CAT Prep 2014: Mastering Analogies in Verbal Ability
By Barkha Sethi
We often come across combination of words such as Body - Hand and Automobile - Wheel or say Eyes - See and Fingers – Feel. There are many more similar examples.
Look at the above examples carefully. This is not just a combination of words. There’s a relationship between the words. For instance, hand is a part of the human body and wheel is a part of an automobile. Similarly, the function of eyes is to see and that of fingers is to feel.
This relationship between two words is called Analogy. In other words, when you associate information or meaning in certain word (subject) to another word (subject), it is called analogy.
Various management entrance tests, such as CAT, MAT, CMAT, SNAP and many more tests the candidate’s knowledge of analogies. Since, analogy refers to relationship between two things, based on our knowledge we have to find another set of words possessing the same relationship.
It is fun to solve questions based on analogies but it is not always easy to solve them. Thus, it is important that one should understand the concept of analogies and tricks to solve them in CAT 2014. To adopt an easy method while solving problems in the paper, try to relate words on the basis of various factors such as function, degree, characteristic, type or kind.
For example: If knife cuts, then ruler ________?
In the above question, the knife’s function is to cut has been brought forward. So, the second part, we have to present the function of the ruler. The answer here is ruler measures.
To help you understand the concept of analogies and crack such questions for CAT 2014 exam, Shiksha.com brings five videos which will twist and mould your mind into the world of analogies. Watch these tutorials to find out shortcuts to solve such questions:
1. To start with the concept of analogies, we need to understand the basics of this topic. So here is the video to make you understand the meaning of the word ‘Analogy’ with examples.
2. Now once you are clear with the concept, solve the questions in this videos. The video contains few good problems with solutions and explanations for answers so to give an idea of what is the criteria for choosing it.
3. Knowing the relationship between the words solves half of the questions. Rest all depends on your prior knowledge. Practice as much as you can so to get aware of all types of questions in analogies. Here’s one with a little higher difficulty level with this video.
4. The video given below contains the trick sand shortcuts one must opt to solve analogies based questions in CAT exam so to save the time as well as solve it correctly. You can’t miss this video. Must watch this video while preparing for CAT or other MBA exams.
5. A final video to check your level of understanding and the way you learnt to apply the tricks. The video contains variety of questions of higher level meant for CAT or other MBA exams. Again, try solving it first by yourself and then check the answer.
Hope the videos really help you master the concept of analogies and score good in exam.
Good Luck!
