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Terri of Prepped and Polished tells you how to solve the hardest of analogies when you don’t know the meaning of both stem words.
What you need to know to solve SSAT analogies when you don’t know the meaning of both stem words
Today, I’m gonna dive a little deeper into an advanced strategy that I actually reviewed before in a previous blog, how to solve the hardest of SSAT analogies when you don’t know the meaning of both stem words. Let me show you a winning strategy.
So back solving, you can call it that, is an advanced strategy when you don’t know the meaning of both stem words and you want to work backward as much as you can. In other words, go straight to the answer choices because, obviously, you don’t know the meaning of the stem words, so you want to go right to the answer choices and try to make definitional sentences with them. So, which ones are not likely to be correct and you can eliminate. Eliminate the ones in which the words are not related in such a way that you need one to define the other. In other words, there’s not a clear, concise definitional relationship.
Analogies may seem frightening, but with practice you can solve even the hardest of analogies when you don’t know the meaning of both stem words.
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