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IS the SWIM method for CR still relevant ?

Remind me what does it stand for? Technically anything that was relevant 10 years ago and critical reasoning is still roving today. Nothing has changed about critical reasoning questions.

Strengthen Weaken Inference Method of reasoning ,SWIM. It is actually a method where you read the Question stem FIRST and then the stimulus. is this method legit? some swear by it (Veritas Prep) whole others say it may only work for easy difficulty questions, an inefficient way to approach CR and a complete waste of time.

Sorry I don’t think I’m familiar with that approach but you always want to start reading the question prompt so you know what you’re reading the passage for. I think that’s good advice. Also, I feel answering the question in your own words is the fastest way to solve it though I’ve heard a lot complain that it was too hard. Maybe but it seems to work best and be very efficient for many.

In my opinion, it has now led to increase in time taken to arrive at the correct answer. Reading the question, does point us towards specific locations, however, it aslo leads to overlooking of various factoids embedded in the paragraph. Moreover, the primary purpose and inference questions require you to read the whole paragraph as a whole anyway. I find a strategy that helps is mapping which facts/words are present approximately where, so that even if the passage is to be revisited, we can directly jump to it. n my opinion, it has now led to increase in time taken to arrive at the correct answer. Reading the question, does point us towards specific locations, however, it aslo leads to overlooking of various factoids embedded in the paragraph. Moreover, the primary purpose and inference questions require you to read the whole paragraph as a whole anyway. I find a strategy that helps is mapping which facts/words are present approximately where, so that even if the passage is to be revisited, we can directly jump to it.