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7 substances, animals

8 journey, meeting

9 book, opera

10 politician, king

11 furniture, spur

12 gangster, bandit

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13 piano, drum

14 animal, verse

15 slow, soft

16 sin, virtue

17 church, hospital

18 regulate, rectify

19 ditch, watchtower

20 grass, mountain

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Test 2.7

Classification test

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1 level: all the others mean straight up.

2 exceptional: all the others mean the very best.

3 covering: the rest are specifically types of closed containers.

4 deceive: the rest mean to persuade.

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5 visit: it means to call on, the rest mean to call to.

6 steeple: it is part of a church, the rest all being actual places of

worship.

7 buffoonery: it means clowning around, the rest mean nonsensical.

8 perfect: it means 100%, the rest are just OK.

9 spheroid: it is round, the rest are square.

10 discontinue: it means to sign off, the rest mean to sign away.

11 scorched: it means hot, the rest mean dry.

12 certificate: the rest are types of information.

13 burrow: it means to dig, the rest mean to plough.

14 feline: it is a cat, the rest are types of monkey.

15 design: the rest mean to shape.

16 strange: the rest are all unreal.

17 holiday: the rest are specific types of festivity.

18 orbicular: it is going around, the rest go from side to side or

sideways.

19 distribute: it means to hand out, the rest mean to hand in.

20 recurrent: it means repeatedly, the rest mean irregularly.

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Test 2.8

Comprehension

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1 Just as the hapless interviewer was half way through asking his

most involved and difficult question, the worst thing that could

have happened did, and all hell was let loose as Ben saw a cat

through the dining room window. Apart from almost barking the

house down and totally drowning out the second half of the

question, Ben shot across the dining room in a brown blur before

throwing himself against the kitchen door with a sickening crash.

2 We all have the potential to be creative, however, because of the

pressures of modern living and the need for specialization, many

of us never have the time or opportunity, or indeed are given the

encouragement, to explore our latent talents, even though most

of us have sufficient ammunition to realise this potential in the

form of data which has been fed into, collated and processed by

the brain over many years.

3 Learning is the acquisition of new knowledge, and memory is the

retention of this knowledge. The combination of learning and

memory, therefore, is the basis of all our knowledge and abilities

and is what enables us to consider the past, exist in the present

and plan for the future.

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Each correct answer scores one point.

12^16

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17^27

Good

28^40

Very good

41^45

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Test 2.9

Advanced verbal test A ^ multi-discipline

Answers

1 The school principal tried to persuade the police not to prosecute the

boys for what had been a momentary lapse in their good behaviour.

2 sincerity

3 surveillance

4 whimsical

5 appreciative

6 renounce, disclaim

7 sporadic, frequent

8 act the part of

9 avarice

10 There is no single definition of success, as what is considered to

be success by one individual may differ considerably for another.

11 When used in dialogue, the question mark is placed inside the

quotation marks, and replaces the full stop.

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12 The candidate was able to demonstrate his ability to sustain a high

level of work activity.

13 liability, hindrance

14 list

15 manner=manor

16 anonymous, incognito

17 sagacious

18 perigee, perihelion

19 literal, fanciful

20 yesterday

21 insomniac

22 undemanding

23 resort

24 austere

25 thrift, profligacy

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Test 2.10

Advanced verbal test B ^ anagrams

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1 impulse

2 feat, exploit

3 put to sea

4 NBDRA = brand

5 NFEOT = often

6 SHE ELK = shekel; the animals are donkey (OK deny), gopher

(hog rep) and badger (garbed).

7 STOREY = oyster; the trees are poplar (rap lop), spruce (PC user)

and cherry (her cry).

8 PEOTM = tempo

9 slick, crude

10 gauntlet

11 prepared

12 obstinate

13 alleviate

14 sultana

15 canoe, tanker, ferry

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16 pilot, banker, chef

17 cohesion

18 load, cargo

19 obsolete

20 periodical

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11^13

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Test 2.11

Number sequence test

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1 64: add 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.

2 36, 54: add 9 each time.

3 83.75: deduct 3.25 each time.

4 24, 76: there are two sequences interwoven. Add 6 starting at 0

and deduct 6 starting at 100.

5 85: add 17 each time

6 6: Â1, Â2, Â3, Â4, Â5, Â6

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7 58: deduct 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12

8 19: add 1.5, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5

9 12.5: there are two interwoven sequences, Â2 starting at 100 and

Ä2 starting at 50.

10 9.5: add 3.75 each time.

11 75, 26: there are two interwoven sequences, À2.5, À5, À7.5

starting at 100 and þ2.5, 5, 7.5 starting at 1.

12 108: deduct the sum of the digits of the previous number each

time.

13 26, 31: þ1, þ1, þ2, þ2, þ3, þ3, þ4, þ4, þ5, þ5

14 3281: Â5 þ 1 each time

15 857: deduct 28.6 each time

16 945: Â1, Â3, Â5, Â7, Â9

17 108: add 36 each time

18 7, 11: there are two interwoven sequences, þ1.5 starting at the

first 1, and þ2.5 starting at the second 1.

19 432, 1296: Â2, Â3, Â2, Â3, Â2, Â3

20 70, 80: there are two interwoven sequences, add 14 starting at 14

and add 16 starting at 16.

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Test 2.12

Mental arithmetic

Answers

1 72

2 42

3 165

4 135

5 14

6 24

7 87.5

8 150

9 61

10 82

11 168

12 64

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13 458

14 83

15 176

16 150

17 5 of 112 = 70; 7 of 88 = 77

8

8

18 3706

19 56

20 881

21 101

22 1080

23 0.2

24 198

25 7634

26 852

27 935

28 20.04

29 26.9

30 47.95

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Exceptional

24^27

Very good

17^23

Good

10^16

Average

Test 2.13

Working with numbers

Answers

1 13 minutes (11.47): 11.47 less 68 minutes = 10.39. 10 a.m. plus

39 minutes (3 Â 13) = 10.39.

2 Jack 9, Jill 3: in 3 years’ time Jack will be 12 and Jill will be 6.

3 Al 24, Sal 36, Mal 54.

4 Alice »62.00, Susan »22.00:

Alice, 62 À 6 = 56

Alice, 62 þ 1 = 63

Susan, 22 þ 6 = 28

Susan, 22 À 1 = 21

5 300: (180 ) Â 5 = 300

3

6 »140.00: 2 = 0.4; 0.4 þ 0.45 = 0.85, therefore »21.00 = 0.15 (15%)

5

and 21 Â 100 = 140.

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7 23 units and 12 units: 23 Â 12 = 276; (23 þ 12) Â 2 = 70.

8 350: 250 þ 40% = 350

9 2

10 »214.20

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11 95 minutes, or 1 hour 35 minutes.

12 80: combined age in 7 years = 92; 4 Â 7 = 28, therefore, combined

age now is 92 À 28 = 64; in 4 years’ time combined age is

therefore 64 þ 16 (4 Â 4) = 80.

13 5 þ 5 (10) = 15: 1 , therefore, =115 and 5 (5 Â 115) or 575 had just

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8 16

16 16

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bought cosmetics; 10 (10 Â 115) or 1150 had just bought clothing.

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14 9: 19 Â 3 = 57 (total of three numbers); 24 Â 2 = 48 (total of two

numbers); the third number is therefore 57 À 48 = 9.

15 »3.64: »5.76=12 = 0.48; individually, 0.48 þ 0.04 = 0.52, and

0.52 Â 7 = »3.64.

16 70 runs: 10 innings @ 15 per innings = 150 total (average15); 11

innings @ 16 per innings = 176 total (average 16); 11 innings @

20 per innings = 220 total (average 20); 150 þ 70 = 220.

17 1 part = 500: 4500 (2 þ 3 þ 4); apples 1000, oranges 1500, plums

9

2000.

18 10 hours:

120 miles @ 20 m.p.h. = 6 hours

90 miles @ 30 m.p.h. = 3 hours

9 hours

plus 1 hour break = 10 hours

19 15 days: the five men take 21 Â 5 = 105 man-days to build the

house; seven men therefore build the house in 15 days (105 ).

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20 The number of votes the winning candidate received was

(972 þ 52 þ 78 þ 102) Ä 4 = 301; the second received

301 À 52 = 249; the third received 301 À 78 = 223, and the fourth

received 301 À 102 = 199.

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Test 2.14

Advanced numerical aptitude test

Answers

1 26: start at the top number in each group and spiral anti-

clockwise, finishing in the centre. The numbers in the first group

increase by 2, in the second group by 3, in the third group by 4

and in the fourth group by 5.

2 97. 5 kg: 100% less 35% = 65%, less 20% = 52%, less 25% = 39%;

39% Â 250 = 97.5.

3 6, 15: there are two interwoven sequences: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 and 11,

12, 13, 14, 15.

4 42: (6 Â 6) þ 6

5 50%: it is a certainty that at least two coins will fall with the same

side up. Thus it is just as likely that these two coins will be tails as

it is they will be heads.

6 2 minutes 12 seconds:

60

60

(2.5 þ 0.25) Â

= 2.75 Â

= 2.2 minutes or 2 minutes 12 seconds.

75

75

7 11: [(23 þ 15) À 5] Ä 3

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8 50: add 1, 3, 9, 27, 81, i.e. the amount added is multiplied by 3

each time.

9 12: 9 Â 5 Â 12 = 540

10 18, 68: add the three numbers in each row and column to obtain

the fourth number.

11 Seven bags each containing 13 apples: 91 is the product of two

prime numbers, 7 and 13.

12 »40.70: train »27.35 þ taxi »11.45(27.35 À 15.90) þ bus

»1.90(11.45 À 9.55) = »40.70.

13 343: each number is the cube of the number of sides of the figure

in which it is contained (7 Â 7 Â 7 = 343).

14 46.75 square metres: I have 240 square metres

(20  4 = 80 sq m  3 = 240) (6  18 = 108) þ

(15.5 Â 5.5 = 85.25) = 193.25; 240 À 193.25 = 46.75.

15 9: 1 or 4 took sugar only þ 5 or 10 took milk and sugar þ 1 took

4

16

8

16

16

milk only = 15; the remainder, 1 , took it black; 144 = 9.

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6^7

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8^10

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11^12

Very good

13^15

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