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The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   05 Jun 2013, 12:07
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Though is suggested to improve Rc to read excerpts from books or magazines such as The new Yorker or The Economist, these have drawbacks:

- are not free of charge and cheap to subscribe
- maybe are too tough and require skills that not all students have or are far from the concepts related to Gmat
- are not so fun to catch your will to read
- having a reading fast and userfriendly on your laptop or smartphone (maybe an android :-D )

Instead here I suggest you the best resources that you may find to fix the aformentioned points.

BEST RESOURCES





Each site has its feed RSS; you could put them in your Feed Reader. I use the best at the moment; it is another level and experience to read this good stuff.

App for both iOS and Android.

Feedly


Hope you like my effort to improve your RC skills. :)
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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   06 Jun 2013, 17:01
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Thank you for sharing.

I am still more of a fiction/books guy. I feel that not home allow me to get into zone and focus for a long enough time.

The weakness of course is that books tend to be on paper but I found I could go longer and be less interrupted if I read a paper book instead of an article from an online publication.

This is purely me of course.


Posted from my mobile device.
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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   07 Jun 2013, 09:56
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you are an old fashioned guy ;)
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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   07 Jun 2013, 19:19
hi friends, I have a problem

when reading the Economist, I can understand the structure of the passage, but I can not understand the scientific process. in the tab" sicentific and technology" there are many scientifict passages all of which contain a description of scientific processeses

HOW TO UNDERSAND THE SCIENTIFIC PROCESSES ?

we can ignore or skim this scientific process but if a question ask us about this process. How do we do?

pls help
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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   08 Jun 2013, 02:51
+1 to "Sciencenews"
I've read three articles and they have already enriched my vocabulary. Thanks :wink:
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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   12 Jun 2013, 12:10
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Added the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Magazine ;)
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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   15 Jun 2013, 22:56
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some more good stuffs to read

https://www.lrb.co.uk/

https://hbr.org/search/Umair%20Haque

https://www.aldaily.com/

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/
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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   16 Jun 2013, 04:12
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mrinal2100 wrote:
some more good stuffs to read

https://www.lrb.co.uk/

https://hbr.org/search/Umair%20Haque

https://www.aldaily.com/

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/



These are valuable resources though the intent of this post is to have something for free.

Thanks, anyway.
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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   27 Jun 2013, 02:35
Hi
This is very interesting topic. I like it thank you.
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The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 02 Oct 2020, 06:29
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Hi all,

Great suggestions here. The important thing is to read something that challenges you. Also, try to vary the topics that you read. In terms of the drawbacks, the Economist subscription is pretty cheap when you think about how much content there is in the magazine but besides that I think there are at least 5 free articles per week readable on Android/IOs/Windows/OSX.

Again, there are many good options out there. I think that weekly/monthly/quarterly periodicals tend to be better than daily periodicals because the writing usually has more depth. Ultimately, go for what works for you.

Happy Studies,

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Originally posted by AtlanticGMAT on 30 Jul 2013, 18:48.
Last edited by AtlanticGMAT on 02 Oct 2020, 06:29, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   01 Aug 2013, 21:26
bb wrote:
Thank you for sharing.

I am still more of a fiction/books guy. I feel that not home allow me to get into zone and focus for a long enough time.

The weakness of course is that books tend to be on paper but I found I could go longer and be less interrupted if I read a paper book instead of an article from an online publication.

This is purely me of course.


Posted from my mobile device.



Can you suggest some quality fiction novels? I guess you have made a thread for that but I really can't find it..
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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   16 Aug 2013, 11:29
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bb wrote:
Thank you for sharing.

I am still more of a fiction/books guy. I feel that not home allow me to get into zone and focus for a long enough time.

The weakness of course is that books tend to be on paper but I found I could go longer and be less interrupted if I read a paper book instead of an article from an online publication.

This is purely me of course.


Posted from my mobile device.



Can you suggest some quality fiction novels? I guess you have made a thread for that but I really can't find it..



This is what you are looking for

books-to-read-improve-verbal-score-and-enjoy-a-good-read-76079.html


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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   08 Jan 2014, 10:59
carcass wrote:
Though is suggested to improve Rc to read excerpts from books or magazines such as The new Yorker or The Economist, these have drawbacks:

- are not free of charge and cheap to subscribe
- maybe are too tough and require skills that not all students have or are far from the concepts related to Gmat
- are not so fun to catch your will to read
- having a reading fast and userfriendly on your laptop or smartphone (maybe an android :-D )

Instead here I suggest you the best resources that you may find to fix the aformentioned points.

BEST RESOURCES




Each site has its feed RSS; you could put them in your Feed Reader. I use the best at the moment; it is another level and experience to read this good stuff.

App for both iOS and Android.

Feedly


Hope you like my effort to improve your RC skills. :)


Very interested in Sceincenews, yet not excited about forking over $50 for a subscription. Any runaround for that?
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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   05 Feb 2014, 03:03
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Fast Company and The Verge. I like both of them.

But reading online is such a pain. :(
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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   06 May 2014, 06:33
IREADER is a tool for mozilla firefox.....u can download it to make you read better. It is wonderful tool.
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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   26 May 2014, 22:16
Would like to much obliged for imparting this with us.. :) :) :) :)

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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   28 Jan 2015, 02:36
Reading Comprehension i dont like actually it should be removed
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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   23 Feb 2015, 08:27
The intend meaning of this topic is to suggest good reading to improve RC skills.

However, you should be careful when you read something, because could be far from what we need indeed: focusing on GMAT RC: the style, the usage, the vocabulary and so forth.

My suggested reading copes with this purpose. Nothing more. It is conceived specifically to achive this goal.

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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   23 Feb 2015, 10:34
Thanks for sharing the list
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Re: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension [#permalink] New post   15 Apr 2015, 08:19
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Thanks for the post. Great post for a person who is not good at RC section like me.
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