Sample Verbal Questions

Sample Verbal Questions- Directions for next 5 sample verbal questions: For each of the verbal questions given below select the best option from the answers given.

1. In 1988, 50 people with emotional disturbances underwent hypnosis to be cured of their mood swings. A follow up survey in 1993 revealed that five had fairly stable emotional conditions at the time of the survey. These five subjects can therefore serve as models of the types of people for whom hypnosis is likely to be successful. Which of the following, if true, casts the most doubt on the suitability of those five subjects as models in the sense described?
(A) The five subjects have very different personalities and backgrounds.
(B) Since 1988, the five subjects have experienced dramatic mood swings interspersed with periods of relative stability.
(C) Those people who were still suffering from unstable emotional conditions at the time of the 1993 survey had shown no improvement since 1988.
(D) Many psychologists are less concerned about a patient’s mood swings than about the patient’s willingness to express his or her problems and fears.
(E) The emotional condition of most of the 45 subjects who were still unstable at the time of the 1993 survey had actually worsened since 1988.

2. The cause of the peculiar columnar growth pattern displayed by junipers growing near burning underground veins of lignite coal has never been convincingly explained. Until recently, the accepted theory posited that the abundance of carbon monoxide in the local atmosphere caused the columnar growth. However, a new theory holds that the cause is the persistent heat present near these underground fires which, while not intense enough to inflame the trees, can nonetheless change their normal growth pattern.
The existence of which of the following would provide the strongest support for the new theory?
(A) A columnar juniper growing in an atmosphere of intense heat and an absence of carbon monoxide
(B) A normal juniper growing in an atmosphere of intense heat and an absence of carbon monoxide
(C) A columnar juniper growing in an atmosphere of normal heat and a high concentration of carbon monoxide
(D) A normal juniper growing in an atmosphere of intense heat and a high concentration of carbon monoxide
(E) A columnar juniper growing in an atmosphere of intense heat and a high concentration of carbon monoxide

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Sample Verbal Questions

Direction for next 3 Questions: Fill in the blanks with one of the choices provided below.

1. ____ a business is all about proper decision making.
a. Finishing
b. Catching
c. Running
d. Laundering
e. Hunting

2. Any business calls for two ____ functions.
a. critical
b. rudimentary
c. innate
d. None of these
e. explosive

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Verbal Ability Questions

Directions for next 3 Questions: The sentences given in each question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labeled with a letter. Choose the most logical order of sentences from among the given choices to construct a coherent paragraph.

1.

A. In the west, Allied Forces had fought their way through southern Italy as far as Rome.
B. In June 1944 Germany’s military position in World War Two appeared hopeless.
C. In Britain, the task of amassing the men and materials for the liberation of northern Europe had been completed.
D. The Red Army was poised to drive the Nazis back through Poland.
E. The situation on the eastern front was catastrophic.
a. EDACB
b. BEDAC
c. BDECA
d. CEDAB
e. ABCDE

2.
A. He felt justified in bypassing Congress altogether on a variety of moves.
B. At times he was fighting the entire Congress.
C. Bush felt he had a mission to restore power to the presidency.
D. Bush was not fighting just the democrats.
E. Representative democracy is a messy business, and a CEO of the White House does not like a legislature of second guessers and time wasters.
a. CAEDB
b. DBAEC
c. CEADB
d. ECDBA
e. ABCDE

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Verbal Reasoning Questions

Directions for next 4 verbal reasoning questions: In each verbal reasoning questions, the word at the top of the table is used in four different ways. Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE.

1. GOOD
a. Is this a good dress for the party?
b. The kept milk in the glass is still good.
c. Farah ruined the family’s good name.
d. I’m good for another round of golf.

2. WRITE
a. How do you write your name?
b. To write one’s thoughts is a good habit.
c. You’ll have to write out a request.
d. It is important to write ones will itself.

3. BOARD
a. Aryan tried to board up a broken window.
c. The board has seven active members.
c. The kneading board was plastic made.
d. the package included bed and board.

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Verbal questions with answers

Directions for next 5 Verbal questions with answers: For each verbal question in this section, select the best of the answer choices given.

1. One problem with labor unions today is that their top staffs consist of college-trained lawyers, economists, and labor relations experts who cannot understand the concerns of real workers. One goal of union reform movements should be to build staffs out of workers who have come up from the ranks of the industry involved. The argument above depends primarily on which of the following assumptions?
(A) Higher education lessens people’s identification with their class background.
(B) Union staffs should include more people with first-hand industrial supervisory experience.
(C) People who have worked in a given industry can understand the concerns of workers in that industry.
(D) Most labor unions today do not fairly represent workers’ interests.
(E) A goal of union reform movements should be to make unions more democratic.
Answer: C
The Conclusion: Union reform movements should build staffs out of workers who have come up the ranks.
The Evidence: Union movements are currently suffering from a problem: Their staffs consist of college-educated professional types who don’t understand the concerns of the worker. If the author believes that hiring up-from-the-ranks workers (an idea introduced in the conclusion) will cure that problem, he must be assuming that these former workers do understand workers’ real concerns.
There’s no need to assume that higher education lessens people’s identification with their class background (A), since the author hasn’t said that the lawyers, economists, and experts who don’t understand workers come from a working class background. Supervisory experience (B) isn’t the same as coming up through the ranks. Labor unions having problems, which the author admits, isn’t the same as (D) most of them unfairly representing workers’ interests. That’s an overstatement. “Democratic” (E) is a new term, and one the argument doesn’t need.

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Verbal Reasoning Questions with Answers

Direction for next 5 Verbal Reasoning Questions - Find the statement that must be true according to the given information.

1. Erin is twelve years old. For three years, she has been asking her parents for a dog. Her parents have told her that they believe a dog would not be happy in an apartment, but they have given her permission to have a bird. Erin has not yet decided what kind of bird she would like to have.
a. Erin’s parents like birds better than they like dogs.
b. Erin does not like birds.
c. Erin and her parents live in an apartment.
d. Erin and her parents would like to move.
Answer. c
Explanation:
Since Erin’s parents think a dog would not be happy in an apartment, we can reasonably conclude that the family lives in an apartment. We do not know if Erin’s parents dislike dogs (choice a) or if Erin dislikes birds (choice b).There is no support for choice d.

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Fast Reading for Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension – Fast Reading

We keep on getting requests from FireUp patrons (both paid and unpaid users) to publish various tips which could help them in their preparation for CAT or other MBA entrance examinations.

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Here’s our first post under this initiative

Biggest hindrance to speed reading and its solution

Subvocalization limits your reading to the speed of normal speech to about 200-300 wpm only. It is the tendency to pronounce words as they are read. Activating parts of the brain related to pronouncing limits the reading speed to 250 wpm only. This common flaw is what limits performance of average readers.

Eliminating Subvocalization to Increase Reading Speed

So how can we get rid of the “inner voice” that reduces our reading speed? Here are a number of ways to speed-read by eliminating subvocalization:

Simply the Process

As discussed earlier in Speed Reading post, below-average readers are slowed down when they read word for word. From this, they either verbally or mentally hear themselves voice each word before finally comprehending the meaning of each word. However, there is a better way. The faster way eliminates the practice of hearing your own voice reading each word – you glance at the word and go directly to understanding its meaning.

Adjust the Speed

This actually reinforces initial efforts to shortcut the process as stated above. Step up eye movements across the page to prevent the inner voice from actually verbally or mentally saying the text you are reading. Pick-up the pace of the finger, hand, pen, or card movements as you go over the material. The objective here is to distract you and skip the subvocalization process in order to speed up the reading process.

Consider the reading material in entirety

When reading, people have the tendency to focus on the word or blocks of words only, paying no attention to the whole thought and idea expressed in the sentence, paragraph, and reading material as a whole. Shift the focus on the entire idea expressed in the book, article, or any reading material you are holding.

Constant practice with these techniques increases the number of words read at each eye stop and picks up your pace in reading.

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Verbal Ability Questions

Directions for next 3 Verbal Ability Questions: In the following verbal ability questions, a short paragraph is given. The paragraph has three blanks. Select the most suitable words from the given options to fill in the blanks.

Having achieved this _____(1)_____ agreement, the other provisions of which stupefied Europe even without _____(2)_____ of the secret protocol, Hitler thought that Germany could attack Poland without any danger of Soviet or British introversion and gave orders for invasion to start on august 26. news of the sensing, on august 25, of a formal treaty of mutual assistant between Great Britain and Poland ( to _____(3)_____ a previous thought temporary argument) caused him to post pond the start of hostilities for a few days. he was still determined, however, to ignore the diplomatic efforts of the western powers to restrain him.

1. (A) Cynical
(B) Trustful
(C) Descriptive
(D) Candid
(E) Evocative

2. (A) Misleading
(B) Recitation
(C) Divulgence
(D) Opposing
(E) Disclosure

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Sample Verbal Questions

Sample Verbal Questions- Direction for next 2 Sample Verbal Questions: Each verbal question below contains six statements followed by four sets of combinations of three; Choose the set in which the statement are logically related.

1. A. Final year students would like a good career.
B. All final year students are eligible as candidates for MBA entrance examination.
C. Final year students are eligible for a good career.
D. Some of those who are candidates for an MBA entrance examination are final year students.
E. All those eligible as candidates for an MBA entrance examination are eligible for a good career.
F. All those who would like a good career are entitled to it.
a. AEF
b. EBC
c. BCF
d. CDF
e. None of these

2. A. All bright people acknowledge brains in others.
B. Some knowledgeable men are bright.
C. Some knowledgeable men do not acknowledge brains in others.
D. Some knowledgeable men are persons who are bright.

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Verbal Ability Questions

Directions for next 4 Verbal Ability Questions: Each verbal ability question below contains six statements followed by four sets of combinations of three; Choose the set in which the statement are logically related.

1. A. No school boy studies hard.
B. All school boys go to school.
C. Some school boys are good at games.
D. All school girls study hard.

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