Overview and Review Choose the option that most appropriately describes the meaning of both the words.
- (a)Overview means assessment and review means general idea
- (b)Overview means general idea and review means assessment
- (c)Overview means general analysis and review means go through
- (d)Overview means summary and review means evaluation
Answer
B
Why
Correct — B. An 'overview' is a broad, general idea or summary of something, while a 'review' is a considered assessment or appraisal of it. Option B matches each word to its core sense.
Why the others are wrong
- (a)Overview means assessment and review means general idea — Swaps the two — 'assessment' is what a review gives, and the 'general idea' is what an overview gives.
- (c)Overview means general analysis and review means go through — 'Go through' is a vague verb phrase, not a definition of the noun 'review'; a review is an evaluation, not merely going through something.
- (d)Overview means summary and review means evaluation — A defensible gloss on its own (an overview is a kind of summary, a review an evaluation), but the key rewards the cleaner 'general idea / assessment' pairing in B.
Concept
'Overview' means a broad general idea or summary; 'review' means a critical assessment or evaluation.
Related PYQs
No directly related past PYQ was found.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
'Overview' most nearly means —
- (a)detailed critique
- (b)general summary
- (c)final verdict
- (d)rough guess
Answer(b) general summary — an overview gives the broad general idea of something.
- practice — not a real PYQ
A 'review' of a book is best described as —
- (a)a broad general idea of it
- (b)an assessment of it
- (c)its table of contents
- (d)a summary of the plot only
Answer(b) an assessment of it — a review appraises or evaluates the work.