How to Master General Mental Ability for Competitive Exams

General Mental Ability is described as the capacity to understand and perform verbal knowledge, the ability to learn and prepare numbers and data presented in tabular/ graphical form, capacity to create parallel and make relevant links between different ideas. The General Mental Ability (GMA) analysis includes the general mental ability of the test takers operating in a variety of different contributor or managerial positions. This test helps assess employees’ potential irrespective of their educational qualifications and job knowledge.

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General Mental Ability Topics

Mental Ability topics comprise many other related topics like reasoning and interpretation. The logical understanding of the concepts and the relation between the ideas will enable the candidates to answer correctly. Initially, you need to know the relevant sub-topics that appear in the mental ability topics. Take a glance at the associated topics,

• Verbal Reasoning
• Jumbled Paragraphs/Para-jumbles
• Assertion & Reason
• Summary Questions
• Reading Comprehension
• Logical Reasoning
• Data Interpretation (Tables, Charts, Graphs)
• Caselets
• Puzzles
• Analogy
• Blood Relations
• Classification
• Coding and Decoding
• Data Sufficiency
• Direction
• Logical Sequence of Words
• Logical Venn Diagram
• Number Series
• Sequence
• Missing Characters
• Spontaneous Reaction Tests

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Tips and Tricks to Crack General Mental Ability Test

You cannot consider a single trick or an idea for solving the General Ability questions. First and foremost, you need to keep in mind that, logical thinking is the key for the correct answering in the General Mental Ability. But logical thinking alone doesn’t do the job. You need to familiarize yourself with questions and patterns of questions to answer faster and better in the exam. Most candidates sort out their unique ways of dealing with certain questions which comes under the general mental ability. Let’s see some of the top tricks that can be used for solving the General Mental ability questions

Analogy

There are different kinds of verbal analogy puzzles. The candidates want to get the relationship of one collection of information based on that first pair of information. The candidates can use the compare and contrast technique in it. Also, ensure to understand the link that serves both to be in the same group

Coding-Decoding

Most utmost of the coding-decoding problems have a meticulous model to think out the puzzle. The pattern is the key to solving the coding and decoding problems. Always ensure to grab the attention of the pattern of the questions and get your brain out of the deeper meaning of the questions.

Direction Sense

There are four principal directions and four cardinal directions. The most reliable way to determine a direction problem is to bring a diagram of the four main regions North, East, South and West. Continue adding person/directions to the picture while holding the problem.

Jumbled Paragraph 

Candidates need to recognize the opening sentence of the section. The opening of the sentence is essential as it gives a beginning to the subject. Furthermore, know the closing sentence too. The secret or hidden answering pattern either lies in comparing the introduction and the conclusion or in the comparison between both.

Blood Relation

Make a tree design by selecting symbols for several parts of the family. For instance, you can share a circle for the mother, a square logo for the father, etc. While addressing the topics, draw the numbers or allocated symbols of the members specified in the puzzle.

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Practice!

The candidates who are preparing for the competitive exams have to go through certain mock tests and sample questions daily. It is the proper practice that aids the candidates to answer better in the exams. It is necessary, that the aspirants imprint a pattern or idea regarding certain question types. The proper practice sessions and sample questions will enable the candidates to do so. Try answering some of the questions given below.

If × means +, + means ÷, – means × and ÷ means –, then 6 × 4 – 5

+ 2 ÷ 1 =?

(a)          10           (b)          11

(c)           12           (d)          15

If P denotes ‘multiplied by’ T denotes ‘subtracted from, M denotes ‘added to’ and B denotes ‘divided by’, then

12 P 6 M 15 T 16 B 4

(a)          70           (b)          83

(c)           75           (d)          110

None of these

If signs + and –and numbers 4 and 8 interchange with each other, which one of the following four equations would be correct?

(a)          4 – 8 + 12 = 0     (b)          8 – 4 ÷ 12 = 8

(c)           4 ÷ 8 – 12 = 16   (d)          8 ÷ 4 – 12 = 24

Which one of the four interchanges in signs and numbers would make the given equation correct?

6 × 4 + 2              = 16

(a)          + and ×, 2 and 4 (b)          + and ×, 4 and 6

(c)           + and ×, 2 and 6 (d)          None of the above

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