← Back to Quizzes Hints: 2/2 Verbal Reasoning Set – 13 Hard Start Your name (optional): Share Certificate Browse Quizzes Play Again [{"type":"single","prompt":"Statements:","options":["Only 1 follows","Only 2 follows","Both 1 and 2 follow","Neither follows"],"answer":[1],"explanation":"From the statements we only know that researchers \u2286 curious and some curious are introverts. The overlap between \u201cresearchers\u201d and \u201cintroverts\u201d is not guaranteed, so 1 is not certain. But 2 is clearly possible: there can be introverts outside the \u201cresearcher\u201d group.","hint":"\u201cSome X may be Y\u201d (possibility) is weaker than \u201cSome X are Y\u201d (certainty). Be careful to not over-claim."},{"type":"single","prompt":"In a certain code, each letter is replaced by the letter three places ahead in the alphabet.","options":["WLQH","WLPH","ULPH","WLOH"],"answer":[1],"explanation":"Shift each letter +3: T\u2192W, I\u2192L, M\u2192P, E\u2192H \u2192 WLPH.","hint":"Count carefully: T\u2013U\u2013V\u2013W (3 steps), I\u2013J\u2013K\u2013L, etc."},{"type":"single","prompt":"Statement:","options":["Customer complaints are mainly due to poor product quality.","Customers always complain, whatever the quality.","Quality checks will make the products more expensive.","Employees dislike strict quality checks."],"answer":[0],"explanation":"The measure targets quality; for this to reduce complaints, the company must assume that poor quality is a main cause of those complaints. The other options may or may not be true, but are not required for the decision.","hint":"Ask: \u201cIf A were false, would the decision still make sense?\u201d If not, A is an assumption."},{"type":"single","prompt":"Rearrange the parts to form a meaningful sentence:","options":["1,2,3,4","2,1,3,4","1,3,4,2","3,4,2,1"],"answer":[0],"explanation":"The correct, coherent sentence is: \u201cMaking good decisions often requires careful analysis and clear thinking.\u201d \u2192 1,2,3,4.","hint":"Start with the gerund phrase \u201cMaking good decisions\u201d as the subject, then follow normal English word order."},{"type":"single","prompt":"Choose the most appropriate meaning of the idiom:","options":["To read a text very slowly and carefully","To discover the hidden or implied meaning behind words","To memorise every line of a passage","To disagree with what is written"],"answer":[1],"explanation":"\u201cRead between the lines\u201d means to understand what is suggested but not directly stated.","hint":"Think of noticing what is implied, not just what is printed."},{"type":"single","prompt":"Statement:","options":["The company has recently increased salaries for most employees.","Exit interviews show that the main reason employees give for leaving is lack of career advancement.","Some employees are leaving because they received job offers with higher pay.","The company has opened a new office in another city."],"answer":[1],"explanation":"If exit interviews clearly point to lack of career growth as the main reason, it directly supports the statement\u2019s explanation. A and C introduce other reasons; D is irrelevant.","hint":"Strengthening means providing direct evidence for the cause mentioned."},{"type":"single","prompt":"Choose the grammatically correct sentence:","options":["Scarcely had the meeting started when he began to argue.","Scarcely the meeting had started when he began to argue.","Scarcely had the meeting started than he began to argue.","Scarcely the meeting started than he began to argue."],"answer":[0],"explanation":"The correct structure is \u201cScarcely had + subject + past participle + when + clause.\u201d \u2192 \u201cScarcely had the meeting started when he began to argue.\u201d","hint":"Like \u201cNo sooner\u2026 than\u2026\u201d, \u201cscarcely\/hardly\u2026 when\u2026\u201d uses inversion with \u201chad\u201d."},{"type":"single","prompt":"Choose the best replacement for the underlined part:","options":["not only completed the report on time but also presented","not only completed the report on time but she also presented","not only had completed the report on time but also she presented","not only completed the report on time but also she had presented"],"answer":[0],"explanation":"We need parallel structure after \u201cnot only \u2026 but also \u2026\u201d \u2192 \u201cshe not only completed \u2026 but also presented \u2026\u201d. Repeating \u201cshe\u201d inside the paired part is unnecessary and breaks balance.","hint":"After \u201cnot only\u201d, whatever verb form you use should match the verb after \u201cbut also\u201d."},{"type":"single","prompt":"Two statements are given about the same exam and the same group of students:","options":["Both statements can be true at the same time.","Only statement 1 can be true; if it is true, 2 must be false.","Only statement 2 can be true; if it is true, 1 must be false.","It is impossible for both statements to be false."],"answer":[1],"explanation":"If all students passed, then no one failed, so statement 2 cannot be true. If some students failed, then not all passed, so 1 would be false. Logically, they cannot both be true, but they could both be false in some other scenario; the best choice is that only 1 can be true against 2.","hint":"\u201cAll\u201d and \u201csome \u2026 failed\u201d contradict each other; they are not compatible."},{"type":"single","prompt":"Statement:","options":["Every company will soon close its physical offices.","Remote work makes employees more productive in all jobs.","Companies that allow remote work have access to a wider talent pool.","Employees will refuse to work in physical offices in the future."],"answer":[2],"explanation":"If companies can hire from any location, they clearly have a larger pool of potential candidates. The other options are speculative or too extreme.","hint":"Focus on what must be true given the statement, not on predictions about \u201cevery\u201d or \u201call\u201d in the future."}]
