CRITICAL REASONING

Take the argument apart.
Thirty questions that build
a habit of business reasoning.

An unofficial set of original exercises modelled on the argument analysis used in GMAT Critical Reasoning. You answer one question at a time and go straight to its explanation, training your eye for conclusions, evidence and hidden assumptions.

30
Original questions
5 levels
6 questions per level
9 patterns
7 semantic + 2 structural
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LEVELS

Start at any level

Work through from Level 1, or start at whatever difficulty you want to train. Six questions per level; answering a question takes you straight to its explanation.

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INDEX

All 30 questions

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HOW TO SOLVE

A recommended approach — five steps

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Note — work only from the information and the logical relationships given in the passage, not from outside knowledge. An option can be perfectly plausible as a matter of fact and still be wrong if it does nothing to the argument.
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