cogat verbal analogies
Nicole Howard
Verbal Analogies Questions are a part of the Cogat Test's Verbal Battery.
A verbal analogy traces a similarity between a pair of words and another pair of words.
First, identify the relationship between the first pair of words. How do the words “aloof” and “connected” go together?
Now, look at the word “deliberate”. Which of the possible choices follows the previous rule?
- Try to identify the correlation between the first two words.
- Review all answers before you make a choice.
- Remove any word in the answers that don’t have a comparable kind of relationship.
- Also, evaluate the possible alternative meanings of the words.
Pairs of words in verbal analogies can be related in many ways:
Related Things: example: bread/butter, fork/knife
Opposites: example: wide/narrow,, laugh/cry, dark/light
Classification: example: yellow/color, dog/mammal
Object and Group: example: bird/flock, cow/herd
Object and related Object: example: butterfly/caterpillar, dog/puppy
Characteristic: example: sun/yellow, desert/dry
Location: example: car/garage, lion/zoo
Part of the Whole: example: mouth/face, year/month
Function: example: knife/cut, shovel/dig
Performer and Action: example: fish/swim, bird/fly
Verb Tenses: example: win/won, buy/bought
Cause and Effect: example: water/wet, fire/burn
Solution example: hungry/eat, tired/sleep
Tips for parents
Use concrete objects. Have your child tell how they are similar and different.
Draw pairs of objects having analogies and discuss with your child about the characteristics of these objects and how they can be related to each other.
Stimulate your child to create and draw pictures of their own analogies on a piece of paper. This will be a fun and surprising activity.
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