Verbal Reasoning

6 Steps of Verbal Reasoning

The fundamental strategy you should employ involves six simple steps:

1. Read the statement/question

2. Skim the passage for key words and phrases relating to this

3. Read the sentence(s) containing the key words, as well as those before and after

4. Continue scanning the passage for further occurrences of the key words

5. If found again, repeat step 3

6. Select an answer based on this ‘targeted’ reading

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