Taking just shorthand note or mentally understanding the main point(maybe in your language)goes long way in helping you answer the RC questions. I am not saying re-write sentences from RC, but just a few symbols or partial words about the main idea. If you dont get the main idea, you will miss almost all the questions (as you will fall for the traps). Once the main idea is clear, it becomes very easy to rule out the traps.--> I thought that I were able to draw main idea but apparently, I were not.
if you have trouble pulling out the main idea of a passage, you may not be thinking enough about the
relationships between/among the different things described in the passage.
remember, you can't read these passages the way you'd read some kind of technical manual, in which each paragraph is a self-contained unit that usually doesn't reference other paragraphs.
in rc passages, EVERYTHING should relate to EVERYTHING ELSE -- most notably to whatever main themes are introduced relatively early in the passage.
for instance, let's say the first paragraph of a passage describes some scientific theory.
if the next paragraph begins to describe an experiment, then you should be thinking to yourself,
What does this experiment have to do with the theory i just read about? in other words, there MUST be
some relationship there. maybe the experiment will refute the theory. maybe the experiment will confirm the theory. maybe the experiment is what led to the suggestion of the theory in the first place. but there has to be some relationship!
a surprisingly large number of people will just read the two paragraphs and think, "ok, the first paragraph talks about a theory, and the second paragraph talks about an experiment," with absolutely no thought as to how those two things might be related to each other.
those kinds of relationships are the things that will tell you the main idea of the passage.
Reviewing incorrect responses in CR and RC may not work as you tend to remember the correct answer. "Takeaways" from each question are important. I also skipped certain OG questions but those were the easier ones. I dont suggest skipping tough OG questions if you are aiming for a high verbal score.--> Yeah,as I said there were approx. 90 RC questions and 50 CR questions left in OG, for me.What do you think, maybe I was not so prepared when I did the actual exam because of this ?
rc and cr are not areas on which you need a lot of practice. for these two areas, the problems in the official guide should be more than enough practice for any one student; if you are fervently searching for tons and tons of additional cr and rc resources, then you are not thinking about those two areas in a productive way. what's more, studying too much in these areas (especially cr) will actually have a net
negative effect on your performance.
read more about this here:
https://www.beatthegmat.com/how-to-impro ... tml#405217
Once you solve OG questions you will be able to understand the way GMAT makes questions. I dont think anyone (including MGMAT) comes with questions as clear as OG on CR.
one important reason why official guide cr explanations seem so clear is that the o.g. makes no attempt to pretend that there are "rules" by which critical reasoning problems may be solved. there are no such rules -- in fact, literally no one in the world knows how to reduce human intuition and problem-solving ability to such rules -- so, any resource that tries to make "rules" for cr is literally attempting the impossible.
for more on this, see here:
https://www.beatthegmat.com/what-is-reco ... tml#416810
Practice RC's everyday. It's only a matter of perfecting the timing while extracting the main ideas and logical shifts.
you shouldn't have to practice rc every day (or even close, for that matter). if you are actually at a point where you feel that daily practice is necessary, what this actually means is that you should improve your general ability to read and comprehend professionally written english.
remember that there are two main kinds of reasons why people have trouble with rc: (1) because they find the questions themselves difficult, (2) because they still have difficulty with reading and comprehending the passages.
if your reason falls into category #2 here, then there's no reason to waste the og rc passages (a precious resource) at the present time -- if that's the case, you should back off for a little while and get better at reading and understanding professionally written english. then, once you've improved that skill set, return to the rc questions and actually focus on understanding how the questions themselves work. if you are still having trouble with the passages themselves, you're not going to be able to master the problems.
My timing wasn't perfect either but I had a strategy to skip some questions need be. Tough CR's do that longer to get them right (But not too long - anything over 2:30 was mostly incorrect for me, but between 1:30 - 2:20 was common). --> How do you measure that time, can you perfectly manage Rpn's technique called internal stop watch, I never tried that maybe I should ? Do you develop this tech as Ron said, question by question you use stopwatch and make adjustments, am I right, is there a something I am missing here
when i say "internal stopwatch", i don't mean that you need to have an
exact timepiece in your head (!!) i just mean that you should have a decently good sense of what 1 minute feels like, what 2 minutes feels like, etc. in short, i just mean that you should be able to tell the difference between "i still have time to work on this" and "it's time to quit" without having to look at the timer.
even better is to develop a mentality that allows you to quit
immediately, whenever you are genuinely stuck and simply deliberating between options. most people are not very good at this -- i.e., most people sit there and stare at things for a long time before they are willing to let go and guess. if you can get to a point where you're willing to let go immediately, whenever you're stuck, then you should not really have any timing issues at all.
Ron is great.
thanks.
I only watched it for RC not for CR and SC. But for CR and SC GMATPrep problems compilations, OG and Verbal Supplement problems and two GMATPrep tests I refer to MGMAT forum and BTG to see Ron's explanations. I thought that I saw his answers so I do not need to watch videos.
one major advantage of the videos is that they are theme-based, so there is enough time to discuss the overarching mentality and strategy of each problem type. on the forum, where every problem is an island, there's no opportunity for that sort of "meta" discussion.
