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| | Description | The PowerScore GMAT Critical Reasoning Bible will teach you how to break down GMAT argumentation, how to recognize GMAT question types, and how to separate correct answers from incorrect answers. You will improve your accuracy in answering questions and your speed as well. If you are shooting for the highest score possible, the Critical Reasoning Bible will help you maximize your performance. The approaches discussed in the Critical Reasoning Bible are also useful when attacking Reading Comprehension questions. The Critical Reasoning Bible is supplemented by an exclusive website that provides additional material for the book, including suggested study plans and answers to frequently asked student questions.
About the Author
Dave Killoran, a graduate of Duke University, is an expert in test preparation with over 20 years of experience teaching classes for graduate school admissions tests. In addition to having written PowerScore's legendary LSAT Bible Series, and many other popular publications, Dave has overseen the preparation of thousands of students and founded two national test preparation companies. Read the acclaim for some of PowerScore's other publications: The PowerScore LSAT Logic Games Bible, The PowerScore GMAT Sentence Correction Bible, and The PowerScore GMAT Verbal Bible. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | David M. Killoran | | Paperback: | 305 pages | | Publisher: | Powerscore Publishing | | Publication Date: | August 01, 2005 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0972129634 | | Product Length: | 9.8 inches | | Product Width: | 6.9 inches | | Product Height: | 0.7 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.3 pounds | | Package Length: | 10.8 inches | | Package Width: | 8.3 inches | | Package Height: | 0.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 16 reviews |
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39 of 40 found the following review helpful:
 Defenitly Deserves the Title. (Add "And A Quick Reference too!" Mar 25, 2007
By K. Zuriqat
Defenitely deserves the title and what'smore, this book can be a very quick reference, making it very practical and helpful.
Don't be afraid to buy a whole book for this question type. All the other books (Princeton, Kaplan, Official Guide, etc...) do not cover this GMAT speciality topic in depth. This book will clear all your doubts about how to solve and how to think about CR questions. It also provides a quick reference. For example, if you think you need to review how to best think about "Weaken" questions, you can very easily in five minutes read the section summary and be confident again. Tomorrow is my exam and in 1/2
an hour I reviewd the whole book!
This book clearly divides the CR question types into ten and not eight like most of the other question types and believe me knowing the question type is a fundamental that you need to master. Even more, it gives you innovative specific techniques for each question type, example, Fact Test, Variance Test, Assumption Negation Techniques. All these techniques are simplifying techniques that allow you to intelligently tackle CR questions.
The book also discusses why its techniques are different from and better than those of other books. Eg: This book unlike Princeton (I am not Against Princeton, in fact I think it is much better that Kaplan) teachs you and convinces you to read the Argument first and then questin.
By exactly knowing what you should do for eah question type you can become an expert in solving CR questions. The thinking process becomes "automatic" one, that is you don't have to think really hard because the strategies that you learned become natural.
I recommend this book to anyone seriously preparing for the GMAT.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Great book for CR and RC, too! Sep 02, 2009
By J. Chiu
I took my first GMAT and scored 670 (Q44 V38). After evaluating my performance, I realized that CR was definitely a weak spot, so I browsed [...] and found many recommendations for PowerScore's CR Bible. I purchased the book just two weeks before my GMAT re-take and studied the book religiously. After a basic understanding of the principles (identifying premise and conclusion, etc...), I re-took the GMAT and scored 750 (Q49 V44). As you can see, my verbal score jumped six points - I attribute much of that improvement to the principles I learned in this book.
So, get this book early in your GMAT preparation and understand these fundamentals before tackling the OG problems. Good luck!
24 of 29 found the following review helpful:
Simply the BEST GMAT Critical Reasoning Book available Nov 11, 2009
By BeatTheGMAT.com
I self studied and scored a 770 on the GMAT. Here are my thoughts on PowerScore's Critical Reasoning Bible:
===== OVERVIEW =====
The PowerScore GMAT Critical Reasoning Bible (or the CR bible, as you'll see it commonly referenced in online forums) is published by the renowned LSAT-prep gurus, PowerScore. The LSAT and the GMAT have two question types that are somewhat similar: Reading Comprehension and Critical Reasoning (known as `Logical Reasoning' in the LSAT). This book comes in as an abridged form of the company's massively successful Logical Reasoning Bible. This CR bible has a solid reputation as a comprehensive guide to one of the most puzzling question types on the GMAT.
The CR bible covers the topic of GMAT Critical Reasoning with incredible depth and detail. Questions are neatly organized according to "families" in order for the reader to understand the various logical connections between question types. The book deals with ten types of Critical Reasoning questions, all remarkably well analyzed, in ten separate chapters. The CR bible even addresses many rarely-tested CR question types; although I would love to see a separate chapter for boldface critical reasoning questions in a future edition (boldface critical reasoning questions are considered among the toughest question tested on the GMAT). One could argue that this book will also help in case you're having trouble with Reading Comprehension. I personally found the `Main Point' chapter particularly enlightening and relevant to reading comprehension.
===== PROS =====
* Detailed analysis of Critical Reasoning question types means that you will have a quick reference guide at hand should you ever feel the need to review for one topic or the other
* Practice questions, although few, are the closest I've ever seen to actual GMAT questions (in terms of style). Explanations are also top notch, with great analysis of why a wrong answer is wrong. In my opinion, understanding why an answer is wrong helps you avoid common traps and is almost as useful as understanding why the correct choice is right
* After reading the CR bible, you will be able to see why the GMAT is so popular with business school admissions. The process of "creating" a Critical Reasoning question is carefully explained, a fact which made me realize the amount of talent and effort that goes into making just one GMAT question. The author of the book clearly shows due respect to the GMAT test and its creators, which inspired me
* If pressed for time, the book offers a quick strategy for studying the most important question types
===== CONS =====
* At around 50 practice questions, the CR bible needs to be supplemented with other resources, such as The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 12th Edition or The Official Guide for GMAT Verbal Review, 2nd Edition
* Unlike most prep books, this book does not come with a CD or online access to CATs (computer-adaptive practice tests)
* The book only features two boldface questions (this question type is described in the `Method of Reasoning' chapter)
===== BOTTOM LINE =====
The PowerScore Critical Reasoning Bible is definitely worth the money if you feel you're having trouble with Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension. Its strategies and tips, if carefully studied and applied, will surely translate in an increase in your score. I attribute much of my 11-point verbal raw score increase (from 36 to 47) to this book.
About me: Dana Jinaru, 770 GMAT scorer, expert at Beat The GMAT - a community serving 100K+ GMAT students/month
19 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 Good Breakdown of subject material Mar 03, 2006
By B. Krause
"miscwrite"
Excellent breakdown on each of the different parts of critical reasoning. Good format and it helped me better understand how to attack each critical reasoning question.
15 of 18 found the following review helpful:
useful book Feb 03, 2007
By Ajith Kannan
"AK"
I have covered almost all popular books in the market like Official Guide, Kaplan , Barrons ,Princeton ,Kaplan 800 and was looking for more practice questions and decided to buy this book.The questions in the book are really in the tougher category and lots of teasers which u may get wrong unless u r reallyyyy sharp. Explanations are very natural and feels like ur attending a class . looks the author was teaching GMAT prep students since many places he mention that his students got this answer and argued like this etc etc.
I would recommend this book if u have run of popular books and still looking to perfect ur score.
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