Advice on source to read to nail Humanities passages

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Hi,

Can someone please advice me on what source should I read frequently so that I can nail Humanities passages. 
I read The Economist frequently but it hardly contains any humanities related stuff. 
By humanities I mean topics such as Women emancipation, Voting rights of colored people etc.
I am very bad at handling humanities passages and hardly can maintain my concentration levels after the first paragraph.

Thanks in Advance.

BrentGMATPrepNow · Answer

For Humanities/Social Sciences, try: 
- Washington Post 
- New York Times 
- Guardian 
- Atlantic Monthly 
- The New Yorker

BrentGMATPrepNow · Answer

I should note that simply reading articles won't guarantee that you ace those kinds of RC passages. You still need RC strategies. 
Here are a few lessons to get you started on RC strategy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwlAA-1H5KI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEmIrY5owa4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPNUOAr5w50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN7pqtC-_RM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUOA2yOWNKs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjMqhQsNzwM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Ba7uqpjHI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQMVuCOjbyU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvCzZn19W8I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYOdqEd33SA

EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi Alok322,

While reading from outside sources certainly has the potential to help you hone your reading and 'retention' skills, you can't really train for the 'content' of the RC passages that you'll see on Test Day. The good news is that RC questions are more often about understanding the structure of the passage and why the passage was written than about understanding every word in the passage. In that way, you don't have to worry about the exact meaning of each sentence as long as you understand WHY the sentence is there (the role that it plays in that paragraph and in the larger passage). The types of RC questions that you'll see on Test Day are rather limited (and the wrong answers fall into predictable patterns as well), so in that way you CAN train to perform better on RC.

You mention having trouble concentrating on RC passages, but that is likely a different issue from actually having trouble with RC. Many Test Takers deal with significant fatigue and endurance issues in the Verbal section on Test Day (since that's the final 75 minutes of a 4-hour Exam and you don't begin that section until almost 3 hours have gone by). This is all meant to say that you should consider the Physical aspects of how you study and take your CATS (your posture, the amount of sleep that you get, what you eat/drink during your breaks, etc.).

1) How long have you studied?
2) What materials have you used?
3) How have you scored on each of your CATs (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores)?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

ENEM · Answer

Hi  abhimahna ,

would you be able to give some advice on improving accuracy for humanities/social sciences passages?

Thank you!

souvonik2k · Answer

Hi You can refer to the below post from bb. It contains topic wise RC questions for practice and will definitely help you. https://gmatclub.com/forum/reading-comp ... 29341.html

abhimahna · Answer

Hey ENEM , Accuracy depends largely on the level of understanding you get while reading any passage. If a passage is of your choice, you will hit a very good accuracy while for the others you usually don't. So, I would suggest read such passages slowly while understanding everything given in the passage. If you don't understand anything, try to understand the structure of that sentence, you will get atleast the gist of what it is talking about. For more details, go through my debrief. The strategies I mentioned for RC are very important for unfamiliar/off topics. Good luck

ENEM · Answer

Duly noted. Thank you!

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