OEA Admission Exam study guide
OEA Admission Exam · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The OEA Admission Exam is a multiple-choice assessment used to gauge whether a candidate has the reasoning and communication skills expected at the start of a demanding academic or professional program. It is aimed at applicants preparing to enter study or training where quantitative fluency, careful reading, and structured argument are prerequisites rather than optional extras. The OEA Admission Exam study guide has 5 sections and about 1,303 words.
01Quantitative Reasoning and Data Interpretation
Percentages (successive change, reverse percentages), ratios and proportions, averages and weighted averages, rates (work and distance), and basic probability. For data interpretation, know how to read tables, bar/line charts, and pie charts, and how to compute totals, shares, and percent differences from them.
301 words, about 2 min02Verbal Reasoning and Reading Comprehension
Main idea versus supporting detail, the author's tone and purpose, inference that stays strictly within the text, vocabulary in context, and the logical structure of an argument (claim, evidence, assumption). True but off-topic : an answer that is factually consistent with the passage but does not answer the specific question.
261 words, about 1 min03Logical and Analytical Reasoning
Deductive validity (if–then reasoning, contrapositives), syllogisms, necessary versus sufficient conditions, ordering and grouping puzzles, and spotting assumptions and flaws in arguments. Affirming the consequent : from "If P then Q" and "Q," you cannot conclude "P." Only the contrapositive (not Q → not P) is valid.
249 words, about 1 min04Written Communication and Language Usage
Subject–verb agreement, pronoun reference and agreement, parallelism, misplaced and dangling modifiers, tense consistency, punctuation (commas, semicolons, apostrophes), and clear, concise sentence construction. Interrupting phrases : in "The list of items is long," the verb agrees with "list," not "items." Strip the phrase to find the true subject.
241 words, about 1 min05General Knowledge and Analytical Problem Solving
Broad awareness of current events, geography, basic science, and civics, plus the analytical skills to break multi-step problems into parts, identify what is being asked, and reason from given data rather than memory. Outdated facts : relying on stale information (old capitals, former leaders, superseded records).
251 words, about 1 min