Reading Test Advice

mcwoodhill -

Glad my advice helped. It sounds weird, but the best way to help "train" yourself to read in this manner is to select reading passages on subjects you nothing about and read them after a long hard day. Your tendency will be to revert to your normal reading method when tired, so doing this after working or a long day of studying is good practice. Also, spend 30 seconds or so after reading a passage to jot down your thoughts on the scope of the passage, what the author is saying in the passage, how it is organized and the purpose of the passage.

GOod luck and geel free to ask any further questions as you move forward.

thanks again.

ps: it's a myth that gmat has only 1, rarely 2 long articles:

I had 3

first one was of 3 paragraphs, very long, like four paragraphs, few lines blow the screen n i did have to roll down the mouse

then the one crushed me down:

it was one very long paragraph but the context even longer than the first--who the **** does this!!!!!!!!!!!! it was literally unreadable

all my screen was full of words

and the questions were very detail oriented, so i collapsed

after few c's, the third seemed easier, still 3 paragraphs but just few lines off the screen. and the sentence structures go down. the first and second, especially second, sentences were written in horrible way long tedious full of qualifications, explanations blablabla.

after more c's, the final one was short indeed:

in short, verbal part is way more difficult than you can experience from any prep or mock cat's--most of them definitely exaggerate the difficulty of quant--those questions at test center are quite the same at the prep level. questions are trickier though. most of the shortcuts making you finish manhattan math in time won't be necessary at all.

but the difficulty of the verbal is way underestimated. it's very hard nut to crack: very unfriendly test interlace--everything is on screen you can't scratch/underline/highlight what you want, articles are very dry and LONG--really not 3 short 1 long but 3 LONG 1 short, questions are very details oriented, not many raised about the big map thing you can just screw over by some simple reading, 211f-structure and key words

with that said, best luck and hope everyone--sure myself included--learn from my failure:

Verb is hard, harder than Quant, like GRE. don't underestimate or you'll suffer