Name the relation and preserve its direction.
Practise tool–action, young–adult, part–whole, maker–product, storage–contents and an explicitly ordered increase.
This count describes six selected tasks in this edition and language. It is not an IQ, percentile, hiring standard or estimate of your general verbal ability. Every count opens the same answers and complete guides.
Related words need a specified relation
An analogy is more precise when the task states which relation matters. A needle and sewing can be connected as tool and action; a needle and thread can be connected as tools or materials used together. Both associations can make sense, but only one matches a requested tool-to-action pattern. This bank supplies the intended relation so that a broad association does not silently become the scoring rule.
A correct association can face the wrong way
Suppose the model pair is wheel to bicycle and the requested pattern is component to whole. A door to a cabinet follows that direction. A cabinet to a door reverses it, even though the objects remain related. A carpenter to a cabinet instead names a maker and a product. State both roles aloud before choosing: the first term is the component and the second term is the containing whole.
Keep the same level of description
For a maker-to-product item, distinguish the finished object from the maker’s material or equipment. For storage and contents, use the usual designated purpose in the fictional comparison rather than asserting that every physical cupboard is currently full. For an increase, preserve the stated low-to-high direction. The two pairs need not use the same physical unit; the question concerns the ordered relation, not a numerical conversion between actions.
Build three deliberate distractors
Choose a new pair and write its relation as a complete sentence. Create a matching pair, a reversed pair, a pair that swaps one role, and a pair with only a loose association. Ask whether your relation accidentally fits more than one choice. If it does, tighten the wording or replace a choice. This exercise makes ambiguity visible before you attribute an unexpected answer to someone’s reasoning ability.
A relation exercise is a narrow observation
The six authored analogies do not establish creativity, learning speed, occupational fit or general intelligence. Familiarity with a word or cultural object can influence the task. The English and Chinese wording was reviewed for the intended relationships, but no cross-language calibration or independent semantic validation is claimed. After reading the explanations, use new pairs to practise the relation instead of treating a repeated perfect count as a new ability estimate.