GMAT Club RC mega thread - 2020 Edition

Hello community

Here is the RC Mega thread 2020 edition. First of all I would like to thank souvik101990 who started this initiative of mega thread and did a lot of work for the forum. If you want to have a look at the previous edition of RC Mega thread you can check it in this link. I have collected resources from all of the forum and also added some resources outside of the forum.

I have also posted a thread earlier which is shorter version of this mega thread, you can find that here

Thanks to carcass for the Ron Purewal's quote below

GMAT Club's RC Butler Projects

For daily practice of RC follow these projects, you will hopefully get benefited.

• RC Butler Project 2018
• RC Butler Project 2019
• RC Butler Project 2020

An excerpt by RON Purewal about RC passage strategy (I hope you know who he is.................)

The two official guides (twelfth edition and verbal supplement), taken together, provide more than enough practice.

If the student has gone through those materials and is still having considerable trouble, then one of the following three things (or more than one of them) is true:

(1) the student hasn't taken the time to learn how the problems work, and is just randomly trying to memorize things;
(2) the student doesn't understand how to read and process the passages, and is basically reading as though the passages were just factfactfactfact;
(3) the student isn't yet good enough at reading and understanding professionally written English.

notice that NONE of these three things is going to be fix-able by a greater volume of practice problems. if any of these three things is going on, additional practice problems won't fix the problem; in fact, additional practice is just going to cement the problem.
as an analogy, think of someone with a totally wrong golf swing. now, think of what will happen if this person goes out and takes 10,000 practice swings at golf balls -- the person will still have exactly the same problems, but those problems will now be so thoroughly reinforced that they will be practically impossible to fix.
the same is true for rc. in fact, i will just come out and say that no student should spend more than 15-20 hours of his or her entire life practicing specifically for GMAT RC. (note that this is a lifetime total -- not monthly, not weekly, but actual lifetime.) that is plenty of time to learn how GMAC writes the wording of its questions, what terms such as “primary purpose” and “inference” mean, etc. beyond this point, GMAT-specific studying is simply not going to help, and, in all probability, will make bad habits even worse and more permanent.

if someone is going to spend a large number of hours, then those hours should be spent before the person starts taking on GMAT-type problems. for instance, if the student can't read english fast enough, then that's a problem that must be addressed before he/she begins to look at GMAT style problems. if the student doesn't understand how to read passages for the main point, then that's a problem that must be addressed before he/she begins to look at GMAT style problems. etc.

RC Guides and Reading Strategies

This section contains almost all of the RC strategies available on the forum.

• Ultimate RC Guide for Beginners by GMAT Ninja
• RC Guide from Manhattan GMAT Blog
• How to Read a Reading Comp. Passage by Manhattan
• Fundamental reading skills
• How to efficiently solve RC questions by e-GMAT
• How to Read a Reading Comp Passage by Rhyme
• Learn to destroy reading comp by Empower GMAT
• How to Read a Reading Comp Passage by PrepScholar
• How to Read an RC Passage by GMAT Pill
• E-GMAT strategy for main point questions
• Paragraph Summaries - An approach to Main Point by e-GMAT
• How to efficiently tackle Inference questions in RC and CR.
• Understanding the tone of the passage
• GMAT Reading Comprehension Technique: Read Carefully Once by magoosh
• Inference on GMAT Reading Comprehension by Magoosh
• Comprehending GMAT reading comprehension by Kaplan
• GMAT reading comprehension tips: CAT strategies by Kaplan
• GMAT RC: Eliminating Wrong Answers by Magoosh
• The “Secret Sauce” of GMAT Reading Comprehension Success by Magoosh
• GMAT PrepNow free RC Videos
• Knewton GMAT Prep Tip: How to stay focused on your Reading Comprehension
• Manhattan Articles published in Reading Comprehension section
• GMAT Reading List by Magoosh
• Learning RC through YouTube Videos
• RC Strategies by e-GMAT - HD Video
• How to improve my RC accuracy?
• GMAT Reading Comprehension: 7 Most Common Passage Types
• RC Strategy by Walker
• Nightblade's Quick Guide to RC
• RC Tips and tricks
• Top RC Tips
• 5 RC rules and principle
• MGMAT Study Hall Thursdays with Ron Verbal Videos
• Another RC Thread
• GMAT Vocabulary List
• RC Strategy by Gin
• RC notes by Prashant Ponde

GMAT RC Practice Questions

Top Official sources to practice RC

Below three sources should be the top priorities for GMAT RC practice

1. GMAC Official

2. LSAT Official

3. GRE Official

LSAT v GRE

PS: Comparing LSAT official RCs with GRE official RCs for the GMAT i believe LSAT RCs are better than GRE, this is my personal belief though. The reason behind is that GRE focuses meaning and vocabulary while GMAT Don't judge test taker's vocabulary.

Top Non-official sources to practice RC

If you run out of all above three official sources then below sources are good to practice.

1. Manhattan GMAT

2. Veritas GMAT

3. Kaplan GMAT

RC question bank

• GMAT Club RC Download section
• 400 RC Passages
• 1500 RC Passages
• RC 600-700 level questions
• RC 700-800 level question
• RC 700-800 level solutions
• Reading Comprehension Question Directory Topic Difficulty
• The Most Comprehensive Collection Of Everything Official- RC
• RC Question bank by Carcass
• Reading-comprehension_Oldy but goldy question banks
• GMATClub Question of the day by Carcass
• The Best Of GMAT Club Verbal 2016
• Best of Verbal 2017

I hope this thread will help many GMAT aspirants. Suggestions and feedback are welcomed

Good Luck on the GMAT