Free ACT Deductive Reasoning practice
Deductive reasoning gives you a one or two-line statement and a question about it: who is shorter, who is quicker, who finished last. Any one question is easy. The difficulty is that you get only a few seconds each, and the wording is built to trip you up — negatives such as “is not as quick as” and reversed questions that ask for the slower rather than the faster.
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James is taller than Owen. Who is shorter?
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