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MCAT Verbal Reasoning Questions
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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. 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
Retrieval
3 Specific Question Types
Evaluate Questions
Strengthen/Weaken
2. 1. Main Idea/Primary Purpose 2. Tone/Attitude
2 Types of General Questions
Approach for primary point questions
Vocab in context
Main Idea/Primary Purpose Attractors
3. Take something in passage and apply it to a new situation. New information is provided in the answer choices
Inference Questions
Tone/Attitude Attractors
Tone/Attitude Questions
Analogy Questions
4. 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
Structure Questions
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
Strengthen/Weaken
5. Retrieval Attractors
6. Provide new facts in the question stem that are never mentioned in the passage - 2 types: 1. Inference 2. Strengthen/Weaken
1. Choice focuses on wrong part of passage 2. Choices inconsistent with the passage - or are irrelevant 3. Extreme language 4. Opp
New Information Questions
Strengthen/Weaken Attractors
Main Idea/Primary Purpose Attractors
7. 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
Analogy Questions
New Information Questions
Tone/Attitude Attractors
Tone/Attitude Questions
8. 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
2 Types of General Questions
Main Idea/Primary Purpose
Evaluate Attractors
Vocab in context
9. Use Goldilock's approach: eliminate What is too big or too small
New Information Strengthen/Weaken
Approach for primary point questions
Tone/Attitude Attractors
Finding correct Weaken answer choice
10. 1. Info of passage in extreme language/absolute 2.choices that aren't necessarily true 3. right answer wrong question
Inference Questions
Strengthen/Weaken Attractors
Inference attractors
Finding correct Weaken answer choice
11. Test ability to locate info 1. According to the passage 2. The passages that 3. Which of the following is not mentioned:
Strengthen/Weaken Attractors
Retrieval
Evaluate Attractors
Analogy Attractors
12. 1. Understate or overstate author's point 2. choice that is too narrow 3. Choices that go beyond the scope of the passage
Strengthen/Weaken
5 Types of Complex Questions
Approach for primary point questions
Main Idea/Primary Purpose Attractors
13. 1. Structure Questions 2. Evaluate Questions 3. Strengthen/Weaken 4. New Information 5. Analogy
Tone/Attitude Attractors
5 Types of Complex Questions
Inference Questions
2 Types of General Questions
14. Answers that mischaracterize the strength of argument (weakly for strongly supported) - Analyze What is precisely good or bad about logic used
Finding correct Weaken answer choice
Evaluate Attractors
Strengthen/Weaken
Approach for primary point questions
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
Retrieval
Main Idea/Primary Purpose
Inference Questions
16. 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
Evaluate Questions
Strengthen/Weaken
5 Types of Complex Questions
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
17. Define What the author means by a certain word or phrase 1. As its used in the passage 2. The term implicitly refers to
Vocab in context
Analogy Attractors
Evaluate Questions
Finding correct Weaken answer choice
18. New Information Attractors
Vocab in context
1. Choice focuses on wrong part of passage 2. Choices inconsistent with the passage - or are irrelevant 3. Extreme language 4. Opp
Main Idea/Primary Purpose Attractors
Analogy Attractors
19. 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*
5 Types of Complex Questions
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
Tone/Attitude Questions
20. 1. Give legitimate dictionary of colloquial/common sense definitions 2. Choices that over generalize or are too narrow
Analogy Questions
Structure Questions
Vocab in context attractors
Tone/Attitude Attractors
21. 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
Evaluate Attractors
New Information Questions
Vocab in context attractors
22. 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
Evaluate Questions
Retrieval
Strengthen/Weaken Attractors
Strengthen/Weaken
23. 1. Choice that take author's opinion to extremes 2. Express opinion for neutral tone 3. Strange attitudes (Ex: obtuse ambiguity)
Tone/Attitude Attractors
2 Types of General Questions
New Information Strengthen/Weaken
3 Specific Question Types
24. 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 Attractors
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
Structure Questions
Finding correct Weaken answer choice
25. 1. right example - wrong reference 2. Half right - half wrong choices - Correct answer will be consistent with the Main Point of the whole chunk
New Information Questions
Structure Attractors
2 Types of General Questions
Strengthen/Weaken Attractors
26. Evaluate What effects new information will have on author's argument as a whole
Inference Questions
New Information Questions
New Information Strengthen/Weaken
Vocab in context attractors
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
Inference Questions
New Information Questions
Tone/Attitude Attractors
Analogy Attractors
28. 1. Retrieval 2. Inference 3. Vocab in context
Analogy Attractors
Vocab in context
Main Idea/Primary Purpose Attractors
3 Specific Question Types