I used the Kaplan approach and they recommended for their strategy to answer questions in your own words and for easy and medium critical reasoning questions it makes answering them a lot faster and a lot more accurate for me. I would spend on average a minute to minutes and a half per critical reasoning question.
Now, it doesn’t work for hard questions but if I answer the questioning my own words and then realize that my answer doesn’t match, all I have to do is just answer it normally by evaluating every single answer, Which ends up wasting probably 15 or 30 seconds but the time I gained from all the easy medium questions makes this waste worthwhile on hard questions.