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Analogies

About 5 min · General Intelligence and Reasoning · English

Time worked out from the lesson's 279 words at 150 words a minute, plus a minute for each question.

Analogies are a topic in the Railway Group D reasoning section. An analogy question presents a pair of items that share a specific relationship, and you must identify another pair with the same type of relationship or complete a given pair. These questions test your ability to recognize patterns, relationships, and logical connections between words, numbers, or figures.

Key ideas

• Relationship identification is primary: Every analogy is built on one specific relationship between the first pair. Your first task is always to articulate this relationship clearly before looking at options.
• Same relationship, different content: The second pair must have the identical relationship type but with different elements. For example, if the first pair shows "tool to worker," the second must also show "tool to worker," not "worker to workplace."
• Word analogies use semantic and categorical logic: Common relationships include synonyms/antonyms, part-to-whole, category-to-member, cause-and-effect, tool-and-function, and person-to-profession.
• Number analogies follow mathematical patterns: Look for arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), square/cube relationships, prime numbers, digit sums, or positional patterns.
• Figural analogies test visual logic: Elements rotate, reflect, get added or subtracted, change in size/position, or follow completion patterns. Count elements, note shading, and track transformations systematically.

Quick reference

• First identify the relationship type, then match it—never guess by surface similarity.
• Word analogies: synonym, antonym, part-whole, tool-function, person-place.
• Number analogies: square, cube, operations, digit manipulation, pattern sequences.
• Figure analogies: rotation, reflection, addition/subtraction, shading, position shifts.
• Relationship direction matters: A : B means a specific A→B relationship; maintain it in C : D.

Check yourself: 3 questions

This lesson is cut from the topic's note, not rewritten. Fact-checked on 21 Oct 2026: an AI-assisted check of this note against cited sources; the errors it found were corrected that day. Some errors may remain. The questions are from Shishya's validated question bank.

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