EMPOWERgmatRichC wrote:
Hi rs1,
Are you practicing any specific CR Tactics (that you learned from a GMAT Course, book, etc.) or did you come up with 'your way' of approaching CR on your own?
CR prompts are built around a predictable series of question types, logical 'structures' and common wrong answer choices, so you CAN train to score at a higher level AND at a faster pace.
1) How long have you been studying?
2) What materials have you been using? What materials have you used specifically for CR?
3) Do you know all of the CR question types (and how to properly handle each)?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
Thank you for chiming in.. in terms of tactics - I have read the approach of
manhattan gmat,
powerscore CR bible, and
E-GMAT. I focused on the
E-GMAT approach as it broke everything down into discrete steps before presenting drill sets. However, after looking at
OG problems, it is clear that the
E-GMAT CR examples are much simpler than those in
OG (at least Inference questions as I've only been through
OG Inference questions for now)
I went through the
Powerscore CR bible about a year ago; I'm reviewing it again to hone my approach.
Re. your comment about CR prompts; both
E-GMAT and Powerscore have been great at explaining logical structures and essentially what to look out for when answering questions. The key difficulty that I have is understanding the stimulus itself in less than 1.5 mins. I find the material to be dense and I really need to pay attention to the details while making logical connections in my head. I have started to experiment with my note taking approach. I've settled on noting down only the entities and quantity words and any key relationships that exist - opposed to - a well layed out logical structure. Again - perhaps it will be easier for me to diagram logical structures for other question types, but for Inference, I seem to be struggling a lot with time purely because of the time it takes me to read the stimulus.
Answering your other questions:
1) on and off for about 18 months. Focus has been on SC and Quant. Didn't think CR would be an issue (got stung there.. )
2) answered above
3) I am reviewing the
powerscore CR bible again - I don't think that I've internalised all of the content re. correct vs. incorrect characteristics of answer choices for 'all' types of questions. I have for Inference as this is what I have started to go through. I will be going through other question types over the next week.
Is there a way of improving the speed by which one absorbs the stimulus? My approach is to read the entire stimulus carefully but efficiently (and by efficiently, I mean 'try' not to re-read sentences too much, but I find that I have to re-read key relationships several times to be clear about not mixing details up)
How long should it take on average to read the stimulus before evaluating answer choices?
Apologies for the long post. Your feedback would be appreciated..