关于逻辑题中的常识问题

kasulty

不知道大家有没有这个体会，常识的依赖性现在越来越严重了

最初xdf还有一个白痴原则不是么，现在都不敢提了
我最近做OG也发现这个问题，许多题目你不清楚某个应用情境或者“潜规则”，就死定了


大家对这个是怎么体会的呢，除了总结所有不熟悉的案例情境，还有什么应对办法么？



以下是我最近刚给GMAC写的邮件，也是确认这个事情，或者更多的是发发牢骚，因为我也不觉得这个真的能有什么定论或者改变



Hi GMAC Officer,



Thanks for taking time to consider my request.

I’m concerned with the actual amount of common sense needed in order to pick out a right answer choice in Critical Reasoning questions. According to the Official Guide, answering critical reasoning questions requires no specialized knowledge of any particular field, thus only minimal common sense is used in these questions. But during preparing for the exam, I found that this might not be the case.



One example is a question I encountered in the verbal review 2^nd edition. The question is asking for an evaluation of a plan to increase advertising revenue for a newspaper. When I was eliminating the choices, I found one choice introducing a new factor: circulation of the newspaper. Since I was not aware of, under my background that’s far from publishing or advertisement, that circulation can actually relate to the advertising revenue, this option is otherwise very irrelevant and should be easily eliminated by anyone lack of such “common sense” yet sound in critical reasoning. Only by reading the official explanation that I realize the underlining assumption on how circulation relates to the advertisement.



So I’m now very concerned over the amount of “common sense” that’s expected for a test-taker. If someone is from a non-business background, or a culture that may not have an overly exposure to a “common sense” that’s otherwise seemingly unquestionable for the question designer, this might cause a biased disadvantage for such test taker. In my example, the test taker would fail to pick out the right choice not because he is less competent in his reasoning but because his lack of “common sense” for an underlying assumption.



Since the book that I’m studying might contain retired questions that didn’t reflect the standard or quality control that GMAC commits to right now, I hope you may kindly inform me of the real situations on current GMAT exams. Is such specific common-sense no longer exist in real exam? Or such level of common sense is deemed a minimal requirement for any potential business school applicants? In such case, I’d like to know the criteria and standards regarding to which extent the common sense is reasonably accepted to be used in GMAT questions, and to what extent it isn’t.



Thanks,



-Test Taker

agnesliu

我也觉得会依赖common sense的，有些没有背景知识的话，那么短的信息根本没法得出答案来