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by metallicafan » Thu Jul 04, 2013 2:34 pm
Hi buddies!

I am practicing CR questions of the GMATPrep. I am solving them very well, almost all correct, however I cannot eliminate the rest of the choices in less than 1:45 minutes. In other words, I almost inmedialy identify the OA, but always I try to eliminate the other choices because I want to be sure that I answered well and because I know that there are questions that probably have two choices that perform the task required. But doing that consumes a lot of time.

Is my strategy correct?, or could I just choose the OA and move on? , what could I do to improve my speed?

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by David@VeritasPrep » Sat Jul 06, 2013 2:39 pm
You do not need to eliminate all 4 incorrect answer choices on most questions.

Here is what you do...

On all questions except for Inference and Bold Faced, when you have identified the correct answer just stop and circle it and move on.

IF you find that you are usually accurate then you will know that you are good at identifying the correct answer. Now on test day I would still read all 5 but you will still follow the same procedure of finding the correct answer rather than eliminating the other 4.

Of course if you find that you are incorrect too often then you will know that you need to eliminate the wrong answers.

Now with Inference this does not work since inference is about eliminating the other 4 and I also use process of elimination on the bold faced questions so do not try it there either.

Just to recap: the proper procedure for questions other than inference and bold faced is to know what you are looking for in an answer and to find that answer instead of using process of elimination. It sounds like that is what you are doing. So carry on!
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