How the Logiks verbal section works
Logiks comes at two levels, and the verbal section looks quite different at each. Your invitation or the opening screen tells you which one you are sitting and how long you have.
At Intermediate level, as part of Logiks General, you get 24 short items in 4 minutes, which is 10 seconds each. Talogy’s examples are word analogies, odd one out, opposites, and two-statement logic where you pick the conclusion that must follow. There is no passage to read; everything is in the question.
At Advanced level the section turns into reading. Logiks General Advanced gives you 12 questions in 8 minutes on short passages about business and current topics. Questions ask what the passage states, what it does not mention, what can definitely be concluded, what it assumes, or what its main message is. The standalone Logiks Verbal Advanced test is 36 questions in 25 minutes.
Questions are drawn from an item bank, so two candidates rarely see the same test.
How to answer Logiks verbal questions
Intermediate items reward a fixed routine, and Advanced items a fixed reading order:
- Analogy: say the link between the first pair as a short sentence, such as “a pilot flies a plane”, then test each option in the same sentence.
- Odd one out: find what four of the words share. If two groupings seem to work, the tighter one (same function, not just the same topic) is usually the one intended.
- Opposites: think of your own opposite before you read the options, then pick the closest.
- Two-statement logic: use only what the statements say. A conclusion that sounds true in real life but does not follow from the statements is wrong.
- Advanced passages: read the question first, so you know whether you are hunting for something stated, something missing or the overall point.
Worked examples
An Intermediate analogy: “Author is to Novel as Composer is to”, with the options Orchestra, Symphony, Piano, Conductor and Concert. The link is “creates”: an author writes a novel, so a composer writes a symphony. Orchestra and Conductor belong to music, but neither is something a composer creates.
An Intermediate logic item: “Some managers are engineers. All engineers are graduates. Which conclusion must be true?” The options are: all managers are graduates; some managers are graduates; no engineers are managers; some graduates are not managers. The managers who are engineers must be graduates, so “some managers are graduates” follows. The first option goes further than the statements, the third contradicts them, and the fourth may or may not be true.
Tips for the real Logiks verbal test
- Check the level in your invitation. Practising word analogies will not prepare you for Advanced passages, and the reverse is just as true.
- Keep moving. Talogy’s own advice is to skip a question you are unsure of and come back to it if time is left.
- Read every instruction screen, even if you have sat similar tests before. Something may be different this time.
- Try the example questions on Talogy’s candidate site, and time yourself at 10 seconds an item for Intermediate.
- Sit it somewhere you will not be interrupted, and start well before the deadline in case of a technical problem.
Practise Logiks Verbal on CogniPrep
Our Logiks Verbal game gives you 16 Intermediate-style questions drawn from a bank of 32: analogies, synonyms, opposites, odd one out and sentence completion, each with four options. Every question has its own 20-second clock, and one that runs out counts as wrong. Your score out of 100 is mostly the share you got right, with a small part for answering every question. The real Intermediate section is faster, 24 items on one 4-minute clock, and our version does not include Advanced passages.