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Mawhiba Multiple Mental Abilities Test – Level 2: free practice test

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01Complete the analogy: abundance : ? = extravagance : miserliness

Practice question Unit: Verbal Reasoning and Reading Comprehension

  1. Ascarcity ✓ Correct answer

    The opposite of extravagance is miserliness, and the opposite of abundance is scarcity: the antonym relationship.

  2. Bwealth

    Wealth is close to abundance in meaning, not its opposite.

  3. Cfortune

    Fortune is close to abundance, not its opposite.

  4. Dplenty

    Plenty is a synonym of abundance, not its opposite.

Reference: Mawhiba, National Program for Gifted Identification page: test components – Verbal Reasoning and Reading Comprehension

02Despite the ______ of the journey and the length of the road, the team stayed ______ until it reached the summit.

Practice question Unit: Verbal Reasoning and Reading Comprehension

  1. Aease – exhausted

    «Ease» does not fit with «the length of the road» after «despite».

  2. Bhardship – hopeless

    Hopelessness does not fit reaching the summit, and it does not contrast with hardship.

  3. Chardship – enthusiastic ✓ Correct answer

    «Despite» needs a contrast: the hardship against staying enthusiastic until the end.

  4. Dease – enthusiastic

    Ease does not suit «despite» and a long road.

Reference: Mawhiba, National Program for Gifted Identification page: test components – Verbal Reasoning and Reading Comprehension, sentence completion

03The handles of some pots are made of plastic because it is a «poor» conductor of heat, so hands do not «burn» when holding them, while their bases are made of «copper» because it «insulates» heat, so food heats up quickly. Which of the four words in « » contradicts the meaning of the sentence?

Practice question Unit: Verbal Reasoning and Reading Comprehension

  1. Apoor

    A poor conductor means heat does not reach the hand, so the word fits.

  2. Bburn

    Hands could burn if the pot's heat passed to them, and the sentence says this does not happen, so the word fits.

  3. Cinsulates ✓ Correct answer

    If copper insulated heat, the food would not heat quickly; in fact it conducts heat, so the word contradicts the meaning.

  4. Dcopper

    Copper is a good conductor, which suits a base that heats food, so the word fits.

Reference: Mawhiba, National Program for Gifted Identification page: test components – Verbal Reasoning and Reading Comprehension

04The ratio of Khalid's marbles to Fahd's marbles is 3 : 4. If Khalid gets 6 more marbles, they have the same number. How many marbles do they have together at the start?

Practice question Unit: Mathematical and Spatial Reasoning

  1. A36 marbles

    36 comes from 6 × 6, but the total number of parts is 7, not 6, so the correct total is 7 × 6 = 42.

  2. B42 marbles ✓ Correct answer

    The difference is one part = 6 marbles, so Khalid has 18 and Fahd has 24, a total of 42. Check: 18 + 6 = 24.

  3. C48 marbles

    48 comes from multiplying 6 by 8, assuming the parts total 8, but 3 + 4 = 7.

  4. D24 marbles

    24 is Fahd's marbles alone.

Reference: Mawhiba, National Program for Gifted Identification page: test components – Mathematical and Spatial Reasoning, math problems

05Which number completes the sequence: 5, 10, 7, 14, 11, 22, 19, ?

Practice question Unit: Mathematical and Spatial Reasoning

  1. A22

    This adds 3 instead of multiplying by 2.

  2. B38 ✓ Correct answer

    The two operations alternate: multiply by 2, then subtract 3. After 19 comes the multiply-by-2 step: 19 × 2 = 38.

  3. C16

    This subtracts 3 twice in a row, but a multiplication step must follow each subtraction.

  4. D41

    This multiplies by 2 and then adds 3, but the second operation in the sequence is a subtraction.

Reference: Mawhiba, National Program for Gifted Identification page: test components – Mathematical and Spatial Reasoning

06Which figure completes the sequence?

Practice question Unit: Mathematical and Spatial Reasoning

Four arrows in four boxes pointing, in order: down-right, left, up-right, down; then a box with a question mark.

  1. AFigure AFigure A

    Wrong: this arrow points up-right, which does not follow the rule; after the last step it should point up-left.

  2. BFigure BFigure B

    Wrong: this arrow points right, which does not follow the rule; after the last step it should point up-left.

  3. CFigure CFigure C

    Wrong: this arrow points down, which does not follow the rule; after the last step it should point up-left.

  4. DFigure DFigure D ✓ Correct answer

    Correct: the arrow turns 135° clockwise at each step, so in the fifth frame the arrow points up-left.

Reference: Mawhiba, National Program for Gifted Identification page: test components – mathematical and spatial reasoning

07In a natural pond, small fish eat algae and large fish eat the small fish. A disease killed most of the small fish. What is the most likely result over the following weeks?

Practice question Unit: Scientific and Mechanical Reasoning

  1. AAlgae decrease because the large fish will eat them instead of the small fish, and large fish increase

    Large fish eat small fish, not algae, so they cannot reduce the algae or gain from them.

  2. BAlgae and large fish both increase because food has become plentiful in the pond

    The food of the large fish is the small fish, which are now scarce, so large fish cannot increase.

  3. CAlgae increase because fewer animals eat them, and large fish decrease because their food is scarce ✓ Correct answer

    Losing the consumer lets algae grow, and losing the prey reduces the predator, as the chain predicts.

  4. DNothing changes because the large fish also eat algae

    The question never says the large fish eat algae; they feed on the small fish, so losing those does affect them.

Reference: Mawhiba, National Program for Gifted Identification page: test components – Scientific and Mechanical Reasoning, concept: food chains

08Sarah gave groups of identical plants different numbers of hours of light per day and measured their increase in height after two weeks: 0 hours → 1 cm | 4 hours → 5 cm | 8 hours → 9 cm | 12 hours → 9 cm. Which conclusion do the data support?

Practice question Unit: Scientific and Mechanical Reasoning

  1. AThe more hours of light there are, the more a plant always grows, in every case

    The data contradict this: going from 8 to 12 hours did not increase growth.

  2. BGrowth rose with light from 0 to 8 hours, then stopped rising at 12 ✓ Correct answer

    Growth rose from 1 to 5 to 9 cm, then stayed at 9 cm at 12 hours.

  3. CPlants kept completely without light did not grow even a little

    The 0-hour plants grew 1 cm, so growth did not stop entirely.

  4. DA plant needs exactly 8 hours of light and no other duration will work

    Values between 4, 8 and 12 were not tested, so we cannot claim 8 exactly is what is needed.

Reference: Mawhiba, National Program for Gifted Identification page: test components – Scientific and Mechanical Reasoning, concept: experiments and reading data

09In a certain code, the number 1234 becomes 5678 and the number 6789 becomes 0123. If a number is written 4509 in this code, what is the original number?

Practice question Unit: Mental Flexibility

  1. A1165

    The first digit here is 1, but 4−4 = 0, not 1.

  2. B8943

    This adds 4 to each digit instead of subtracting, so it encodes the number instead of decoding it.

  3. C0105

    The third digit here is 0, but the code 0 comes from 6 (6+4 = 10, then 0), so reversing 0−4 gives 6.

  4. D0165 ✓ Correct answer

    Each digit goes up by 4 and wraps past 9 back to 0. To decode we subtract 4: 4 to 0, 5 to 1, 0 to 6, 9 to 5.

Reference: Mawhiba, National Program for Gifted Identification page: test components – Mental Flexibility, Codes and symbols

10Each symbol stands for the same number in every equation: ▲ + ▲ + ■ = 20 ▲ + ■ + ■ = 19 What is the value of ▲ + ■?

Practice question Unit: Mental Flexibility

  1. A12

    If the sum were 12, the two equations would total 36, not 39.

  2. B14

    If the sum were 14, the two equations would total 42, not 39.

  3. C13 ✓ Correct answer

    Adding the equations gives 3 × ▲ + 3 × ■ = 39, so ▲ + ■ = 13. (The values are ▲ = 7 and ■ = 6.)

  4. D11

    If the sum were 11, the two equations would total 33, not 39.

Reference: Mawhiba, National Program for Gifted Identification page: test components – Mental Flexibility, symbol equations and number puzzles

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