Lessons · Verbal Reasoning
CLT Verbal Reasoning · Lesson
Analogy
Analogy questions ask which situation is most like one in the passage. You must match the structure of the relationship, not the topic.
- Describe the passage's situation in plain, general words: "someone destroys the thing that was trying to help him."
- Strip out the topic (horses, bees, politics). Keep only the relationship.
- Find the choice with the same relationship, even if the topic is completely different.
Q. Socrates compares himself to a gadfly that stings a sluggish horse awake. Which is most similar?
Answer A coach who keeps pushing a talented but lazy team, though the players resent it.
The structure: a small, annoying figure keeps a large, slow one from settling into laziness. The topic does not matter.
- A choice with the same topic as the passage (another insect, another horse) is usually wrong.
- Check every part of the relationship. A choice that matches half is still wrong.
Every practice question comes with a full explanation, including why each wrong choice is wrong. Free, with no account.