I have practised a lot of critical reasoning problems and i am able to solve over 80% of problems in CR correctly.
Recently i decided to take a few quizzes to test my level of preparation in CR.
I started with practicing Assumption type problems (the easy ones) initially.
In the intial quiz of around 10 questions,my accuracy was around 90%.
Then i jumped over to solving medium and difficult level. The CR arguments here were much bigger and had around 60-70 words. In these problems, my accuracy fell to around 25% (i attempted all the quizzes in a timed test format).
After the test, i wrote down all the problems, drew a logical structure on paper of the arguments and then was able to solve a big percentage of the tougher problems correctly.
I attempted a test with tough assumption problems again after some days. Some of the arguments that i got were too convoluted and i had a strong urge to put down the argument in a structure format on paper. But looking away from the screen even once in an attempt to write anything kills atleast 20-30 seconds plus also destroys the focus. I timed myself when i tried to create a logical structure for each tough problem on paper and then answered the question. I took 3.5 to 4 minutes to solve each of the problems. Though the accuracy has improved, i am killing too much time here.
Can yl suggest how to deal with this situation.
How do you guys approach the CR problems, especially the convoluted ones, which have many links with many assumptions which are not easy to figure out.
Recently i decided to take a few quizzes to test my level of preparation in CR.
I started with practicing Assumption type problems (the easy ones) initially.
In the intial quiz of around 10 questions,my accuracy was around 90%.
Then i jumped over to solving medium and difficult level. The CR arguments here were much bigger and had around 60-70 words. In these problems, my accuracy fell to around 25% (i attempted all the quizzes in a timed test format).
After the test, i wrote down all the problems, drew a logical structure on paper of the arguments and then was able to solve a big percentage of the tougher problems correctly.
I attempted a test with tough assumption problems again after some days. Some of the arguments that i got were too convoluted and i had a strong urge to put down the argument in a structure format on paper. But looking away from the screen even once in an attempt to write anything kills atleast 20-30 seconds plus also destroys the focus. I timed myself when i tried to create a logical structure for each tough problem on paper and then answered the question. I took 3.5 to 4 minutes to solve each of the problems. Though the accuracy has improved, i am killing too much time here.
Can yl suggest how to deal with this situation.
How do you guys approach the CR problems, especially the convoluted ones, which have many links with many assumptions which are not easy to figure out.
