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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.
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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. 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
Analogy Questions
Main Idea/Primary Purpose
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
3 Specific Question Types
2. Evaluate What effects new information will have on author's argument as a whole
New Information Strengthen/Weaken
Vocab in context
Evaluate Questions
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
3. Use Goldilock's approach: eliminate What is too big or too small
New Information Questions
Approach for primary point questions
Main Idea/Primary Purpose Attractors
2 Types of General Questions
4. Provide new facts in the question stem that are never mentioned in the passage - 2 types: 1. Inference 2. Strengthen/Weaken
Main Idea/Primary Purpose
New Information Questions
Inference attractors
New Information Inference
5. 1. Retrieval 2. Inference 3. Vocab in context
Analogy Attractors
Vocab in context attractors
3 Specific Question Types
1. Right answer - wrong question 2. Sounds like - but can't be true 3. too extreme
6. Test ability to locate info 1. According to the passage 2. The passages that 3. Which of the following is not mentioned:
Approach for primary point questions
New Information Questions
Vocab in context attractors
Retrieval
7. 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
Inference attractors
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
Strengthen/Weaken Attractors
New Information 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
Main Idea/Primary Purpose
Inference Questions
Finding correct Weaken answer choice
Structure Questions
9. 1. Main Idea/Primary Purpose 2. Tone/Attitude
2 Types of General Questions
New Information Inference
Structure Questions
Evaluate Attractors
10. 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
Vocab in context attractors
Evaluate Questions
Evaluate Attractors
3 Specific Question Types
11. Answers that mischaracterize the strength of argument (weakly for strongly supported) - Analyze What is precisely good or bad about logic used
2 Types of General Questions
Evaluate Attractors
Evaluate Questions
New Information Questions
12. 1. Info of passage in extreme language/absolute 2.choices that aren't necessarily true 3. right answer wrong question
Retrieval
Vocab in context attractors
New Information Questions
Inference attractors
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
Analogy Questions
Vocab in context attractors
New Information Inference
14. 1. right example - wrong reference 2. Half right - half wrong choices - Correct answer will be consistent with the Main Point of the whole chunk
5 Types of Complex Questions
3 Specific Question Types
Structure Attractors
Vocab in context attractors
15. 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)
Strengthen/Weaken Attractors
Finding correct Weaken answer choice
1. Choice focuses on wrong part of passage 2. Choices inconsistent with the passage - or are irrelevant 3. Extreme language 4. Opp
Structure Attractors
16. 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
2 Types of General Questions
Analogy Attractors
Inference Questions
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
17. 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*
Main Idea/Primary Purpose
2 Types of General Questions
New Information Inference
New Information Questions
18. Retrieval Attractors
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19. 1. Understate or overstate author's point 2. choice that is too narrow 3. Choices that go beyond the scope of the passage
3 Specific Question Types
Structure Questions
Main Idea/Primary Purpose Attractors
Finding correct Weaken answer choice
20. 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
Strengthen/Weaken Attractors
Evaluate Questions
Retrieval
Strengthen/Weaken
21. 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
Tone/Attitude Questions
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
Evaluate Questions
Structure Attractors
22. 1. choice that goes furthest toward making it impossible for claim to be true 2. Inconsistent with relevant part of passage
Retrieval
Finding correct Weaken answer choice
New Information Strengthen/Weaken
1. Right answer - wrong question 2. Sounds like - but can't be true 3. too extreme
23. Take something in passage and apply it to a new situation. New information is provided in the answer choices
Main Idea/Primary Purpose Attractors
Analogy Attractors
2 Types of General Questions
Analogy Questions
24. New Information Attractors
Evaluate Attractors
Retrieval
1. Choice focuses on wrong part of passage 2. Choices inconsistent with the passage - or are irrelevant 3. Extreme language 4. Opp
Vocab in context
25. 1. Choice that take author's opinion to extremes 2. Express opinion for neutral tone 3. Strange attitudes (Ex: obtuse ambiguity)
Tone/Attitude Attractors
5 Types of Complex Questions
New Information Inference
Structure Attractors
26. Define What the author means by a certain word or phrase 1. As its used in the passage 2. The term implicitly refers to
3 Specific Question Types
5 Types of Complex Questions
Strengthen/Weaken
Vocab in context
27. 1. Structure Questions 2. Evaluate Questions 3. Strengthen/Weaken 4. New Information 5. Analogy
5 Types of Complex Questions
Strengthen/Weaken
2 Types of General Questions
Main Idea/Primary Purpose Attractors
28. 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
Vocab in context attractors
Inference Questions
New Information Strengthen/Weaken
Analogy Attractors