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tutors 15 min level 4 paper 2 q12
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:37 pm
by BLANCA
Hello mike if your there, please could you explaine this one for me so that I can show to my dd.
q12) dh is to sw as jl is to ? answer oq
dd insists that she keeps ending up on ys which isnt even on the answer sheet, and i'm no help to her what so ever!
many many thanx
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:02 pm
by Gilly
Take the number of places between the letters.
dh -> D E F G H
sw -> S T U V W
jl -> J K L
oq -> O P Q
As the asnwer does not contain the obvious answer to this question, my theory is to look for other logics and see if the answer is one of the given answers.
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:41 pm
by BLANCA
Thank you sooooooooooo much
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:43 pm
by vichka
D is the forth letter from the beginning and H is number 8.
W is number 4 from the end and S is number 8 from the end
J is H+2 and L is J+2, so
S+2= Q and Q+2=O
Hope this makes sense.
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:44 pm
by BLANCA
dear Gilly
DD asks how does she know which letter to start the 2nd pair on?
sorry to be a pain but i dont know how to help her
thank you so much
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:57 pm
by Gilly
Good question!
In such cases where the common logic fails to find the answer and the above logic makes sense, the way I instruct my DS is to look at the given possible answers and pick the one that matches the logic of JL.
Children should not get disappointment if one logic fails. They should be able to immediately switch to a different possible logic and apply that as well.
Gilly
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:58 pm
by Gilly
.. one more point. Such questions should be of multiple choice type.
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:01 pm
by Gilly
I liked the logic explained by vichka as well. Good stuff.
Gilly
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:37 pm
by Mike
Hi
This is a reverse mirror image question
Write the alphabet out like this (spacing in the text does not align correctly)
ABCDEFGHIJKLM
ZYWVUTSRQPON
In a standard mirror image question we would write DH is to WS, we then reverse the second pair of letters to give
DH is to SW
Therefore in a standard mirror image
JL is to QO
When reversed the answer becomes OQ
This type of question appears once in the NFER preparation papers.
Regards
Mike
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:51 pm
by BLANCA
many thanx to all
will show to dd
sorry vichka i didnt see your post before i posted the 2nd time, but thank you so much.
blanca