Lessons · Verbal Reasoning
CLT Verbal Reasoning · Lesson
Data and the text
Every CLT reading section has a science passage with a table or graph. These questions ask what the figure shows, or which claim in the passage the figure supports.
- Read the title, the column headings and the units before the numbers.
- Say the pattern in plain words: "as cats go up, field-mice go down."
- Find the sentence in the passage that makes the same claim. The answer must agree with both the figure and the text.
Q. A table shows a plain candle in still air losing 0.2 g of wax and one in a draft losing 2.6 g. Which claim does it support?
Answer A draft makes a candle run down its side.
The only thing that changed was the draft, and the wax lost went up a lot. A claim about the shape of the candle is not tested by these two rows.
- A choice that is true by the passage but not shown in the figure (or the other way round), when the question asks for both.
- Reading a pattern from two rows that differ in more than one way.
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