hello there my name is Richard McMunn
from the psychometric testing website my
psychometric tests calm and a very warm
welcome to this tutorial which is verbal
reasoning test questions so if you have
a verbal reasoning test coming up
this tutorial will make a huge
difference to your preparation I'm gonna
tell you what verbal reasoning tests are
I'm gonna give you some great tips for
scoring highly and more importantly I'm
gonna go through a number of sample test
questions and get you to try some
yourself so the aim is by the time you
and I get to the end of this video
tutorial you will be fully prepared for
your verbal reasoning test now before I
get into those very warm welcome to this
verbal reasoning test training tutorial
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so what is a verbal reasoning test a
verbal reasoning test basically assesses
your ability to answer questions as
either true/false or cannot say based
solely on the information or the text
provided so you are given a passage of
text you are then given a question and
you have to answer that question based
solely on that information so this is
very important
taken out of that this is the first
crucial tip in helping you to pass a
verbal reasoning test you can only
answer the questions based on the
information that is provided and I will
explain in more detail what I mean about
that in a second so let's take a look at
a sample verbal reasoning test question
it says read the following passage
before answering the question that
follows so we are given a passage of
text and then a question appears and we
have to answer that question is either
true/false or cannot say so let me just
quickly read this patched passage of
text now the text that you're given is
usually quite boring in nature and and
it's designed to be so okay but there is
a really important tip which you're
going to
show you in the next slide of how to
save time and answer these questions
quickly so I'll quickly read that text
it says a uniform is a set of standard
clothing worn by members of an
organization whilst participating in
that organization's activity modern
uniforms are often worn by Armed Forces
and paramilitary organizations such as
police emergency services and security
guards in some workplaces and schools
and by inmates in prisons in some
countries officials also wear uniforms
in some of their duties such is the case
of the commissioned Corps of the United
States Public Health Service or the
French prefix and then the question is
police officers are required to wear a
uniform true-false or cannot say now we
can only answer that question based
solely on the information now you and I
know for a fact that police officers are
required to wear a uniform however the
answer is cannot say because we cannot
say from that text it doesn't say
anywhere the police officers are
required to wear a uniform it actually
says modern uniforms are often worn ok
so that's the important thing the answer
to the questions cannot say based on the
information that you are given so many
candidates and this is where you are
going to score higher than your
competitors is that many candidates will
answer this question is true because we
all know that police officers do in fact
wear a uniform but crucially the word
required is not mentioned in that
passage and it says police officers are
required so don't fall into the trap
with these verbal reasoning test
questions of answering the questions
based on what you know only answer them
based on what is within the passage so
the important lesson here is to only
answer the question based solely on the
information provided regardless of what
you know to be fact now here's that
really important tip so to read and
fully understand every word of every
verbal reasoning test passage is going
to take time and ultimately it will eat
into your time that you have to answer
each question so you're going to be
answering these questions based on the
strict time conditions so here's a
really useful tip
the majority of people and I would
estimate 95% of candidates who undertake
verbal reasoning tests will start off
and they will read that whole passage
that's not what you should do okay what
you should do is scan at the passage to
locate the word or words that are
prominent in the question and then
answer the question that way so I would
look at this and I would not even read
the text I would look at the question
and he says police officers are required
to wear a uniform
I would then pick out the prominent two
words police officers and uniform and I
would then scan the passage to locate
those two words so there's police and
there's uniformed I would then focus my
efforts entirely on that passage that
particular part and if you see from that
I can answer that question
police officers are required to wear a
uniform mrs. imani uniforms are often
worn by armed forces and paramilitary
organizations it doesn't say they are
required to so I would answer the
question cannot say that is a great tip
if you take anything from this tutorial
in respect of answering verbal reasoning
test questions take that that will save
you a huge amount of time because when
you are under pressure you are reading
that passage and you will be able to
understand it anyway because you'll be
under pressure your job is to just pick
out the answer from that particular
element of the passage so here's a quick
refresher reminder of what is meant by
true/false and cannot say this is very
important so please do listen to all
three of these and then I'm going to get
you to try some questions yourself to
see whether you understand what
true/false and cannot say is in the
context of verbal reasoning so true if
something is true it means the statement
is true it is verified by the text so
this means the text must explicitly or
implicitly mention something which
proves the statement to be correct so in
other words you cannot make any
assumptions about the text there's got
to be either direct evidence from the
statement or a strong inference to
support it so in respect to false if a
statement is false there must be
evidence in the text which contradicts
the statement so for example if
question statement says all swans are
white but the text says there is such
thing as a black swan then a statement
is false because it's directly
contradicted by the text and in
respective cannot say there is not
enough evidence in the text or the
passage to verify being true or false
then the correct answer is cannot say as
we know from the previous question about
police officers wearing a uniform so now
it's your turn I'm gonna get you to try
some verbal reasoning test questions so
there are five verbal reasoning test
questions that follow you have 20
seconds to answer each question there is
a timer on the right hand side of blue
timer I will read the question and the
passage once and then a timer starts to
tick down please put your answer to each
question in the comment section below
this video for marking or commentary
today and mark them for you to make sure
that you fully understand so here we go
it says read the following text before
answering the questions as either
true/false or cannot say from the
information so 5 questions are based on
this particular passage I'll read it
once and then ask you the five questions
the timer will go down and I'll move on
to the next question it's called family
holiday
it says Janet and Steve have been
married for 27 years they have a
daughter called Jessica who is 25 years
old they all want to go on holiday
together but cannot make up their minds
on where to go
Janet's first choice would be somewhere
hot and sunny abroad her second choice
would be somewhere in their home country
that involves a sporting activity she
does not like hill climbing or walking
holidays but her third third choice
would be a skiing holiday Steve's first
choice would be a walking holiday in the
Hills somewhere in their home country
and his second choice would be a sunny
holiday abroad he does not enjoy skiing
Jessica's first choice would be a skiing
holiday but a second choice would be a
sunny holiday abroad and Jessica's third
choice will be a walking holiday in the
hills of their home country so you can
see it's quite confusing and that's why
it's important when you try DS not to
read the text out but to answer the
question so here we go question number
one
Jessica's first choice would be a
walking holiday in the hills of their
home country is it a true
be false or C cannot say here's your
time
okay question number two Janet and
Jessica have been married for 27 years a
true B false or C cannot say put your
answer in the comments section below
here's a time
question number three Jessica would
rather go skiing than go on a sunny
holiday abroad a true B false C cannot
say please put your answer in the
comment section below
okay well done question number four
Janet likes hill climbing a true B false
SECAM not so
you
five Janet and Steve have a daughter
who's 27 years old a true B false C
cannot say put your answer in the
comment section below the video please
thank you
okay well done so I'll let you know how
you get on when you put the comments in
the sorry your answer in the comments
section below but you'll see it's
important to answer it based on the text
only they seem really easy those
questions but I bet you get some of them
wrong now the important thing is to read
the question really important if you
want to try some more of these please
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