GMAT Club RC Mega thread - 2023 EditionHello GMAT Club Community!
We are delighted to announce that after a span of three years, we are finally prepared to unveil the highly anticipated Reading Comprehension mega thread 2023. Building upon the success of our previous editions in 2018 and 2020, we have diligently gathered a comprehensive compilation of resources from various sources across the forum.
GMAT Club's RC Butler ProjectsFor daily practice of RC follow these projects, you will hopefully get benefited.
GMAT Club's Quizzes and CompetitionsThis is the list of GMAT Club’s Quizzes and Competitions conducted over the last three years.
GMAT Club's Best of the bestThis thread contains GMAT Club’s verbal best of the best discussions/threads/projects etc.
The Hardest GMAT Official RCsThis thread contains the Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time.
Reading Comprehension 1000-SeriesThis thread contains all (439) passages of the popular 1000-Series document.
Reading Comprehension Strategy 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.
RC Guides and Reading StrategiesThis section contains almost all of the RC strategies available on the forum.
RC Question BankI hope this thread will help many GMAT aspirants. Suggestions and feedback are welcomed Good Luck on the GMAT Attachment:
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