How to answer certain types of CR questions...

Test Preparation
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<p>For example: </p>

<p>Duncan perceives his family as:</p>

<p>A) callously objective
B) offensively complacent
C) unnecessarily demanding
D) puzzingly eccentric
E) hopelessly gullible</p>

<p>When you come across a question like this...how can you be sure that what you choose is correct? For that question I narrowed it down to A/B and went with A which was wrong. Which choices would you cross out off the bat because of its wording? Does the PrincetonReview strategy work for "words ETS will never have in a correct answer choice" if anyone knows what I mean. thanks</p>

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<p>offensively complacent? complacent means self-satisfactory..so at best thats only self damaging so it shouldn't be offensive..</p>

<p>c may work.....</p>

<p>d is a bit too strong...its like saying "beatifully pretty"</p>

<p>e..hmm hopelessly gullible? too harsh but may somehow work i guess.</p>

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<p>Answer was B :-\ these questions puzzle me because my vocab isn't too great.</p>

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<p>where is the question from? don't think i remember that one from anywhere...</p>

<p>anyways, always try to read the passage first before answering. guessing just by the answers can be very risky/ineffective...</p>

<p>as the result showed, using the PR guessing method is not very pragmatic...</p>

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<p>I did read the passage...and then tried to narrow some down by my knowledge of the passage and the wording...still no luck..getting discouraged</p>

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<p>if the only thing that is hindering your progress are the vocabs then u should grab the word smart and word smart 2 books and start memo all of the words in those..</p>

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<p>I have the Word Smart book..but memorizing all those words is overwhelming..I tend to forget them once I start to learn new words...any tips?</p>

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<p>use flash cards i guess and pull those out as often as you can....</p>

<p>you also might want to consider asking your family members to participate in vocab jeopardies every week...but that might be too late as you only have like 4 weeks left...hmm</p>

<p>just keep on practicing and adapt to the test is the best advice i can give. be prepared and know what they will throw at you...finish ther stuff u know quickly and tackle at the hard ones after you are done with the rest (rereading the passages, think back and try to remember those words, etc)</p>