Parallel Reasoning Questions

Parallel Reasoning questions ask you to identify the answer choice that contains
reasoning most similar in structure to the reasoning in the stimulus. Since this
task requires you to first identify the method of argumentation used by the
author and then to match that reasoning to the reasoning presented in each
answer choice, these questions can be quite time consuming (a fact known to
and exploited by the test makers).
Like Method of Reasoning and Flaw in the Reasoning questions, Parallel
Reasoning questions are in the First Family and have the same information
structure. However, because of the abstract nature of these questions, comparing
the stimulus to the answer choices takes on a different dimension, and we will
address this issue in a moment in the section entitled Solving Parallel Reasoning
Questions.
Question stem examples:
“Which one of the following is most closely parallel in its reasoning to
the reasoning in the argument above?”
“Which one of the following exhibits a pattern of reasoning most similar
to that exhibited by the argument above?”
“Which one of the following arguments is most similar in its logical
features to the argument above?”
“Which one of the following arguments is most similar in its pattern of
reasoning to the argument above?”
“The structure of the reasoning in the argument above is most parallel to
that in which one of the following?”