I am terrible at Verbal Reasoning tests

Been doing some free practice VRTs on the internet and I typically score between 33%-50% correct.

Is this fairly normal or am I very bad at this? Any tips people have?

What score is expected of me if say, I want to get a job in the Government Legal Service?

When I'm ever in doubt of the answer (because its just very unclear or asking for something I am very sure is not provided in the statement) I always go for the 'cannot say' option.

I wish these tests would tell me which questions I got wrong.

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Fugggggg :DDD

Original post by J-SP

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Base your answers on the information provided. Try not to think what would happen in real life, just purely with the information presented to you. This will probably eliminate some of your "cannot say" answers as people tend to choose these thinking outside factors would influence the outcome. The "cannot say" should only be if it is obvious that information is clearly missing.

yeah I think this is what has been tripping me up, I apply common sense learnt from the outside world to some of my answers if the answer is not explicitly in the statement/text and it ends up being wrong :/