GREA

1. Which of the following letters could be placed after O in L O to form a code word exactly three letters long?

Answer:

K
L
M
N
O

1. Which of the following products CANNOT be placed in compartment 1?

Answer:

U
V
W
X
Z

2. If the only kinds of letters that are available are K, L, and M, then the total number of different code words, each exactly two letters long, that it is possible to make is

Answer:

1
3
6
9
12

2. If X is placed in compartment 3, W must be placed in compartment

Answer:

1
2
4
5
6

3. Which of the following is a code word?

Answer:

K L L N
L O M L
M L L O
N M K O
O N K M

3. If U is placed in compartment 5, which of the following products must be placed in compartment 6?

Answer:

V
W
X
Y
Z

4. What is the total number of different code words exactly three identical letters long that it is possible to make?

Answer:

1
2
3
4
5

4. If Z is placed in compartment 3, immediately to the right of X, which of the following products must be placed in compartment 5?

Answer:

U
V
W
X
Y

5. The code word M M L L O K N can be turned into another code word by carrying out any one of the following changes EXCEPT

Answer:

replacing every L with an N
replacing the first M with an O
replacing the N with an O
moving the O to the immediate right of the N
moving the second L to the immediate left of the K

5. Athletic director: "Members of our sports teams included, for the fall season, 80 football players and 40 cross-country runners; for the winter season, 20 wrestlers and 40 swimmers; for the spring season, 50 track-team members and 20 lacrosse players. Each team athlete participates in his or her sport five days a week for the whole three-month season, and no athlete is on two teams during any one season. Therefore, adding these figures, we find that our team sports program serves 250 different individual athletes."
In drawing the conclusion above, the athletic director fails to consider the relevant possibility that

Answer:

athletes can be on more than one team in a single season
athletes can be on teams in more than one season
some of the team sports require a larger number of athletes on the team than do others
more athletes participate in team sports during one season than during another
an athlete might not participate in every one of the practice sessions and athletic contests in his or her sport

6. Which of the following is not a code word but could be turned into one by changing the order of the letters within the word?

Answer:

K L M N O
L L L K N
M K N O N
N K L M L
O M M L L

6. As soon as any part of a person's conduct affects prejudicially the interests of others, society has jurisdiction over it, and the question of whether the general welfare will or will not be promoted by interfering with it becomes open to discussion. If a person's conduct does not affect prejudicially the interests of others, it should not come under the jurisdiction of society in the first place.
The author in the passage above argues that

Answer:

society is independent of the actions of individuals
the general welfare of a society is promoted when a person's conduct benefits others
conduct that does not infringe on the interests of others should not be under the jurisdiction of society
interference with the actions of individuals does not enhance the general welfare
in general, the interests of persons are mutually exclusive

7. Which of the following could be turned into a code word by replacing the "X" with a letter used in the code?

Answer:

M K X N O
M X K M N
X M M K O
X M O L K
X O K L L

7. Therapists find that treatment of those people who seek help because they are unable to stop smoking or overeating is rarely successful. From these experiences, therapists have concluded that such habits are intractable, and success in breaking them is rare. As surveys show, millions of people have dropped the habit of smoking, and many people have successfully managed a substantial weight loss.
If all of the statements above are correct, an explanation of their apparent contradiction is provided by the hypothesis that

Answer:

there have been some successes in therapy, and those successes were counted in the surveys
it is easier to stop smoking than it is to stop overeating
it is easy to break the habits of smoking and overeating by exercising willpower
the group of people selected for the survey did not include those who failed to break their habits even after therapy
those who succeed in curing themselves do not go for treatment and so are not included in the therapists' data

8. The conclusion drawn above depends on which of the following assumptions?

Answer:

Engineering students are working less because, in a booming market, they are spending more and more time investigating different job opportunities.
Whether or not students do the work they are assigned is a good indication of how lazy they are.
Engineering students should work harder than students in less demanding fields.
Ms. Dennis' students are doing less work because Ms. Dennis is not as effective a teacher as she once was.
Laziness is something most people do not outgrow.

8. If Fred is assigned to the same raft as Nadine, which of the following must be true?

Answer:

Kurt is assigned to the other raft.
Marta is assigned to the other raft.
Pavel is assigned to the other raft.
Rachel is assigned to the same raft as Fred and Nadine.
Tomas is assigned to the same raft as Fred and Nadine.

9. Which of the following identifies a flaw in Ms. Dennis' reasoning?

Answer:

Plenty of people besides engineering students do not work as hard as they should.
Ms. Dennis does not consider the excuses her students may have for being lazy.
The argument does not propose any constructive solutions to the problem it identifies.
The argument assumes that Ms. Dennis' students are representative of engineering students in general.
Ms. Dennis does not seem sympathetic to the problems of her students.

9. If Rachel is assigned to the same raft as Pavel, which of the following must be true?

Answer:

Kurt is assigned to the same raft as Rachel and Pavel.
Nadine is assigned to the same raft as Kurt.
Nadine is assigned to the raft other than the one to which Pavel is assigned.
Rachel and Pavel are assigned to the raft carrying four people.
Tomas is assigned to the raft other than the one to which Pavel is assigned.

10. Popular culture in the United States has become Europeanized to an extent unimaginable twenty-five years ago. Not many people then drank wine with meals, and no one drank imported mineral water. No idea would have been more astonishing than that Americans would pay to watch soccer games. Such thoughts arise because of a report that the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials has just adopted a proposal to develop the country's first comprehensive interstate system of routes for bicycles.
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage?

Answer:

Long-distance bicycle routes are used in Europe.
Drinking imported mineral water is a greater luxury than drinking imported water.
United States culture has benefited from exposure to foreign ideas.
Most Europeans make regular use of bicycles.
The influence of the United States on European culture has assumed unprecedented proportions in the last twenty-five years.

10. If Kurt is assigned to the same raft as Marta, which of the following must be true?

Answer:

Fred is assigned to the same raft as Nadine.
Fred is assigned to the same raft as Tomas.
Nadine is assigned to the same raft as Pavel.
Nadine is assigned to the same raft as Kurt and Marta.
Rachel is assigned to the same raft as Kurt and Marta.

11. If one of the two parties of knights consists of P and U and two other knights and travels by the southern route, the other members of this party besides P and U must be

Answer:

Q and S
Q and T
R and S
R and T
S and T

11. If Rachel is assigned to the same raft as Fred, which of the following is a complete and accurate list of the people who must then be assigned to the other raft?

Answer:

Fred, Pavel
Kurt, Tomas
Marta, Tomas
Kurt, Marta, Nadine
Marta, Nadine, Pavel

12. If each of the two parties of knights consists of exactly three members, which of the following is NOT a possible traveling party and route?

Answer:

P, S, Q by the northern route
P, S, T by the northern route
P, S, T by the southern route
P, S, U by the southern route
Q, R, T by the northern route

12. Which of the following is an acceptable assignment of loan officers for a single week?

Answer:

A
B
C
D
E

13. If one of the two parties of knights consists of U and two other knights and travels by the northern route, the other members of this party besides U must be

Answer:

P and S
P and T
Q and R
Q and T
R and T

13. What is the maximum number of times that Torrez could be assigned as loan officer in a single week?

Answer:

1
2
3
4
5

14. If each of the two parties of knights consists of exactly three members, S and U are members of different parties, and R travels by the northern route, then T must travel by the

Answer:

southern route with P and S
southern route with Q and R
southern route with R and U
northern route with Q and R
northern route with R and U

14. In a week in which Underwood is assigned as PM loan officer on Tuesday, which of the following must be true?

Answer:

Underwood is assigned as the PM loan officer on Thursday.
Reynolds is assigned as the AM loan officer on Friday.
Reynolds is assigned as the AM loan officer on Tuesday.
Short is assigned as the AM loan officer on Thursday.
Underwood is assigned as the AM loan officer on Friday.

15. If, when the two parties of knights encounter one another after a month, exactly one knight changes from one traveling party to the other traveling party, that knight must be

Answer:

P
Q
R
S
T

15. In a week which Torrez' only assignment as a loan officer is on Friday, which of the following must be true?

Answer:

Reynolds is assigned as a loan officer on Tuesday.
Reynolds is assigned as a loan officer on Wednesday.
Reynolds is assigned as a loan officer on Friday.
Underwood is assigned as a loan officer on Thursday.
Underwood is assigned as a loan officer on Friday.

16. If one of the changes after a month's traveling is that T changes from a party of two knights traveling by the southern route to a party of four knights traveling by the northern route, then all of the following must be true EXCEPT

Answer:

During the first month, U was traveling by the southern route.
During the first month, P was traveling by the northern route.
During the first month, R was traveling with T.
After the first month, R travels with T.
After the first month, S travels by the southern route.

16. Any of the five patients could be scheduled for the first day of the month EXCEPT

Answer:

L
M
N
O
P

17. Which of the following could be noted on one of the records as the positions of the cars from position 1 through position 8?

Answer:

W, U, S, Y, V, T, Z, X
W, U, Y, S, T, V, Z, X
W, U, Y, V, S, T, Z, X
W, U, Y, Z, V, T, S, X
W, V, S, U, Y, T, Z, X

17. Which of the following is a possible schedule, including the open day for which no patient is scheduled, from the first day through the seventh day of the month?

Answer:

L, M, N, O, L, P, open day
M, L, N, P, open day, L, O
N, L, M, O, P, L, open day
N, L, O, M, open day, L, P
Open day, L, M, O, L, N, P

18. If on one of the records Y and X are in positions 4 and 5, respectively, which of the following must be true of that record?

Answer:

S is in position 2.
S is in position 7.
T is in position 3.
V is in position 3.
Z is in position 8.

18. The day of M's treatment must be no more than how many days after L's first treatment?

Answer:

1
2
3
4
5

19. If on one of the records V is in some position behind T, which car must be in position 7 on that record?

Answer:

S
T
V
X
Z

19. N could be scheduled for any of the following days EXCEPT the

Answer:

first
second
third
fourth
fifth

20. If tour number two includes Rome, which of the following CANNOT be true?

Answer:

London is in tour number one.
Oslo is in tour number one.
Trieste is in tour number one.
Madrid is in tour number two.
Stockholm is in tour number two.

20. If M is to be scheduled for the first day of the month, which of the following pairs of patients CANNOT be scheduled for consecutive days?

Answer:

L and P
M and L
M and N
N and O
N and P

21. If tour number two includes Paris, which of the following must be true?

Answer:

London is in tour number one.
Naples is in tour number one.
London is in tour number two.
Oslo is in tour number two.
Trieste is in tour number two.

21. If no patient is to be scheduled for the first of the month, which of the following could be true?

Answer:

M is scheduled for the day before the day of L's first treatment.
N is scheduled for the day before the day of L's first treatment.
O is scheduled for the day before the day of L's first treatment.
P is scheduled for the day before the day of L's second treatment.
P is scheduled for the day after the day of O's treatment.

22. If tour number one includes Paris and tour number two includes Madrid, which of the following must also be included in tour number two?

Answer:

London
Oslo
Rome
Stockholm
Trieste

22. If N is scheduled for the day before the day of L's first treatment, the days for which M's treatment can be scheduled include the

Answer:

first day and second day
first day and fourth day
second day and third day
second day and fourth day
third day and fourth day

23. In the 1980 United States census, marital status was described under one of five categories: single, now married (but not separated), separated, divorced, widowed. In the category "separated," including both those who were legally separated and those who were estranged and living a part from their spouses, one million more women than men were counted.
Which of the following, if true, provide(s) or contribute(s) to an explanation for this result?

I. There are more women of marriageable age than men or marriageable age in the United States.

II. More of the separated men than separated women in the United States could not be found by the census takers during the census.

III. Many more separated men than separated women left the United States for residence in another country.

Answer:

I only
II only
III only
I and II only
II and III only

23. The Supreme Court is no longer able to keep pace with the tremendous number of cases it agrees to decide. The Court schedules and hears 160 hours of oral argument each year, and 108 hours of next year's term will be taken up by cases left over from this year. Certainly the Court cannot be asked to increase its already burdensome hours. The most reasonable long-range solution to this problem is to allow the Court to decide many cases without hearing oral argument; in this way the Court might eventually increase dramatically the number of cases it decides each year.
Which of the following, if true, could best be used to argue against the feasibility of the solution suggested above?

Answer:

The time the Court spends hearing oral argument is only a small part of the total time it spends deciding a case.
The Court cannot legitimately avoid hearing oral arguments in any case left over from last year.
Most authorities agree that 160 hours of oral argument is the maximum number that the Court can handle per year.
Even now the Court decides a small number of cases without hearing oral argument.
In many cases, the delay of a hearing for a full year can be extremely expensive to the parties involved.

24. In recent years shrimp harvests of commercial fishermen in the South Atlantic have declined dramatically in total weight. The decline is due primarily to competition from a growing number of recreational fishermen, who are able to net young shrimp in the estuaries where they mature. Which of the following regulatory actions would be most likely to help increase the shrimp harvests of commercial fishermen?

Answer:

Requiring commercial fishermen to fish in estuaries
Limiting the total number of excursions per season for commercial fishermen
Requiring recreational fishermen to use large-mesh nets in their fishing
Putting an upper limit on the size of the shrimp recreational fishermen are allowed to catch
Allowing recreational fishermen to move out of estuaries into the South Atlantic

24. That social institutions influence the formation of character has become a generally accepted proposition. This doctrine views individuals as but compliant recipients of social influence: personalities are entirely the products of society, and at any point in life an individual's personality can be changed by management of the social world. Crime is said to exist only because society has in some ways failed in its responsibility to give every person the resources to lead a productive life. However, whereas it is true that extreme poverty forces some people to steal, it is obvious that some persons will commit crimes no matter how well society treats them.
Which of the following is implied by the "doctrine" described in the passage above?

Answer:

Social institutions may reflect personality as much as they shape it.
Social influence on personality is most strongly felt by the affluent.
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a privileged few accounts for the existence of crime.
Bringing about social reform is the most likely means of curtailing crime.
Less severe punishment of crime would be likely to result in more crime.

25. The 38 corporations that filed United States income tax returns showing a net income of more than $100 million accounted for 53 percent of the total taxable income from foreign sources reported on all tax returns. Sixty percent of the total taxable income from foreign sources came from the 200 returns reporting income from 10 or more countries.
If the statements above are true, which of the following must also be true?

Answer:

Most of the total taxable income earned by corporations with net income above $100 million was earned from foreign sources.
Wealthy individuals with large personal incomes reported 47 percent of the total taxable income from foreign sources.
Income from foreign sources amounted to between 53 and 60 percent of all reported taxable income.
Some of the corporations with net income above $100 million reported income from 10 or more countries.
Most of the tax returns showing income from 10 or more countries reported net income of more than $100 million.

25. The sense of delayed gratification, of working now for later pleasure, has helped shape the economic behavior of our society. However, that sense is no longer nurtured as consistently in our children as it once was. For example, it used to take a bit of patience to put together the toys that children got in cereal boxes; now the toys come from the boxes whole.
Which of the following is an assumption of the passage above?

Answer:

The toys in cereal boxes have changed partly because the economic conditions of our society have improved.
The influence of promotion gimmicks on the economic behavior of our society has increased over the years.
The toys that used to come in cereal boxes were put together by the same children who played with them.
Part of the pleasure of any toy lies in putting the toy together before playing with it.
Today's children do not expect a single toy to provide pleasure for a long period of time.