New York City SHSAT 2017

STEP 4: DRAW ANY DIAGRAMS, CHARTS, OR PICTURES THAT ARE HELPFUL No diagrams, charts, or pictures are necessary here. Since you’v ...

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Logical Reasoning Question Types The Logical Reasoning questions that you’ll see on the test can take a number of different form ...

VERBAL DEDUCTION QUESTIONS Verbal Deduction questions give you between two and four carefully worded statements describing a hyp ...

SEQUENCE QUESTIONS Sequence questions test your ability to figure out the order of a set of known variables. The key to sequence ...

Now you can see that Michael has to be fourth. Even though we don’t know whether Paul crosses the finish line before or after Na ...

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Practice Set Before moving on to other question types, take some time to work on the following Verbal Deduction and Sequence pra ...

(A) The time limit has been established in order to give every member a chance to run. (B) If Bernard is not violating City Fitn ...

Questions 8 and 9 refer to the following information. The five Benton children each arrive home from school at a different time. ...

(A) Martha (B) Rene (C) Alicia (D) Jim (E) Cannot be determined from the information given. Max, Juan, Larry, Ellen, Olivia, and ...

(F) Firm B offers the most fringe benefits. (G) Firm B offers a higher salary than Firm C. (H) Firm D offers more fringe benefit ...

ODDBALL QUESTIONS The rest of the Logical Reasoning question types are less common than Verbal Deductions and Sequence Questions ...

RC + 2 = 3 Don’t stop here assuming that you’re done. The third sentence tells you, “All but three of his patients are coming fo ...

TRANSLATION QUESTIONS Translation questions test your ability to break code patterns. You’ll be given code words or letters that ...

Next, it’s time to work with the code. If you work with the code two lines at a time, you should be able to narrow down your opt ...

Since your initial work did not tell you which word was represented by R, you need to do a little more work. First identify what ...

FIND A COMMON THREAD Look for connections between statements that describe the same sets. Begin with “all” statements. Draw Venn ...

The sentence about the technicians is the tricky part. No technicians are lab assistants, but the some or all technicians may or ...

If/then questions test your understanding of cause-and-effect scenarios. You are given a statement that tells you, “If X happens ...