Need some help in CR section

The key to Critical Reasoning - and the key to the verbal section as a whole - is the proper focus. You need to "narrow your focus" on the Critical Reasoning section. What do I mean by this? I mean that you need to learn to pick up the key words and concepts that point you in the right direction,as well as those words in the answer choices that let you know that the particular answer is wrong.

Here are things you need to look out for:

1) Shifts in wording. This is very important. When you see that the argument is talking about the number of cars for sale and the conclusion shift to the number of cars that have been sold you note that these are not the same. The correct answer is very likely based on this shift.

2) Adjectives, adverbs, absolutes -- in other words, things they did not have to say! If the argument says that "All Males Play Tennis and John is a Male" I am not at all impressed with a conclusion of "John plays tennis." This is not interesting because there is nothing for the answer choice to do! But what if the conclusion says "John ONLY plays tennis." As in, he does not play any other sports. Aha! Now we know what to focus on. We need something that links this up - something like "Tennis players are too busy to play any other sport."

3) Look at the answer choices for words that eliminate those. For example, on inference questions you probably know that "all" and "none" are much harder to prove and do not appear in the correct answer very often. The same words are also very likely wrong on assumption answers. Things like this can you help out a lot.

4) Watch out for your own knowledge. Stick to the argument! If the test writers can get you to answer based on your own knowledge then you have fallen into their trap.

5) If you can put the conclusion and the evidence together and focus on those things, rather than focusing too much on the background information, you will be well on your way. Here is an article I wrote about this https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2011/02/ ... duncan-way

Do not over complicate critical reasoning or the verbal section. "Paint by numbers" is what you want! Make verbal easier, think less and recognize more and you will be on your way!

Thank You David. You are really awesome !! Thanks