40. Write some advice for students’ campus leaflet on how to raise your iq level and, hence, to improve your academic performance.

PROBLEM-SOLVING

41. Try to find solutions (Problem-Solving, unit 4).

The questions below are all taken from the different IQ tests and each is aimed at examining one of the 7 basic skills (to find out what these basic skills are you need to look through the text in Further Reading section, unit4). First, try to find the solutions and then define which skill is being examined in each case.

1. Which of the figures, you think best fits the series below? (Pattern recognition)

A.

B.

C.

D.

Correct answer: A

Explanation: The base figure rotates at an angle of 90⁰ in the clockwise direction. Hence choice A is the best fit.

2. If NEW YORK can be encrypted as PGYAQTM, how can you code the word CHARLOTTE? (Pattern recognition)

1. EICSNPVVG

2. EJCTNQVVG

3. EICTNPVVF

4. EJCSMPVVG

Correct answer: 2. EJCTNQVVG

Explanation: Each letter in the original word is forwarded two places (+2) in the alphabetical order, to get the encrypted word

3. The day after the day after tomorrow is four days before Monday. What day is it today? (Logical reasoning)

A. Monday

B. Tuesday

C. Wednesday

D. Thursday

E. Friday

Correct answer: A. Monday

Explanation:Four days before Monday is Thursday, simply because four days after Thursday is Monday. Besides, day after the day after tomorrow is Thursday only if present day is Monday.

4. Forest is to tree as tree is to ? (Logical reasoning)

A. plant

B. leaf

C. branch

D. mangrove

Correct answer: B. leaf

Explanation: As forest houses several trees, a tree has many leaves. Branches is a close choice but it is incorrect as all tress do not have branches

5. Rearrange the following letters to make a word and choose the category in which it fits. "FADLOFDI" (verbal intelligence)

1. city

2. fruit

3. flower

4. vegetable

Correct answer: C. flower (DAFFODIL)

Explanation: By rearranging "FADLOFDI", we get "DAFFODIL" which is a flower.

6. Identify the pair, one word from each group, that is closest in meaning (match the column) (verbal intelligence)

Group A Group B crude top light raw stairs ignite

crude and raw crude and top light and ignite stairs and top light and raw

Correct answer: A. crude and raw

Explanation: crude and raw,imply the same message and can be used as synonyms.

7. If 10 people can do a piece of work in 5 days, working 2 hours a day, how long will 2 people take to do the same work, working 5 hours a day? (mathematical skills)

1. 8

2. 5

3. 10

4. 12

Correct answer: C. 10

Explanation: People 1 / ( no. of days x time in hours)

8. Which number should come next in this series? 10, 17, 26, 37, ? (mathematical skills)

1. 46

2. 52

3. 50

4. 56

Correct answer: C. 50

Explanation: Beginning with 3, each number in the series is a square of the succeeding no. plus 1.

3^2 +1 = 10 4^2 +1 = 17 5^2 +1 = 26 6^2 +1 = 37 7^2 +1 = 50 (missing no.)

9. Pick out the odd diagram? (classification skills)

Correct answer:

Explanation: It is the only diagram that has pointed edges. Others have curved surfaces.

10. Select the figure that is missing from the collection below: (visual skills)

A.

B.

C.

D.

Correct answer: D

Explanation: Explanation: All the figures provided in the options are present in the 'collection' except for D which at first sight might seem similar to the figure in the first column-second row object, but close examination would reveal that it has 5 teeth instead of 4 teeth present in the afore-mentioned figure belonging to the collection.

11. Choose the odd one out. (visual skills)

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

Correct answer: C

Explanation: In all of the above spirals there are 3½ turns except the figure in option C which sports 4½ turns, counted from origin to the tail.