Most people practise verbal reasoning wrong. They do question after question, check the score, feel vaguely bad, and repeat. Volume without method plateaus fast. Here's a method that doesn't.
Every EPSO verbal question gives you a short passage and asks which statement follows from it. The four options are engineered around predictable traps:
1. The real-world truth. A statement that's obviously true — but the passage never says it. This is the most common wrong answer, because your brain wants to help. 2. The too-strong claim. The passage says "many"; the option says "all". The passage says "may contribute"; the option says "causes". 3. The reversal. Cause and effect, or comparison direction, quietly flipped. 4. The near-miss. Correct topic, wrong detail — a date, an actor, a scope shifted by one word.
Once you can name the trap in a wrong answer, you stop falling for that trap family. That's the skill. Not reading faster — classifying faster.