Question
Select the pair that best expresses a relationship similar to that expressed in the pair:
Children : Pediatrician
Official answer and solution
- Official answer
- B
- From
- Official GATE 2015 answer key
Solution
Determine the functional relationship between the subject and the medical specialist.
In the base pair Children : Pediatrician:
- A Pediatrician is a medical practitioner specializing in the care and treatment of Children (a specific demographic category of human patients).
Evaluating the candidate pairs:
Adult : Orthopaedist: An Orthopaedist treats bones and joints in patients of all ages, not solely adults.Females : Gynaecologist: A Gynaecologist is a medical practitioner specializing in the care of Females (a specific demographic category of patients). This maintains the exact category-to-specialist relationship.Kidney : Nephrologist: A Nephrologist specializes in an organ (kidney), not a demographic group of people.Skin : Dermatologist: A Dermatologist specializes in an organ/tissue (skin), not a demographic group of people.
Thus, Females : Gynaecologist best preserves the analogous relationship.
Final answer
B
Common trap
Choosing an organ-specialist pair like Kidney:Nephrologist, failing to notice that the base pair relates a demographic group of patients to their specialist.
The answer is the one in the official GATE answer key. The solution is this site's own explanation.
Source
- Paper
- GATE 2015 Computer Science and Information Technology (CS) Session 3
- Question
- 4 of 65, printed as GA Q.4
- Section
- General Aptitude
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