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By Million Abebe (Masters in English and B. Ed. Degree in Pedagogy)
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Welcome to Yes Smart Education >> G-12 Entrance+
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Instructions: The next questions deal with logical and analytical reasoning. Read the given set of conditions and assumptions for each question. Choose the answer that you think is most appropriate among the given options and blacken the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet provided.
Challenge-1
1. Argument: Recently, cellular phone use has become a nationwide epidemic. A new study confirms that this epidemic might not be such a positive one. The study found that drivers who talk on their cellular phones while driving perform 30% worse as drivers than drunk drivers do. Many have proposed using a hands-free cellular phone to solve this problem of dangerous driving. However, researchers discovered that even hands-free cellular phones distract drivers.
The author probably believes that: (G-12: Entrance: 2008/2016)
A. cellular phones of any kind should never be used while driving.
B. cellular phone use is not dangerous while driving.
C. hands-free cellular phones are safe for drivers to use.
D. cellular phones are a safe alternative to drunk driving.
2. Which two statements prove that Hana is younger? (G-12: Entrance: 2012/2020)
A. Hana lives with her brother.
B. Hana is the little sister of Alemu.
C. Alemu is still a student.
D. Alemu has just turned l4.
A. B and D B. B and C C. C and D D. A and C
3. Which statements prove that "Mulualem is a lawyer"? (G-12: Entrance: 2012/2020)
A. Mulualem lives with her parents.
B. Mulualem's mother is an accountant.
C. Mulualem's sister is a lawyer.
D. Mulualem has the same job as her brother.
A. B and C
B. A and C
C. C and D
D. A and D
4. Statements: Some questions are answers. Some answers are writers. All the writers are poets.
Conclusions: ______ (G-12: Entrance: 2012/2020)
1. Some writers are answers.
2. Some poets are questions.
3. All the questions are poets.
4. Some poets are answers.
A. Only (2) and (3)
B. Only (3) and (4)
C. Only (1) and (4)
D. Only (1) and (2)
5. Statements: Some envelops are gums. Some gums are seals. Some seals are adhesives.
Conclusion: _____ (G-12: Entrance: 2012/2020)
1. Some envelopes are seals.
2. Some gums are adhesives.
3. Some adhesives are seals.
4. Some adhesives are gums.
A. Only 4 B. Only 2 C. Only 1 D. Only 3
6. Read the following three statements which are followed by four conclusions. Choose the conclusions which logically follow from the given
Statements: Crows are black. All black birds are loud. All crows are birds. Therefore, (G-12: Entrance: 2012/2020)
1. All birds are black.
2. All crows are black.
3. All birds are loud.
4. All crows are loud.
A. Only (2) and (4)
B. Only (3) and (4)
C. Only (2) and (3)
D. Only (1) and (4)
7. One of the warmest winters on record has put consumers in the mood to spend money. Spending is likely to be the strongest in thirteen years. During the month of February, sales of existing single-family homes hit an annual record rate of 4.75 million.
This paragraph best supports the statement that: (G-12: Entrance: 2014/2022)
A. During the winter months, the prices of single-family homes are the lowest.
B. Warm winter weather is likely to affect the rate of home sales.
C. Consumer spending will be higher thirteen years from now than it is today.
D. More people buy houses in the month of February than in any other month.
8. Critical reading is a demanding process. To read critically, you must slow down your reading and, with a pencil in hand, perform specific operations on the text. Mark up the text with your reactions, conclusions, and questions. When you read, become an active participant.
This paragraph best supports the statement that: (G-12: Entrance: 2014/2022)
A. Critical reading is a slow, dull, but essential process
B. Readers should get in the habit of questioning the truth of what they read.
C. The best critical reading happens at critical times in a person's life.
D. Critical reading requires thoughtful and careful attention.
9. Yonas has a paper route. Each morning, he delivers 37 newspapers to customers in his neighbourhood. It takes Yonas 50 minutes to deliver all the papers. If Yonas is sick or has other problems, his friend Kedir, who lives in the same street, will sometimes deliver the papers for him. (G-12: Entrance: 2014/2022)
A. It is dark outside when Yonas begins his deliveries.
B. Kedir would Iike to have his own paper route.
C. Yonas and Kedir live in the same neighbourhood.
D. It takes Kedir more than 50 minutes to deliver the papers.
10. Derartu is twelve years old. For three years, she has been asking her parents for a dog. Her parents have told her that they believe a dog would not be happy in an apartment, but they have given her permission to have a bird. Derartu has not yet decided what kind of bird she would like to have. (G-12: Entrance: 2014/2022)
A. Derartu and her parents live in an apartment.
B. Derartu and her parents would like to move.
C. Derartu's parents like birds better than they like dogs.
D. Derartu does not like birds.
Challenge-2
Instructions: The next questions deal with logical and analytical reasoning. Read the given set of conditions and assumptions for each question. Choose the answer that you think is most appropriate among the given options and blacken the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet provided.
1. Exams are to be conducted on four days from Monday till Thursday. The exams to be conducted are English, Mathematics, Physics and Biology. Neither English nor Physics to be conducted on Thursday. Neither Physics nor Mathematics is to be conducted on Tuesday. There are three exams conducted after Biology. Physics exam is conducted on: (G-12: Entrance: 2014/2022)
A. Thursday
B. Tuesday
C. Monday
D. Wednesday
2. The High School English Department needs to appoint chairperson, which will be based on seniority. Hawi has less seniority than Temam, but more than Bekelech. Redwan has more seniority than Hawi, but less than Temam. Temam doesn't want the job. Who will be the new English department chairperson? (G-12: Entrance: 2014/2022)
A. Redwan
B. Bekelech
C. Hawi
D. Temam
3. Frehiwot likes to let her students choose who their partners will be, however, no pair of students may work together more than seven class pernods in a row. Adem and Belay have studied together seven class periods in a row. Kiya and Africho have worked together three class periods in a row. Kiya does not want to work with Adem. Who should be assigned to work with Belay? (G-12: Entrance: 2014/2022)
A. Africho
B. Frehiwot
C. Kiya
D. Adem
Note: The next 5 questions are based the following paragraph.
The members of a multi-disciplinary team of researchers (sociologist, psychologist, lawyer, historian, and economist) are sitting in a line. One of the two persons, at the farthest ends, is the sociologist; the other one is the psychologist. The lawyer is sitting to the right of the historian. The economist is to the left of the psychologist and the historian is sitting between the sociologist and the lawyer.
4. To whose left is the lawyer sitting? (G-12: Entrance: 2004/2012)
A. Economist
B. Historian
C. Sociologist
D. Cannot be determined
5. If the psychologist and the lawyer swap their positions, so also the economist and the historian. Then who will be sitting to the left of the historian? (G-12: Entrance: 2004/2012)
A. Psychologist
B. Sociologist
C. Economist
D. Cannot be determined
6. The economist is at which place counting from the right? (G-12: Entrance: 2004/2012)
A. First
B. Second
C. Third
D. Cannot be determined
7. Which member of the research team is sitting to the left of the historian? (G-12: Entrance: 2004/2012)
A. Economist
B. Lawyer
C. Sociologist
D. Cannot be determined
8. Which member of the research team is sitting in the middle? (G-12: Entrance: 2004/2012)
A. Psychologist
B. Historian
C. Economist
D. Lawyer
9. Which of the following is the best claim for banning firearms? (G-12: Entrance: 2003)
A. The root causes of violence lie deep in the nature of society.
B. The nation with the lowest crime rate has a stringent antigun law.
C. Many accidents occur in legal hunting.
D. With fewer guns there would be fewer shootings.
10. Which of the following is the best argument against gun registration? (G-12: Entrance: 2003)
A. It would be difficult to enforce.
B. Murderers would ignore gun control legislation.
C. It is a violation of rights granted in the constitution.
D. Most murders occur between individuals who were acquainted with each other before the shooting.
Challenge-3
Instructions: The next questions deal with logical and analytical reasoning. Read the given set of conditions and assumptions for each question. Choose the answer that you think is most appropriate among the given options and blacken the letter of your choice on the separate answer sheet provided.
1. A program instituted in a particular country allows parents to prepay their children's future college tuition at current rates. The program then pays the tuition annually for the child at any of the state's public colleges in which the child enrolls. Parents should participate in the program as a means of decreasing the cost for their children's college education.
Which of the following, if true, is the most appropriate reason for parents NOT to participate in the program? (G-12: Entrance: 2003)
A. The prepayment plan would not cover the cost of room and board at any of the country's public colleges.
B. The annual cost of tuition at the country's public colleges is expected to increase at a faster rate than the annual increase in the cost of living.
C. The amount of money accumulated by putting the prepayment funds in an interest-bearing account today will be greater than the total cost of tuition for any of the public colleges when the child enrolls.
D. Some of the country's public colleges are contemplating large increases in tuition next year.
2. A drug that is highly effective in treating many types of infection can, at present, be obtained only from the bark of the ibora, a tree that is quite rare in the wild. It takes the bark of 4,500 trees to make one kilogram of the drug. It follows, therefore, that continued production of the drug must inevitably lead to the ibora's extinction.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above? (G-12: Entrance: 2003)
A. The drug made from ibora bark is expensive to produce.
B. The ibora generally grows in largely inaccessible places.
C. The ibora can be propagated from cuttings and grown under cultivation.
D. The drug made from ibora bark is dispensed to doctors from a central authority
3. Sales of telephones have increased dramatically over the last 5 years. In order to take advantage of this increase, Nokia Company plans to expand production of its own model of telephone, while continuing its already very extensive advertising of this product.
Which of the following, if true, provides most support for the view that Nokia Company CANNOT increase its sales of telephones by adopting the plan outlined above? (G-12: Entrance: 2003)
A. Despite a slight decline in the retail price, sales of Nokia Company's telephones have fallen in the last year.
B. Although it sells all of the telephones that it produces, Nokia Company's share of all telephone sales has declined over the last year.
C. Nokia Company's telephone is one of the four brands of telephone that has together accounted for the bulk of the last year's increase in sales.
D. Advertising has made the brand name of Nokia Company's telephones widely known, but few consumers know that Nokia Company owns this brand.
4. There has been a significant expansion of the public higher education system in Ethiopia; this trend needs to continue but with a new focus on quality rather than more quantity.
Which of the following would support the above statement? (G-12: Entrance: 2003)
A. Provision of quality education is worth more than building and expanding higher institutions.
B. The trend in higher education is more on quality than quantity.
C. Provision of quality education in higher institution should go side by side with quantity.
D. Quality at the expense of quantity is the trend in the higher education system.
5. If Tesema is the head of the Department, then he is the member of the Academic Commission. This statement can be logically deduced from which of the following statements? (G-12: Entrance: 2003)
A. All members of the Academic Commission are members of the Department Heads.
B. Tesema is either a Department Head or on the Academic Commission.
C. Everyone who is a Department Head is also on the Academic Commission.
D. Some members of the Central Committee are on the Academic Commission.
6. Which of the following can be rearranged into a common English word? (G-12: Entrance: 2017/2025)
A. PYRIO
B. GOFAT
C. SINI
D. PASEH
7. If two days after tomorrow is Saturday, what day is today? (G-12: Entrance: 2017/2025)
A. Friday
B. Sunday
C. Saturday
D. Monday
8. How many months have a twenty-eighth day? (G-12: Entrance: 2017/2025)
A. seven months
B. one month
C. twelve months
D. two months
9. Aki is Bali’s sister. Yaya is Bali’s mother. Lema is Yaya’s father. Gette is Lema’s mother. Then how is Aki related to Lema? (G-12: Entrance: 2017/2025)
A. daughter
B. grandson
C. granddaughter
D. grandmother
10. Gad is older than Dan and Dan is older than Betti. With Senni being older than Dan and younger than Gad, who is the youngest? (G-12: Entrance: 2017/2025)
A. Betti
B. Gad
C. Senni
D. Dan