Problem understanding passages

First: the best way to get better at reading is by reading a lot. But this doesn't happen overnight. Read high-quality nonfiction every single day for at least a few minutes, and/or read one reading comp passage per day, most days of the week. Keep working! You've spent your entire life reading and writing, things aren't going to change quickly.

Second: Understanding the passage means different things to different people. On the GMAT, it's easy to think that you need to understand the content of the passage. Think about the notes you took in high school or college. What showed up in those notes? Content - facts, figures, names, and places. On the GMAT, you need only a very minimal understanding of the content, for two reasons. One, it's an 'open-book test' - you can go back and look at the passage again whenever you need to. Two, the content can't be too complex, because it has to be straightforward enough that the questions they ask about it can be answered by anybody who's read the passage. They can't require you to understand biology, sociology, etc. Every question must be answerable by somebody who knows nothing about the content. So, even if the content looks complicated, it's probably just because they dressed it up with jargon.

Hi Shradha,

I was facing similar issue a month back, when I heard about Gin's RC notes available on the gmatclub. Initially I used to face problems understanding the para mostly beaches most of the RC tricks I learnt suggested me to browse quickly. After studying from Gin's notes, you would get a totally different approach to solve RC. Hope this helps:)




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