General Knowledge & Logics
Course Overview
General Knowledge and Logical Reasoning is the first section of the IMAT exam. It assess the thinking skills as well as the interests and knowledge in a wide varierty of fields of the candidates.
Total number of questions: 22
– Logical Reasoning: 10
– General Knowledge: 12
Live streaming hours: 6h
Syllabus
1. General rules
- Summarising information in a text
- Analysis of the alternatives
- Additional data choice
- Useful information gathering
2. Basic logical reasoning concepts
- Logical deduction
- Necessarily true options
- Necessarily false options
- Necessary and sufficient conditions
- Syllogisms
3. Logical reasoning: how to assess an argument
- Main message
- Premises and conclusions
- Deductible consequences
- Errors in reasoning
- Implicit hypothesis
- Additional information to the conclusion
- Logical structure of argumentation
- Principles
4. Logical mathematical problems
- Basic non-algebraic notions (proportions, percentages)
- Methods
- Necessary and unnecessary data
5. Logical verbal reasoning
- Conceptual analogies
- Logical connections
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Terms and expressions meaning
- Incomplete sentences
- Figures of speech
6. General culture
- Information and questions