Verbal Question of the Day Chat Group

what exactly am I looking at

Is it Q1. A and Q2. C?

Do timed practice. Then you’ll be able to measure your accuracy efficiently while you practice. This is happening with me too. And now I am timing while I practice, suddenly my accuracy dropped significantly with timed practice majorly because I don’t get so much time to think that I was getting previously. So my assumption is doing timed practice of thinking while reading will eventually increase my accuracy on practice and test simultaneously.

Hey guys! I wanted to know if anyone can share any verbal cheatsheet which includes all the necessary points.

SC Questions October - 2 :

Q1. Entomologists have recently discovered what appears to be a global mega-colony of ants, a massive complex that consists of over 22 million interconnected anthill networks constructed by over 200 billion Argentinean ants some 100 years ago and sprawling across the Americas, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

(A) sprawling

(B) sprawls

(C) sprawled

(D) it sprawled

(E) is sprawling



Difficulty - Hard

Q2. The national insurance firm offers four tiers of coverage plans; buyers can choose among bronze, silver, gold, and platinum plans, there are no plans that offer greater coverage than the platinum tier or less than the bronze.

(A) buyers can choose among bronze, silver, gold, and platinum plans, there are

(B) because buyers can choose bronze, silver, gold, or platinum, there are

(C) however, buyers can choose among bronze, silver, gold, and platinum, and

(D) buyers can choose among bronze, silver, gold, platinum plans, but

(E) although buyers can choose among bronze, silver, gold, and platinum plans, there are







CR Questions October - 2 :

Q1. In today’s world, not only leaders but managers also need to possess leadership abilities to be able to motivate their direct reports. A recent report evaluating professional progress made by average students discovered that students who excelled in sports while in school display leadership abilities and hence are five times as likely to become managers, consequently earning higher salaries. It is quite likely that excelling in sports while at school imparts these leadership abilities.

Which of the following if true, most strengthens the author’s belief above?

A. Students who already possessed leadership qualities from a very young age were no more likely to excel in sports in school when compared to ordinary students.

B. Students whose parents excelled in sports were no more likely to take up sports while in school than the average student.

C. Above average students who excelled in sports in school were also more likely to become managers when compared to a regular above average student.

D. Leadership skills that managers need to possess can only be acquired by practice and are otherwise difficult to teach in an academic classroom.

E. Most companies report that they prefer hiring students who have excelled in sports.


Difficulty - Hard

Q2. George Bernard Shaw wrote: That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg is enough to make one despair of political humanity.

Shaw’s statement would best serve as an illustration in an argument criticizing which of the following?

(A) Dentists who perform unnecessary dental work in order to earn a profit

(B) Doctors who increase their profits by specializing only in diseases that affect a large percentage of the population

(C) Grocers who raise the price of food in order to increase their profit margins

(D) Oil companies that decrease the price of their oil in order to increase their market share

(E) Bakers and surgeons who earn a profit by supplying other peoples basic needs


Difficulty - Hard

Actually I might say C

(Q2)

If all lice are mice and all lice are nice , then all mice are definitely nice.
Is this statement true,false or inaccurate

False, we don’t know if all mice are definitely lice for all of them to be nice

Hi Pooja!

I have one question about choosing option D here - logically, we know sports = practice, making option D more attractive. But this logic is not explicitly stated in the prompt or statement D.

My question then, is do you look at the question as a closed space and consider only the context of the prompt + answer options? I know universal truths like honesty is the best policy, should apply. But does that hold true for obvious logical implications too?

In this case, I’d side with your initial answer and say C. But wanted to ask this question in general


A

Hi. Thank you for your ques and providing such a detailed explanation. You are absolutely right that it has not been expliciltly said in the passage that sports = practice. But as far as my understanding is concerned in strengthen ques we look for options that may add new information to the passage. So, IMO option D is doing this job perfectly. That’s why I chose option D. Correct me if I am wrong.

Likewise, thank you for taking the time to respond! This really helped put things into perspective, especially the point on strengthening the argument-type questions needing additional information from the statements. A follow-up question, does this additional context need to be explicitly stated in the statement option? In this context, it would be that sports results in/requires a lot of practice. Or is it because this fact is common knowledge that D is still an acceptable answer despite its statement not explicitly stating this?

Sorry, the correct one is option A.

The correct answer for both is A

If this is my situation what should I do? My exam is in 15th October and it almost take me more than 1:20 to 1:50 minutes to read a question before even coming up with the solution -_-

Please go with more and more practice before the test to improve the accuracy
Same way I’m also preparing like this as my exam is on 17 Oct

Thank You for the suggestion.

Hi. Sorry for the delay in response. But, option D was a trap choice. So, all my logic failed. Anyways, in response to your query when we look for additional information or new information in strengthen ques we always look for option that is not explicitly stated in the stimulus. Something, that provides additional information and supports the conclusion. Hope that helps!