x VERBAL AND NUMERICAL REASONING MCQ for the European Institutions’ competitions Methodology and 160 questions with answers New 2005 edition Emmanuel HETRU and Jean-Luc BIZEUR Edited by ORSEUReet ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 21 rue Elisée Reclus 36 avenue des Gaulois 59650 Villeneuve d’Ascq 1040 Bruxelles eee, FRANCE BELGIQUE = Dominique MICHAUX, Rose-Marie GAIGNON and all the team at Union Syndicale, our partner, who have enabled thousands candidates to prepare for the verbal and numerical reasoning MCQ; Sabrina PORE and Maité DE BRUYKER-FOSSE for their significant contributions and observations to the text = Vanessa LEMAITRE for the page lay-out and the artwork on the cover page: the candidates who have followed our courses for their | observations, I Emmanuel HETRU and Jean-Luc BIZEUR N? ISBN: 2-9521629-2-1CONTENT Part I Principles of the test Chapter 1 ~ Gener Chapter 2 - Vert Chapter 3 ~ Numerical reasoning principles Chapter 4 ~ Time management (Chapter 5 ~ Marking Part il Verbal reasoning test 1 verbal test questions Chapter 6 - Presentation of Chapter 7 ~ Afmative gener Chapter 8 ~ Negative general questions Chapter 9 — Precise questions Chapter 10 - Questions relating to the general meaning ofthe text Part ill Numerical reasoning t ‘Chapter 11 — Numerical reasoning approach ‘Chapter 12— Rewriting @ question as an equation Chapter 13 Fractions and percentages Chapter 14 ~ The rule of Chapter 18 ~ Absolute change and relative change Chapter 16 ~ Growth rates Chapter 17 — Arithmet ‘mean and weighted mean po ptt p13 a7 p.25 p.29 a 33 49 55 et & n B 18 83 ar 89 9 prpprrrpeP