Identification of Question Category GMAT.

[sunilpanigrahi27]

Hello All,

Could you please help me out to know the below question falls into which category in GMAT. I am getting confused as to it falls into what category hence ticking on the wrong option. I am getting confused between strengthen the question pattern and draw a conclusion question pattern. Please help me with it .

1. Which one of the following inferences is most strongly supported by the information above?
2. Which one of the following inferences is most supported by the information above?
3. If all of the statements above are true, which one of the following must be true?
4. Which one of the following can be logically inferred from the passage?
5. Which one of the following logically follows from the statements above?


Regards,
Sunil

[StaceyKoprince]

Note: this question more properly belongs in one of the verbal folders. I'll answer here, but if you'd like to have a more in-depth discussion, then I suggest that you post more in the relevant verbal folder.

In general, strengthen questions include a conclusion in the argument (above). Inference / draw a conclusion questions do not contain a conclusion in the argument above; rather, the "conclusion" is in the answer choices below.

All of the options below refer to a "conclusion" of some type in the answers. These are all Inference / Draw a Conclusion questions. (Also, the word "infer" always means an inference / draw a conclusion. Strengthen questions will not use this word.)

1. Which one of the following inferences is most strongly supported by the information above?
--> The

following inferences

= in the answer choices. The answer choices are supported by the argument above. So this is an inference / draw a conclusion question.

2. Which one of the following inferences is most supported by the information above?
--> same reasoning as the last one. If they ever refer to the inference, argument, or conclusion being

in the answer choices

, then this is an Inference / Draw a Conclusion question.

3. If all of the statements above are true, which one of the following must be true?
4. Which one of the following can be logically inferred from the passage?
5. Which one of the following logically follows from the statements above?
--> The final piece of information chronologically = the conclusion, and that is in the answer choices.