Critical Reasoning
Critical reasoning questions appear in the Verbal section of the GMAT-exam.The Verbal section uses multiple—choice questions to measure your ability to read and comprehend written material，to reason and evaluate arguments，and to correct written material to conform to standard written English.Because the Verbal section includes content from a variety of topics.you may be generally familiar with some of the material;however, neither the passages nor the questions assume knowledge of the topics discussed.Critical reasoning questions are intermingled with reading comprehension and sentence correction questions throughout the Verbal section of the exam.
You will have 75 minutes to complete the Verbal section.or about 1 minutes to answer each question.Although critical reasoning questions are based on written passages，these passages are shorter than reading—comprehension passages.They tend to be 1ess than 100 words in 1en~th and generally are followed by one or two questions.For these questions，you will see a split computer screen.The written passage 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，(2)evaluating arguments，and(3)formulating or evaluating a plan of action.The materials on which questions are based are drawn from a variety of sources.The GMAT-test does not suppose any familiarity with the subject matter of those materials.
In these questions，you are to analyze the situation on which each question is based，and then select the answer choice that most appropriately answers the question.Begin by reading the passages carefully, then read the five answer choices.If the correct answer is not immediately obvious to you，see whether you can eliminate some of the wrong answers.Reading the passage a second time may be helpful in illuminating subtleties that were not immediately evident.
Answering critical reasoning questions requires no specialized knowledge of any particular field;you don’t have to have knowledge of the terminology and conventions of formal logic.The sample critical reasoning questions in this chapter illustrate the variety of topics the exam may cove, the kinds of questions it may ask, and the level of analysis it requires.
The following pages describe what critical reasoning questions are designed to measure and present the directions that will precede questions of this type.Sample questions and explanations of the correct answers follow.
4.1 What is Measured
Critical reasoning questions are designed to provide one measure of your ability to reason effectively in the following areas：
Argument Construction
Questions in this category may ask you to recognize such things as the basic structure of an argument，properly drawn conclusions，underlying assumptions，well-supported explanatory hypotheses，or parallels between structurally similar arguments.英语作文
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