Basic Tips To Solve Gat Questions

Tips For Answering Analogies:

1: To find the relationship between the stem words (the words in capital letters), form a simple sentence that links the two words and illustrates their meaning. Then plug in the choices.

2: If more than one choice fits your sentence, go back and make your sentence more specific or look for a nuance that you missed.

3: You can automatically eliminate any answer choice containing a triangular nonrelationship. In a triangular nonrelationship, the two words are related to a third word, but not directly to each other. For example:

WEIGHT:AGE

SALT:PEPPER

IRRIGATIONS:FERTILIZER

LEMON:ORANGE

In each word pair, both are related to something, but not to each other.

4: You can automatically eliminate any answer choice containing words that are not related in a clear and necessary way.

5: Never initially eliminate a choice if you are uncertain of the meaning of either word in it. You can’t be positive that two words are unrelated if you have no idea what one of the words means.

6: When you don’t know the meaning of one of the words in the stem, work backwards from the choices.

7: You can improve the effectiveness of working backward by using information in the problem to decode the unknown word in the stem.

8: If you know both words in the stem, you can sometimes eliminate a choice even if you don’t know one of the words, by determining whether any word could create a relationship like the stem relationship.

Guidlines For Analogies:

Analogies mainly depend on Vocabulary , you have to recognize the relation between the pair of words. This is a tight, solid, logical relationship based on the meaning of the words. It is the kind of relationship that exists between a word and its dictionary definition.

Directions :-

                               In each of the following questions, a related pair of words or phrases is followed by five lettered pairs of words or phrases. Select the pair that best expresses a relationship that exists between a word and its dictionary definition.

Analysis:-

                             It is important that you focus on understanding the relationship between the original pair of words, because this is really what you are trying to parallel.

First, you should find the primary relationship first, then look for a secondary or closer relationship.  The idea is to select the BEST answer or most similar relationship.

Types:-

                   Many types of relationships are possible in GAT analogies. The stem words may be related by:

Category	Sample Analogy
Synonyms	end: terminate
Antonyms	artificial: real
Worker and Tool Used	photographer: camera
Tool and Object Its Used Upon	scissors: paper
Worker and Object He Creates	poet: poem
Cause and Effect	negligence: accident
Effect and Cause	tsunami: earthquake
Material Used and End Product	lumber: house
Function of a Tool	saw: cut
Part to Whole	leaf: tree
Person and What He Looks For	mineralogist: ore
Person and What He Avoids	student: failure
Masculine and Feminine	host: hostess
Age	infant: adolescent
Person and Closely Related Adjective	commander: competent
Person and Least Related Adjective	commander: coward
Symbol and What It Stands For	rose: love
Mathematical Relationship	seven: forty-nine
Measurement	mile: distance
Classification and Type	dog: greyhound
Degree of Intensity	cold: pneumonia