Verbal and quantitative sections

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2、estingService.SampleQuestionswithExplanationsThesamplequestionsthatfollowareorganizedbycontentcategory1.COLOR:SPECTRUM::(A)tone:scaleandrepresentthetypesofquestionsincludedintheGeneralTest.(B)sound:waves(C)verse:poemThepurposeofthesequestionsistoprovidesomeindicationofthe(D)dimension:space(E)c

3、ell:organismrangeoftopicscoveredinthetestaswellastoprovidesomeaddi-tionalquestionsforpracticepurposes.ThesequestionsdonotTherelationshipbetweencolorandspectrumisnotmerelythatofrepresenteitherthelengthoftheactualtestortheproportionparttowhole,inwhichcase(E)oreven(C)mightbedefendedasofactualtest

4、questionswithineachofthecontentcategories.correct.Aspectrumismadeupofaprogressive,graduatedseriesofcolors,asascaleisofaprogressive,graduatedsequenceoftones.Thus,(A)isthecorrectanswerchoice.Inthisinstance,thebestVERBALABILITYanswermustbeselectedfromagroupoffairlyclosechoices.Theverbalabilitymea

5、sureisdesignedtotesttheabilitytoreason2.HEADLONG:FORETHOUGHT::withwordsinsolvingproblems.Reasoningeffectivelyinaverbal(A)barefaced:shame(B)mealymouthed:talentmediumdependsprimarilyupontheabilitytodiscern,comprehend,(C)heartbroken:emotion(D)levelheaded:resolveandanalyzerelationshipsamongwordsor

6、groupsofwordsand(E)singlehanded:ambitionwithinlargerunitsofdiscoursesuchassentencesandwrittenpassages.ThedifficultyofthisquestionprobablyderivesprimarilyfromtheTheverbalmeasureconsistsoffourquestiontypes:analogies,complexityoftherelationshipbetweenheadlongandforethoughtantonyms,sentencecomplet

7、ions,andreadingcomprehensionsets.ratherthanfromanyinherentdifficultyinthewords.AnalysisoftheTheexamplesofverbalquestionsinthissectiondonotreflectpre-relationshipbetweenheadlongandforethoughtrevealsthefollow-ciselythedifficultyrangeofthe