Veritas Prep CR Forum Expert - Karishma - Ask Me Anything about CR

There you go Kanvi: https://gmatclub.com/forum/omega-3-fatt ... l#p2359756
I do agree with you.

Hey Basim,

CR, like Quant, is about one correct answer, not the best option. A few options are almost always irrelevant. Almost never will you see ambiguity on official questions. This means that once you understand what you are required to do to solve CR questions, you will rarely go wrong. Note the use of 'almost', 'rarely' etc - I mention these only to ensure that vagaries of experimental questions are taken into account.

For each question type, you must know what you need to focus on and what is expected of you. For example, look for the gap between the premises and conclusion in assumption questions. Find out the conclusion and add more weight to that in strengthen questions etc.
You will need to practice a sufficient number of questions but not aimlessly. The purpose is to see how each strategy for each question type works. Even 10-15 questions per question type could be enough if you understand exactly what it is that you are required to find. Once you solve a question, analyse it thoroughly.

Hey Kanvi,

Here you go:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/burning-foss ... l#p2359975

Say the argument gives you: many scientists believe that global warming is a myth.

Now can you say anything about whether global warming is a myth or not? No.
But what you do have to take to be true is that many scientists do believe that global warming is a myth.

hi
VeritasKarishma
help me with this
https://gmatclub.com/forum/on-the-first ... 05642.html

This question doesn't make much sense. Ignore it.

Dear VeritasKarishma,

Could you help me on this question?
More than 60% of students got it wrong! (95% Hard)

https://gmatclub.com/forum/editorial-in ... l#p2360667

Thank you in advance!

It is not a difficult question. Focus on the important points and you will eliminate options in seconds.

https://gmatclub.com/forum/in-its-searc ... l#p2365761

Dear Karishma,

1.Any recently noted trends in the type, style or tone of CR questions, especially Data related questions, by you?
Please share with us via examples.

2. Also, which type of CR questions can be easily visualized or focused by means of drawing any figures or diagrams? Please reply with examples.

Best Regards,
Basim

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Hi Karishma,

I'm noticing an increasing amount of conditional reasoning type questions in 700-level assumption questions. Do you mind briefly explaining to me or pointing me in the direction of some simple, but useful information to understand and this logic?

Dear Ms. KARISHMA,
In my wrong answer selection, I am mostly stuck at the last 2 selected answer choices and ultimately I pick the wrong one.
How to improve from here?
My aim is 90% In CR.
BEST REGARDS,
BASIM

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Yes, conditional statements are tricky if you do not understand how to handle them. Check out my video explaining them:

https://youtu.be/MmlwcTlHZz8

Basim, I will come to your first question later. Coming to your second question - Very few CR questions, if any, require figures or diagrams. Perhaps if they have multiple terms with relations between them, we could draw them out to understand better as done here: https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep-resource-links-no-longer-available-399979.html#/2012/1 ... onditions/
You usually need to just break down the argument into premises and conclusion and that is sufficient to get the answer.

Our GMAT Expert Ron has discussed this issue here:
https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep-resource-links-no-longer-available-399979.html#/2014/1 ... reasoning/

Dear Karishma,
Thanks again for your replies. Very very important Tips indeed.
Kindly reply regarding the first question of my earlier post.
Best Regards,
Basim.

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Basim, regarding your question 1, I was waiting for some input from Brian since he is pretty much the authority on the holistic view of GMAT testing. This is what he has to say:

#1 is to make sure test takers know that we're talking subtle trends and not wholesale changes, so it's not all that incredibly actionable since each examinee sees 10-12 CR questions so a 5% shift one way or another in question mix may not even show up on anyone's 11-question CR allocation. But the trend seems to be more and more toward the GMAT's "unique" flavor questions - boldface, plan/strategy, "useful to evaluate" - with slightly less of the classic LSAT/GRE/GMAT strengthen/weaken. That seems to be the trend when you look at more recent Official Guides and test prep software, at least.

need your help with this doubt:

https://gmatclub.com/forum/a-recent-sur ... l#p2371283