Completing Prompts (GMAT Course – Advanced Quantitative and Verbal Concepts)

Master the “Completing Prompts” question type in GMAT Critical Reasoning. This lesson explains the two CR prompt families, Inference and Strengthen (since/because), and shows how to spot the task, eliminate traps, and select the logically valid choice.

What you’ll learn:
Argument vs Inference prompts
How to recognize “Complete the Prompt” questions
Steps to identify strengthen vs inference tasks
Common wrong answers: reversals, extremes, vagueness, no impact
Worked GMAT-style examples

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Critical Reasonings – Completing Prompts (GMAT Course, S3–Advanced Quantitative and Verbal Concepts)
Argument Prompts
Provide an Explicit Main Conclusion
Multiple Possible Tasks Affecting or Addressing Argument
Likely Require Evaluating Validity of an Argument
Apply Any New Information in Choices to Argument as True
Consider Common Arguments and Assumptions
Require Predicting What Answer Should do to Address Task

Inference Prompts
No Conclusion Presented
List Only Statements of Fact
Single Possible Task : What Must Be?
No Prediction Possible
Must Compare Choices to Facts

“Supporting” an Argument
Strengthen Task
Can be Identified if a Choice Intended to “Support” Prompt
Must Apply Choices to Determine Impact on Argument
Identifiable by “Argument” in the Question Stem

“Supporting” a Choice
No Conclusion Presented
Lists Only Statements of Fact that are Intended to Support One “of the Following” Inferences
Single Possible Task : What Must Be?
What Must Be True?
What Must Be False?

Critical Reasoning Complete the Prompt Process

Step 1 – ID Question Task to Complete the Prompt
If Conclusion Present – “Since” Strengthen Task
If No Conclusion Present – Inference Task

Step 2 – Read Prompt & Take Notes
Strengthen Task – Read Prompt and Note Exact Conclusion(s)
Inference Task – Read Prompt and Shorthand Note Statements of Fact

Step 3 – Prediction (Argument-Only)
Broadly Predict What Answer Should Do to Strengthen the Argument Likely Immediately Preceding the “since” or “because” Prior to Blank

Step 4 – Process of Elimination
Common Wrong Strengthen Answers – Reverse Impact | Vague Impact | Added Info Needed to Evaluate Impact | No Impact (as True or False)
Common Wrong Inference Answers – Reversal of Information | Extreme Inference | Possible, but Not Certain
0:00 Introduction
0:20 Critical Reasoning Prompts
1:58 Completing a Prompt
9:34 Critical Reasoning "Support"
11:34 Critical Reasoning Complete the Prompt Process
14:07 Example 1
19:25 Example 2
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