raju1212 wrote:
So am in the midst of prepping for my GMAT in the coming months. Currently im around 650 and want to get to 750. And wanted some tips as well as share my prep so far. mainly targeting the verbal section specifically CR questions.
So far I cant get almost 70% to 80% accuracy, but i need it to boost it to the max.
I found an interesting blogs to help get a different perspective for CR, where you put logic over your intuition to answer questions.
In my analysis of wrong questions i found the main error i did was not understanding the argument given correctly. Pin pointing all the parts of an argument (premise, conclusion, assumption) was they key in my opinion to get most questions right. And in my observation what differentiates a hard CR question from easy one is that on the hard one, its very difficult to understand the premise, conclusion and arguments.
Currently you can say im stuck in a plateau where my score aren't going down or going up. And was wondering how can I get out of it. The question which i do get wrong in most cases it is because the language of the argument seemed complicated and couldn't figure out what is what, and the main ideas of it - cause, correlation or centre idea of it - or sometimes it was silly mistake. Now i know silly mistakes can be improved with more practice. but i needed more tips and how can I disintegrate the argument into all the important parts to get a clear understanding of it. So is this the right method to move ahead, if yes how can I improve and if no what else can I do to get high accuracy in CR questions.
In summary im trying to find the crux of CR questions (I know there are sub topics in cr like weaken, evaluate, assumption etc and each require a specific thing but was wondering is there something which holds them all together? )
Hi
raju1212Let me help you here.
How to approach CR questions?
Most of the CR questions are based on one of the four frameworks:
- Plan-goal
- Causality
- Quantitative
- Comparison
And each framework has a set of guidelines to pre-think. So, once you know the frameworks and understand the guidelines to pre-think, the process of solving CR questions will become a lot more simple and structured. But before that, you need to understand the individual elements such as the argument, premise and the conclusion. Only then, you can start learning the process.
The process of solving CR questions includes many steps:
- Reading the argument
- Identifying the premise and the conclusion
- Reading the question stem
- Identifying the missing link
- Eliminating answer choices which are irrelevant, out of scope or distorted
As you see, even if you falter in any one step, the entire process goes wrong. Here are a couple of articles which will help you understand the right way to solve CR questions.
So, I suggest you to focus more on mastering the process first. If you need any resource to learn the basics and the methodology to solve CR questions, then you can check out the CR module of
GMATWhiz.
If you have any more queries, feel free to get in touch using the below link.
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20 Jul 2022, 07:45
