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