Reasoning Beyond the Text: Learning Outcomes

00:01 Reasoning beyond the text questions are unique and that they introduced outside contexts in both the question stem and the answer choices.

00:09 To master this type of question, you should be familiar with the following learning outcomes.

00:14 You should be able to engage in a lateral thought processing between two different fields that have some things in common, but which nonetheless differ in certain important ways.

00:26 You should be able to take a passage and think of the points mentioned in the passage as givens and then the question stems as eliciting different conclusions from those givens.

00:38 You should then be able to define exactly what constitutes a correct CARS answer selection for testing.

00:45 You should be able to use the words likeness, similarity, and analogy in the fashion that the test writers use them.

00:52 From there, you should be able to create an analogy of your own and boil down abstract logic within a passage into kind of an operationalized concrete form.

01:09 Next, you should be able to view CARS passages as malleable, able to be reshaped and reformed based on context introduced in the question stem.

01:19 And you should be able to answer "what if" and "least amount of change" questions for the CARS section.

01:25 Last but not least, after you've applied all the strategies we've discussed, you've given your absolute best to a CARS question and you're taking more than about a minute per question, you should be able to take strategic guest for any given question in order to get on track for time.