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TEST FORMAT
Verbal Reasoning
The Verbal Reasoning subtest assesses your ability to read and think carefully about information presented in passages and to determine whether specific conclusions can be drawn from information presented.
Verbal Reasoning Items
You will be presented with eleven passages of text, each associated with four items (questions).
Some items assess critical reasoning skills, requiring candidates to make inferences and draw conclusions from information. You will need to read the passage of text carefully. You will then be presented with items
which comprise a stem, which might be an incomplete statement or a question, with four response options. The candidate is required
to pick the best or most suitable response. Candidates will only be able to select one response.
For other test items, your task is to read each passage of text carefully and then decide whether the statement provided follows logically from the information in the passage. In each case you can choose True, False or Can’t Tell.
Time
Items
22 minutes
(one minute for instruction and 21 minutes for items)
44 items associated with 11 reading passages
Why Verbal Reasoning?
Doctors and dentists need excellent verbal reasoning skills in many aspects of their work. An ability to understand complex information and communicate this clearly and simply
to patients is obviously essential. Medical practitioners must also be able to interpret findings from published materials and apply this to their own practice. It is also essential they are able to critique such materials and draw their own conclusion as to the validity of any findings.
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