Critical Reasoning

harshavardhanc wrote:

gmatmachoman wrote:
Mohit!

I shuld remind you that plz dont use POE !! POE is a weapon,use it only when u run out of reasoning & i wont recommend it during prep stages.
I have seen you using POE in couple of places.But I felt its hightime i shuld "hint" you regrading the negativities of POE.

1.When u use POE, u r NOT using reasoning. So ur probability of getting a right answer is P<=0.5
2.Same attitude will continue in the future by dampening ur TP
3.POE when u use for strengthening questions will manyatimes makes u too opt for wrong/scope shift answers as Strengthen based CR bring in new info to the argument which u may reject assuming its not relevant!

Kindly follow patterns,u culd get the link by practice! I am not against POE,but Dont overuse it.Yeah in RC,in some case for cross-checking use POE.!!

machoman,

I think otherwise. In every verbal question , especially CR, it's always the POE which you employ while finding out the credited response.

I'm sure that everyone reads each and every option before confirming an answer(a must in this exam).
Now, in CR questions, you always disprove an incorrect option by finding out a piece of information which is not present in the stimulus or which is out of scope etcetera. You call it reasoning, but essentially you are eliminating an option.

However, you cannot disprove the credited response for one simple reason : "It is absolutely correct from whatever perspective you view it." There is nothing in the correct choice which is out of scope, too extreme or unstated in the passage.

If we are lucky and our prephrased answer matches with options A,B or C, we keep it as the contender and check the rest ones to make sure if they are better than the contender. If you look carefully, this checking is again POE.

If our prephrased answer matches with the last option, we basically would have applied POE here as well before reaching it.

So, by birds-eye-view, it's always POE which is employed in CR questions.

Hope you agree with me

mohit11 wrote:
Agree with Harsha. That's somewhat my strategy towards CR questions too. I guess as one improves with practice, it becomes easier to reach the answer before reads the options. So POE works until one reaches that level of expertise

harshavardhanc wrote:

mohit11 wrote:
Agree with Harsha. That's somewhat my strategy towards CR questions too. I guess as one improves with practice, it becomes easier to reach the answer before reads the options. So POE works until one reaches that level of expertise

Thanks !

But, no matter whatever level we reach, we MUST cross-off every other option before we move on to the next question.

Salaj wrote:Hi

I am really confused why (d) is the correct answer and (e) is not. Please help.

Thanks
Sinha