Watson Glaser Assumptions Section - Samples, Tips, and Hacks [2024]

In each question on the Watson Glaser Test Recognising Assumptions section, you will be presented with a statement followed by a proposed assumption.

Your task is to decide whether a person, in making the given statement, is making the proposed assumption – that is, taking it for granted, justifiably or not.

Note that these assumptions do not have to concur with reality or reason – you are not judging their common sense, but plainly whether they are made or not.

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The Negative Test is a very useful tool for finding hidden assumptions. We use it in the sample question above, but make sure you practise it to perfection.

The Negative Test is fully covered in the Complete Watson Glaser Preparation Course.

This one is also a useful trick that can often help in the Watson Glaser Recognition of Assumptions section.

Let’s take the sample question from above once again:

• We forecast that the development of supercomputers will be followed by a shortage of people.

Now, let’s turn this into a statement describing an absurd situation and see whether the proposed assumption is made or not:

• We forecast that an alien invasion will be followed by a world crisis.

It is pretty evident that the statement does not assume that an alien invasion is probable, or that it is only a matter of time before it happens – only that if it DOES happen, it will result in a world crisis.

The same goes for the original example about supercomputers.

Remember: In the Assumptions section of the Watson Glaser assessment, neither the statements nor the assumptions have to make sense – they just need to concord with one another.

With questions simulating the rules and formatting of the actual Watson Glaser assessment, JobTestPrep’s Complete Watson Glaser Prep Course will help you ace the test, including the Recognition of Assumptions section.

• Inference
• Deduction
• Interpretation
• Evaluation of Arguments