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03 Aug 2024, 06:59
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LouisDelaisse
Analysis of all 5 answer choices and understanding what exactly is wrong with 4 of them. I personally find eliminating 4 wrong answers easier and quicker than finding and justifying the right answer. Going the GMAT Ninja way!
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03 Aug 2024, 07:33
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What you want to do is break this down into 1 - CR and RC, further break down CR into 1a, Strengthen, Weaken, Assumptions, 1b Evaluate the argument, 1c resole paradox, 1d etc. etc. Then do the same with RC - 2a inference, 2b primary purpose, 3c etc. etc. What you want to do to improve is to have an understanding of where you are doing good and where do you slip.
For CR, you will be able to get improvement relatively faster than let’s say RC. CR is about thinking in a tight logical way. The answer choices some of them will be very lucrative or the easy ones out, and what you want to do to avoid those choices is to be watertight with your reasoning.
For CR, you want to have a process for each question type. And before you do that you need to be able to point to the conclusion and the premises clearly.
It is not very hard to point to the conclusions in most questions, some of them may have more than one conclusion you will still be able to figure out the conclusion. You also want to understand causal arguments and how they work, sampling and comparing different groups in a survey etc etc. so you want to then think of the different types of arguments that you will typically see on the GMAT....
This is a sample list of the types of questions in CR, and the number of questions that appeared in a sample of 7 practice exams official....
This is not an indicator of what you will see on the actual test and should only give you a sense of the breadth of what could appear, you will strengthen, weaken and assumption form one class of questions asked
Hope this is helpful I will make a post on the question types on CR
For RC you want to find your balance on how well you read and how fast, try to link each passage and understand why the author is telling this. Or how does the overall flow work and once you get that then think of the overall bird’s eye view with detail where applicable. Once you have reading precision nailed down you want to learn different types of passages, science, humanities, others for example. I was really good at science and business passages, and I was not so good on humanities, so I did practice those a whole lot.
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Lastly, what you want to do is plan an attack for your prep. Once you have a plan, you want to be intense with both learning and practicing. CR do 10 questions on each question type every week. Same with RC do 1 or two passages every day if you can. Good luck
