Verbal Reasoning Test
A verbal reasoning test is a form of psychometric assessment commonly used in the application stages of the recruitment process. Verbal reasoning questions are designed to assess your ability to understand what you’ve read, think constructively and reach accurate conclusions. It is specifically designed to measure a candidate’s knowledge of English and ability to interpret, analyze, and draw conclusions from words and sentences.
They’re often used in conjunction with other psychometric tests, including verbal reasoning tests, personality tests, and situational judgment tests.
Verbal reasoning tests determine how well you can process written information. Usually, the format is a short passage of text followed by true, false and cannot say questions to determine if candidate can answer the questions correctly.
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It is widely believed among scientists that, at some point, Mars had enough water to cover the entire planet in an ocean that would have been 330 to 4,920 feet deep, a volume approximately equivalent to half of Earth’s Atlantic Ocean. Although some of this water clearly escaped through the atmosphere, recent findings discovered that this does not account for most water loss. A research team incorporated data from various extraterrestrial missions by analyzing a plethora of cross-mission data. The team focused especially on studying the quantity of water in its different states (gaseous, liquid, and solid) on Mars over time; additionally, the team researched the chemical composition of the planet’s current atmosphere and crust, closely inspecting the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen.
A) True
B) False
C) Cannot say
The correct answer is: (B) False
- The question asks whether Mars once contained the same amount of water as Earth’s the Atlantic Ocean.
Scan the passage for keywords like “Atlantic Ocean” or “Earth”. - You will see that the article states that “Mars had enough water to cover the entire planet in an ocean,” “a volume approximately equivalent to half of Earth’s the Atlantic Ocean”.
- Mars only had half the amount of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
It is widely believed among scientists that, at some point, Mars had enough water to cover the entire planet in an ocean that would have been 330 to 4,920 feet deep, a volume approximately equivalent to half of Earth’s the Atlantic Ocean. Although some of this water clearly escaped through the atmosphere, recent findings discovered that this does not account for most water loss. A research team incorporated data from various extraterrestrial missions by analyzing a plethora of cross-mission data. The team focused especially on studying the quantity of water in its different states (gaseous, liquid, and solid) on Mars over time; additionally, the team researched the chemical composition of the planet’s current atmosphere and crust, closely inspecting the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen.
A) True
B) False
C) Cannot say
The correct answer is: (A) True
- The questions ask how many different states water on Mars was tracked in.
- To refresh your memory, quickly scan the passage for keywords such as “water”.
- By doing so, you will see that “The team focused especially on studying the quantity of water in its different states (gaseous, liquid, and solid)”.
- The research team studied water on Mars in its gaseous, liquid, and solid-state, which is equivalent to three.
It is widely believed among scientists that, at some point, Mars had enough water to cover the entire planet in an ocean that would have been 330 to 4,920 feet deep, a volume approximately equivalent to half of Earth’s the Atlantic Ocean. Although some of this water clearly escaped through the atmosphere, recent findings discovered that this does not account for most water loss. A research team incorporated data from various extraterrestrial missions by analyzing a plethora of cross-mission data. The team focused especially on studying the quantity of water in its different states (gaseous, liquid, and solid) on Mars over time; additionally, the team researched the chemical composition of the planet’s current atmosphere and crust, closely inspecting, the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen.
A) No change required - it’s correct
B) atmosphere and crust closely inspecting the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen.
C) atmosphere and crust, closely inspecting the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen.
D) atmosphere and crust closely inspecting, the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen.
The correct answer is: (A) No change required - it’s correct
- The grammatical purpose of a comma is to make the reader pause.
- Looking at the highlighted portion and some of the sentences before it: the team researched the chemical composition of the planet’s current atmosphere and crust, closely inspecting, the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen.
- The comma after “crust” makes sense because it helps with the flow of the sentence. However, the comma after “inspecting” is completely unnecessary and makes the sentence awkward. Thus, it should be omitted.
It is widely believed among scientists that, at some point, Mars had enough water to cover the entire planet in an ocean that would have been 330 to 4,920 feet deep, a volume approximately equivalent to half of Earth’s Atlantic Ocean. Although some of this water clearly escaped through the atmosphere, recent findings discovered that this does not account for most water loss. A research team incorporated data from various extraterrestrial missions by analyzing a plethora of cross-mission data. The team focused especially on studying the quantity of water in its different states (gaseous, liquid, and solid) on Mars over time; additionally, the team researched the chemical composition of the planet’s current atmosphere and crust, closely inspecting, the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen.
A) An important aspect
B) A lack of
C) A computer hard drive
D) A great amount
The correct answer is: (D) A great amount
- The questions asks what the word “plethora” means in the context of the passage.
- To refresh your memory, reread the sentence containing the word “plethora”.
- It says that “A team incorporated data from various extraterrestrial missions by analyzing a plethora of cross-mission data.”
- Space missions are known for being planned very carefully and thoroughly. Therefore, we can assume with strong certainty that they analyzed “a great amount”, or a plethora of data.
It is widely believed among scientists that, at some point, Mars had enough water to cover the entire planet in an ocean that would have been 330 to 4,920 feet deep, a volume approximately equivalent to half of Earth’s Atlantic Ocean. Although some of this water clearly escaped through the atmosphere, recent findings discovered that this does not account for the majority of the water loss. A research team incorporated data from various extraterrestrial missions by analyzing a plethora of cross-mission data. The team focused especially on studying the quantity of water in all of its different states (gaseous, liquid, and solid) on Mars over time; additionally, the team researched the chemical composition of the planet’s current atmosphere and crust, closely inspecting the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen.
A) True
B) False
C) Cannot say
The correct answer is: (B) False
- The question asks whether or not Mars lost most of its water as a result of it escaping through the atmosphere.
- Scan the passage for keywords like “water” or “atmosphere”.
- You will see that the article states that “Although some water clearly escaped through the atmosphere, recent findings discovered that this does NOT account for the majority of the water loss.”
- The article clearly states that some water was lost through the atmosphere, the majority in a different fashion.
In light of recent and expected increases in America’s non-reserve liabilities as well as extremely high stock market volatility, the FOMC will purchase Treasury bills at least into the second quarter of next year in order to continually maintain ample reserve balances at or above the adequate level that prevailed before the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the FOMC board made the executive decision to conduct term and overnight repurchase agreement operations at least through November of this upcoming year in order to ensure that the supply of reserves remains stable even during periods of drastic spikes in non-reserve liabilities, and to mitigate the risk of money market pressures that could negatively affect policy implementation.
A) True
B) False
C) Cannot say
The correct answer is: (B) False
- The question asks whether or not the FOMC will try to keep the reserve balance equal to or below what worked for them before COVID-19 struck.
- Scan the passage for keywords/phrases like “reserve balance” or “COVID-19”.
- You will see that the article states that the FOMC will purchase Treasury bills “in order to continually maintain ample reserve balances at or above the adequate level that prevailed before the COVID-19 pandemic.”
- The article clearly states that the reserve balances will be kept “at or above” what had worked for them, not at or below as stated in the question.
In light of recent and expected increases in America’s non-reserve liabilities as well as extremely high stock market volatility, the FOMC will purchase Treasury bills at least into the second quarter of next year in order to continually maintain ample reserve balances at or above the adequate level that prevailed before the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the FOMC board made the executive decision to conduct term and overnight repurchase agreement operations at least through November of this upcoming year in order to ensure that the supply of reserves remains stable even during periods of drastic spikes in non-reserve liabilities and to mitigate the risk of money market pressures that would negatively affect policy implementation.
A) True
B) False
C) Cannot say
The correct answer is: (A) True
- The question asks whether or not money market pressure would ultimately worsen policy implementation more than it would benefit it.
- Scan the passage for key phrases like “money market pressure” or “policy implementation”.
- You will see that the article states that conducting term and overnight purchase agreements would “mitigate the risk of money market pressures that would negatively affect policy implementation.
- The article states that the money market pressures would “negatively affect” or worsen policy implementation.
In light of recent and expected increases in America’s non-reserve liabilities as well as extremely high stock market volatility, the FOMC will purchase Treasury bills at least into the second quarter of next year, in order to continually maintain ample reserve balances at or above the adequate level that prevailed before the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the FOMC board made the executive decision to conduct term and overnight repurchase agreement operations at least through November of this upcoming year in order to ensure that the supply of reserves remains stable even during periods of drastic spikes in non-reserve liabilities, and to mitigate the risk of money market pressures that could negatively affect policy implementation.
A) No change - it’s correct
B) High stock market volatility the FOMC will purchase Treasury bills at least into the second quarter of next year
C) High stock market volatility, the FOMC will purchase Treasury bills at least into the second quarter of next year
D) High stock market volatility, the FOMC will purchase Treasury bills at least into the second quarter of next year,
The correct answer is: (C) High stock market volatility, the FOMC will purchase Treasury bills at least into the second quarter of next year
- The grammatical purpose of a comma is to make the reader pause.
- Looking at the highlighted portion and some of the sentence before it: high stock market volatility, the FOMC will purchase
- Treasury bills at least into the second quarter of next year, in order to continually…
- The comma after “volatility” is correct because it assists in the smooth flow of the sentence. However, the comma after “year” should be removed because it makes the sentence awkward.
In light of recent and expected increases in America’s non-reserve liabilities as well as extremely high stock market volatility, the FOMC will purchase Treasury bills at least into the second quarter of next year in order to continually maintain ample reserve balances at or above the adequate level that prevailed before the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the FOMC board made the executive decision to conduct term and overnight repurchase agreement operations at least through November of this upcoming year in order to ensure that the supply of reserves remains stable even during periods of drastic spikes in non-reserve liabilities and to mitigate the risk of money market pressures that could negatively affect policy implementation.
A) True
B) False
C) Cannot say
The correct answer is: (A) True
- The question asks whether the FOMC board will conduct term and overnight repurchase agreement operations in October this upcoming year.
- Scan the passage for key phrases like “term and overnight repurchase agreement operations” or “FOMC”.
- You will see that the article states that “the FOMC board” decided “to conduct term and overnight repurchase agreement operations at least through November of this upcoming year.”
- The operations would be conducted “at least through November”. If are done through November, they will definitely be done in October.
In light of recent and expected increases in America’s non-reserve liabilities as well as extremely high stock market volatility, the FOMC will purchase Treasury bills at least into the second quarter of next year in order to continually maintain ample reserve balances at or above the adequate level that prevailed before the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the FOMC board made the executive decision to conduct term and overnight repurchase agreement operations at least through November of this upcoming year in order to ensure that the supply of reserves remains stable even during periods of drastic spikes in non-reserve liabilities and to mitigate the risk of money market pressures that could negatively affect policy implementation.
A) Durable
B) Confusing
C) Extreme
D) Stable
The correct answer is: (C) Extreme
- The questions ask what the word “drastic” means in the passage.
- The article says that “... in order to ensure that the supply of reserves remains stable even during periods of drastic spikes… “.
- When something spikes, it increases greatly, meaning that (D) Stable is incorrect. It does not imply anywhere in the text that a spike can be durable or confusing, meaning that we can rule out choices A and B. Spikes are usually extreme because they cause something to rise very fast very quickly.
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