EK 101 Verbal pg. 9 #25

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In the EK 101 Verbal book - pg. 9 #25, I've seen many questions like these...It's always been hard for me to judge these questions with choices of

A. Increase probability
B. Decrease probability
C. ...
D. Reveals nothing about probability...

The reasoning for this question is that the underlying example is very different from the passage example (telephone rates largely increase instead of healthcare spending slightly different). Thus this question (#25) reveals nothing.

Any strategies/suggestions on how to approach this type of question? Would it have been easier to have arrived by elimination? Or would it have been safe to have arrived by directly seeing the weak connection between the telephone example and the healthcare example?

 

[scotties123]

In the EK 101 Verbal book - pg. 9 #25, I've seen many questions like these...It's always been hard for me to judge these questions with choices of

A. Increase probability
B. Decrease probability
C. ...
D. Reveals nothing about probability...

The reasoning for this question is that the underlying example is very different from the passage example (telephone rates largely increase instead of healthcare spending slightly different). Thus this question (#25) reveals nothing.

Any strategies/suggestions on how to approach this type of question? Would it have been easier to have arrived by elimination? Or would it have been safe to have arrived by directly seeing the weak connection between the telephone example and the healthcare example?

i think it's important to keep in mind that EK verbal is odd at times. They like to pick extremes as answers, which aamc basically never does, and they also like to use very ambiguous "wtf" answers, and sometimes some very detailed answers. Im using EK101 right now too, just got it a couple weeks ago. I was worried about my EK grades at first, but after doing them in conjunction with AAMC and TPR, i know that EK is just good as practice. I basically just use EK now to get some kind of verbal practice in, but i wouldnt worry too much about it. Just make sure when u check the solutions, if its one of those "wtf" answers just forget about it, otherwise see why u got it wrong. maybe the question type is what you have trouble with.

 

[roycer]

Do you all find EK VR 101 easier than the AAMC practice exam VR's?

 

[corbis11]

Do you all find EK VR 101 easier than the AAMC practice exam VR's?

I kid you not, I continually score 4-6 on verbal each time from the EK book, while I have scored 10's on AAMC practice exam 3R and 7.

 

[scotties123]

i started at 8s on EK, now i get 10s, and i score 11-12 on aamc.

 

[roycer]

Thus, EK 101 VR is good practice, but I should expect to achieve slightly higher scores on AAMC practice exams?