I have read in certain forums that GMAT people put question after testing. Lets say a question is correctly answered by only 20% of students attempting the questing.
I am sure, its very difficult to answer that question correctly by NOT UNDERSTANDING the passage appropriately.
My strategy is like this:
A) Go little slow for the first para to get the TOPIC
B) Your objective shall be to find the ARGUMENT OF THE AUTHOR (LIKE a detective)
C) Like on the test day, Your mind has limited capacity to process the data. Put down the gist of the each para which is related the ARGUMENT as P-1, P-2 and P-N. At the P(N), you should think back How did the author build his argument.
D) You may set some goalpost to find "Detail questions"
I usually take 2.5 to 4.5 minutes depending on the topic (ladies movement, hip-hop movement, Now i know more about Feminist struggle and Hippocrates than about Indian history
)
SET MAX 1 min to answer questions
Now the questions:
Type 1- Author argument, author will agree and passage objective. You shall be able to answer after eliminating the wrong choices (Make sure without going back to para)
Type 2 - Detail -- If you are not able to remember where did you encounter "Big black beer" with help of your goal post. LEAVE THE QUESTION (want to give a try then look on the passage)
Type 3 Inference / OR the Reason why did he include some detail -- a)Dont go to the exact address told by GMAT, Start searching around and see the logic. Inference --> Kick out of scope inferences, i don't want to fight for equal right of black in the feminist para, generalization and at last apply (-) test, if your answer negate, would it be in conflict with author ARGUMENT.
TYPE -4 Strengthen / weaken CR question in RC. Pls use 50% of your CR skills or God save you !
Remember CR is a mini RC
