Struggling with accuracy in CR hard level questions.

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I’m really struggling with accuracy in CR hard level questions. I’ve been through GMAT ninja videos and have been solving OG questions but still am very far from where I want to be. Are there any strategies/ tips for me?

bkasyap · Answer

Tried LSAT official prep tests? Also suggested in GMAT Ninja 13 week plan?

Also suggested in GMAT Ninja 13 week plan, I mean. You can get 1 year subscription in LSAT official website. Or buy the books online (recommended by GMATNinja are tests under 60. Preferably 29-38 book). Note that explanations are not given. Just answer key.

For answer explanations you can try GMATClub or ChatGPT if you can type the question stem and answer choices

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bkasyap · Answer

In one post GMATNinja mentioned that they are not official. I know that you might be referring to recent post from last year. Are they official LSAT questions?

GmatKnightTutor · Answer

Consider checking out/including Manhattan-Prep's 6th Edition for Critical Reasoning. If you find CR assumption questions a bit challenging, the negation technique could be helpful to check out as well. In case you haven't already, looking through explanations people have shared in the gmatclub threads of, for example, OG questions you find challenging could also be helpful.

CR tips

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

Hi arbh77,

To improve in CR, your first goal is to fully master the individual CR topics: Strengthen the Argument, Weaken the Argument, Resolve the Paradox, etc. As you learn about each question type, do focused practice so you can track your skill in answering each type. If, for example, you get a Weaken question wrong, ask yourself why. Did you make a careless mistake? Did you not recognize the specific question type? Were you doing too much analysis in your head? Did you skip over a keyword in an answer choice? Did you fall for a common trap? If so, how can you avoid the same trap in the future?You must thoroughly analyze your mistakes and seek to turn weaknesses into strengths by focusing on the question types you dread seeing and the questions you take a long time to answer correctly.

Another major mistake that people make when training for CR is that they answer practice questions too quickly. To correctly answer CR questions, you have to see exactly what is going on in the passages and answer choices, and you likely won't learn to do so by spending a few minutes per question. At this stage of your training, you may need to spend up to fifteen minutes per question, learning to see what there is to see. Here is a way to look at this process: If you get a new job in a field in which you are not experienced, you may not be as fast as the other people working with you, but you know you have a job to do. So, what do you do? You do the job correctly, if not as quickly as those around you, and you make sure that you learn all the angles, so that you do the job well. Rushing through the job and doing it incorrectly would not make sense. As you gain more experience, you learn to do the same job more quickly.

Think of CR questions similarly. Your job is to do what? To get through questions quickly? Not really. Your job is to get correct answers. So, first you have to learn to get correct answers, generally at least 10 to 15 in a row consistently, and more in a row would be better. Doing so is doing your job, and if it takes you fifteen minutes per question to get correct answers consistently, then so be it.

Only after you have learned to get correct answers consistently should you work on speeding up. Remember, working quickly but not doing your job is useless. Better to work slowly and learn to do your job well. You can be sure that with experience, you will learn to speed up, and then you will still be doing your job well, i.e., getting correct answers consistently.

Finally, a crucial aspect of correctly answering CR questions is noticing the key differences between trap choices and correct answers. Trap choices can sound temptingly correct, but they don't get the job done. The logic of what a trap choice says simply doesn't fit what the question is asking you to find. So, to find correct answers, learn to see the key differences between trap choices and correct answers.

Here is an article with more advice:

GMAT Critical Reasoning: 8 Essential Tips

SebastianRiley · Answer

These tips looks amazing if we talk about scoring good number on CR (Critical Reasoning).

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