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GrimFaire,

You are not alone. These items are subjective in nature. Whilst I can do well on objective parts of tests, these subjective areas require me to think as did the writer. I cannot do that. I think like me.

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hang on.. i remember doing those little tests in junior school

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The trick to these things is to realize that the people who write them are not very smart. The answer is always something that is simple. If you come up with a more complicated answer, it is probably wrong. If they want to make it tricky, they will have it so that the simple, obvious thing does not quite work out. Most puzzles, brain teasers, and pattern tests have neat answers. If your answer does not seem simple and neat (and if you are too smart this can happen easily), look for another one.

For the doctor/hospital one, "A is in B," although a very simple relationship, does not work, because it is true for all answers. For another question, the relationship could be "A is in B," if it works for only one answer.

Just a thought, but I bet visual thinkers do better on those type of tests.... The mental pictures just kind of.... flow into one another. Don't know any other way to describe it.

But its testing your ability to recognize relationships between things, not your knowledge of them. Think of the question using knowledge that a first grader would know. (Doesn't always work on the word problems.) Insects and mammals are something that everyone would know, without even looking that hard, just a generalization. Predators, hair, stripes, location, even wings(which gives the same answer), are looking too specificly.

But how are we to know this without a frame of reference? It's like asking a question to compute the volume of an object in motion and you know advanced calculus so can determine the exact volume of the system but they actually expect you to choose a less correct answer because not everyone knows Calculus. It's this whole insane herd mentality that NTs have. Play to the least common denominator.

They've actually done studies proving how stupid people are. Put 5 people in a room, 4 are in on the test, the 5th is the test subject. Give them a multiple choice question with an obviously correct answer and 3 obviously incorrect ones (say compare length of a line). Have the first 4 go up and all pick the same wrong answer; the 5th person will go up and pick that same wrong answer.

Just because it's an easy or common answer doesn't make it the correct one.

That is exactly what I was talking about. If you are not clever enough to figure out what the least common denominator is, then you have to face the fact that you are not good at this type of test. Cheer up, you are probably good at something else.

Most people know zebras don't fly, I would assume.

To jump in with my two-pen'orth:

Which is the odd one out: pea, sap, paper, ape.

I find these things tedious and annoying. Although the people setting the tests do try hard, they never seem able to step back and review what they have done.

To my mind, the answer to the above is "pea" - and I'll explain my logic later, if no one else does.