Verbal Reasoning Tricks With Examples

Verbal Reasoning does not have any particular concept. It targets the ability of an individual to understand and interpret the information from the given set of data.

Tricks to Solve Verbal Reasoning

Verbal Reasoning type of questions is mostly based on your ability to extract data. So, there might be a passage and some questions based on it, for which you need to answer in True or False or Cannot Say.
The most important thing to keep in mind is time. Sometimes the passage is large and a number of questions are less, so time for solving each question will be more. Hence, you need to keep in mind about the time.

Example:
Even though the minimum age for obtaining a driving license has increased in recent years a substantial increase in car sales over the corresponding years has resulted in a staggering rise in fatal car accident numbers. As the latest figures show, fatal car accidents are especially prevalent among young drivers who have less than five years of driving experience. Last winter 50 percent of all fatal road accidents involved drivers with up to five years driving experience and an additional 15 percent were drivers who had between six to eight years of experience. The interim figures of the current year show that the massive advertisement campaign ‘fighting accidents’ has resulted in some improvements but the truth is that the number of younger drivers involved in fatal accidents is intolerably high. Fatal car accidents are more prevalent amongst young drivers with six to eight years of experience than older drivers with similar experience.

Solution: Cannot Say.
Given data only mentions experience, not age. Although the main idea of the passage is that younger drivers are generally more likely to be involved in fatal car accidents, we cannot say that all relatively inexperienced drivers are young.

The considerable increase in car sales is the reason behind the sharp increase in fatal car accidents.

Solution: False.
In the last line, we can see that ‘fighting accidents’ has resulted in some improvements which mean that increasing car sales doesn’t directly increase car accidents.

The advertising campaign called ‘fighting accidents’ has failed to reduce the number of car accidents.
Solution: False.
In the last line, we can see that ‘fighting accidents’ has resulted in some improvements which contradict the statement.

This article is contributed by Shushank Mittal.