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GMAT Club RC Mega thread - Focus Edition
Hello GMAT Club Community! As many people struggle with reading comprehension, I am hoping to collect all the helpful resources in one place in this topic. This will be pinned in the RC sub-forum but bookmark it so you can easily find it!
Hello GMAT Club Community! As many people struggle with reading comprehension, I am hoping to collect all the helpful resources in one place in this topic. This will be pinned in the RC sub-forum but bookmark it so you can easily find it!
Best Books for Reading Comprehension
- MGMAT Verbal Guide - 2024 Edition - the gold standard in GMAT prep. Contains both RC and CR.
- PowerScore RC Bible - it is 2021 edition, but little has changed on the RC in the past 10 years, so the strategy and instructions are valid.
- MGMAT RC standalone book from pre-Focus (last edition of the stand-alone book; old but still relevant and poweful.)
RC Strategies
This section contains almost all of the RC strategies available on the forum.
This section contains almost all of the RC strategies available on the forum.
- List of books to improve RC skills and Enjoy Reading (1,350 bookmarks)
- Ultimate RC Guide for Beginners by GMAT Ninja (1000 bookmarks)
- BB's RC Strategy Guide (880 bookmarks)
- How to Read a Reading Comp Passage by Rhyme (780 bookmarks)
- GMAT Reading Comprehension: 7 Most Common Passage Types (670 bookmarks)
- MGMAT Study Hall Thursdays with Ron Verbal Videos (366 Bookmarks)
- RC Guide from Manhattan GMAT Blog (200 bookmarks)
- Mod Nightblade's Quick Guide to RC (165 bookmarks)
- Most Important Steps in RC (76 bookmarks)
- How to Study for GMAT Reading Comprehension by Magoosh
- GMAT Reading Comprehension Practice Questions by Magoosh
RC Question Banks
- Reading Comprehension Question Directory Topic Difficulty
- RC-1000 Series RC collection with 2,700 questions
- 400 RC Passages
- 1500 RC Passages
- The Most Comprehensive Collection Of Everything Official- RC
- GMAT Club RC Download section
- RC Question bank by Carcass
- Reading-comprehension_Oldy but goldy question banks
Reading Comprehension Advice by Ron Purewal (I hope you know who he is...)
An excerpt by Ron Purewal about RC passage strategy
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.
An excerpt by Ron Purewal about RC passage strategy
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.
03 Oct 2024, 13:14
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