About this book

Most Watson-Glaser preparation focuses on practice questions. This book focuses on something more fundamental: understanding the reasoning the test is designed to measure.

The Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal tests five specific skills — drawing valid inferences, recognising unstated assumptions, following deductive logic, interpreting evidence, and evaluating arguments. These are learnable skills. But you learn them by understanding the underlying concepts, not by memorising answer patterns.

This book teaches you the reasoning behind the test through eleven structured concept chapters, followed by 168 original practice questions with detailed explanations — telling you not just the right answer but why it is right.

What this book covers

• The five Watson-Glaser question types explained from first principles
• Deductive reasoning: syllogisms, if-then arguments, and common fallacies
• Inductive reasoning: generalisations, analogies, and convergent arguments
• Causal reasoning: why correlation is not causation
• The Negation Test for identifying assumptions
• 168 practice questions with detailed explanations
• Chapter references linking every answer back to the concepts

Who it is for

• Candidates preparing for the Watson-Glaser as part of law firm, consulting, or corporate graduate recruitment
• Professionals asked to take the Watson-Glaser for senior management roles
• Anyone who wants to genuinely strengthen their critical thinking skills
• MBA and postgraduate students preparing for aptitude assessments

About the author

A S Prasad is the founder of the Critical Thinking Academy. After three decades in senior management across FMCG, media, and IT, he turned to teaching and training critical thinking skills to executives and students. He has trained more than 4,000 people at organisations including Amazon, GE Healthcare, and McCormick, and at institutions including IIM Rohtak, IMT Ghaziabad, and NIFT. He is the lead author of Critical and Analytical Thinking (Cengage India, 2024) and the author of The Hidden Traps of Persuasion (2023). He holds an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.

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