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Re: FREE sample CAT
by Abhijit on Sep 09, 2006 03:53 AM

I went through this free sample CAT test. As a MENSA member I found that the paper-setter suffers from some of the same flaws as ordinary human beings do. One of the flaws that ordinary humans display while analyzing logical situations is that when faced with some missing information they tend to make assumptions and "manufacture" information that is actually not there to fill up the missing links in the puzzle. This paper-setter has also displayed the same flaw. For instance, Q.No. 7 in LRDI section. The question talks about 4 players but names only 3 - A,C,D. Nowhere does in say that the 4th player is named B, but the answer assumes that the 4th player's name is B. This is typical fallacy which we MENSA people have seen in ordinary people. Just because ABCD are 4 consecutive letters in the alphabet and the 3 named players are A,C,D doesn't necessarily mean that the 4th player has to be named B! even though the question doesn't mention it.
Another flaw is in Q.No. 6 of LRDI. The question specifically mentions that Q has only one "child", it does not say whether it is a son/daughter nor can this be inferred from any of the statements but the answer assumes that it's a daughter!

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