GRE · Verbalability · Reading — Spot the Inference Trap

Exercise and reference answers

Questions

1. Statement parts

   1. The
   2. passage
   3. says
   4. 'most
   5. frogs
   6. are
   7. green'
   8. so
   9. ALL
   10. frogs
   11. are
   12. green
   13. .

   Correction

   (overstatement — 'most' ≠ 'all')

   Incorrect part

   ALL

2. Statement parts

   1. The
   2. author
   3. mentions
   4. India
   5. so
   6. the
   7. author
   8. is
   9. Indian
   10. .

   Correction

   (no evidence — assumption beyond text)

   Incorrect part

   Indian

3. Statement parts

   1. Two
   2. scientists
   3. disagree;
   4. therefore
   5. one
   6. is
   7. clearly
   8. lying
   9. .

   Correction

   (disagreement ≠ lying)

   Incorrect part

   lying

4. Statement parts

   1. The
   2. study
   3. is
   4. correlational,
   5. so
   6. X
   7. causes
   8. Y
   9. .

   Correction

   (correlation ≠ causation)

   Incorrect part

   Y

Instructions

Tap the bad inferential leap in each statement.