Relationship Reversals
Detect when a statement reverses actor and recipient, cause and outcome, order or comparison.
How to prepare for the CSVT
Use 601 original passage-and-statement questions to locate relevant wording, preserve scope and qualifiers, distinguish support from contradiction, and stop assumptions filling evidence gaps.
Core concepts
Concept 1
actor reversal
Exam cue: Express the relationship as A-to-B before comparing it with the statement.
Concept 2
comparison reversal
Exam cue: Check whether the passage establishes the reverse as false or merely does not discuss it.
Concept 3
sequence reversal
Concept 4
direction
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Assuming every reversed relation is automatically contradicted.
Guardrail: Do not copy official questions, invent a fixed test length or weighting, replace passage evidence with outside knowledge, treat unsupported as False, infer score from difficulty or rely on returning to an earlier item.
Being misled by repeated names and verbs.
Guardrail: Do not copy official questions, invent a fixed test length or weighting, replace passage evidence with outside knowledge, treat unsupported as False, infer score from difficulty or rely on returning to an earlier item.
Memory anchors
Arrow the relationship
Write who acts on whom or what precedes what.
Reverse changes meaning
A-to-B is not automatically B-to-A.
Conflict still needs evidence
A one-way fact may leave the reverse unknown.
Comparisons have orientation
Higher than reverses to lower than, not higher than.
Repeated words can distract
Track roles rather than vocabulary.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
Passage: The council leases the hall from the trust. Statement: The trust leases the hall from the council.
Passage: Iris supervises Noor. Statement: Noor is supervised by Iris.
Answer all questions to submit.
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