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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. Answers that mischaracterize the strength of argument (weakly for strongly supported) - Analyze What is precisely good or bad about logic used
Structure Questions
5 Types of Complex Questions
Evaluate Attractors
Structure Attractors
2. 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
Tone/Attitude Questions
New Information Questions
New Information Inference
3. Retrieval Attractors
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4. 1. Info of passage in extreme language/absolute 2.choices that aren't necessarily true 3. right answer wrong question
Inference attractors
Strengthen/Weaken
Structure Questions
Structure Attractors
5. Evaluate What effects new information will have on author's argument as a whole
Retrieval
2 Types of General Questions
New Information Questions
New Information Strengthen/Weaken
6. 1. Main Idea/Primary Purpose 2. Tone/Attitude
Analogy Attractors
2 Types of General Questions
Tone/Attitude Attractors
Inference attractors
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
New Information Strengthen/Weaken
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
Inference Questions
Analogy Attractors
8. 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
Strengthen/Weaken Attractors
Strengthen/Weaken
Evaluate Questions
New Information Inference
9. 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
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
Strengthen/Weaken
1. Right answer - wrong question 2. Sounds like - but can't be true 3. too extreme
3 Specific Question Types
10. 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
3 Specific Question Types
Tone/Attitude Questions
New Information Questions
Main Idea/Primary Purpose
11. 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)
New Information Questions
Evaluate Attractors
Strengthen/Weaken Attractors
3 Specific Question Types
12. 1. Retrieval 2. Inference 3. Vocab in context
Structure Questions
Vocab in context
Tone/Attitude Questions
3 Specific Question Types
13. Test ability to locate info 1. According to the passage 2. The passages that 3. Which of the following is not mentioned:
Tone/Attitude Questions
Retrieval
Vocab in context
3 Specific Question Types
14. 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
1. Choice focuses on wrong part of passage 2. Choices inconsistent with the passage - or are irrelevant 3. Extreme language 4. Opp
New Information Strengthen/Weaken
Tone/Attitude Questions
Evaluate Attractors
15. New Information Attractors
Tone/Attitude Attractors
Finding correct Weaken answer choice
Analogy Attractors
1. Choice focuses on wrong part of passage 2. Choices inconsistent with the passage - or are irrelevant 3. Extreme language 4. Opp
16. Define What the author means by a certain word or phrase 1. As its used in the passage 2. The term implicitly refers to
Structure Questions
Vocab in context
3 Specific Question Types
New Information Questions
17. 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
Tone/Attitude Attractors
1. Choice focuses on wrong part of passage 2. Choices inconsistent with the passage - or are irrelevant 3. Extreme language 4. Opp
18. 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
Main Idea/Primary Purpose Attractors
New Information Questions
Approach for primary point questions
19. Take something in passage and apply it to a new situation. New information is provided in the answer choices
Analogy Questions
3 Specific Question Types
Retrieval
New Information Inference
20. 1. Structure Questions 2. Evaluate Questions 3. Strengthen/Weaken 4. New Information 5. Analogy
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
5 Types of Complex Questions
Strengthen/Weaken
Analogy Questions
21. 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
Main Idea/Primary Purpose
Analogy Questions
Strengthen/Weaken Attractors
22. 1. choice that goes furthest toward making it impossible for claim to be true 2. Inconsistent with relevant part of passage
Evaluate Questions
1. Choice focuses on wrong part of passage 2. Choices inconsistent with the passage - or are irrelevant 3. Extreme language 4. Opp
Evaluate Attractors
Finding correct Weaken answer choice
23. 1. Give legitimate dictionary of colloquial/common sense definitions 2. Choices that over generalize or are too narrow
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
Structure Attractors
Vocab in context attractors
New Information Inference
24. Use Goldilock's approach: eliminate What is too big or too small
Approach for primary point questions
New Information Strengthen/Weaken
New Information Questions
New Information Inference
25. 1. Choice that take author's opinion to extremes 2. Express opinion for neutral tone 3. Strange attitudes (Ex: obtuse ambiguity)
Tone/Attitude Questions
Vocab in context
Tone/Attitude Attractors
Inference attractors
26. 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
Strengthen/Weaken
Main Idea/Primary Purpose Attractors
Main Idea/Primary Purpose
27. 1. Understate or overstate author's point 2. choice that is too narrow 3. Choices that go beyond the scope of the passage
3 things to finding correct Strengthen answer choice
Vocab in context
Main Idea/Primary Purpose Attractors
New Information Strengthen/Weaken
28. 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
Inference Questions
Tone/Attitude Questions
1. Right answer - wrong question 2. Sounds like - but can't be true 3. too extreme
Structure Questions