GMAT OG考纲.pdf

GMAT CRITICAL REASONING Notes For Critical Reasoning You will have 75 minutes to complete the Verbal Section, or about 1 3/4 minutes to answer each question. Although critical reasoning questions are based on written passage, these passages are shorter than reading comprehension passages. They tend to be less than 100 words in length and generally are followed by one or two questions. For these questions, you will see a split computer screen. The written passages will remain visible as each question associated with that passage appears in turn on the screen. You will see only one question at a time. Critical reasoning questions are designed to test the reasoning skills involved in: (1) making arguments a) Reasons b) Assumptions c) Conclusions (2) evaluating arguments These questions may ask you to analyze a given argument and to recognize such things as factors that would strengthen or weaken the given argument; reasoning errors committed in making that argument; and aspects of the method by which the argument proceeds (3) formulating or evaluating a plan of action Test-taking strategies for critical reasoning questions: 1 Read very carefully the set of statements on which a question is based (evidence, assumption, conclusion, arguing process). In reading the arguments, it is important to pay attention to the logical reasoning used; the actual truth of statements portrayed as fact is not important 2 Identify the conclusion The conclusion does not necessarily come at the end of the text; in may come somewhere in the middle or even at the beginning. Be alert to clues in the text that an argument follows