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100 Easiest Critical Reasoning Questions (Oct 1st, 2025 - Nov 1st, 2025)
Are you familiar with the GMAT Club's timer?We have pulled timer results from our database and analyzed every question in the forum. Based on those results, we have compiled a list of the easiest questions in each of the question forums we have. Below I am presenting to you the top 100 questions from CR forum.
| Critical Reasoning (CR) | ||
| Rank | Title | Topics |
| 1 | According to researchers, students exposed to a wider variety of GMAT | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Complete the Passage, Source: EMPOWERgmat |
| 2 | A young man eager to become a master swordsman journeyed to the home | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Evaluate Argument, Source: 1000 Series |
| 3 | For the past several years, a certain technology has been widely used | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Complete the Passage, Source: GMAT Prep (Classic), Source: Official Guide, Source: Verbal Review 2024-2025 |
| 4 | Over the past six years, most of the students in Tupac city have | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Assumption, Source: Aristotle |
| 5 | Scientists propose placing seismic stations on the floor of the Pacifi | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Evaluate Argument, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 12, Source: OG 2025-2026 |
| 6 | Working professionals aged between 35 and 45 are more likely to | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Logical Flaw, Source: CrackVerbal |
| 7 | Homeowners aged 40 to 50 are more likely to purchase ice cream and are | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Logical Flaw, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2016, Source: OG 2015/OG13, Source: OG 12, Source: OG 11 |
| 8 | A series of experiments was conducted in which rats of various ages we | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: Kaplan |
| 9 | When three Everett-owned Lightning-built airplanes crashes in the same | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Strengthen, Source: GMAT Paper Tests, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 10, Source: OG 9 |
| 10 | Scientists are discussing ways to remove excess carbon dioxide from | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Logical Flaw, Source: GMAT Prep (Classic) |
| 11 | Rural households have more purchasing power than do urban or suburban | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Inference, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Official Guide (Pre-2000), Source: OG 11, Source: OG 10, Source: OG 9, Source: OG 1992 |
| 12 | Shelby Industries manufactures and sells the same gauges as Jones Indu | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 10, Source: OG 9, Source: Verbal OG, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2ND, Source: Verbal Review 1ST |
| 13 | It is difficult to keep deep wounds free of bacteria. Even strong anti | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: 1000 Series, Source: LSAT |
| 14 | Beginning in 1966 all new cars sold in Morodia were required to have | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2024-2025, Source: OG 2022, Source: OG 2021, Source: OG 2020, Source: OG 2019, Source: OG 2018, Source: OG 2025-2026 |
| 15 | When ducklings are exposed to music, they gain about six percent more | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Evaluate Argument, Source: GMAT Prep (Classic), Source: Official Guide, Source: Verbal Review 2024-2025 |
| 16 | Secret passwords are often used to control access to computers. When | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: GMAT Prep (Classic), Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2024-2025, Source: OG 2025-2026 |
| 17 | Suncorp, a new corporation with limited funds, has been | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2024-2025, Source: OG 2022, Source: OG 2021, Source: OG 2020, Source: OG 2019, Source: OG 2018, Source: OG 2017, Source: OG 2016, Source: OG 2015/OG13 |
| 18 | A certain pharmaceutical firm claims that its dietary supplement, Diet | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Evaluate Argument, Source: Manhattan GMAT |
| 19 | According to experts on shopping behavior, more shoppers | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Complete the Passage, Source: GMAT Prep (Classic) |
| 20 | Production manager: The building materials that we produce meet indust | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Method of Reasoning, Source: 1000 Series, Source: LSAT |
| 21 | Airline: Newly developed collision-avoidance systems, although not ful | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Strengthen, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 10, Source: OG 9 |
| 22 | The local university recently hired a new soccer coach. Although she | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Assumption, Source: Manhattan GMAT |
| 23 | The average life expectancy for the United States population as a whol | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Official Guide, Source: Official Guide (Pre-2000), Source: OG 11, Source: OG 10, Source: OG 9, Source: OG 1992 |
| 24 | For over fifty years, the ocean-freight industry worked to make ocean | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Evaluate Argument, Source: 1000 Series |
| 25 | After receiving numerous complaints from residents about loud, highly | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Evaluate Argument, Weaken, Source: Official Guide, Source: Verbal Review 2024-2025, Source: Verbal Review 2022, Source: Verbal Review 2021, Source: Verbal Review 2020 |
| 26 | Switching to “low-yield” cigarettes, those that yield less nicotine | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: 1000 Series, Source: LSAT |
| 27 | Because of greater competition in the telephone industry, long-dis... | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: Kaplan |
| 28 | Manufacturers are now required to make all cigarette lighters child-re | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Complete the Passage, Source: Official Guide, Source: Verbal OG, Source: Verbal Review 2024-2025, Source: Verbal Review 2022, Source: Verbal Review 2021, Source: Verbal Review 2020, Source: Verbal Review 2019, Source: Verbal Review 2018, Source: Verbal Review 2017, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2ND |
| 29 | In comparison to the standard typewriter keyboard, the EFCO | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2015/OG13, Source: OG 12, Source: OG 11, Source: OG 10 |
| 30 | Time management techniques have regularly been used to improve | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: Competition Questions, Source: e-GMAT |
| 31 | Carl is clearly an incompetent detective. He has solved a smaller perc | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: LSAT |
| 32 | Of all of the surgeons practicing at the city hospital, the chief surg | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: 1000 Series, Source: LSAT |
| 33 | The Smithtown Theatre, which stages old plays, has announced an expans | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: Manhattan GMAT |
| 34 | Many of the members of the Richville County Fair Committee wanted to | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Assumption, Source: Kaplan |
| 35 | Start-up companies financed by venture capitalist have a much lower | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: 1000 Series, Source: GMAT Paper Tests, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 10, Source: Verbal OG, Source: Verbal Review 2017, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2ND, Source: Verbal Review 1ST |
| 36 | Experienced pilots often have more trouble than novice pilots in learn | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Conclusion, Inference, Must be True, Source: 1000 Series, Source: LSAT |
| 37 | An advertising agency must leave its office building. To save overhead | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: GMAT Prep (Classic) |
| 38 | Editorial: Clearly, during the past two years, the unemployment | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Logical Flaw, Source: LSAT |
| 39 | Many breakfast cereals are fortified with vitamin supplements. Some of | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Strengthen, Source: 1000 Series, Source: EA, Source: GMAT Prep (Focus), Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 12, Source: OG 11, Source: OG 10, Source: OG 9 |
| 40 | Toughened hiring standards have not been the primary cause of the pres | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Strengthen, Source: 1000 Series, Source: Official Guide (Pre-2000), Source: OG 10, Source: OG 9, Source: Verbal OG, Source: Verbal Review 2ND, Source: Verbal Review 1ST |
| 41 | A company determines its yearly profits by deducting its operating exp | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Conclusion, Source: Manhattan GMAT |
| 42 | Owners of deeply indebted and chronically unprofitable small businesse | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: 1000 Series, Source: LSAT |
| 43 | Factory workers in Beltania are guaranteed lifetime jobs, bonuses paid | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Strengthen, Source: LSAT |
| 44 | According to a study, after a week of high-altitude living, twenty men | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Complete the Passage, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2024-2025, Source: OG 2022, Source: OG 2021, Source: OG 2020 |
| 45 | Astronomer: Most stars are born in groups of thousands, each star | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Strengthen, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2024-2025, Source: OG 2022, Source: OG 2021, Source: OG 2020, Source: OG 2019, Source: OG 2018, Source: OG 2017, Source: OG 2016, Source: OG 2025-2026 |
| 46 | People's television-viewing habits could be monitored by having | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Evaluate Argument, Source: Official Guide, Source: Verbal OG, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2ND |
| 47 | When a caterpillar emerges from the egg on a tree branch, it immediate | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Strengthen, Source: GMAT Prep (Classic) |
| 48 | In essence, all rent-control policies involve specifying a maximum ren | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: 1000 Series, Source: LSAT |
| 49 | More and more computer programs that provide solutions to mathematical | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: Veritas Prep |
| 50 | Many airlines have been pushing the federal government for assurances | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Complete the Passage, Source: Manhattan GMAT |
| 51 | Preschool children who spend the day in daycare nurseries | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: LSAT |
| 52 | In many corporations, employees are being replaced by automated | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Complete the Passage, Source: OG 11, Source: OG 10, Source: OG 9 |
| 53 | Whether one is buying men’s or women’s clothing, it pays to consider | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Must be True, Source: LSAT |
| 54 | With employer-paid training, workers have the | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2024-2025, Source: OG 2022, Source: OG 2021, Source: OG 2020, Source: OG 2019, Source: OG 2018, Source: OG 2025-2026 |
| 55 | Engineers are investigating the suitability of Wantastiquet Pass as | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: LSAT |
| 56 | A city plans to attract new citizens with new housing and new faciliti | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Logical Flaw, Source: GMAT Prep (Classic) |
| 57 | Although Ackerburgs subway system is currently operating at a deficit | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Strengthen, Source: Official Guide, Source: Verbal OG, Source: Verbal Review 2024-2025, Source: Verbal Review 2022, Source: Verbal Review 2021, Source: Verbal Review 2020, Source: Verbal Review 2019, Source: Verbal Review 2018, Source: Verbal Review 2017, Source: Verbal Review 2016 |
| 58 | In the past year, Harborville has had an unusually high rate of new ca | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Strengthen, Source: GMAT Prep (Classic) |
| 59 | In the United States profits from sales of Grainco’s biggest selling p | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: GMAT Paper Tests |
| 60 | A large pharmaceutical company has recently developed | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: Kaplan |
| 61 | A recent study shows that those highways that carry the most traffic | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: LSAT |
| 62 | The average age of residents in Sunset City is well over 70 years of | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: Kaplan |
| 63 | The use of a certain type of pesticide that was ordinarily sprayed | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: GMAT Prep (Focus) |
| 64 | In order to reduce the number of items damaged while in transit to | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: OG 2018, Source: OG 2017, Source: OG 2016, Source: OG 2015/OG13, Source: OG 12, Source: OG 2025-2026 |
| 65 | In order to increase profits during a prolonged slowdown in sales, the | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Assumption, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 11 |
| 66 | Physician: The hormone melatonin has shown promise as a | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Logical Flaw, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2018, Source: OG 2017, Source: OG 2016, Source: OG 2015/OG13, Source: OG 12 |
| 67 | Editorialist: In a large corporation, one of the functions of the | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Strengthen, Source: LSAT |
| 68 | Two experimental garden plots were each planted with the same number o | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: 1000 Series, Source: GMAT Paper Tests |
| 69 | A good site for storage of radioactive wastes must be dry and safe fro | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: GMAT Prep (Classic) |
| 70 | Bedbug infestations have been a problem in major cities for years. The | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: Manhattan GMAT |
| 71 | Disposable diapers, while a convenience, are an environmental disaster | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Assumption, Source: Manhattan GMAT |
| 72 | A milepost on the towpath read "21" on the side facing the hiker as | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: 1000 Series, Source: OG 10, Source: OG 9, Source: Verbal OG, Source: Verbal Review 2017, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2ND, Source: Verbal Review 1ST |
| 73 | A candidate for governor has suggested lifting the state law requiring | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Assumption, Source: Manhattan GMAT |
| 74 | Some anthropologists theorize that no great city-state has ever been | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Complete the Passage, Source: Veritas Prep |
| 75 | According to a prediction of the not-so-distant future published in 19 | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Logical Flaw, Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 2015/OG13, Source: OG 12 |
| 76 | Platinum is a relatively rare metal vital to a wide variety of industr | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Strengthen, Source: Official Guide, Source: Verbal Review 2024-2025, Source: Verbal Review 2022, Source: Verbal Review 2021, Source: Verbal Review 2020 |
| 77 | Civic Leader: The high cancer rate among our citizens is the result of | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: 1000 Series |
| 78 | University X has announced that its library will not be open during | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Method of Reasoning, Source: Veritas Prep |
| 79 | Donations of imported food will be distributed to children in famine | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: Official Guide, Source: Verbal Review 2024-2025, Source: Verbal Review 2022, Source: Verbal Review 2021, Source: Verbal Review 2020 |
| 80 | If you have a large amount of money in the bank, your spending power i | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Similar Reasoning, Source: 1000 Series, Source: LSAT |
| 81 | Alcohol consumption has been clearly linked to high blood pressure | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: 1000 Series, Source: LSAT |
| 82 | At an auction, nobody wants to buy the statue by Alberto Giacometti mo | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Similar Reasoning, Source: LSAT |
| 83 | It is crucially important to farmers that the herbicides they use to | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: GMAT Prep (Classic) |
| 84 | An airplane engine manufacturer developed a new engine model with safe | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: EA, Source: GMAT Paper Tests, Source: GMAT Prep (Classic), Source: Official Guide, Source: OG 10 |
| 85 | In the first half of this year, from January to June, about three mill | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: 1000 Series, Source: GMAT Paper Tests |
| 86 | At Hospital A, there has been an upsurge in emergency room visits by | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: Manhattan GMAT |
| 87 | The last members of a now-extinct species of a European wild deer call | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Assumption, Complete the Passage, Source: Official Guide, Source: Verbal OG, Source: Verbal Review 2024-2025, Source: Verbal Review 2022, Source: Verbal Review 2021, Source: Verbal Review 2020, Source: Verbal Review 2019, Source: Verbal Review 2018, Source: Verbal Review 2017, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2ND |
| 88 | Traffic Safety Expert: In order to achieve a substantial reduction in | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Assumption, Source: Manhattan GMAT |
| 89 | Advanced Technology School and Computer Horizons provide training for | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: Kaplan |
| 90 | Land developer: By attempting to preserve endangered species that othe | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Method of Reasoning, Source: 1000 Series, Source: LSAT |
| 91 | For years the arthritis relief medication Exenol has been available | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Source: GMAT Prep (Focus) |
| 92 | Several years ago, most of one country's large banks failed and were | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Complete the Passage, Source: LSAT |
| 93 | Ornithologist: the curvature of the claws of the modern tree-dwelling | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Method of Reasoning, Source: 1000 Series, Source: LSAT |
| 94 | A major health insurance company in Lagolia pays for special procedure | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Strengthen, Source: Official Guide, Source: Verbal OG, Source: Verbal Review 2024-2025, Source: Verbal Review 2022, Source: Verbal Review 2021, Source: Verbal Review 2020, Source: Verbal Review 2019, Source: Verbal Review 2018, Source: Verbal Review 2017, Source: Verbal Review 2016, Source: Verbal Review 2ND |
| 95 | After its customers complained about being pressured | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Strengthen, Source: GMAT Paper Tests |
| 96 | When interest rates are high, insurance companies reduce the | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Complete the Passage, Source: GMAT Prep (Classic) |
| 97 | The increased concentration of salt in the bay, which is the result of | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Weaken, Source: 1000 Series |
| 98 | In an experiment, two different types of recorded music were played | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Evaluate Argument, Source: 1000 Series |
| 99 | According to futuristic writings in the 1960s, robots would soon drast | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Logical Flaw, Source: Magoosh |
| 100 | Conservation officers justified their decision to remove a pack of ten | Difficulty: Sub 505 Level, Resolve Paradox, Source: LSAT |
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How is hardest determined?
Is it just raw % of test takers who get the answer wrong?
If so is there a certain number of attempts required on the question for it to make it in the list? I imagine a question with one wrong answer and no right answers [0% correct responses] wouldn't immediately appear at the top of the list.
Additionally does it factor in time taken on average before responding into difficulty?
Thanks for any insights on this.
Is it just raw % of test takers who get the answer wrong?
If so is there a certain number of attempts required on the question for it to make it in the list? I imagine a question with one wrong answer and no right answers [0% correct responses] wouldn't immediately appear at the top of the list.
Additionally does it factor in time taken on average before responding into difficulty?
Thanks for any insights on this.
