GENERAL DIRECTIONS
For each of the next nine questions select the best answer. This is the answer that most accurately and completely answers the question.
Analytical Reasoning
Tip: The best answer in analytical reasoning will be objectively correct. Try to answer this set of questions in
nine minutes.
On Saturday, Sunday, and Monday of every Victoria Day weekend, a small charter plane company uses each
of its three planes, plane 1, plane 2, and plane 3, for separate all-day trips. They flying assignments for
Victoria Day weekends are distributed among four pilots, K, L, M, and N, in accordance with the following
restrictions:
K does not fly plane 2.
M flies plane 3 only.
N must not be given more flying assignments than L on any Victoria Day weekend.
Each of the pilots must be given at least one flying assignment on a Victoria Day weekend.
1.If on a particular Victoria Day weekend N's only assignment is to fly plane 3 on Saturday, all of the
following must be true EXCEPT
(A) K is assigned to fly plane 1 on Sunday.
(B) L is assigned to fly plane 2 on Monday.
(C) plane 1 has the same pilot throughout the weekend.
(D) plane 2 has two different pilots in the course of the weekend.
(E) The flying assignments for Sunday and for Monday are identical.
2. Which of the following must be true of L's flying assignment for any Victoria Day weekend?
(A) L flies plane 1 only once, if at all.
(B) L does not fly plane 3.
(C) L is given at least two flying assignments.
(D) L flies on all the days that M flies.
(E) L flies on all of the days that N flies.
3. If on a particular Victoria Day weekend N's entire flying assignment is to fly plane 1 on Saturday and
again on Monday, which of the following must be among the flying assignments for that weekend?
(A) M flies plane 3 on Saturday.
(B) M flies plane 3 on Sunday.
(C) K flies plane 3 on Monday.
(D) L flies plane 1 on Sunday.
(E) L flies plane 3 on Monday.
4.If K and M are given an equal number of flying assignments for a particular Victoria Day weekend, which
of the following could also be true of that weekend's flying assignments?
(A) K and L have an equal number of flying assignments.
(B) L and N have an equal number of flying assignments.
(C) M and N have an equal number of flying assignments.
(D) K's assignments are all for different days than M's assignments.
(E) L's assignments are all for the same days as N's assignments.
5.If N is assigned to fly a different plane on each of the three days of a particular Victoria Day weekend,
which of the following could be true of that weekend?
(A) On one of the three days, K flies plane 3.
(B) On one of the three days, K and M both fly a plane.
(C) On one of the three days, L flies none of the planes.
(D) K and M have an equal number of flying assignments.
(E) M and N have an equal number of flying assignments.
Reading Comprehension
Tip: The "best answer" in reading comprehension is usually not objectively correct. Since more than one
choice could conceivably answer the question it is essential that you read every word of every choice before
selecting an answer!
In an economic community, there is a separation between those who prefer a secure though modest return --
that is to say, a mere livelihood -- and those who play for big stakes and are willing to assume risk in
proportion. The first compose the great bulk of manual workers of every description ... while the latter are,
of course, the entrepreneurs and the big business men. The limited or unlimited purpose is, in either case, the
product of a simple survey of accessible economic opportunity and of a psychic self-appraisal. The manual
worker is convinced by experience that he is living in a world of limited opportunity. He sees, to be sure,
how others - for instance - businessmen are finding the same world a store-house of apparently unlimited
opportunity. Yet he decisively discounts that, so far as he is himself concerned. The businessman, on the
contrary, is an eternal optimist. To him the world is brimful of opportunities that are only waiting to be made
his own.
The economic pessimism of the manual group is at the bottom of its characteristic manner of adjusting the
relation of the individual to the whole group. It prompts also the attitude of exclusion which manual groups
assume towards those regarded as "outsiders." Again the manualist's psychology can best be brought out by
contrast with that of the fully developed business man. Basically the business man is an economic
individualist, a competitor par excellence. If opportunity is plentiful, if the enterprising person can create his
own opportunity, what sane object can there be in collectively controlling the extent of the individual's
appropriation of opportunity, or in drastically excluding those from other localities? Nor will this type of
individual submit to group control, for he is confident of his ability to make good bargains for himself. If, on
the contrary, opportunity is believed to be limited, as in the experience of the manual worker, it then
becomes the duty of the group to prevent the individual from appropriating more than his rightful share,
while at the same time protecting him against oppressive bargains. The group then asserts its collective
ownership over the whole amount of opportunity, and, having determined who are entitled to claim a share
in that opportunity, undertakes to parcel it out fairly, directly or indirectly, among its recognized members,
permitting them to avail themselves of such opportunities, job or market, only on the basis of a "common
rule." Free competition becomes a sin against one's fellows, anti-social, like a self-indulgent consumption of
the stores of a beleaguered city, and obviously detrimental to the individual as well. A collective disposal of
opportunity, including the power to keep out undesirables, and a "common rule" in making bargains are as
natural to the manual group as laissez-fair is to the business man.
6. The most appropriate title for this passage is:
(A) Are Unions Effective for Their Members?
(B) Is Opportunity Limited for the Entrepreneur?
(C) A Theory of the Labor Movement
(D) The Eternal Conflict Between Manual Workers and Entrepreneurs
(E) How Manual Workers Can Reap the Rewards Earned by Entrepreneurs
7. The author of the passage would most agree with which of the following statements?
(A) Manual workers have less ability than entrepreneurs.
(B) The major determinant of whether one is an entrepreneur is mental attitude
(C) Entrepreneurs always make good business deals.
(D) Laissez-faire is natural to the manual worker.
(E) Manual workers who are excluded from unions suffer from this exclusion.
Logical Reasoning
Tip: The "best answer" is rarely objectively correct. Since more than one choice could conceivably answer the question it imperative that you don't select an answer until you have read every word of every choice!
Questions 8 and 9
What do I say about James Morton running for the U.S. Senate? In order for a U.S. Senator to be effective he must be smart. Morton plays professional basketball for the Syracuse Bears. The result of the ETS Professional Basketball Potential Examination (PBPE) indicates that the average I.Q. of pro basketball players is well below that of the national average. A follow-up study has indicated that the Bears are no exception to this: i.e. there is no significant difference between the average I.Q. of an Syracuse Bear and the average I.Q. of a player on any other team. Clearly the Bears are as stupid as all the rest of the players, and since Morton is a Bear, he is just as stupid as all of the other players, just plain stupid.
8. Which of the following most closely parallels the reasoning used by the author to show that Morton is stupid?
(A) Russian threats are no news. Therefore, Russian threats are good news since no news is good news.
(B) To press forward with a properly ordered wage structure in each industry is the first condition for curbing competitive bargaining; but there is no reason why the process should stop there.
(C) Since every third child born in New York is a Catholic, Protestant families living there should have no more than two children.
(D) It is necessary to confine animals and lock up dangerous lunatics. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with depriving people of their liberties.
(E) Narcotics are habit forming. Therefore if you allow your physician to ease your pain with an opiate you will become a hopeless drug addict.
9. Which of the following, if true would most weaken the author's claim?
(A) Many members of the House of Representatives have had low I.Q.'s and have been effective members of the house.
(B) Pro basketball players have low I.Q.'s as a result of years of playing basketball which has the effect of lowering I.Q.'s.
(C) Without Morton on their team the I.Q. of the Bears would be lower than that of the rest of the league.
(D) Morton was a Rhodes Scholar and all Senators who have been Rhodes Scholars have been effective.
(E) The average I.Q. of a U.S. Senator is lower than the average I.Q. of a pro basketball player.
Answers: 1. D 2. C 3. B 4. C 5. A 6. C 7. B 8. E 9. D
