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How to classify stem and stimulus in an question?

by bubbliiiiiiii » Fri Sep 17, 2010 2:09 am
Hi,

From the past few days, I have been reading the "Expert replies" to understand how to work on a CR question.

The two words which I very frequently come across is "Stem" and "Stimulus" of a question. Can someone please explain what these terms mean and how to identify them?

Thanks in advance!

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by David@VeritasPrep » Fri Sep 17, 2010 12:44 pm
The "stimulus" is the actual paragraph that tells the story. It is called this because the question flows from this - it stimulates the question.

The "stem" or more properly, "the question stem" is the sentence that asks you about the stimulus. "Which of the following most strengthens the argument above?" is an example of a question stem.

It is the question stem that helps people to categorize various questions. The example above is certainly a strengthen question. Other types are Weaken, Inference, Paradox, Bold-faced, Method of reasoning and so on.

Hope that helps in your quest to learn about CR questions!

Good luck!
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by bubbliiiiiiii » Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:11 am
Thanks David! :)
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