Can You Cheat the Watson Glaser Test?
The Watson Glaser is designed so that your instinct is the trap, which is why borrowed answers from a different paper are worthless.
The test measures whether you can follow a strict definition against your own instinct. That is a discipline, and nobody can supply it for you in the moment.
The test is designed so your instinct is the trap
Most aptitude tests reward being quick and being right. The Watson Glaser rewards something stranger: the ability to ignore what you know and follow a stated rule instead. The passages are frequently about topics you have opinions on, and the options are frequently statements that are true in the world but not supported by the passage. That is not sloppy question writing. That is the test.
Which is why the usual shortcut logic collapses here. Even if someone handed you the answers to a paper, and even if that paper happened to be yours, the thing being measured is a discipline you either apply in the moment or do not. It is closer to a driving test than to a history exam.
A worked example of why a copied answer teaches nothing
A passage states that a company introduced flexible hours and that absence fell over the following year. An inference item asks you to judge the statement: flexible hours reduced absence.
Most candidates mark that as probably true, because it sounds right and because they know the research. The passage supports no such thing. It reports two facts in sequence and says nothing about the relationship between them. The defensible judgement is that the data is insufficient. Being told the answer to that item gives you nothing for the next one, because the next one will attach the same trap to a different topic, and the only thing that transfers is the habit of asking what the passage actually established.
Five sections, five different definitions
The other major source of lost marks is bringing the wrong definition to a section. Each of the five asks a different question, and the words look similar enough that candidates blur them together under time pressure.
Practice moves this score more than most
There is a genuine irony in candidates looking for Watson Glaser shortcuts, because this is the test where honest preparation pays best. Not because you memorise anything, but because the habit it measures is unnatural and improves quickly once you know what you are doing wrong.
The productive method is unglamorous. Do a section, then review every item you got wrong and write down which definition you failed to apply. Almost everyone finds the same two or three errors repeating: importing outside knowledge on inference, accepting probable as necessary on deduction, and rating a true statement as a strong argument when it does not address the question. Fix those three and your score moves, permanently, in a way no answer key could deliver.