Evaluate The Argument Question

By Abhishek Tomar on Sep 22, 2009 with Comments 0

In GMAT you may get a questions specially in Critical Reasoning and some time in Reading Comprehension where you will be asked to pick a choice that evaluate the argument in the passage. Questions like “How the author evaluated the company’s hypothesis?” . You have to look for the keywords such as “Evaluate” or “assess”. Logically when you see these keywords you should check are you dealing with Evaluate- the – Argument Question

Trick to Recognize an Evaluate- the – Argument Questions

The best way of recognizing the Evaluate- the – Argument Questions is to find the following wordings:

• The answer to which of the following questions would be most useful in evaluating the significance of the author’s claims?
• Which  of the following pieces of the information would be most useful in assessing the logic of the argument presented above?

Strategies how to crack the Evaluate- the – Argument Questions

• Run the basic tests before going too deep.
• Reading the passage carefully and try to find the type of passage that is very very important. As discussed before the passage may  be a casual passage , statistical passage or analogical Passage. For those who are new and for those whose forget these passage means, let’s quick run on these types of passages.

1. Casual Passage: Passages that deals with cause and effect. For example Because of A, B will not happen.
2. Statistical Passage: Passages that provide statistical data to prove the conclusion or the premise. For Example: 25% of the people do not use the Motorola Mobile Service.
3. Analogical Passage : Analogical Passages are those passages that compare to even situation on the same platform. For Example. Just like Cricket, Football is also famous in various in many countries.

• Make the correct choice on the bases of the above keywords and the type of choices. The choice should satisfy both the parts  and not single part.