What is critical reasoning?
Last updated: 13 Oct 2008
The GMAT's critical reasoning questions are intended to be an effective way of evaluating how people reason.
However, the truth is that the logic in many of the questions is less than completely sound. There is definitely room for interpretation on many of these questions, judging from many examples taken from old GMAT tests.
But there is little you can do about that - they make up the questions, they make up the rules.
You could cry about it. Go ahead, have a good cry. We will wait.
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Feel better? Good. Now let's take a look at how we can best this test to obtain the best score we possibly can.
A critical reasoning problem is comprised of three main parts: the text, the question, and the five answer choices. We will deal with the different types of questions later.
