Hello Everybody,.
Do you have any ideas about verbal questions? We are looking for some! We'd love to use them in a diagnostic test or just for good practice!
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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....