SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 13 September 2024, Shift 3 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 2 of 98

Text as printed on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; answer per SSC's tentative key as marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 6 September 2026.

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Select the option that is related to the third word in the same way as the second word is related to the first word. (The words must be considered as meaningful English words and must NOT be related to each other based on the number of letters/number of consonants/vowels in the word) Magician : Magic :: Dancer : ?

(a)Movie
(b)Song
(c)Theatre
(d)Dance

Answer

Why

Correct — D. Rule: the first word names the performer, the second names the activity that performer carries out.

A magician performs magic. By the same relation, a dancer performs dance.

The second term is also the noun the performer's name is built on, which is what makes the pair exact rather than merely associated. Dance stands in that relation to dancer, so the answer is option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Movie — A movie is a finished film made by a production crew. It is not the activity a dancer carries out, so it cannot stand where magic stands.
(b)
Song — A song is what a singer produces. Change the first word to singer and this would fit perfectly, which is exactly why it is offered here.
(c)
Theatre — Theatre is a venue where performances happen. The pair asks what the performer does, and a place answers a different question.

Concept

Analogy items turn on naming the relation in one short sentence before you look at the options. Here the relation is performer to the activity that names him: a magician does magic, a dancer dances.

The bracketed rider bans grouping by letters, consonants or vowels, which closes off the shortcut of matching word shapes. That leaves meaning as the permitted test.

When more than one option survives, prefer the word that is the direct output of the performer rather than the venue, the audience or the equipment.

Movie, song and theatre are all words a student associates with performance, so the item is decided by the precision of the relation and not by topic.

Key facts

The relation here is performer to performance, not performer to venue.
Dancer is the agent noun built directly on dance.
The bracketed rider forbids solving the pair by counting letters or vowels.

Study next

Agent-noun analogies such as worker to work and player to playAnalogies whose second term is a tool rather than an activityThree-term analogies written in the A : B :: C : ? form

Common traps

Picking the word most often seen near dancer instead of the word in the same relation
Choosing a venue such as theatre when the relation is an activity
Testing letter patterns after the stem has explicitly banned them

SSC writes this as A : B :: C : ?, with a bracketed rider warning you off letter counts. The same rider is printed on the word-pair items at Reasoning Q.4 and Q.6 of this shift.

Related PYQs

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