Advice needed on CR - please

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Advice needed on CR - please

by tim0thy » Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:41 pm
I wanted to seek out the advice of the people on this forum regarding how I should study for the CR reasoning section.

I am three months into my study and I have only CR and RC to go. I just did the diagnostic questions in OG 12 for CR, though, and I got 15 out of 17 right.

That being said, I wanted to get advice on how I should study for CR. Should I go forward with reviewing Powerscore's CR Bible, should I buy MGMAT's CR book (since it is shorter albeit less comprehensive from what I understand), should I just review the OG 12 blurb about CR, or should I just simply do practice questions and skip any review?


In general I am one of those people who needs to work hard in order to understand something, but in answering the diagnostic CR questions I feel as though the questions are really straight forward. I honestly cannot see what there is to teach in answering these questions, but because I haven't read anything on the subject yet I was hoping those of you who had can chime in.
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by shadowsjc » Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:03 pm
3 months is enough time to review the powerscore logical reasoning bible. get it as soon as you can and practice the strategies in the book. at the same time, don't completely neglect the quant section. you can never really be 'done' studying for a section.. if anything, you should constantly be studying all sections up until d-day.

Be aware though the the powerscore LR bible goes into much detail and depth; still, it's the best way to do well on CR IMO.
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