How woordrelaties works
Woordrelaties asks you to choose one word out of five to complete a relation between words. The questions are reported to come as single analogies, with one word missing, and double analogies, where a whole pair is missing and the options are word pairs. The test is in Dutch.
It is adaptive. The first question is relatively easy, and the difficulty rises after right answers and falls after wrong ones. Harder questions earn a higher score. Each question has its own time, with a bar in the top right for the last ten seconds, and the test moves on when it fills.
You see no feedback during the test and cannot go back to change an answer.
How to solve a word analogy
Turn the relation into a sentence, then test the options in it:
- Take the complete pair and say how the words link, for example “a pen is used to write”.
- Put each option into the same sentence in the same direction: “a knife is used to …”.
- Common links: same meaning, opposite, part and whole, member and group, tool and use, worker and workplace, cause and effect.
- Watch for options that fit the topic but not the relation, and on double analogies for the right pair in the wrong order.
Worked examples
Single: PEN is to WRITE as KNIFE is to ?. Options: fork, cut, sharp, kitchen, blade. A pen is used to write, so a knife is used to cut. Blade is part of a knife and kitchen is where you find one, but neither is what it is used for.
Double: SEED is to TREE as ? is to ?. Options: egg and bird, leaf and branch, bird and egg, root and soil, flower and garden. A seed grows into a tree, so the answer is egg and bird. Bird and egg has the right words in the wrong order.
Tips for woordrelaties
- Build your Dutch vocabulary in the weeks before: read Dutch news and note synonyms and opposites of words you meet.
- Name the relation before you look at the options, so a topical distractor does not pull you in.
- If two options both seem to fit, make the relation sentence more precise and test again.
- Never leave an answer empty. A blank counts as wrong, so pick the likeliest option before the bar fills.
- Use the pauses between parts if you need them. You can stop between letterpatronen, woordrelaties and cijferpatronen, but must finish a part once you start it.
Practise woordrelaties on CogniPrep
Our Woordrelaties runs 12 to 18 adaptive questions, starting easy, with single and double analogies and five options each. The empty slot can be in any position. The items are in English, so they train the relation types but not Dutch vocabulary. Time limits of 20, 35 or 60 seconds by difficulty are our estimate, hidden until the last ten seconds. At the end you get a score out of 100, driven mostly by the difficulty you reached, and a percentile against other CogniPrep players.