Critical Reasoning Practice Test Online Question Answer

Test Name	Critical Reasoning Test
Subject	Aptitude Advance
Test Type	Mcqs
Total Question	15
Total Marks	30
Total Time	15
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Critical reasoning questions test your ability to analyze logical arguments. The arguments cover a range of topics and situations which average CAT and GMAT takers would be expected to be able to understand, even if they are not very familiar with the subject area.You do need to be able to evaluate a piece of reasoning.We are going to provide you complete exercise and practice in form of Online Critical Reasoning Mock test mcqs. This quiz shall assist you to overcome your deficiencies as well as preparation for GMA, CAT and miscellaneous quizzes accordingly.There are 15 questions in number for which you have to solve and they will present instant result with you.

Critical Reasoning Practice Test Online Mcqs Exercise

Verbal Ability

1. mark review Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow ?

When astronomers observed a particular comet becoming 1,000 time brighter in September 1995, they correctly hypothesized that is increased brightness was result of the comet’s breaking up. When comets break up, they emit large amounts of gas and dust, becoming visibly brighter as a result. However, their observation did not reveal the comet actually breaking into pieces until November 1995, even though the telescopes were trained on it throughout the entire period.

Which of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent conflict in the situation above ?

The astronomers have seen such cases earlier so they were able to predict what would happen in November.

Gas and dust can be released by fissures in a comet, even if the comet is not broken all the way through.

Comets often do not emit gas and dust until several weeks after they have begun to break up.

The reason comets become brighter when they break up is that the gas and dust that they emit refract light.

The amount of gas and dust emitted steadily increased during the period from September through November.

Question 1 of 15

2. mark review Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow ?

Increased standard in hiring have not been the primary cause of the present staffing shortage in universities. The shortage of faculty is primarily caused by the fact that in recent years teachers have not experienced any improvements in working conditions and their salaries have not kept pace with salaries in other professions.

Which of the following, if true, would most support the claims above ?

Teachers do not know that they can have a better life if they opt for any other profession.

Today more teachers are entering the profession with a higher educational level than in the past.

Some teachers have cited higher standards for hiring as a reason for the current staffing shorting.

Many teachers already in the profession would not have been hired under the new hiring standards.

Many teachers have cited low pay and lack of professional freedom as reasons for their leaving the profession.

Question 2 of 15

3. mark review Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow ?

Bank depositors are all financially protected against bank failures in developed nations because the government insures all individuals’ bank deposits. An economist argues that this insurance is partly responsible for the high rate of bank that failures, since it removes from depositors any financial incentive to find out whether the bank that holds their money is secure against failure. If depositors were more selective, then banks would need to be secure in order to compete for the depositor’s money.

The economists’ argument makes which of the following assumptions ?

A significant proportion of depositors maintain accounts at several different banks.

Potential depositors are able to determine which banks are secure against failure.

Bank failures are caused when big borrowers default on loan repayments.

The more a depositor has to deposit, the more careful he or she tends to be in selecting a bank.

Depositors want their bank deposits to be insured only be govt.

Question 3 of 15

4. mark review Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow ?

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the economist’s argument ?

Surveys show that a significant proportion of depositors are aware that their deposits are insured by the government.

When the government did not insure deposits, frequent bank failures occurred as a result of depositor’s fear of losing money in bank failures.

Before the government started to insure depositors against bank failure, there was a lower rate of bank failure than there is now.

There is an upper limit on the amount of an individual’s deposit that the government will insure, but very few individuals’ deposits exceed this limit.

The banks need the government to secure the deposits for a lesser bank failure rates.

Question 4 of 15

5. mark review Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow ?

Care are safer than planes, Fifty percent of plane accidents result in death, which only one percent of car accidents result in deaths.

Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the argument above ?

Pilots never fly under the influence o alcohol, while car drivers often do.

Plane accidents are usually the fault of air traffic controllers, not pilots.

Planes are inspected more often than care.

The number of car accidents is several hundred thousand time higher than the number of plane accidents.

Care do not have as many safety equipments as planes do.

Question 5 of 15

6. mark review Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow ?

The senate candidate expressed outrage that few judges have any background in technology, yet they try to resolve cases involving high tech companies. He stated that not one federal judge has a degree or any experience in computer technology.

A promising response to this concern, arguing that things are not as bad as they might seem could involve which of the following claims ?

Most of the public policy questions in this area are really about the morality and the value of scientific and technological developments. They do not require much technical understanding beyond that of a layperson.

The rewards of a life as judge, in terms of both money and prestige, are not high enough to attract top flight technical experts to this area.

Computer scientists, by and large, have little interest in politics and public policy. It would be difficult to find scientists with the degree of commitment requires for a serious contribution to the judicial system.

A technical expert who is also a judge may not be as impartial as other judges who do not have his expertise.

There is very little opportunity for, and indeed little need for, technical expertise in the judicial branch. There is therefore almost no way for a technical specialist to rise through the ranks to a top-level position in government.

Question 6 of 15

7. mark review Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow ?

The crux of creativity resides in the ability to manufacture variations on a theme. If we look at the history of science, for instance, we see that every idea is built upon a thousand related ideas. Careful analysis leads us to understand that what we choose to call a new theme or a new discovery is itself always and without exception some sort of variation, on a deep level, of previous themes.

If all of the statements in the passage are true, each of the following must also be true EXCEPT ?

Careful analysis of a specific variation can reveal previous themes of which it is a variation.

Some new scientific discoveries do not represent, on a deep level, a variation on previous themes.

A lack of ability to manufacture a variation on a previous theme connotes a lack of creativity.

No scientific idea is entirely independent of all other ideas.

None of these.

Question 7 of 15

8. mark review Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow ?

In the dry parched area around the river, use of the river’s water supply is strictly controlled: farms along the river: each has a limited allocation that is allowed to be used for its irrigation. But the trees that grow in narrow strips along the river’s banks also use its water. Clearly, therefore, if farmers were to remove those trees, more water would be available for crop irrigation.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument ?

The trees along the river’s banks, shelter it from the sun and wind, thereby greatly reducing the amount of water lost through evaporation.

Many of the trees species currently found along the river’s banks ar specifically adapted to grown gin places where trees roots remain constantly wet.

Owners of farms along the river will probably not undertake the expense of cutting down trees along the banks unless they are granted a greater allocation of water in return.

The strip of land where trees grow along the river’s banks would not be suitable for growing crops it the trees were removed.

Replanting of these somewhere else can be quite tedious.

Question 8 of 15

9. mark review Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow ?

During the past year, Boz Corporation, a cigarette manufacturer, has engaged in a “corporate image” advertising campaign. One executive now urges that the advertising be extended for another year because profits have increased by 29% over the previous year. Another executive, however, is sceptical. She observes that the past year, although none of their competitors have used corporate image advertising.

The most accurate way of summarizing the second executive’s point would be ?

She argues that corporate image advertising is unprofitable, since it has evidently benefited competitors as much as the corporation, which paid for it.

She argues that the effect may not really be due to its supposed cause because there has not been a sufficient lapse of time between the cause and the effect.

She argues that the assignment of a cause for this effect is premature, because there is as yet no well- established theory of such interactions.

She argues that the profits could have been much higher without the cause because advertising requires lot of expenditure.

She argues that the effect may not be due to its alleged cause since the same effect id found elsewhere without that cause.

Question 9 of 15

10. mark review Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow ?

There has been a sharp increase in the subscription prices of many professional and scholarly journals in the past seven year. Many publishers ascribe the necessity for these increases to the easy availability of photocopying facilities, which enable people simply to copy the articles the want rather than buying the journal.

Which of the following if it is true, would make this explanation more plausible ?

Many libraries have recently begum cutting back on subscriptions to professional and scholarly journals.

An increase in the publication cost is expected in coming months.

In the five years immediately preceding he price surge, there was a substantial decline in the number of individual subscriptions to professional and scholarly journals, while library subscriptions remained fairly stable.

Over the past five years there has been a substantial decline in the number of individual subscriptions to professional and scholarly journals, while library subscriptions have remained fairly stable.

The great majority of professional and scholarly journals have massive backlog of papers awaiting publication.

Question 10 of 15

11. mark review Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow ?

A decade after the Kohinoor dam was built, none of the eight fish species native to the river on which the dam was built was still reproducing adequately in the river below the dam. Since the dam reduced the annual range of water temperature in the river below the dam from 50 degrees to 6 degrees, scientists have hypothesized that sharply rising water temperatures must be involved in signaling the native species to begin the reproductive, if true, would most strengthen the scientist’s hypothesis ?

The lowest recorded temperature of the river before the dam was built was 34 degrees, whereas the lowest recorded temperature of the river after the dam was built has been 43 degrees.

Before the dam was built, the river annually overflowed its banks, creating backwaters that were critical breeding areas for the native species of fish.

None of these.

None- native species of fish, introduced into the river after the dam was built, have begum competing with the declining native fish species for food and space.

The native fish species were still able to reproduce only in side streams of the river below the dam where the annual temperature range remains approx 50 degrees.

Question 11 of 15

12. mark review Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow ?

Our school district should not spend its money on the new verbal advantage reading program.After all, our students get all the reading practice they need by studying history and science.

The argument above depends on which of the following assumptions ?

Teaching students history and science is more important than teaching them reading skills.

The utility of money is higher when the money is used to teach history and science.

The verbal advantage program would help the students learn history and science.

Other reading programs are just as effective but less expensive than the verbal advantage program.

The verbal advantage program involves only reading practice.

Question 12 of 15

13. mark review Read the arguments and answer the questions that follow ?

The interview is an essential part of a successful hiring program because, with it, job applicants who have personalities that are unsuited to the job description can be safely eliminated thereby maximizing the available resources.

The argument above logically depends on which of the following assumptions ?

The interview is a more important part of a successful hiring programme than is the development of job description.

Interview can accurately identify applicants whose personalities are unsuited to the requirements of the job.

The only purpose of an interview is to evaluate whether job applicants’ personalities are suited to the requirements of the job.

A hiring program will be successful if it includes interviews.

Nothing except an interview can decide the suitability of a candidate or a job.

Question 13 of 15

14. mark review Read the arguments and answer the questions that follow ?

Advertisements: “The Highway traffic safety institute reports that the Car X has the fewest injuries per accident of any car in its class. This shows that the Car X is one of the safest cars available today.’

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument in the advertisement ?

The difference between the number of injuries per accident for the Car X and that for other cars in its class is quite pronounced.

Cars in the class to which the Car X belongs are more likely to be involved in accidents than are other types of cars.

In recent years many more Car X s have been sold than have any other kind of car in its class.

None of these.

The Highway Traffic safety institute report listed many cars in other classes that had more injuries per accident than did Car X.

Question 14 of 15

15. mark review Read the given passages and answer the questions that follow ?

As any economist knows, healthy people pose less of an economic burden to society than unhealthy people. Not surprisingly, then, every dollar our state government spends on prenatal care for undocumented immigrants will save taxpayers of this state three dollars.

Which of the following if true would best explain why the statistics cited above are not surprising ?

The government is not responsible for the health of those undocumented immigrants who do not pay taxes.

Bodies born in this state to undocumented immigrant parents are entitles to infant care benefits from the state.

Pregnant woman who do not receive prenatal care are more likely to experience health problems than other pregnant women.

State benefits for prenatal care serve to promote undocumented immigration.

The state’s taxpayers pay for prenatal care of all immigrants.

Question 15 of 15

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