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MCAT Verbal Reasoning Questions
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Subjects
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mcat
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 28 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Provide new facts in the question stem that are never mentioned in the passage - 2 types: 1. Inference 2. Strengthen/Weaken
New Information Questions
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
Evaluate Questions
Evaluate Attractors
2. 1. Choice that take author's opinion to extremes 2. Express opinion for neutral tone 3. Strange attitudes (Ex: obtuse ambiguity)
Structure Questions
Tone/Attitude Attractors
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
New Information Strengthen/Weaken
3. 1. Main Idea/Primary Purpose 2. Tone/Attitude
Main Idea/Primary Purpose Attractors
Retrieval
3 Specific Question Types
2 Types of General Questions
4. 1. Understate or overstate author's point 2. choice that is too narrow 3. Choices that go beyond the scope of the passage
Main Idea/Primary Purpose Attractors
Strengthen/Weaken
New Information Strengthen/Weaken
1. Right answer - wrong question 2. Sounds like - but can't be true 3. too extreme
5. 1. Choice that provides additional evidence for the claim 2. Choice that fills in logical gap 3. Choice that anticipates and blocks a potential argument against claim
Tone/Attitude Questions
Strengthen/Weaken
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
Evaluate Questions
6. Define What the author means by a certain word or phrase 1. As its used in the passage 2. The term implicitly refers to
New Information Inference
Vocab in context attractors
3 Specific Question Types
Vocab in context
7. Chose what must be true according to the passage 1. It can be inferred that 2. Based on the passage - it 3. The author implies that 4. Implicit in the passage is 5. The author suggests that 6. It can be reasonably concluded 7. Which of the following
Inference Questions
Main Idea/Primary Purpose
1. Choice focuses on wrong part of passage 2. Choices inconsistent with the passage - or are irrelevant 3. Extreme language 4. Opp
Approach for primary point questions
8. Describe how the author makes their argument; address logical structure along with content - Ask purpose of particular reference: 1. The author probably mentions (blank) in order to 2. The (blank) are cited as evidence that 3. The author describes (b
5 Types of Complex Questions
Analogy Attractors
Structure Questions
Evaluate Attractors
9. Summarize claims and implications made throughout the passage. Claim supported by specific evidence - Good active reading is key- focus on Verb in answer choice - 1. The main idea 2. the central thesis 3. The author's primary purpose
1. Right answer - wrong question 2. Sounds like - but can't be true 3. too extreme
Tone/Attitude Attractors
Retrieval
Main Idea/Primary Purpose
10. Evaluate whether or not the author expresses an opinion regarding the material of the passage - Look for annotated opinion indicators 1. The author's tone 2. author's attitude
Vocab in context attractors
Tone/Attitude Questions
New Information Strengthen/Weaken
Main Idea/Primary Purpose Attractors
11. 1. right example - wrong reference 2. Half right - half wrong choices - Correct answer will be consistent with the Main Point of the whole chunk
Analogy Questions
Structure Attractors
1. Choice focuses on wrong part of passage 2. Choices inconsistent with the passage - or are irrelevant 3. Extreme language 4. Opp
New Information Inference
12. Asked to evaluate answer choices in terms of how they undermine the passage - 1. Which of the following If True - would strength (or weaken) - Do Not reference passage - but take each choice as if it were true and find the one that does what it needs
Structure Attractors
Tone/Attitude Questions
Inference attractors
Strengthen/Weaken
13. 1. Give legitimate dictionary of colloquial/common sense definitions 2. Choices that over generalize or are too narrow
1. Right answer - wrong question 2. Sounds like - but can't be true 3. too extreme
Evaluate Questions
Analogy Questions
Vocab in context attractors
14. Test ability to locate info 1. According to the passage 2. The passages that 3. Which of the following is not mentioned:
Evaluate Attractors
Retrieval
Finding correct Weaken answer choice
1. Right answer - wrong question 2. Sounds like - but can't be true 3. too extreme
15. Take something in passage and apply it to a new situation. New information is provided in the answer choices
Tone/Attitude Questions
New Information Inference
Analogy Questions
Finding correct Weaken answer choice
16. Retrieval Attractors
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17. 1. Info of passage in extreme language/absolute 2.choices that aren't necessarily true 3. right answer wrong question
Structure Attractors
Inference attractors
Vocab in context
Strengthen/Weaken Attractors
18. Identify logical structure while asking whether a particular claim is supported in the passage 1. Which of the following claims is supported 2. For which of the following claims is not supported 3. Support offered by conclusion 4. Is (blank) well sup
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
Vocab in context attractors
Evaluate Questions
Analogy Questions
19. Use Goldilock's approach: eliminate What is too big or too small
Retrieval
Approach for primary point questions
3 Specific Question Types
Analogy Questions
20. 1. Structure Questions 2. Evaluate Questions 3. Strengthen/Weaken 4. New Information 5. Analogy
Tone/Attitude Attractors
3 Specific Question Types
5 Types of Complex Questions
New Information Questions
21. Answers that mischaracterize the strength of argument (weakly for strongly supported) - Analyze What is precisely good or bad about logic used
3 Specific Question Types
Retrieval
Evaluate Attractors
Tone/Attitude Questions
22. Evaluate What effects new information will have on author's argument as a whole
New Information Strengthen/Weaken
Evaluate Attractors
1. Choice focuses on wrong part of passage 2. Choices inconsistent with the passage - or are irrelevant 3. Extreme language 4. Opp
1. Right answer - wrong question 2. Sounds like - but can't be true 3. too extreme
23. 1. choice that goes furthest toward making it impossible for claim to be true 2. Inconsistent with relevant part of passage
Finding correct Weaken answer choice
Inference Questions
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
Evaluate Questions
24. New Information Attractors
Analogy Attractors
Approach for primary point questions
1. Choice focuses on wrong part of passage 2. Choices inconsistent with the passage - or are irrelevant 3. Extreme language 4. Opp
Inference attractors
25. 1. Choices the irrelevant to cited part (out of scope) 2. Do Not eliminate solely based on strong wording (the more it strengthens/weakens - the better)
Structure Attractors
Vocab in context
Approach for primary point questions
Strengthen/Weaken Attractors
26. 1. Retrieval 2. Inference 3. Vocab in context
New Information Inference
3 Specific Question Types
1. Right answer - wrong question 2. Sounds like - but can't be true 3. too extreme
Retrieval
27. Correct answer choice is similar to claim in logic - but does nothing to strength or weaken the claim 1. Wrong tone 2. Do Not eliminate based on topic
Analogy Attractors
1. Choice focuses on wrong part of passage 2. Choices inconsistent with the passage - or are irrelevant 3. Extreme language 4. Opp
1. Right answer - wrong question 2. Sounds like - but can't be true 3. too extreme
5 Types of Complex Questions
28. Give new facts that are in same general area of passage and ask What is likely true according the passage - Answer question in paraphrase prior to looking at answer choices*
Tone/Attitude Attractors
Analogy Questions
New Information Inference
3 Specific Question Types