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21 Mar 2026, 11:20
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This is really valuable advice, thank you harsh, especially the reminder that the goal is to optimize the score, not to solve every question. I’ll start practicing with this approach.
21 Mar 2026, 11:26
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I am facing difficulty with the CR specifically. I tried the pre-thinking and came up with the falsification scenarios. Negated them to come up with the assumptions. Checked whether those assumptions that I'd come up with as per my pre-thinking thought process are mentioned in the options or not. Surprisingly, none of them were there. No matter how many questions I solve with this approach, I couldn’t able to find any pre-thought assumptions (except for some easy, easy-medium arguments) which is frustrating. At first, I thought my approach of pre-thinking is incorrect, but it isn’t. Whatever the falsification scenario that I thought of was just one out of many. I build my assumptions based on only one and couldn’t find the one that I thought of. This kills my entire time as I wasted more than 2 mins apparently just to come up with an assumption based on pre-thinking which isn't available in the answer choices. There’s no gurantee that the specific assumption will always be stated in the answer choices. There could be a million possible falsification scenarios and I cannot just sit and think every possible falsification scenario, negate them, and come up with an assumption and try to match them with the answer choices. This is the exact problem that even Charles from GMAT Ninja also mentioned in his first video of CR series and why pre-thinking doesn’t work all the time. However, many prep tutors are against this and always recommend pre-thinking. Charles suggests to identity the conclusion first and keep the premises in ready; start looking at each option and try to negate them and see if conclusion breaks 100% or not to find the correct answer choice. This approach strategically looks convincing and easy to adopt. However, I couldn't execute this and cannot certainly cross out the wrong one out of the two deceitfully conceiving and closer answer choices. How should I be able to do overcome this dilemma and crack the code here? What's your recommendation on pre-thinking? When I pre-think and that assumption is not there, it doesn't mean that my pre-thinking is wrong. It's just that my falsification scenario was out one of many. I don't think any one can think of all the possible scenarios and try to come up with the assumptions and see if they match with the answer choices all the time. I did cross verify this with AI and it does agree with my argument. How do I overcome this and what should be the right approach to adopt to tackle every medium-hard, hard CR questions? Note that unless I solve the medium-hard, hard CR questions with right approach, I cannot be able to cross even V80.
21 Mar 2026, 11:32
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It is normal and everything is OK. The super helpful and efficient strategy of pre-thinking works well on easy and medium questions. It does not work on Hard questions because if it did, those would not be hard... you would have solved them just like Easy/Medium. There is a HUGE divide between easy/medium and hard CR questions. They require INDEPENDENT strategies and different approaches and different amount of time. Make sure you are not over-indexing on the Hard CR’s and ignore easy/medium by the way because if you get really good at Hard that does not mean you are going to be any good at Easy/Medium.
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