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Heyy, I am struggling with all Parallel/analogy questions does anyone have something that helped them understand how to go about it. Thanks
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Heyy, I am struggling with all Parallel/analogy questions does anyone have something that helped them understand how to go about it. Thanks
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I focus on understanding the structure of the stimulus as best I can. If it is conditional, for example, I try to have a good grasp of how the structure is built, what condition triggers what outcome, and so forth. Once I feel I have a good grasp of that, I go to the AC aggressively, looking for matches in the structure. It is easier than you think, I promise. I am not a great scorer on this test yet, but I get the parallel questions flaw or parallel reasoning every single time by simply applying what I said above, focus on structure, do not let the words sack you in!
I usually build a skeleton of the stimulus, by that I mean the abstract concept of the stimulus. For example: "Only dogs like to play outside. Kathy is a cat so Kathy doesn't like to play outside." The skeleton of the stimulus is A --> B (translation: Like to play outside --> dogs) . ~B--> ~A (translation: cat (aka not dogs) --> doesn't like to play outside). After you build a skeleton, you would scan through the answers for matching elements (in this case there are condition in stimulus, and a contrapositive in the conclusion). If diagraming on paper help you, please do so before you can metally diagram your skeleton.