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20 Jun 2018, 11:53
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What does it take to be an expert at RC questions?
Are there tricks, strategies, best resources to study?
I don't just know how to approach these questions and RC seems to be my weakest link, what can I do about it?
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20 Jun 2018, 20:07
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RC used to be my weakness too. I have given my first attempt at Gmat and screwed up completely mainly because of RC, getting a disastrous 19.
Now I have started my preparation and I completely changed the strategy for RC and to my surprise I am close to 95-100% accurate with my answers
Strategy- 1. UNDERSTAND THE STRUCTURE OF THE PASSAGE. Understand why a certain paragraph or line is there in the passage. What good does it serve to the overall passage and how the line or para is supporting or contrasting authors idea.
2. GO VERY SLOW IN THE BEGINNING OF THE PASSAGE.
Take as much time you need for the first paragraph.
3. STOP TO THINK WHAT YOU JUST READ. Stopping sparodically to think and comprehend(most important) what you just read is vital
4. TAKE NOTES. This is just to ensure that you understand what you read. Don’t fool yourself to try to rewrite the whole passage, you just need to write very simple things.
Let me give you an example,
I would have made my notes like this for a passage-
-PROBLEM—>SOULTION.
-RECENT RESEARCH CONTRAST THE SOLUTION
-EXAMPLES
-EXPERIMENTS TO CONTRAST THE SOLUTION
-RECENT RESEARCH INSUFFICIENT.
RC is very easy once you understand the mantra- “you just need to understand what you read”
Good lick with your preparation.
-satya
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Now I have started my preparation and I completely changed the strategy for RC and to my surprise I am close to 95-100% accurate with my answers
Strategy- 1. UNDERSTAND THE STRUCTURE OF THE PASSAGE. Understand why a certain paragraph or line is there in the passage. What good does it serve to the overall passage and how the line or para is supporting or contrasting authors idea.
2. GO VERY SLOW IN THE BEGINNING OF THE PASSAGE.
Take as much time you need for the first paragraph.
3. STOP TO THINK WHAT YOU JUST READ. Stopping sparodically to think and comprehend(most important) what you just read is vital
4. TAKE NOTES. This is just to ensure that you understand what you read. Don’t fool yourself to try to rewrite the whole passage, you just need to write very simple things.
Let me give you an example,
I would have made my notes like this for a passage-
-PROBLEM—>SOULTION.
-RECENT RESEARCH CONTRAST THE SOLUTION
-EXAMPLES
-EXPERIMENTS TO CONTRAST THE SOLUTION
-RECENT RESEARCH INSUFFICIENT.
RC is very easy once you understand the mantra- “you just need to understand what you read”
Good lick with your preparation.
-satya
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20 Jun 2018, 21:36
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Great Stuff!!
In addition to the above excellent strategy, i highly recommend the MGMAT "Thursdays with Ron" Study hall videos. The RC videos by Ron are pure GOLD!! helped me immensely & have cemented the approach for RC in my brain for life.
If you don't know who RonPurewal is, he is a legend in GMAT land!!
Below is the link (thanks to carcass ) & the dates you should look for RC videos:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/mgmat-study- ... 09197.html
Date Desciption of video
19-Aug-10 Long Passages & Main Idea Questions
09-Sep-10 Short Passages & Miscellaneous Question Types
06-Jan-11 Reading Comprehension: A Trick for Finding the Main
28-Apr-11 Inference & Suggestion Questions
02-Jun-11 More on inference & suggestion questions
18-Jun-15 Approaching Highly Technical Passages
09-Jul-15 Approaching Highly Technical Passages (continued)
23-Jul-15 Personalizing the Passages (continued)
06-Aug-15 Personalizing the Passages (continued)
All the Best!!
Thanks,
GyM
