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I always miss the easy ones...

Anyways, here's the first analogy of the section:

SWIM:WATER
A. eliminated
B. soar:air
C. eliminated
D. eliminated
E. hike:trail

Can someone explain to me why one works and not the other? They both seem to work...I'll post the answer later but you'll all prolly get it right anyways.

By Encomium (Encomium) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 01:35 am: Edit

you swim in water, you soar in air you don't hike in a trail you hike on a trail...like water physically surrounds you while you swim and air physically surrounds you when you soar

By Jason817 (Jason817) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 01:38 am: Edit

ok that makes sense. Thanks.

By Joel_Set (Joel_Set) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 02:19 am: Edit

lol was this actually counted as an "easy" analogy? i can see how you got confused..

By Jason817 (Jason817) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 02:29 am: Edit

heh, yeah it was the first analogy of the verbal section of January 1999 so it must be a lvl 1 question

By Apg (Apg) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 08:32 am: Edit

This is a bad item. I usually get all of the analogies right, but I was drawn to hike:trail. Why? People have control over swimming and hiking, but not "soaring" in the air.

By Jason817 (Jason817) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 10:53 am: Edit

yeah that's what screwed me.

By Xiggi (Xiggi) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 11:11 am: Edit

One thought .... Nothing says that HUMANS/PEOPLE have to be the subjects of the actions.

A shark swims in the water by ... moving his fins
A bird soars in the air by ... moving his wings.

By Apg (Apg) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 11:47 am: Edit

Fair, but this doesn't seem like it should be a question # 1. I'm suprised that it didn't screw with the biserial correlation.

By Number9 (Number9) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 01:00 pm: Edit

I found I usually make the stupidest mistakes on these easy ones like this...

blegh.

By Xiggi (Xiggi) on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 01:08 pm: Edit

If the analogy is in the beginning of the section (1-2), it helps to "dumb" it down. The worst thing to do is to "over" think it. I am pretty sure that younger test takers would not find this question difficult