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11 Sep 2014, 03:22
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I was thinking of all the issues I faced assimilating RC passages and thought that it was best put in words so I could have reviewers and learners.
First off, I love reading and over the couple of years, I have tried to increase the topics I have read or I have liked to read. It is completely true to say that you will be able to better get a hang of any passage, if you keenly upraise your interest in various topics.
- I struggle to understand some sentences and re-re-re-read them ending up killing precious time (I know about the importance of first line in the paragraph, modifiers and more) - What I am believing in, at the moment to overcome this: When you hit the gym, you train your muscles for the weights and here I am training my neurons to comprehend the ambiguous sentences.
- Sentences can be ambiguous due to- Ambiguous words, losing hold on the sentence, missing to co-relate to the previous sentence(even after understanding the modifiers) etc.
- For the above mentioned issues, I have usually analyzed the solutions provided and I have recognized that skimming through some intermediate “relationship/association indicating” words as my problem area. At the moment, I have decided to give in more time to understand the relationship between important objects of the passage
- It also helps to analyze the answer choices deeply in the beginning of your study phase as it helped me to eliminate the generalized options. It surprised me how seemingly harmless answers can be general
- In the above category, I found adding a specific word can disrupt the entire answer (specific word will not be related to the passage). Identifying that word can take all your time but it’s worth it
- Oh yeah! I have to take notes
I am keen to learn any varied techniques too. Let me know!
First off, I love reading and over the couple of years, I have tried to increase the topics I have read or I have liked to read. It is completely true to say that you will be able to better get a hang of any passage, if you keenly upraise your interest in various topics.
- I struggle to understand some sentences and re-re-re-read them ending up killing precious time (I know about the importance of first line in the paragraph, modifiers and more) - What I am believing in, at the moment to overcome this: When you hit the gym, you train your muscles for the weights and here I am training my neurons to comprehend the ambiguous sentences.
- Sentences can be ambiguous due to- Ambiguous words, losing hold on the sentence, missing to co-relate to the previous sentence(even after understanding the modifiers) etc.
- For the above mentioned issues, I have usually analyzed the solutions provided and I have recognized that skimming through some intermediate “relationship/association indicating” words as my problem area. At the moment, I have decided to give in more time to understand the relationship between important objects of the passage
- It also helps to analyze the answer choices deeply in the beginning of your study phase as it helped me to eliminate the generalized options. It surprised me how seemingly harmless answers can be general
- In the above category, I found adding a specific word can disrupt the entire answer (specific word will not be related to the passage). Identifying that word can take all your time but it’s worth it
- Oh yeah! I have to take notes
I am keen to learn any varied techniques too. Let me know!
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21 Sep 2014, 15:43
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stuffs88,
The challenges you mention with RC are exactly what makes this an important life-long skill set. Sometimes, you may not even need to know what's going on in a passage -- but by identifying those keywords and paying attention to them (they can easily change the meaning of a whole passage) you can better understand RC.
It's really hard to communicate RC strategies by text -- and so we've put together a collection of RC Videos at GMAT Pill covering exactly the types of concerns you raised. If you watch them you'll see the exact same discoveries you're seeing. Applying them of course is the challenge -- under time constraints. And that's what the video shows you.
If you have any detailed insights, please share.
The challenges you mention with RC are exactly what makes this an important life-long skill set. Sometimes, you may not even need to know what's going on in a passage -- but by identifying those keywords and paying attention to them (they can easily change the meaning of a whole passage) you can better understand RC.
It's really hard to communicate RC strategies by text -- and so we've put together a collection of RC Videos at GMAT Pill covering exactly the types of concerns you raised. If you watch them you'll see the exact same discoveries you're seeing. Applying them of course is the challenge -- under time constraints. And that's what the video shows you.
If you have any detailed insights, please share.
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