GMAT Ninja Series 3, Video 3: An Intuitive Approach to GMAT Boldface CR Questions

In real life, anything in boldface is always really important, right? But that’s not how it works on the #GMAT, and that can mess with your mind on “boldface” CR questions. In this video, we’ll cover a simple, intuitive approach to these GMAT critical reasoning questions.

0:00 Intro & Agenda of the session
1:14 Mistakes students commonly make on Bold-Face Questions
3:36 Question #1
14:01 Question #2
23:38 Question #3
30:25 Question #4
45:24 Question #5

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[gmatclub]

This is Video 1 of 9, Season 3 of GMAT Ninja Videos (Fall 2019)

[MrTVx]

A genius who got a perfect 800 score and the best Tutor in all of GMAT teaching for free on Youtube. We are truly blessed. My verbal has improved so much by modifying my approach so much thanks to you. I've watched other tutors on Youtube but their teaching philosophy just didn't make sense to me. The process you have of thinking logically, and focusing on the meaning and eliminating 4 wrong answers, not looking for the right one has unlocked my verbal potential. This is perfect, this is how the GMAT is meant to be solved.

The biggest thing I had trouble with was trying to figure out everything. Every CR or SC question, I would try and figure out absolutely everything going on in the passage, and if I didn't understand something, I just got overwhelmed and couldn't focus properly, because I started thinking the question is too difficult and then I started guessing the right answer, which often led to errors. While in fact, you don't need to have a perfect understanding of what's going on all the time, you just need to logically try and eliminate answers one by one until you are left with an answer, doesn't matter if you don't understand what the answer says, as long as the other 4 are logically flawed.

I went from being able to answer none of the questions in SC and CR when I started with the first video in series 1 and now I am getting the majority right. This is because you perfectly illustrate why the 4 wrong answers are wrong. A logical explanation which can be applied to each subsequent question, unlike other sources such as the GMAT official guide which will tell you: "long and awkward" or "wrong use of the idiom". These explanation are completely opinion based in a lot of cases and are not a consistent use case, so why use them in the first place? This then gets flipped around and then suddenly doesn't matter in the next question anymore even though both those reasonings still apply, leaving you confused as to what you actually need to look for in the wrong answers. Unlike in these videos where looking for meaning disparity and logical flaws are always the correct way to approach the question.

And I'm just focusing on verbal for now because that is my biggest point of weakness but I will watch the quant videos as well because there is no single source of GMAT information better than you.

Thank you Charles.

[ashshettyvlogs]

Charles, wish we had more videos of yours. Always worth watching your videos for the exam. Lot to takeaway in how you approach questions

[filippoiguera]

Got 4/5 right. You said that the first one was the easiest, but it seems the hardest to me hahaha
Thank you again, Charles!

[vaibhavgangrade]

55:36 “this is why I don’t hang out with lawyers that much” isn’t your wife a lawyer 😂

[harikajayanthi]

Wow I really loved this approach. After following this systematically my head does not spin looking at the answer choices. Thank you Charles!

[AlexanderGruebl]

Charles, you are a legend. Thanks for helping us out in this bumpy journey!

[myhana]

Cant stop LOL at "except for attorneys" part at 39:48. Cant resist your charm there, Charles!

[prasadjagle]

Wow!!!! Just wow!!! Awesome!! loved the explanations to the questions and yeah you are Funny!!

[jainamvora]

Thanks GMATNinja & GMAT Club for this video. A quick question: In the last question(DrIndian village) what is the difference between position and conclusion? And why can't the 2nd boldface be the position?

[eda.]

I noticed how I got more confident with each question! Really surprised bc I didn't understand these boldface questions at first! Thank you for this video! Now I need to build this same confidence with CR, my nemesis lol.

[mahakbagha]

Best video on boldface questions ❤️ thanks Charles

[nes]

GMAT Ninja is the best! That is my conclusion. Which statement, if true, supports the argument?

[gayatri]

I am not scared anymore from lengthy bold faced Q :)

[Bossanik]

This might help people:

Evidence & facts are more or less the same thing. The word "fact" just means some objective truth in the real world upon which all sane and reasonable people would agree. Any numerical data about a company's business is factual. What makes a fact a piece of evidence is that someone cites the fact to support an argument. Basically, every "fact" appearing in a GMAT CR problem is a piece of evidence, because it's there to support an argument.

There's not a tremendous difference between claim and conclusion. Both are arguments that someone is making, with which we may agree or disagree. We are no longer on purely objective ground here. Arguments (at least the interesting ones, on the GMAT) are on the grounds of opinion, conjecture, and interpretation of the facts. The only difference between a claim and a conclusion is that the "conclusion" is the "last word", the summary point a speaker is making, whereas a "claim" can be any argument in any part of the prompt. Every conclusion is a claim, but not every claim is a conclusion, because some claims are secondary points on the way to a main conclusion.

[Tremor-.]

Where is the word file in this, I had to search and get make one, do you need to attach here let me know.

[amitc]

This is great! Thank you so much for this helpful video. I have a very good idea of how I need to approach these now!

[vighneshkamath]

Hey, I am doing this question NO 2, NOT live, but at the same time as GMAT NINJA FRIDAY 11.45 AM, such a coincidence.

[betseatgetachew]

Great video! What level would you say these 5 questions are e.g. 500, 600, etc.

[RohitRaj-vuyy]

Charles Biblos: The language used by the lawyers is the reason he don't hangout with these guys.
Infact he has married a lawyer.

Which of the following could help account for this discrepancy?
(a) Charles Biblos is a sarcastic person
(b) Charles Biblos's wife does soem other job apart from pursuing law
(c) Charles Biblos's wife does not use sophisticated language in conversation


😆- For reference, go to timestamp 55:30