MCAT: CARS

Based on the passage information, the attitude of most geographers towards current environmental policy is most logically similar to which of the following?

Question Type: Application Analogy Translation: Which of the following is most logically similar to the attitude described in the passage?

Which of the following criticisms of educational reform is most like the criticism of proposed reforms to the political system described in the second paragraph?

Question Type: Application Analogy Translation: Which of the following is most logically similar to the criticism described in the passage?

Which of the following concepts is most analogous to the idea of the other?

Question Type: Application Analogy Translation: Which of the following is most logically similar to the idea as it is described in the passage?

The relationship between psychology and sociology, as described in the passage is most similar to which of the following?

Question Type: Application Analogy Translation: Which of the following is most logically similar to the relationship described in the passage?

Suppose that a business school added courses dealing with business ethics to its curriculum. How would the author be most likely to react?

Question Type: Application New Information Translation: Which of the following best describes how the author would feel about this, based on information provided in the passage?

Suppose that the nations with stronger economies are more likely to enter into international conflict, According to the author's reasoning, this suggests that:

Question Type: Application New Information Translation: Which of the following best represents how the author, based only on passage information, would be most likely to explain this phenomenon?

Sociologists have shown that institutions play a significant role in determining individual actions. Passage information suggests that one reason is:

Question Type: Application New Information Translation:Which of the following best represents how the author, based only on passage information, would be most likely to explain?

Recent research shows that banks play a lesser role than many historians have claimed. Which passage assertion does this information strongly support?

Question Type: Application New Information/ Strengthen Translation: Which of the author's claims made in the passage is most strengthened by this new information?

Suppose that it was shown that the actions of environmental interest groups have little impact on national policy. This information would undermine the author's thesis by showing that:

Question Type: Application New Information/ Weaken Translation: How would the author's argument in the passage be weakened by this new information?

Which of the following facts, if taken as true, most strengthens the author's argument regarding Monet and the Impressionist movement?

Question Type: Application Strengthen Translation: What new piece of information, taken as a true statement goes the furthest to support the author's argument?

Which of the following statements about the relationship between price and access to medical care would most support the author's claim regarding free clinics?

Question Type: Application Strengthen Translation: What new piece of information, taken as a true statement, goes furthest to support the author's argument about free clinics?

Which of the following hypothetical findings would provide the strongest support for the author's view of Keats's poetry?

Question Type: Application Strengthen Translation: What new piece of information, taken as a true statement, goes furthest to support the author's claims?

Which of the following assumptions, if shown to be valid, would most strengthen the author's main thesis in the passage?

Question Type: Application Strengthen Translation: What new piece of information, taken as a true statement, goes the furthest to support the author's central claim in the passage?

Which of the following, if assumed to be true, would provide the best evidence to support the author's conclusion about the economic role of slavery in the American South?

Question Type: Application Strengthen Translation: What new piece of information, taken as a true statement, goes the furthest to support the author's claim?

All of the following research findings would strengthen the author's argument in the passage EXCEPT:

Question Type: Application Strengthen Translation: What new piece of information, taken as a true statement, would not strengthen the author's argument in the passage?

Which of the following statements, if valid, would call into question the author's characterization of the Peruvian military during the cold war?

Question Type: Application Weaken Translation: Which statement, taken as true, goes furthest to indicate that the author has incorrectly described the nature of mentioned event?

Which of the following statements about the origins of modern dance, if true , would most weaken the author's hypothesis?

Question Type: Application Weaken Translation: Which statement, taken as true, goes the furthest to indicate that the author's hypothesis as presented in the passage is false?

Which of the following hypothetical outcomes would present the strongest challenge to the author's claims about the practical value of abstract ethical codes?

Question Type: Application Weaken Translation: Which statement, taken as true, goes the furthest to indicate the author's claims are false?

Which of the following facts most undermines the author's claim that neighborhood health clinics are ineffective?

Question Type: Application Weaken Translation: Which statement, taken as true, goes the furthest to indicate this?

All of the following facts would cast doubt on the author's claim that martial law should only be employed in times of war EXCEPT:

Question Type: Application Weaken Translation: Which statement, taken as true, is most consistent with the author's claim?

The primary message of the passage is that local politicians should do which of the following?

Question Type: General Main Idea Translation: Which of the following best represents the central point of the passage as a whole?

Which of the following best represents the author's central argument in the passage?

Question Type: General Main Idea Translation: Which of the following best represents the central point of the passage as a whole?

The author's main purpose in writing the passage is most likely to:

Question Type: General Primary Purpose Translation: Which of the following best describes the central purpose of the passage as a whole?

The author's attitude in the passage can best be described as:

Question Type: General Tone/ Attitude Translation: Which choice best describes the author's tone or attitude in the passage as a whole and, if the tone is positive or negative, the strength of that tone or attitude?

How well supported is the author's assertion that past experiences substantially influence current perceptions?

Question Type: Reasoning Evaluate Translation: How and how well does the author support the claim that what a person experienced in the past affects how a person sees things in the present?

Which of the following is a claim supported by convincing evidence in the passage?

Question Type: Reasoning Evaluate Translation: Which of the following claims is both made by the author and supported by strong evidence in the passage?

Which of the following claims made in the passage is LEAST supported by valid evidence?

Question Type: Reasoning Evaluate Translation: Which of the following claims made by the author has no supporting evidence or weak/questionable supporting evidence?

According to the passage, social status plays a major role in income. What evidence is provided to support this statement?

Question Type: Reasoning Structure Translation: Which of the following statements is made in the passage in direct support of the claim?

What is the author's most likely purpose in discussing psychological experimentation?

Question Type: Reasoning Structure Translation: Which statement best describes, in the context of the passage, why the author discusses this?

The author provides statistical data showing voting trends in the 1990s in order to:

Question Type: Reasoning Structure Translation: Which statement best represents why, in the context of the passage, the author provides statistical data regarding the data

The author quotes the poet Rimbaud in order to:

Question Type: Reasoning Structure Translation: Which statement best represents, in the context of the passage why the author does this?

Why does the author state that formalist criticism is less popular today than in the past?

Question Type: Reasoning Structure Translation: Which statement best represents, in the context of the passage, the purpose of the author's statement?

Which of the following claims is most believable based only on assertions made in the passage?

Question Type: Specific Inference Translation: Which Statement is best supported by information provided in the passage?

The term "surrealist perspective" refers to:

Question Type: Specific Inference Translation: Which of the following statements is most consistent with the author's description In the passage of this term?

The author's analysis of the aftermath of WW2 depends on the assumption that international treaties should be:

Question Type: Specific Inference Translation: Which statement is both relevant to the author's discussion of this and best supported by the passage?

The author indicates all of the following EXCEPT:

Question Type: Specific Inference Translation: Which statement is least supported by information provided in the passage?

Passage information does NOT suggest an answer to which of the following questions?

Question Type: Specific Inference Translation: Which question would be the most difficult to answer based only on information provided in the passage?

The author suggests which of the following to be the driving force behind social change?

Question Type: Specific Interference Translation: Which statement is best supported by the passage?

According to the passage, Malthus described which of the following to be a result of increasing population?

Question Type: Specific Retrieval Translation: Based only on the passage what did the author claim?

The author states that while self-preservation may be the first concern of individual human beings, the first concern of any system of justice must be:

Question Type: Specific Retrieval Translation: What does the author state should be the first concern of all justice systems?

What was one goal Dr. Minor had in submitting definitions to the Oxford English Dictionary?

Question Type: Specific Retrieval Translation: Which of the choices comes the closest to being stated by the author?

The author states that the J-curve theory indicates that:

Question Type: Specific Retrieval Translation: Which of the following is explicitly stated by the author?

As described by the author, Foucault's description of modern forms of punishment explicitly includes which of the following assertions?

Question Type: Specific Retrieval Translation: Which of the following, based only on passage information, either restates or is a close paraphrase of the claim made by the author?

Which of the following assertions is NOT made in the passage?

Question Type: Specific Retrieval Translation: Which of the following claims or statements is not made by the author in the passage?

The author's apparent attitude towards post-modernist literacy criticism is:

Question Type: Tone/Attitude Translation: Which choice best describes the author's tone or attitude regarding post-modernist literary criticism and, if the attitude is positive or negative, the strength of that tone or attitude?