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Hi fellow Gmatclub, My test in on 12/30/16 and I'm looking to improve on my verbal section especially CR. I know it's not a lot of time to do any major progress, but I'm just looking for a little bit of improvement. I had busy work throughout, but alas I have days off from tomorrow to Jan. The last test I took had me score a 540, I'm hoping for close to 600. I reviewed my stats and find my weakness to be mainly CR and RC, I'm not really sure I can really improve my RC, so I want to improve my CR. I have read the 5th edition MGMAT on CR, I have attempted about 90/124 of the OG 2016 questions. On the easy questions I barely get anything wrong, but once I get to 65+ questions, I start to see quite a few of them. I never found the CR to be hard, but I guess there are many things that can distract you from the correct answer. I find that sometimes I have to read the questions twice because I lost focus, I'm not good at taking notes so I wont really try to do that, but who knows. How should I develop my study plan so I can boost my score?
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23 Dec 2016, 13:15
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If you think that taking notes would help you, you should work on improving your notetaking! It isn't something you should just write off as 'I'm not naturally good at taking notes.' Give it a try as you do some practice problems - if you can't make it work, that's fine, but you owe it to yourself to at least see what you can do with it.
A good approach for taking notes on CR is to always write the conclusion first, and then jot down the reasons that the author believes that conclusion. Focusing on the conclusion first typically helps you get a better handle on the structure of the argument as a whole. (A lot of the time, the best-looking wrong answers on CR problems will sort of strengthen or weaken a conclusion, but not the exact conclusion written in the argument.)
Also, are you keeping a problem log for CR? Start a spreadsheet where you track problems you do. Record at least the following data, plus whatever else you find useful:
- why did the right answer look wrong to me? Why didn't I pick it?
- why did the wrong answer look right to me? Why did I pick it?
Each time you do this, you learn one reason not to pick an answer (even if it looks good), and one reason to pick an answer (even if it looks bad).
A good approach for taking notes on CR is to always write the conclusion first, and then jot down the reasons that the author believes that conclusion. Focusing on the conclusion first typically helps you get a better handle on the structure of the argument as a whole. (A lot of the time, the best-looking wrong answers on CR problems will sort of strengthen or weaken a conclusion, but not the exact conclusion written in the argument.)
Also, are you keeping a problem log for CR? Start a spreadsheet where you track problems you do. Record at least the following data, plus whatever else you find useful:
- why did the right answer look wrong to me? Why didn't I pick it?
- why did the wrong answer look right to me? Why did I pick it?
Each time you do this, you learn one reason not to pick an answer (even if it looks good), and one reason to pick an answer (even if it looks bad).
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