Practice for aptitude tests

Verbal reasoning test practice: true, false or cannot say

Timed verbal reasoning practice in the employer format: a passage, a statement, then true, false or cannot say. Different passages every sitting. Free.

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What a verbal reasoning test asks

Most employer verbal reasoning tests use one format: a paragraph of a few sentences, then statements to judge against it. True means the passage says so or it follows necessarily. False means the passage contradicts it. Cannot say means the passage does not settle it either way. The skill is discipline, not vocabulary: using only what the passage says and noticing when it stops short.

One question, worked

The three mistakes that cost the most

• Answering from the world, not the passage. A statement can be true in real life and still be cannot say here.
• Reading “some” as “all”. “Some of its trains are electric” does not tell you that any particular train is.
• Treating “not mentioned” as false. False needs a contradiction; silence is cannot say.

One right answer, every time

A statement is true only if the passage forces it, false only if the passage rules it out, and cannot say otherwise, and the review after the drill says which it was and why. Each sitting deals different passages.

For all four sections, including numerical, logical and abstract reasoning and a full practice test, open the aptitude test practice page. For relations between words (analogies and odd-word-out) rather than passages, try the verbal analogies test.