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Verbal: Analogy
- Sample 1CUT : NAILS
- Sample 2PUSH : PULL
- Sample 3FLOOR : RUG
- Sample 4MONEY : WALLET
- Sample 5SHIRT : BUTTONS
- Sample 6BANK : MONEY
- Sample 7ANIMALS : HERD
- Sample 8BOOK : WRITER
- Sample 9STRONG : POWERFUL
- Sample 10SALT : SEA
- Sample 11HEAD : HAT
- Sample 12WEEK : DAY
- Sample 13VEGETABLES : VITAMINS
- Sample 14BRANCH : LEAVES
- Sample 15GENERAL : SPECIFIC
Verbal: Sentence Completion
- Sample 1No one can………. that Ghazi is a good student; he has made………. grades during his four years at the university.
- Sample 2Establishing a new……… requires a lot of patience, planning, and sufficient money; a new company is not………. ov…
- Sample 3My father loves………..; when he goes shopping, looking for……….. is his favorite thing to do.
- Sample 4He has had several job……….., but hasn't had an offer that he finds really………. .
- Sample 5It is very important to attend class regularly; being……….. is usually seen as a……….. of motivation.
- Sample 6Although I had wonderful experiences during my……….., I was……….. to return home.
- Sample 7The development of……… medicine led to abandoning many traditional treatments; nowadays a new approach is to………
- Sample 8Idealists often have……….. with being……….. in their everyday lives.
- Sample 9While Khalid seems……… and shy, he often spends time with his……….. .
- Sample 10As people grow older, it is……….. for their memory to become less……….. .
- Sample 11Compared to the………., young people have a different sense of time; to them the……….. seems to have no limitatio…
- Sample 12In ancient times, the rhythm of life was………. by sunrise and sunset; now we have electricity and can schedule…
- Sample 13Libraries and bookstores are similar in that they are both full of books; however, to……….. a book one must go…
- Sample 14Before the boom brought on by the………., life in the Gulf countries was……….; compared to those times, we live i…
Verbal: Vocabulary in Context
- Sample 1Before starting out on a long trip by car, it is a good idea to make sure the spare tire is in good condition.
- Sample 2Nation
- Sample 3Parents don't like their children to go out with their peers so often.
- Sample 4We have a lot of work to do in a very short span of time. So we are working under a very tight schedule.
- Sample 5Sorry to be so grouchy today; I had a very bad experience this morning.
- Sample 6She decided to ask her husband for new furniture in the sitting room. At the very least, she felt that some n…
- Sample 7My mother used to do my laundry all the time, but now I have to do my own or pay someone to do it for me.
- Sample 8A basic sense of discipline is necessary to make progress in any worthwhile goal in life.
- Sample 9In a horse race contestants must jump all hurdles before they reach the finish line.
Verbal: Reading Comprehension
- Sample 1Dr. Grey used to work as a medical doctor in:
- Sample 2The main role of "Doctors Without Frontiers" is to:
- Sample 3Dr. Grey went to Angola because she felt:
- Sample 4Dr. Grey has been working in Angola:
- Sample 5The standards of health care in Angola were poor because of:
- Sample 6Working in Angola gave Dr. Grey a lot of:
- Sample 7When Dr. Grey leaves Angola, she plans to:
- Sample 8The article was written for a:
- Sample 9The writer says that in recent years:
- Sample 10The match described in this article was:
- Sample 11When attending a football match, the writer suggests that one should not:
- Sample 12The writer thinks that one way of bringing back crowds to the football matches is to:
- Sample 13Youths might behave in a good way if:
- Sample 14The article says that in the last six games one major team:
Quantitative: Arithmetic
- Sample 1Determine which of the following numbers fit into the last two spaces in the sequence: 20, 25, 29, 34, 38, …,…
- Sample 2If 20% of an amount of money is 16 Riyals, how much is 25% of the same amount?
- Sample 3400/10 + 4/100 + 4/1000 =
- Sample 4√((2/3)²) × √(9/4) =
- Sample 5∛(27 × 64) =
- Sample 6A man bought a game for 74 Riyals and a book for 50 Riyals less than the value of the game. How much did the…
- Sample 7Water consumption is priced according to the following scale: 1–50 m³ at 10 Fils/m³; 51–100 m³ at 20 Fils/m³;…
- Sample 832% of the number 250 equals:
- Sample 9If Mohammed is half as old as Saad, and Saad is three times as old as Fahad, then the ratio of Fahad's age to…
- Sample 10A sum of money is divided between three poor persons in the ratio 1:2:3. If the third person received 120 Riy…
- Sample 11A classroom has 18 chairs in three rows. Each row has one more chair than the row in front of it. How many ch…
- Sample 12A woman bought three bottles of perfume which were priced equally. She paid half the original price for the s…
Quantitative: Geometry
- Sample 1[Figure: triangle abc.] The straight line gf joins the mid-points of sides ab and ac, and the straight line e…
- Sample 2A water faucet pours 500 liters per minute into a rectangular tank with sides 1, 2, and 3 meters. How many mi…
- Sample 3In a figure, the perimeter of a square is 20 cm. What is the radius of the circumscribed circle?
- Sample 4A bucket with the capacity of 0.004 m³ is used to fill a water tank with the capacity of 4 m³. How many bucke…
- Sample 5[Figure: a stepped (staircase-shaped) rectilinear outline whose overall bounding width is 7 cm and overall bo…
- Sample 6[Figure: a square with center c and side length x; point d is the midpoint of the square's bottom side.] What…
- Sample 7If 250 decimeter³ + x decimeter³ = 1 m³, then x equals:
- Sample 8A square palm tree plantation is surrounded by a fence 400 meters long. The trees are arranged in a square gr…
Quantitative: Algebra
- Sample 1If 3/5 = x/4, then x equals:
- Sample 2If x + y = z and x = y, then which one of the following statements is false?
- Sample 3¹⁰√(2⁸) = (the 10th root of 2 to the power 8)
- Sample 4What values of x satisfy the equation |3x| = 15?
- Sample 5If x/27 = 3/x, then x =
- Sample 6If x² − 25 = 0 and y² − 36 = 0, what is the absolute value of the product x·y?
- Sample 7If 1/(2x+1) = 1/(2+x), then x equals:
Quantitative: Data Interpretation
- Sample 1A pie chart shows student distribution across school stages in 2001-2002: Kindergarten 35%, Elementary 27%, I…
- Sample 2Using the same pie chart (Kindergarten 35%, Elementary 27%, Intermediate 24%, Secondary 9%, University 5%), t…
- Sample 3Using the same pie chart, if the total number of students in 2001-2002 is 120,000, then the number of univers…
- Sample 4Using the same pie chart, the ratio of intermediate students to elementary students as a percentage is approx…
- Sample 5The average IQ of four people is 110. If three of them have an average IQ of 105, what is the IQ of the fourt…
Quantitative: Comparison
- Sample 1If the price of 3 pens and one pencil is 7 Riyals, and the price of one notebook and 3 pens is 10 Riyals, com…
- Sample 2Compare: Column A — (5−√2)(√3−5); Column B — (√2−5)(5−√3).
- Sample 3Compare: Column A — 9 − 0.004; Column B — 9 − 0.0044.
- Sample 4If 8ˣˣ = 4ʸʸ (i.e. 8^(4x) = 4^(6y)), compare: Column A — x; Column B — y.
- Sample 5If one Euro equals 5.1 Riyals, compare: Column A — 62 Riyals; Column B — 12 Euros.
- Sample 6Compare: Column A — x² + y²; Column B — x² − y².
- Sample 7If m and n are positive integers, compare: Column A — 1/(m+n); Column B — 1/m + 1/n.
- Sample 8If 3x = 2y and y ≠ 0, compare: Column A — x/y; Column B — 1/2.