Difficulty: Medium
Correct Answer: Analyze
Explanation:
Introduction / Context:
This verbal analogy captures a common sequence in learning and human resource processes. First you develop something or someone, and then you assess the results. Similarly, you train people and then you evaluate or analyze their performance. The question tests understanding of this process sequence: action followed by evaluation of that action.
Given Data / Assumptions:
Concept / Approach:
To develop someone means to help them grow, improve skills, or improve performance. After development has taken place, it is natural to assess the progress and results. Assessment is a process of evaluation. Similarly, to train someone is to teach them skills or methods. After training, one normally analyzes or evaluates performance to see whether the training has been effective. So the relationship is “improvement action : evaluation of result”. We must find the evaluation verb that complements train.
Step-by-Step Solution:
Step 1: Confirm the first relationship. Develop is the action of helping growth or improvement. Assess is the later action of judging or evaluating what has been developed.
Step 2: Consider the second keyword train. To train is to teach or coach someone, often in skills needed for a job or task.
Step 3: Examine each option in relation to train.
Change means to make something different. It is not specifically the evaluation step after training.
Educate is itself another improvement or teaching action, similar to train, not the evaluation that follows it.
Analyze means to examine in detail, study carefully, or evaluate performance or results. This is the natural step that follows training when you want to measure effectiveness.
Recruit means to bring new people into an organisation, which usually happens before training, not after.
Step 4: Therefore, the verb that plays the same role relative to train as assess does to develop is analyze.
Verification / Alternative check:
We can write out the process pairs: Develop then Assess; Train then Analyze. In both cases, the first verb is about improvement or teaching, and the second verb is about evaluation of the outcome. This preserves the process order and role. None of the other options are evaluation words; they either describe further change, more teaching, or recruitment, which belong to different stages in a human resource cycle.
Why Other Options Are Wrong:
• Change: This can be both cause and effect but does not specifically refer to evaluation or judgement after training.
• Educate: Similar to train and therefore does not mirror the “action then evaluation” sequence.
• Recruit: Recruitment is the process of bringing people in, often before training; it is not evaluation of training effects.
Common Pitfalls:
A common mistake is to pick a word that feels close in meaning to train, such as educate, instead of the word that describes the next step in the process. Analogy questions often use sequences, not just simple synonyms. Here, you must notice that develop and assess are not synonyms but sequential steps: first develop, then assess. Following that pattern makes analyze the only logically consistent partner for train.
Final Answer:
The correct word that completes the analogy is Analyze.
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