Take an hour and just go through all of the logical reasoning sections you have already taken, but rather than answering the questions, just practice reading the passages quickly, and then be able to mentally articulate what you just read. For instance, you read the question and it asks you what is the flaw in the reasoning of the foundation described in the passage. So you read the passage and it says that a university received a major donation from a foundation. Then the university's physics department began doing military-related research. Since the foundation has a purely humanitarian mission, it threatens to withhold its donation. The university then assures the foundation that none of its funding will go toward the physics department's research, so the foundation goes forward with the endowment. Okay, so you've read the passage, now think about it, "what the hell did i just read?" I promise you that if you can capture the structure of the argument in the passage, you will easily identify the correct answer. Try to figure it out and predict what the correct answer will look like before looking at the answer choices.
Take an hour and just go through all of the logical reasoning sections you have already taken, but rather than answering the questions, just practice reading the passages quickly, and then be able to mentally articulate what you just read. For instance, you read the question and it asks you what is the flaw in the reasoning of the foundation described in the passage. So you read the passage and it says that a university received a major donation from a foundation. Then the university's physics department began doing military-related research. Since the foundation has a purely humanitarian mission, it threatens to withhold its donation. The university then assures the foundation that none of its funding will go toward the physics department's research, so the foundation goes forward with the endowment. Okay, so you've read the passage, now think about it, "what the hell did i just read?" I promise you that if you can capture the structure of the argument in the passage, you will easily identify the correct answer. Try to figure it out and predict what the correct answer will look like before looking at the answer choices.
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