RON回帖之 CR练习

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RON回帖之 SC练习
http://forum.chasedream.com/thread-1215410-1-1.html

从RON回帖确认学习方法
http://forum.chasedream.com/thread-1215418-1-1.html

这哥们写的太好了，完全是我想找的方法。。。[备考心经] 720：就算再没时间也该听的Ron那些课+如何有效控制pace+实战细节+做题顺序的重要
http://forum.chasedream.com/thread-955830-1-1.html

CR学习方法CRITICAL REASONING:
try to make your own analogies for the problems. in other words, try to create novel situations that use similar logic, but have completely different topic material.
for instance, consider critical reasoning problem 101 in the 12th edition official guide (i'm not allowed to reproduce the problem here). here's an analogy for that problem:
my sister says that she wants to date a guy who has a good job and lots of free time to spend with her. however, very few men with good jobs have much free time.
you can put these statements together to reach the conclusion that “very few men will be able to satisfy my sister's requirements” or “my sister will have a hard time finding a man”. this conclusion works in the same way as the correct answer to #101.
if you can make such analogies, then your brain is working in the right way. if you are fundamentally dependent on being handed passages by someone else, and can't create any of your own, then you have the wrong mentality.

附上#101 12th OG101. For a trade embargo against a particular country to
succeed, a high degree of both international accord
and ability to prevent goods from entering or leaving
that country must be sustained. A total blockade of
Patria’s ports is necessary to an embargo, but such an
action would be likely to cause international discord
over the embargo.

The claims above, if true, most strongly support which
of the following conclusions?
OA: (D) Any trade embargo against Patria would be likely
to fail at some time.


只有SC需要大量时间复习 （楼主亲身确认过）
also, the only part of the verbal section that really merits extensive study is sentence correction. if you have been spending hundreds of hours on the other two sections of the test, then most of that time has probably been wasted.

CR用rules学习，但不是memorizing rules

If solving too many questions on this category would lower my score, then what is the best method/strategy to improve my success rate under timed conditions on this section ? Could you please help me out on this ?

the most important element of success at cr is truly understanding the nature of the problems -- and understanding that will give you the right mentality.

namely:
critical reasoning questions REQUIRE you to “reason critically” -- in other words, to apply normal human intuition / common sense, combined with close attention to what is and what isn't the actual subject of the argument. it is impossible to defeat the cr section with a set of memorized rules, no matter how extensive.

here's a little bit of perspective on the situation:
students who try to defeat cr through memorization are, in effect, trying to find a set of rules that will approximate or replace human intuition / common sense.
there is actually a name for that kind of effort -- “strong artificial intelligence” (strong ai) -- and that effort has so far been a total failure, despite the investment of literally decades of research and trillions of dollars.
so, basically, any student who tries to defeat cr by memorizing a set of rules is trying to invent strong ai, single-handedly, in his or her living room. needless to say, that will fail, and it will fail spectacularly.

also -- it gets worse: if you try to learn cr by memorizing rules, you WILL get worse at it.
think about the purpose of memorization: the purpose of memorization is to get rid of thinking. this is actually the only purpose for any memorization of anything, ever -- to bypass the “thinking” part of the problem. that is a good thing, of course, in certain situations -- for instance, you really wouldn't want people having to think about which side of the road they should drive on -- but it won't work here.

instead:

whenever you learn any kind of rule, always treat it as a GUIDELINE for your NORMAL THOUGHT PROCESSES.

here's an example (not from cr, but you get the point):
when you analyze a business transaction, one very generally applicable principle is always examine the self-interest of the parties involved.
this is obviously not a formula that can be memorized -- there are no hard rules that govern what “self-interest” is in any particular situation -- but it is a useful guideline. once someone has it in mind, he or she can use his or her own common sense and intuition to determine exactly what “self-interest” means in the situation at hand.

this is also what you should do with cr "rules" and principles. they should NEVER replace human intuition and common sense (because that's impossible); they should just complementor guide those things.

CR为什么不能memorizing rules......终于确认了....
you can't memorize rules for critical reasoning. you really can't; don't try. there are a couple of large-scale techniques that are useful -- such as the method of negation for assumption questions -- but specific rules are not going to help you. if you attempt to approach CR with memorization and rules, you will inhibit the processes of intuition and common sense that actually solve most CR problems. as a result, IF YOU STUDY CR TOO MUCH OR TOO RIGOROUSLY, YOU WILL GET WORSE AT IT.
you should study CR only for long enough to understand (a) how each question type works and (b) what general qualities characterize the correct answers (again, it's useless to memorize rules that characterize specific situations).



native speaker CR也要translate,作为中国人最好翻译成中文 (至少没时间的我会这样做)
Translate EVERY critical reasoning problem intoconversational language.

BENEFIT #1 of translating CR into 'conversation':
you'll ALWAYS catch important transitions-even if they are 'tiny little words'.

this is the issue in your posts here. in an actual conversation, there is NO WAY you would miss 'Some people think...', and there is also NO WAY you would fail to understand the significance of those words.

(think about my 'fruit' example.)



BENEFIT #2 of translating CR into 'conversation':
you'll be able to anticipate where the passage is going.

consider:

When freelance writers are offered full-time staff positions, very few of them accept.
Some people try to explain this by...

if this is a conversation, you can predict ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING that's going to follow this.
the speaker will...
...say how most people explain this fact,
...reject that explanation,
...offer his/her own explanation,
...offer some sort of evidence/support/reasoning.

right?

ok.

now, turn to CR problem #116 in OG 13th/2015 edition ('Scientists...')
• read up to the word 'because'.
• stop reading.
• if you imagine a conversation, you can predict EXACTLY how the rest of the argument will proceed. (you won't know the exact specifics, but you'll know the exact FORM the argument will take-it's the same as the one above.)
• note that, when you reach the word 'because', you are only about 15 percent of the way through the passage... and that's good enough to let you predict THE ENTIRE REMAINING EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT.

our 'conversational brains' are pretty amazing, hmm. (in fact, we take this amazing power for granted-so much that, if someone COULDN'T tell where we were going before we went there, we'd probably judge him/her as 'slow', and/or we'd think something was wrong with our communication.)
don't let this power go to waste on CR!


BENEFIT #3 of translating CR into 'conversation':
you'll have to simplify the language of the passage (= 'explain to a 9-year-old', as i'm always saying).

normal people don't talk in the language of dense formal text; rather, they talk like ... well, normal people.
our brains are fundamentally wired for informal oral communication-this is the essence of the oft-repeated saying that 'man is a social animal'-so, if you can get the passage into conversational language, you'll automatically understand it better.

...and, just as importantly, if you CAN'T get the passage into conversational language, then you probably DON'T understand it well enough (and you should try your best to improve your understanding BEFORE going to the answer choices!).

arguably, this benefit is even greater if your native language is not english.
in this case, if you can translate the passage into 'conversational terms' IN YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE, then you can bet %100 that you understand it as well as you'll need to.

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