1. Miller Analogies Test MAT
Test Preparation

2. What is the MAT? Miller Analogies Test
Tests your analytical ability to solve problems stated as analogies
120 partial analogies
60 minutes
Cost: About $75 depending on testing center

3. What does it test?
Your ability to recognize relationships between ideas
Fluency in the English language
General knowledge of humanities, natural sciences, math, and social studies

4. What is on the test? There are 120 of these types of questions
60 minutes
30 seconds per response
A : B :: C : D
A is to B as C is to D
Plane : Air :: Car (a. motorcycle, b. engine, c. land, d. atmosphere)
What is your answer?

5. Layout of Questions 4 Options
The missing term in a MAT analogy—the term represented by the four answer options—could be in any one of the four positions. All of the possible formats for MAT analogies are represented in the following examples
Salt : Hypertension :: Sugar : (a, cholesterol, b carbohydrates, c hyperthyroidism, d diabetes)
Seek : Find :: (a. locate, b. book, c. retrieve, d. listen) : Hear
Induction : (a. confirmation, b. graduation, c. ordination, d. resistance) :: Soldier : Priest
(a. cure, b. epidemic, c. immunity, d. patient) : Shade :: Inoculation : Parasol

6. Solving MAT Analogies
There are four basic steps in solving a MAT analogy:
1. Read the three given terms in the analogy carefully
2. Determine the relationships between the two possible pairs among the three given terms.
3. Without looking at the answer options, think of a fourth term that would complete an analogy along with the three given terms. You may be able to identify more than one possible analogy that would include the three given terms
4. Examine the answer options, and select the option that most closely resembles your idea of a term that would complete the analogy.

7. If none of the answer options seems to form an analogy, rethink the relationship you identified in the given terms. You may need to repeat the steps to arrive at an acceptable answer.
For example, consider the following:
Pint : (a cup, b quart, c liter, gallon) :: 1 : 2

8. What is the relationship between the two terms given?
Semantic: How is the word linguistically connected to the other words?
Synonym or definition – terms have same or similar meaning
Antonym or contrast – terms have opposite meanings or express unlike concepts
Intensity – one term expresses greater size or degree of something than the other
Work part/meaning – one term explains what the other means (-ism : Practice; Not : Un; Penta : Five)

9. Classification
Category – one term is subordinate or superordinate to the other (Species : Genus)
Membership – both terms are part of the same things (Wheel : Fender; Fingers : Thumbs)
Whole/Part – one term is a part of another term (Galaxy : Star)

10. Association 1. Object/characteristic Source of the other
Parrot : Beak; Hair : Bald; Deliberate : Haste
Source of the other
Book : Paper; Flour : Bread
Gives the location or setting of the other
India : Rupee; Stomata : Leaf; Parthenon : Athens
2. Order, sequential or reciprocal
Dawn : Sunrise; Alpha : Omega

11. Association Reciprocal relationship
Aunt : Niece; Weight : Mass
Grammatical transformation of the other
Bring : Brought; My : Mine; Datum : Data
3. Agent/Object – one term causes, creates, provides, requires, uses or relies on the other term
Cause / Effect
Rain : Flood; Hunger : Fasting; Crime : Punishment

12. Association Creator/Creation
Robin : Nest; Suit : Tailor; Homer : Iliad
One term provides the other or makes is possible
Education : Teacher; Food : Nutrition; Postage : Mail

13. Association One term represents the function or purpose of the other
Knife : Cut; Sound : Audiometer; Salute : Respect
One term is a tool or object used by the other
Plumber : Wrench; Seamstress : Needle

14. Logical / Mathematical
Math equations, numerical fractions, multiples
Annual : Biennial
½ : 1/20 = ½ is 10 times as much as 1/20

15. Word Play
Terms are related by non-semantic similarity or change, rhyming, homophones, letter reversal
Emit : Time
Bough : Bow
Sprung : Run

16. Strategies for Success
Read all the answer options carefully
Consider alternative meanings of words
Reorder the analogy
Reduce the numbers of choices
Postpone difficult items

17. Practice Questions
See handout

18. Questions?