GMAT Verbal 26: Critical Reasoning — Mixed Practice II

O'qish Critical Reasoning: boshqa savol turlari 7-dars, jami 7

Shu mavzudagi darslar · 7/7

GMAT Verbal 20: Evaluate the Argument — The Question That Would Decide It
GMAT Verbal 21: Flaw Questions — The Classic Reasoning Errors
GMAT Verbal 22: Inference — What Must Be True
GMAT Verbal 23: Explain the Discrepancy — Resolving a Paradox
GMAT Verbal 24: Role and Boldface Questions
GMAT Verbal 25: Plans and Methods of Reasoning
GMAT Verbal 26: Critical Reasoning — Mixed Practice II

Aralash mashq II

Critical Reasoningʼning barcha asosiy savol turlarini oʻrgandingiz. Quyidagi yettita savol — ikkinchi blokning hamma turlari aralash. Har biridan oldin savol turini oʻzingizga ayting va toʻrt qadamni qoʻllang.

⏱ Maqsad: 7 savol — 14 daqiqa

Har bir tur uchun bitta savol

Paradoks: ikkala faktni ham tushuntiradigan variant.

Evaluate: «ha / yoʻq» — ikki tomonga suradigan savol.

Flaw: xatoni oʻz soʻzingiz bilan ayting, keyin abstrakt variantni qidiring.

Inference: eng ehtiyotkor, matndan albatta kelib chiqadigan variant.

Boldface / method / reja: avval xulosa yoki maqsad, keyin rollar va harakat.

💡 Maslahat: Xato qilgan savolingizni tegishli darsga bogʻlang: paradoks — 23, evaluate — 20, flaw — 21, inference — 22, boldface — 24, reja va method — 25.

Over the past five years, the number of bookshops in the city has fallen by a third, yet the number of books bought by the city's residents has risen.

Which of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy?

⏱ ~2 daqiqa

The city's population has stayed about the same over the past five years. Rents for shops in the city centre have risen sharply. Most of the bookshops that closed were small, independent shops. The city's libraries have also reduced their opening hours. Online retailers, which deliver to customers in the city, now account for a large and growing share of the books bought there.

A company found that teams that hold a short meeting every morning complete their projects faster than teams that do not. The company therefore plans to require morning meetings for all of its teams in order to speed up its projects.

Which of the following would it be most useful to know in order to evaluate the company's plan?

⏱ ~2 daqiqa

Whether the company's competitors hold morning meetings Whether employees enjoy attending the morning meetings How many teams the company has in total Whether the teams that already hold morning meetings are working on simpler projects than the other teams Whether the company plans to hire more managers next year

Every one of the company's ten best-performing salespeople last year used the new customer-tracking software. Therefore, using the software is what makes a salesperson successful.

The argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it

⏱ ~2 daqiqa

fails to consider whether many less successful salespeople also used the software assumes that the top ten salespeople will remain at the company treats a percentage as though it were a number attacks the people who designed the software relies on the testimony of a source that may be biased

All of the firm's interns this summer are university students, and none of the university students who work at the firm work more than 20 hours a week.

If the statements above are true, which of the following must also be true?

⏱ ~2 daqiqa

Some of the firm's interns work more than 20 hours a week. All of the university students at the firm are interns. The firm hires only university students as interns in every season. None of the firm's interns this summer work more than 20 hours a week. Most of the firm's employees work fewer than 20 hours a week.

Some critics argue that the city's new recycling programme has failed, since the amount of waste sent to landfill has not fallen. But the city's population grew by 12 percent over the same period. Given that growth, keeping landfill waste level is itself evidence that the programme is working.

In the argument, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?

⏱ ~2 daqiqa

The first is a view that the argument opposes; the second is the argument's main conclusion. The first is evidence that the argument accepts; the second is a view that the argument opposes. The first and the second are both evidence for the argument's main conclusion. The first is the argument's main conclusion; the second is evidence for that conclusion. The first is a view that the argument opposes; the second is evidence that supports that view.

Each year, a call centre in Tashkent loses about half of its new employees within six months. To reduce this staff turnover, the centre plans to raise the starting salaries of new employees by 10 percent.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly suggests that the plan will NOT achieve its goal?

⏱ ~2 daqiqa

In exit interviews, nearly all departing employees say that stressful working conditions, not pay, were their reason for leaving. The raise will increase the call centre's costs. The call centre plans to open a new office next year. Some employees have worked at the call centre for over five years. Starting salaries were last raised three years ago.

Critics claim that the new tax on sugary drinks will hurt small shops. But the same claim was made when the country introduced a tax on tobacco, and small shops' sales did not fall then. So the critics' claim is probably mistaken.

The argument proceeds by

⏱ ~2 daqiqa

pointing out that the critics' claim contradicts itself showing that the critics have a financial interest in opposing the tax providing statistics about the sales of sugary drinks questioning whether small shops sell sugary drinks drawing an analogy between the new tax and an earlier one whose predicted effect did not occur

Natijani tahlil qiling

⚠️ Tuzoq: Eng koʻp takrorlanadigan xato bu blokda — bir tomonlama variant (paradoksda) va boshqalarning fikrini muallifniki deb olish (boldfaceʼda). Ikkalasi ham tez oʻqishdan keladi.

📌 Eslatma: Critical Reasoning blokini tugatdingiz. Keyingi blok — Reading Comprehension: uzun matn va bir nechta savol. CRʼda oʻrgangan koʻnikmalar (xulosa, rol, inference) u yerda ham ishlaydi.