monday (A) would be correct only if the 26th were Saturday, which it is not.
• Friday (C) would be correct only if the 26th were Wednesday.
• Sunday (D) would be correct only if the 26th were Friday. It is the day the 26th itself falls on, which is the trap.

Trap: Candidates often answer Sunday because it is the 26th's own weekday, forgetting that the question asks for the day five days before it.