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Critical or logical reasoning is a topic or a section that isn\u2019t popular among the aspirants, but questions are nearly asked in almost every banking exam. Many students find them complicated, but knowing the concepts, type of questions, and solving methods can make your journey easier.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim of any examiner for asking a critical reasoning question is to test your skills in making, analysing, and performing an evaluation of arguments. A question contains nearly 100 words like short or mini passages and is followed by a question with multiple answer choices.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What are CR-based questions?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The critical reasoning questions are also theme-based, just like reading comprehensions. So, for example, a question can be asked from various subjects related to economics, science, sports, politics, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No other information is provided apart from the CR passage. And anyway, you would have to use common knowledge for the information that isn\u2019t given in the CR passage. For example \u2013 the CR passage given is related to playing cards. The passage will have certain information, but at the same time to deduct the answer, you might need the extra knowledge of how many cards are there in a deck? Although this information isn\u2019t provided, the examiner expects that you know that there are 52 cards present in a single deck.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author of the CR passage always assumes that arguments made by them are 100% sound, logical, or correct, no matter what the argument is written. So now, somebody who is writing the paper has to parse the argument. The word \u2018parse\u2019 means to resolve a sentence into its component parts and describe its syntactic roles. In short, you will have to make out – what conclusion has the author reached? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to solve these questions, you don\u2019t need to be a master of common knowledge, but you need to pay attention to every small detail, avoid cognitive biases, and empower clear thinking.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Critical Reasoning Tips – How to approach CR questions?\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The CR questions are pattern-based and require relative efficiency. Here is the four-step approach you can implement every time for solving CR questions.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 1 \u2013 Understand the question and the given information thoroughly <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The most important part of solving a CR question is to read the question very well. If you don\u2019t make sense of the statements, you will not derive the author\u2019s conclusion. No action should be taken before reading the whole question. You will have to think about the possible assumptions\/outcomes\/conclusion of the case once you have read the question.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in a special case where you don\u2019t understand the question, it\u2019s better that you leave it because you might get the answer wrong certainly. So move onto the next question.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 2 \u2013 Breakdown the information to pick up various bits of information <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Identify what the facts given in the case are. Two ways you can identify facts are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fact in such a situation should either be backed by the data given in the case, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

or you can apply common knowledge for established or universal truths to conclude it as a fact. Identifying the facts is the most straightforward task in a CR question.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, next, you can pick out the premises (happenings before the argument) followed by inferences (derived meanings), actions, and assumptions (supposed to be true\/valid\/reasonable.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Step 3 \u2013 Identify what is being asked by the question <\/h3>\n\n\n\n