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Critical Reasoning
Summary
The content provides an in-depth guide on identifying and navigating traps in GMAT Critical Reasoning (CR) questions, emphasizing the importance of avoiding common pitfalls and employing strategic approaches to enhance test performance.
- General strategies include not spending excessive time on clearly wrong or dubious answers to maintain focus on identifying the correct choice.
- Identifies specific traps such as weak connections, assumptions requiring additional premises, opposite answers, vague wording, and non-relevant information.
- Highlights the necessity of understanding the subtleties of language and logic used in CR questions to avoid being misled by attractive but incorrect options.
- Advises on the importance of the 'click' moment where the correct answer naturally aligns with the question's logic, avoiding overcomplication or overthinking.
- Encourages practice with official guide questions and Magoosh's product to apply these strategies and improve the ability to discern between correct and trap answers.
Chapters
00:00
General Strategy and Recognizing Traps
01:35
Specific Trap Types
11:47
Applying Strategies to Avoid Traps