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When I solve critical reasoning, in most cases I become confused on two answer choices out of five answer choices. Out of the two answer choices, most of time I pick wrong answer choice; the other one is correct. How can I improve my accuracy from this situation? Kindly advise me so that I can get rid of the problem.
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When I solve critical reasoning, in most cases I become confused on two answer choices out of five answer choices. Out of the two answer choices, most of the time I pick wrong answer choice; the other one is correct. How can I improve my accuracy from this situation? Kindly advise me so that I can get rid of the problem.
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Hi Rashed12, Although not an expert on the topic, I will try to explain my way of handling this situation. As you may already know the questions of CR may be from 3 question families namely Prove(Find reasoning/flaw in reasoning etc), Help(strengthen, Assumption, Resolve the Paradox) and Hurt (weaken). Its good to categorize the CR problems into its subtype as each problem type has a specific way to solve.

For example:

The correct answer to an Assumption question is generally something which is:
    Within the scope of the argument
    Absolutely necessary for the argument to exist (i.e) if the correct answer is reversed the argument fails


The correct answer to a Strengthen/Weaken Question is generally:
    Something outside the scope of the argument
    Uses extreme language
    And clearly weakens/strengthens the argument

Moreover, I am referring to Ron's Videos to understand CR more deeply. Also, have shared below a set of CR notes I am referring to(somebody has collated these from Ron Purewal's videos only). These resources are pretty good and should really help you to progress further in your CR journey.
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