Gmat RC strategy

Question

I have been preparing RC for long time. But, still I miss out in time.

KDM91 · Answer

To prepare for Reading Comprehension (RC) in the GMAT Focus Edition, focus on immersing yourself in the passage by actively reading, identifying key points, taking notes, and practicing with official GMAT materials including the Official Guide, utilizing timed practice sessions, and focusing on strategies like summarizing the passage and predicting answers based on key words; always prioritize understanding the questions thoroughly before diving into answer choices

bb · Answer

For reading comprehension, strategy is extremely important and I recommend that you follow the strategy exactly as it’s provided without trying to be a wise guy and start hacking it and modifying it. Until you can reach a high score, you should not be changing or value engineering your strategy.

GmatKnightTutor · Answer

Describing your RC approach a little may be helpful. You could include how much time you normally spend reading a passage or going through the questions.

3 RC tips

KDM91 · Answer

Which strategy are you telling about?

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

Hi Saririx45,

When students get RC questions wrong, it’s partly because they don't truly understand what they have just read. To understand what you are reading, you may have to slow down even more (for now) in order to eventually speed up. You have to learn to comprehend what you read, keep it all straight, and use what you are reading to arrive at correct answers.

At this point, your best bet is to focus on getting the correct answers to questions, taking *as much time as you need* to see key details and understand the logic of what you are reading. If you don't understand something, go back and read it one sentence at a time, even one word at a time, not moving on until you understand what you have just read. There is no way around this work. Your goal should be to take all the time you need to understand exactly what is being said and arrive at the correct answer. If you can learn to get answers taking your time, you can learn to speed up. Answering questions is like any task: The more times you do it carefully and successfully, the faster you become at doing it carefully and successfully.

Another component to understanding what you are reading is being “present” when reading. Don’t worry about how things are going at work, or what you will eat for dinner, or even how long you’re taking to read through the passage. Just focus on what is in front of you, word by word, line by line. Furthermore, try to make reading fun. For example, even if you are reading about a topic that bores you, pretend that you are the person making the argument. By doing so, you will make the passage more relatable to YOU, and ultimately you should be able to read with greater focus.

One final component of Reading Comprehension that may be tripping you up is that RC questions contain one or more trap answers that seem to answer the question but don't really. So, a key part of training to correctly answer RC questions is learning to notice the differences between trap answers and correct answers. You have to learn to see how trap answers seem to follow from what the passages say, but don't really, while correct answers fit what the passages say exactly. Of course, the better you become at noticing the differences between trap answer choices and correct answers, the faster you will answer RC questions.

Here is an article with additional advice:

GMAT Reading Comprehension Tips: Top 8 DOs and DON’Ts

If you have any further questions, feel free to reach out. Good luck!

ManifestDreamMBA · Answer

If just timing is the issues, practice would help with timely solutions over time. Start with LSAT questions and then go to GMAT questions to avoid running out of official questions

RetaketheGMAT · Answer

Lots of good tips here. Here a couple of things that I would focus on:

1. Keep practicing passages -- especially ones with topics that aren't familiar. Your reading "muscle" might be a bit out of shape after years out of school so you need to steadily get that part of your brain back up to full fitness.

2. You have to play the odds on RC passages. Don't get too bogged down making detailed notes of every detail. You need focus on overall comprehension and understanding the logical structure of the passage. That helps you answer the questions that have a high probability of appearing (purpose / main point of the passage, tone of the author). If detail questions appear (like the phrase "xxxxxxxxxxx" was included for what purpose etc), they could be focused on any 1 of 30 possible points in the passage. If you focus on overall good unstanding, then you'll be able find and analyse the detail questions better

Remember every second you spend making unnecessary notes about details is a second taken away from working on a question which tells you what detail to focus on.

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