A school is considering changing its daily schedule. Currently, this school requires all students to arrive for class at 8:30 a.m. The proposed policy would permit each student to decide when to arrive from as early as 6 a.m. to as late as 10 a.m., beginning class when they are ready.The adoption of this policy would be most likely to increase students’ attendance if the following were true:

About a third of the questions that appear in the GMAT verbal section are critical reasoning questions.Typical questions that appear in critical reasoning (GMAT CR) include strengthening an argument, weakening an argument, identifying the assumption of an argument, mimic the reasoning, identify the reasoning, conclusion, inference, bold faced statements, and evaluating an argument.

Each of the critical reasoning questions is based on a short argument, a set of statements, or a plan of action.