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1) A member posts a question like they would in the verbal section. The question should contain the following:
a) The question passage.
b) The answer choices.
c) The correct answer choice hidden as a spoiler.
d) Reasoning behind the right choice being right and each wrong choice being wrong (this can be posted slightly later but no longer than 48 hours afterwards). At this time, we will not be able to accept any questions that lack explanations.
e) The time at which the original post will be edited each day. (GMT) (This choice can be left to the OP. If he wants to edit the post once in 2 days or once in 3
days, that can also be mentioned)

2) A few guidelines to framing verbal questions from my knowledge. (Please feel free to add anything else)
a) Questions should not require numerical calculations to be solved
b) Sensitive topics such as topics on hot button political issues, sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation should be avoided.
c) Any reference to real people, countries etc. should be factually accurate.
d) It is preferable to use imaginary people, countries etc for Critical Reasoning questions.
e) Critical Reasoning Question Types :
i) Find the Assumption and Assumption Except
ii) Draw a Conclusion
iii) Strengthen the Conclusion & Strengthen the Conclusion Except
iv) Weaken the Conclusion & Weaken the Conclusion Except
v) Explain an Event or Discrepancy
vi) Analyze the Argument Structure
vii) Evaluate the Conclusion
viii) Resolve a Problem
ix) Provide an Example
x) Restate the Conclusion
xi) Mimic the Argument
f) Sentence Correction Errors Tested : (Courtesy WaterFlowsUp)
i) Subject-verb agreement errors
ii) Grammar, meaning, concision errors
iii) Parallelism errors
iv) Pronoun errors
v) Modifier errors
vi) Verb tense, mood and voice errors
vii) Comparison errors
viii) Idiomatic errors (I think this is being phased out)
ix) Sentence structure and style errors
g) Reading Comprehension Question Types :
i) Purpose of passage
ii) Main idea of passage
iii) Organization of passage
iV) Inference and Inference Except
v) Assumption
vi) Statement supported & Statement Supported Except
h) Wrong answer types for Critical Reasoning & Reading Comprehension
i) Out of scope.
ii) Direct Contradiction
iii) Mix up
iv) One word wrong (eg : percentage vs number)
v) True but irrelevant
vi) Restatement of premises (For conclusion questions)

3) Other members provide the feedback. The post with the feedback should contain
a) The question as a quote.
b) Whether they agree with the answer choice. If no, the answer choice they arrived at when trying to solve the question.
c) The reason for picking that answer choice and the reasons for why each of the other answer choices are wrong.
d) How the question and answer choices can be improved.

4) The OP of the question can go through all the feedback that he gets and make his edits at the time specified each day. Only the OP will edit the question. The question can stay online for 7 days (so the original post will be edited at most 7 times.. Do let me know if this should be lesser). Each time the OP edits the original post, the question as it was previously should be made as a quote labelled "first draft", "second draft" and so on and the name of the contributors. So when the question has finally been ironed out the original post will have at most 6 drafts and the final question. The second post on this thread will show how the original post should look like at the time when the question is ready

5) At the end of 7 days the original post can be marked as "Closed" in Red.
If there is good feedback and we expand this thread into a sub forum, we can amend the procedure a bit. We will no longer require to quote the original question in the feedback. And when a question is closed the topic itself can be locked....

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MacFauz · Answer

Question Will Be Edited at 5 p.m GMT Once every Two Days

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Question Passage....................................................

a)Choice A
b)Choice B
c)Choice C
d)Choice D
e)Choice E

Answer

bb · Answer

Thank you for idea and the post! Sending you a PM with some thoughts.
BB

MacFauz · Answer

Thread has now been moved to the Verbal Section.....

MacFauz · Answer

Bump... and let me also begin with my first question in SC

MacFauz · Answer

Question will be edited once in 2 days at 5:00 pm GMT.

Born and raised in a Hindu, merchant caste, family in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi's first employment of non-violent civil disobedience was as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa,  in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights.

A)Born and raised in a Hindu, merchant caste, family in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi's first employment of non-violent civil disobedience was as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa,

B)Born and raised in a Hindu, merchant caste, family in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi's first employment of non-violent civil disobedience was an expatriate lawyer in South Africa,

C)Born and raised in a Hindu, merchant caste, family in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, non-violent civil disobedience was first employed by Gandhi as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa,

D)Born and raised in a Hindu, merchant caste, family in coastal Gujarat, western India, trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa,

E)Born and raised in a Hindu, merchant caste, family in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa,

Answer : E

Explanation :

A, B and C have modifier problems. The starting modifier should modify "Gandhi" and not "Gandhi's first employment" or "non-violent civil disobedience". D is missing "and" without which the series of modifiers is incomplete. E is the only remaining choice.

SJDTrueSelf · Answer

My answer is d) D)Born and raised in a Hindu, merchant caste, family in coastal Gujarat, western India, trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa,

MacFauz · Answer

SJD.. Would appreciate it if you could give the reasoning behind how you arrived at your answer..

Paris75 · Answer

Mary Kronenberg, a famous actress  credited for her talent and her beauty, she was dying of a lung cancer .

A) credited for her talent and her beauty, she was dying of a lung cancer.
B) credited for her talent and her beauty, was dying due to a lung cancer.
C) credited with having talent and beauty, died of a lung cancer.
D) credited with her talent and beauty, dying of a lung cancer.
E) credited for her talent and beauty, died because of a lung cancer.

C

Do you like?

This should be a 500/600 type question I think

MacFauz · Answer

Hi Paris75.,

Thank you for your contribution... Could you also add an explanation of why the right answer is right and each of the wrong answers are wrong??

Paris75 · Answer

The correct idiom here is cretdited with ==> eliminate A, B and E 
The if you take the sentence as a whole you must have : Mary Kronenberg  is dying  OR  died  ==> therefore eliminate D

A) credited for her talent and her beauty, she was dying of a lung cancer. -  Wrong idiom  
B) credited for her talent and her beauty, was dying due to a lung cancer. -  Wrong idiom 
C) credited with having talent and beauty, died of a lung cancer. -  CORRECT  
D) credited with her talent and beauty, dying of a lung cancer. -  wrong tense and  credited with her  is not correct 
E) credited for her talent and beauty, died because of a lung cancer. -  Wrong idiom

Answer C!

Narenn · Answer

Here is a short RC passage from my side. It has originally taken from Swami Vivekananda's "Karma-Yoga". Although the Passage was superb, I could not create as good questions for it. Administrators of this thread can add few more questions if they found any scope.

Knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. What we say a man "knows", should, in strict psychological language, be what he "discovers" or "unveils"; what a man "learns" is really what he "discovers", by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere in a corner waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in your own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind, but the object of your study is always your own mind. The falling of an apple gave the Suggestion to Newton, and he studied his own mind. He rearranged all the previous links of thought in his mind and discovered a new link among them, which we call the law of gravitation. It was neither in the apple nor in anything in the centre of the earth. All knowledge, therefore, secular or spiritual, is in the human mind. In many cases it is not discovered, but remains covered, and when the covering is being slowly taken off, we say, "We are learning," and the advance of knowledge is made by the advance of this process of uncovering.

The man from whom this veil is being lifted is the more knowing man, the man upon whom it lies thick is ignorant, and the man from whom it has entirely gone is all-knowing, omniscient.

Q.1 :- What is the Primary Purpose of the Passage?
A) To establish that Newton’s discovery of Law of Gravitation was actually the process of rearrangement of thoughts of gravitation to which he was not unknown.
B) To state that knowing man is one who has completely removed the veil on his mind.
C) To explain the Process of learning. 
D) To establish that Human mind possess all the knowledge and by the process of learning it only discovers for that knowledge at his own mind
E) To explain why Humans should study their own mind.

Answer : D

Q.2 :- With which of the following is the author most likely to agree?
1) Any human learns to discover the things unknown to him/her
2) Newton's discovery of gravity was only an uncovering of knowledge that he already possessed.
3) Students attend the schools to get the suggestions and discover the knowledge that their mind already posses. 
4) We cannot differentiate between learned and unlearned man solely on his education.
5) Newton sat under the apple tree in order to connect the links of law of gravitation.

Answer : B

I would write brief explanation shortly. Difficulty level, IMO :- 600 - 650

JusTLucK04 · Answer

Is this thing still on?

MacFauz · Answer

Hi JusTLucK04,

We've got updated threads with separate ones for each of the three sections of verbal.. Which section do you have a question on???

JusTLucK04 · Answer

I have sentence correction & CR..But do you get the Kudos..

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