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Tham khảo tài liệu '501 word analogy questions phần 2', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 501 Word Analogy Questions wrong answer choices through practice. At first there may seem to be many different reasons for getting various questions wrong. At closer look however there may be a pattern to your wrong answers. Test preparers often spend as much time on wrong answer choices as they do the right answer. For instance let s consider this analogy and answer choices warm hot hilarious a. humid b. raucous c. summer d. amusing To come up with the correct answer you must first figure out the relationship. This is an analogy of degrees. Warm is less intense than hot therefore what answer choice is something that is less intense than hilarious The right answer is d based on the relationship of amusing being less intense than hilarious. To illustrate how some test takers get led astray by carefully crafted wrong answer choices let s take a closer look at choices a b and c. Some test takers will impulsively pick a because humid is related to the first word pair warm and hot but it is not part of the analogy of degree. This choice is offered as an option for the careless reader. Other test takers will choose b because they have misunderstood the analogy. They may think that the word pair warm hot is a synonym pair showing faulty reasoning skills. Choosing c is a slightly different case. Wrong answers may also be chosen because of the test taker s predisposition. In this example summer is chosen because warm hot reminds the test taker of summer. These are all illustrations of ways in which test takers can get thrown off or distracted by wrong answer choices. Careful close reading and lots of practice will help you to avoid the wrong answer trap. And remember as time runs out you are more prone to make careless mistakes so read carefully and stay calm. Your reasoning skills and power of logic work better when you are not flustered so remain in control and stay alert. xiii 501 Word Analogy Questions Finally let s tackle the time issue. Most assessment tests are timed