Here's an excerpt from my
Day 66 Blog Post. It describes the approach I took to attack CR questions:
I was quite pleased today to score a 95% hit rate on my set of 40 Official Guide Critical Reasoning problems. Here's how I attack a typical Critical Reasoning question:
- Read the question prompt and WRITE DOWN the question type (weaken, assumption, etc.)
- Read the CR passage actively, noting the location of the conclusion and premises.
- Look at answer choices and immediately eliminate choices that are out of scope, moving top to bottom. Remember, the CR passage provides a limited set of information. There tends to be a lot of answer choices with out-of-scope information.
- Review answer choices that are left and pick the one that best answers the question.
I have a pretty simple approach but it seems effective. The only thing that is really giving me problems with regard to critical reading is stamina. I tend to take longer in answering these questions, and reading passage after passage actively is very tiring. But it's all getting better with practice.
Anyone else like to share his/her strategy? Thanks!
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