Critical Reasoning

Hi,

Based on what I've read from the CR Bible text, the Weaken type questions on the GMAT almost never have answer choices that will in entirety destroy the conclusion made. The correct answer choice is one that will impact/affect the conclusion.

However, I have not had a chance to see what exactly a answer choice that will destroy the conclusion itself resembles.

Have any of you encountered such a case? If so, please share the question and the answer choices. Will help understand better.

Cheers,

Vishnu

Vishnu88 wrote:Hi,

Based on what I've read from the CR Bible text, the Weaken type questions on the GMAT almost never have answer choices that will in entirety destroy the conclusion made. The correct answer choice is one that will impact/affect the conclusion.

However, I have not had a chance to see what exactly a answer choice that will destroy the conclusion itself resembles.

Have any of you encountered such a case? If so, please share the question and the answer choices. Will help understand better.

Cheers,

Vishnu

Hello, I have the same experience as you do with the weaken questions. However one distinction is that I have not aimed at finding an answer choice which would completely or partially destroy the conclusion(s) made. This strategy I have been using for the strengthen questions as well.

Well, on top of all the strengthen and weaken answer choices I am trying to find the exact match of what would be the author's assumption for making the conclusion(s) and am sneaking into the causes linked by the author to the effects stated - trying to challenge those causes by identifying whether the cause is premise or conclusion tied and/or possible motives of the author behind each cause. Believe me, such an attacking strategy should close your accuracy on CR both weaken and strengthen difficult questions to 90%.



yes, and unsaid part - the true answers to weaken and/or strengthen questions should be ones destroying the assumptions, challenging the author cited causes