One of 7 GMAT preparation guides in this new series, this book illustrates how to deconstruct arguments and reading passages, using diagramming techniques designed to build speed and improve accuracy. Problem-sets build foundational and advanced skills. Includes online access to simulated practice exams and bonus bank of arguments and passages. Includes most up-to-date test info.

"Learn how to identify question types, simplify arguments, and eliminate wrong answers efficiently and confidently. Practice the logic skills tested by the GMAT and master proven methods for solving all Critical Reasoning problems"--Page 4 of cover.

By testing expert Mike Bryon, How to Pass Advanced Verbal Reasoning Tests provides a huge bank of questions to help you prepare for difficult graduate and managerial recruitment and assessment tests. Offering unbeatable score-improving practice for both online and print tests, it provides 110 warm up questions to get you started and 500+ questions overall. Including four timed realistic tests with interpretations of your score, it contains everything you need to prepare for verbal reasoning tests, stand out from the crowd and bag that job.

The GMAT Critical Reasoning Grail spans more than 240 pages and helps you master Critical Reasoning on the GMAT in a systematic way. The book firstly builds a strong foundation by discussing the basics of Critical Reasoning and then addresses each question type in-depth. It then goes a step further and provides you 100 practice questions for intensive practice. Like the Sentence Correction Grail, the Critical Reasoning Grail is written in an engaging manner and will equip you with all the skills that you need to tackle Critical Reasoning questions confidently. This book is superior to the other books available for Critical Reasoning in many ways. The GMAT Critical Reasoning Grail contains the most up-to-date content for Critical Reasoning. For example, while other books focus on Main Point questions, these question types rarely appear on the GMAT now. Similarly question types such as Logically complete the passage, which are increasingly being tested on the GMAT, find no mention in other books, whereas the CR Grail has an entire chapter that discusses this question type. What also distinguishes the GMAT Critical Reasoning Grail is that it helps you master Critical Reasoning in a step-by-step manner, using jargon free language and does not make you dependent on the diagrammatic approach.It is also the only book that provides you 100 Critical Reasoning Questions for practice

This in-depth guide takes the mystery out of complex reading passages by providing a toolkit of sketching techniques that aim to build comprehension, speed, and accuracy. Learn to identify the underlying structure of reading passages and develop methods to tackle the toughest comprehension questions.

Radically change the way students learn from texts, extending beyond comprehension to critical reasoning and problem solving. Is your reading comprehension instruction just a pile of strategies? There is no evidence that teaching one strategy at a time, especially with pieces of text that require that readers use a variety of strategies to successfully negotiate meaning, is effective. And how can we extend comprehension beyond simple meaning? Bestselling authors Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Nicole Law propose a new, comprehensive model of reading instruction that goes beyond teaching skills to fostering engagement and motivation. Using a structured, three-pronged approach—skill, will, and thrill—students learn to experience reading as a purposeful act and embrace struggle as a natural part of the reading process. Instruction occurs in three phases: Skill. Holistically developing skills and strategies necessary for students to comprehend text, such as monitoring, predicting, summarizing, questioning, and inferring. Will. Creating the mindsets, motivations, and habits, including goal setting and choice, necessary for students to engage fully with texts. Thrill. Fostering the thrill of comprehension, so that students share their thinking with others or use their knowledge for something else. Comprehension is the structured framework you need to empower students to comprehend text and take action in the world.

This consumable book containing easy-to-read stories is designed to encourage critical thinking in the elementary grades and with olders students in need of remedial instruction. The material was designed to show that we apply deductive reasoning skills in every aspect of communication. After each story, children are asked to write in answers that are not only based on memory, they are asked to to deduce and infer the answer and give a reasong for it. Book I is for children whose reading skills would place them approximately in the second to third grades.

Provides an ... effective tool for implementing analysis skills ... necessary for success in all academic disciplines.

Presents five hundred-one critical reading questions to prepare for the SAT I and other tests and includes skill builders on different subject matter such as U.S. history and politics, arts and humanities, health and medicine, literature and music, sports, science, and social studies.

The PowerScore GMAT Reading Comprehension Bible is the definitive guide to the Reading Comprehension portion of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), featuring passages, questions, and concept drills, complete with explanation and analysis. This book will provide you with a powerful and comprehensive system for breaking down any passage and attacking any Reading Comprehension question that you may encounter on the GMAT. The concepts presented in this publication are representative of the techniques and approaches that have been tested in PowerScore's live GMAT preparation courses and have consistently been proven effective for countless students. In order to develop a strong foundation in Reading Comprehension, this book contains substantial discussions of how to deconstruct reading passages, how to identify and attack the various question types that commonly accompany GMAT passages, and how to successfully avoid traps set by the test makers.