What are the common traps in Assumption (four-option CR) questions?

Too strong: "Every student owns a smartphone" (the plan works if many do). Helpful but not needed: a statement that would strengthen the argument is not always required by it. Restating evidence: "Students who ate fried snacks were absent more often" is the premise, not the bridge.

Start here · the first lesson of Assumption (four-option CR)

Assumption (four-option CR)

Critical Reasoning / Verbal Reasoning · for IPMAT Indore, IPMAT Rohtak and JIPMAT

The idea

An argument has a premise (evidence) and a conclusion. The assumption is the unstated link the author needs: if it is false, the conclusion does not follow. Indore tests this inside RC ("the author assumes…"); Rohtak sets standalone CR. Our bank keeps these at difficulty 1-3.

Textbook vs exam method

Textbook method

Find the conclusion (often after "so", "therefore", or the sentence the rest supports).
Find the premise.
Spot the new idea in the conclusion that the premise never mentions.
The assumption links the two.

Exam method

Predict the gap. before reading the options.
Eliminate. options that are outside the argument (cost, other people, future), too strong ("every", "no other", "only"), or that merely repeat the evidence.
Negation test. on the last two: negate each; the one whose negation breaks the argument is the answer.