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Analogy questions
- [Instructor] People often say that the most difficult type of reading comprehension questions on the GMAT are analogy questions. The good news at least, I suppose, is that there aren't that many of them per test usually. So these are questions which present you with five situations for the answer choices, one of which is the most analogous to a situation in the text. So, in this video, we'll take a closer look at analogy questions and hopefully realize that they're usually not that bad. Okay, here's our passage. So a typical analogy question might be something like, which would be most likely to be studied in a similar way to the topic in the passage? Or you might see something like, which of the following experiments shows the method the author disagrees with? So the thing that these things have in common are that they're going to be situations that are outside the passage and they're not going to be stated in the passage at all, and we just have to see if they have things in…
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Reading critically4m 11s
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