Master and apprentice; teacher and

Class: Basic 5

Subject: Verbal Reasoning

Topic: Tests


Section A: Analogy Completion

Instructions: Choose the correct word that best completes the pair.

  1. Eye and light; ear and __________
    Answer: (b) sound

  2. Master and apprentice; teacher and __________
    Answer: (c) pupil

  3. Ship and harbour; train and __________
    Answer: (d) station

  4. Happy and success; sad and __________
    Answer: (b) failure

  5. Beginning and end; Sunday and __________
    Answer: (c) Saturday


Section B: Word Formation Test

Instructions: Choose the word that CANNOT be formed from the letters of the given word.

  1. COMMANDMENT
    (a) command
    (b) dance
    (c) note
    (d) contain

    Answer: (d) contain — because there’s no ‘i’ in COMMANDMENT


  1. AGRICULTURE
    (a) turn
    (b) great
    (c) true
    (d) care

    Answer: (b) great — because there’s no ‘g’ and ‘e’ together for this formation.

Correction: Wait — actually, let’s verify:

  • ‘turn’ — yes

  • ‘great’ — A, G, R, E, A, T — yes, we have all these letters in AGRICULTURE

  • ‘true’ — yes

  • ‘care’ — yes

On second thought, all four can actually be formed. Is this a typo?
Perhaps you meant to replace ‘great’ with another word.

If this is from a textbook and printed as-is, we might need to flag this for review. Could you double-check it?

Assuming ‘great’ is valid, no correct answer. But typically such an error means option ‘b’ was expected.
For now:
Answer: (b) great


  1. CHIEFTAINCY
    (a) face — yes
    (b) fetch — yes
    (c) retain — No ‘r’ in CHIEFTAINCY
    (d) chain — yes

Answer: (c) retain


  1. FORMULATE
    (a) flute — yes
    (b) file — No ‘i’ in FORMULATE
    (c) tear — yes
    (d) rule — yes

Answer: (b) file


  1. NATIONAL
    (a) lion — yes
    (b) lane — yes
    (c) talon — yes
    (d) tail — yes

All can be formed from NATIONAL.

Correction: Let’s check the letters for ‘lane’:

  • L, A, N, E — yes

‘Lion’ — L, I, O, N — yes

‘Talon’ — T, A, L, O, N — yes

‘Tail’ — T, A, I, L — yes

Possible Typo Again.
Could you please confirm this item? Otherwise — no correct option.

But if sticking with pattern, usually ‘talon’ uses O and L once only, and in NATIONAL there’s one O and one L.
Check if letters suffice:

NATIONAL has:

  • N: 2

  • A: 2

  • T: 1

  • I: 1

  • O: 1

  • L: 1

Talon uses T, A, L, O, N — all present.

All four are possible.

So no error here. Likely another typo.
Would you mind confirming from your source?


Summary

Section A Correct Answers:

  1. (b) sound

  2. (c) pupil

  3. (d) station

  4. (b) failure

  5. (c) Saturday

Section B Correct Answers:

  1. (d) contain

  2. (b) great (if confirmed)

  3. (c) retain

  4. (b) file

  5. All words are formable — kindly confirm your source

 

Class: Basic 5

 

Subject: Verbal Reasoning

 

Topic: Tests

 

 Section A:

Instructions: In each of the following items a word is missing. Choose from the given alternatives the word that most suitably fill the space.

 

Example: food and water; eat and _____________

 

(a) drink (b) dinner (c) talk (d) mouth

 

The correct answer is ‘drink’. We shade option A.

 

Now do the following

 

1. Eye and light; ear and __________

(a) song (b) sound (c) hearing (d) speaking

 

2. Master and apprentice; teacher and _______________

(a) headmaster (b) school (c) pupil (d) book

 

3. Ship and harbour; train and _____________.

(a) rail (b) passengers (c) goods (d) station

 

4. Happy and success; sad and ______________.

(a) punishment (b) failure (c) death (d) accident

 

5. Beginning and end; Sunday and _______________.

(a) Christians (b) Monday (c) Saturday (d) December

 

 

Section B:

Instructions: In each of the following items, choose one word that CANNOT be formed by arrangement of some or all of the letters of the word printed in capital letters. Do not use any letter more often than it appears in the word printed in capital letters.

 

Sample: SWEAR

(a) ware (b) sew (c) erase (d) wear

 

The word that cannot be formed by an arrangement of some of the letters of the word ‘swear’ is ‘erase’. We therefore shade option C.

 

Do the following :

 

6. COMMANDMENT

(a) command (b) dance (c) note (d) contain

 

7. AGRICULTURE

(a) turn (b) great (c) true (d) care

 

8. CHIEFTAINCY

(a) face (b) fetch (c) retain (d) chain

 

9. FORMULATE

(a) flute (b) file (c) tear (d) rule

 

10. NATIONAL

(a) lion (b) lane (c) talon (d) tail

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