Verbal Question of the Day Chat Group

CR and RC Qs are of same type in Focus. You can practice as you do for classic gmat.

Critical Reasoning Butler: January 2024
January 29	CR 1	CR 2

Any resources to improve understanding and accuracy on science-based RC passages? I have gone through the forums and a couple of videos on Youtube as well, but those have not really helped all that much.

I have my exam in 2 days, so any leads would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!

I don’t have sources to read up on any specific topics. But maybe you could start your own vocab log? Mine is made on google sheet (not that many vocabs yet) with these columns: Words, Meaning, Synonyms, Example Sentence. Maybe you could add another column to kinda give a tag to each word whether they are related to, say, history/law/science etc.

But if my exam is in 2 days, it would be quite difficult and exhausting for me to rapidly adjust myself to specific RC passages. So for me, I’d focus on keeping a clear head and improve my focus instead so that I can perform my best during the test.

There is also this section of GMAT Club where you can go through RC passages of specific topics based on the filter you choose, if you’re interested in more actual practice.
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Critical Reasoning Butler: January 2024
January 30	CR 1	CR 2

hey! I know, its a lot to ask but , if possible, could you give access to your vocab log so that, i could also refer to it for the same . My id is - [email protected]

CR Questions January - 30 :

Q1. Studies have shown that the number of books read in elementary school is correlated with later academic success. In the past year, local elementary students have read an average of 10 fewer books than the nationwide elementary student average of 35 books per year, while 90 percent of those local students report playing sports at least twice a week. If these students participated less in sports, they would read more books.

Which of the following, if true, would most effectively weaken the argument?


(A) A nationwide survey of middle school students determined that if given a choice between reading a book and playing a sport, most of these students would choose reading a book.

(B) Participating in sports in elementary school has been shown to be as highly correlated as reading books to later academic success.

(C) The attention spans of elementary school students do not allow these children to read for as long as older students and adults are expected to read.

(D) The local elementary school is in a rural area in which there is no bookstore or public library and internet service is unreliable.

(E) Some local elementary school students who used to enjoy reading have said they no longer choose to read books, preferring to play sports at least twice a week.



Difficulty - Hard

Q2. Editorial: A new city ordinance would place a health and safety tax on cigarettes, with advocates arguing that the sale of cigarettes poses a public health risk to the citizens of the city who don’t smoke. Smokers’ advocates argue that this ordinance would place undue burden on smokers and is unlawful discrimination.

Which of the following, if true, most weakens the smokers’ advocates’ argument?

A. It is illegal for the city to discriminate against citizens because of personal choices.

B. It is illegal for the city to discriminate against citizens for health reasons.

C. Taxes can legally be considered discriminatory within the city’s constitution.

D. Taxes levied on non-necessary goods are passed by public referendum and cannot be challenged legally.

E. Taxes levied on non-necessary goods are passed by public referendum and can only be challenged civilly.



Difficulty - Hard

Hi, here’s the template for the Vocab log I mentioned. The list of vocabs aren’t that comprehensive yet since I’m filling it as I review Verbal day by day. You can make a copy of the sheet to make it your own Vocab log. Hope this helps!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... =808799881

Hi everyone!
I gave the GMAT today (the classic version) and am absolutely dejected by my verbal score. I gave the Manhattan mocks and was scoring around 35-38 in the verbal section, with my overall mock score ranging from 630-640. I was relatively confident in verbal but got an abysmal scaled score of 21 in the official exam
I wanted a 650 but verbal brought me down. I still can’t believe the score as I did not score this low in the official prep mocks either
did anyone have a similar experience with verbal?

Yeah. I took the actual attempt on 29th Jan. And I got a 640(Q49/V27).
I was getting consistent V35 on mocks from egmat and mba.com.
Although I couldn’t sleep at all the night before, lack of sleep couldn’t have caused this much drop in my score.
I was absolutely devastated since I was scoring good on my mocks.

I don’t really understand what went wrong. Is there a way to challenge the score?

I don’t think so you can challenge the score

Hi.
Is the DI section in FE scored out of 51?

Somehow I felt that the clock was ticking faster than a normal clock on the actual test.

Just like Quant and Verbal.

Maybe you were nervous...that happens when you are nervous

is the focus edition harder than the classic gmat?