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ganges:
whooaa that was tricky as!! I was stuck between A and D, wat are the medentry questions like?
Toothpaste:
--- Quote from: ganges on July 16, 2008, 07:29:43 pm ---whooaa that was tricky as!! I was stuck between A and D, wat are the medentry questions like?
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I think they're harder than the real thing.
Section 2 sample:
Questions 1 to 3
My father told me the story of how his brother died. The boy was about eight at the time and he died of what was probably a ruptured appendix. He had suffered excruciating stomach pains that left him doubled over in agony and my grandfather, moved by his son's despair, sat with him, stroking him, till it was no longer tolerable to accept the judgement of his own helplessness. He drew the child up around his shoulders like a rolled swag, his arms grasping the burden of the child's weight and pain into his bowed back. Then he trudged the cobbled lanes and stairs of the village, sobbing into the crook of his neck, till he died. He sat by the path with the child cradled in his lap, just holding him. The only intrusion was the sound of distant bleating of goats. But no human sound.
No pain or hardship, however, contaminated my family's idealised view of the island and village life. They saw themselves as people of property and substance, owners of a patchwork quilt of pocket-handkerchief sized plots - you couldn't call them fields - subdivided and subdivided, generation after generation. The truth was that their lives were built up with shards of poverty like the ordered stone walls of the island. They were peasants locked to the land, though it was mainly the women who made an existence in the olive groves and plots. The men fished at sea or exported their labour.
1
The man whose son was dying
Choose one answer.
A. Attempted to seek medical help
B. Sat with him until he died
C. Tried to find peace in what was happening
D. Comforted the boy as best he could
2
As he tells the story of the boy's death, the writer
Choose one answer.
A. Shows why life on the island was actually unendurable
B. Provides an insight into the boy's pain as he died
C. Shifts emphasis from the boy's feelings to the father's grief
D. Shows how the father was isolated and angry
3
As an adult, the writer came to realise that life on the island consisted more of
Choose one answer.
A. Despair than delight
B. Poverty than prosperity
C. Endurance than enjoyment
D. Hardship then happiness
Answers: D,C,B
ganges:
YAY got em all right!!!
Wat percentile u getting in the exams? Which 1 are u upto?
bubbles:
Hey thanks toothpick for the solutions. I don't know how you guys manage to do them!
A few more questions:
Same booklet Volume 1:
Q4.
Section 1: Q5 (I am stumped! Where do I begin with this one??)
The number of adult smokers in Australia has dropped markedly over the past few decades. While one thrid of the population smoked in 1985, by 1995 the number had shrunk to one quarter. Particularly significant is the drop in numbers for male smokers: down from 72% in 1945 to 27% in 1995. However, the proportion of female smokers has hardly changed over the years (down from 26% in 1945 to 23% in 1996). Whilst the population doubled between 1945 and 1995, the proportion of males to females was about equal over the same period. The Australian population in 1995 was 18 million.
According to this information, which of the following is the best conclusions?
A. In 1985 only about 18% of Australian males were non-smokers.
B. It is likely that in 1985 more than 4 million Australian females smoked.
C. There were actually more male smokers in Australia in 1995 than in 1945.
D. It is reasonable to assume that about 40% of males smoked in Australia in 1985.
Another non-verbal reasoning question:
ganges:
Section 1:Q5
ANswer A
I looked at each option carefully and tried to cancel each of them off.
IT CANT be B because you cant determine the population( no info given)
It cant be C either because there could possible have been greater male smokers in 1945 then in 1995, this is because even though the population has doubled from then on, the percentage of 1945 male smokers is significantly greater then 1995 (72 % to 25% in 1995).
It cant be D either because no information on the population in 1985 is given so the answer 4 million is not right.
The only info that is given about 1985 is that (1 third) approx 33% smoked in 1985 and since the proportion of male and female smokers is the same, it would be about 17-18% as A says.
My tip wud be to use process of elimination for these questions...
Section 3 i cant do, honestly i dont anyone who can unless you are autistic or something....
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