Qualifying Exam: Verbal Section

The verbal section of the ATS Qualifying Exam tests students' knowledge of the meaning of words and their ability to identify relationships between a pair of words. Students will be asked to find the pair of words that go together in the same way as the first two words.

Example

album : photographs : :

a) meeting : agendas
b) checkbook : money
c) board : directors
d) scrapbook : clippings

Solution

To solve these types of questions, begin by putting the primary pair of words into a sentence which explains their relationship ("You save photographs in an album.") Next, substitute the answer choices into your sentence.

a) You save agendas in a meeting.	No
b) You save money in a checkbook.	No
c) You save directors in a board.	No
d) You save clippings in a scrapbook.	YES!

The correct answer is D. Album is related to photographs in the same way that scrapbook is related to clippings.