GMAT · Verbal Reasoning
Critical Reasoning
12 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.
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Random questions from this topic, one at a time. You see the answer and the explanation straight after each one.
All 12 questions
- Company X introduced a mandatory employee wellness program that included gym memberships and ergonomic workstations. Over the subsequent twelve months, worker absenteeism dropped by 18 percent. The ma…
- Advocates of urban congestion pricing argue that levying tolls on vehicles entering downtown zones during peak hours will reduce traffic delays and lower particulate emissions. Critics point out that…
- Pharmaceutical researchers observed that patients with chronic hypertension who consumed two cups of hibiscus tea daily demonstrated modest reductions in systolic blood pressure. The researchers hypot…
- A certain municipality recently lowered the residential speed limit from 35 mph to 25 mph. In the following six months, the total number of vehicular collisions remained unchanged. The local newspaper…
- Argument: 'Many software engineers believe that using automated code-generation tools reduces software bugs. **However, software architectures generated by automated tools often incorporate unnecessar…
- Retail analyst: 'Online grocery delivery services experienced explosive revenue growth during the pandemic. However, retaining suburban customers will prove difficult now that brick-and-mortar superma…
- Economist: 'Technological automation historically displaces specific manual occupations while creating new, higher-skill employment opportunities. In the past decade, however, artificial intelligence…
- A manufacturer of high-end acoustic headphones discovered that sales jumped by 30% after increasing the retail price from 350, without any modifications to the product's acoustic components.
… - In Country Z, the government mandates that all commercial maritime vessels utilize low-sulfur marine diesel while operating within 200 nautical miles of the coastline. Environmental monitors detected…
- University administrators observed that students who attended optional peer-tutoring sessions scored an average of 1.2 letter grades higher on the final calculus examination than non-attending student…
- Airline executive: 'Installing lighter carbon-fiber seats across our commercial fleet will reduce aircraft gross weight, thereby lowering fuel burn and operating expenditures. Therefore, the investmen…
- Agronomist: 'Soil salinization poses a dire threat to arid agricultural valleys. Desalination irrigation systems, while effective, are prohibitively expensive for smallholder farmers. Thus, introducin…