How to analyze/read & what to do while reading The Economist?

Try to develop a method that helps you absorb the meaning of the sentences. I teach one that doesn't require note taking per se, but perhaps you find doing so helpful, for example.

How to do well on Reading Comprehension. 3 Quick tips.

Hi RichC

Thank you for your reply. Here are the details

Studies:
1) How long have you studied? How many hours do you typically study each week?
I studied for 5 months full time. I dedicated close to 8-10hours/day covering all the concepts and basic exercises.

2) Have you used any other study materials besides the two courses that you listed? What “brands” of CATs/mocks have you used?
I used Expertsglobal's full course as part of their free giving. I gave around 5 mocks of expertsglobal. I gave a free mock of manhattan and 2 mocks of princeton review.

3) On what dates (or approximate dates) did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?
M No Source Date Q V OA Remarks
1 MBA.com July, 2021 38 17 450 COLD Mock
2 TTP December, 2021 67 30 Accuracy only
3 GMATClub December, 2021 44 Untimed
4 MBA.com February, 2022 44 21 540 Timed under test conditions
5 MGMAT 1-Mar-22 41 19 510 Timed
6 PR 14/03/2022 47 30 630 Timed
7 GMATClub 17/03/2022 48 Timed but took a break in between
8 PR 25/03/2022 47 21 560 Timed
9 MBA.com 27/03/2022 48 26 610 Timed
10 EG 01/04/2022 44 31 610 Timed
11 EG 05/04/2022 47 31 640 Timed
12 GMATClub 07/04/2022 41 Q only
13 EG 47 18 540
14 EG 44 29 590
15 GMATClub 45


Goals:

4) What is your overall goal score?
Goal : >690 [ 690+]

5) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?
September 2022 is R1 for Indian schools, but I am okay even with R2 that is till December'2022.

Hello, lostminer. My view on reading falls mostly in line with that of KarishmaB. Read for fun, read to understand matters a little better than you do now. There is no correct way to read through articles by The Economist or any other source. The idea is to train yourself to be engaged with whatever material you are reading. To that end, ask yourself whether you can identify the point of view of the author, a common "big picture" idea that pops up in RC questions. Also, are you able to see how one sentence relates to another around it, how one paragraph logically transitions to another? This type of engagement will help you with RC.

I am not an advocate of aiming to read quickly. This is not the LSAT, after all, which has notoriously dense and lengthy passages with accompanying questions that must be answered quickly if the test-taker wishes to finish the section in time. Rather, if you read for comprehension and do not allow yourself to get bogged down in details, then your efficiency will increase as a result of your improved understanding.

Take the first paragraph of a difficult RC passage, for example:

All you need to pick up on in the three sentences of the opening paragraph is that a court case, which we can call Winters, pertained to water rights reserved to American Indians (sentence one); that a treaty establishing the American Indian reservation from sentence one did not mention water rights, but that the court decided in favor of the Indians anyway (sentence two); and that later decisions used Winters to reserve water for particular purposes (the specifics of which you need not even read—you could always revisit them if necessary). This is what I mean by not allowing yourself to get bogged down in details. Too many people worry about missing all the small stuff, at the expense of grasping the larger ideas. Note, finally, that the author is completely removed from the passage up to this point—i.e. we have no idea how the author might feel about the topic being discussed.

Enjoy your subscription. Thank you for thinking to ask for advice.

- Andrew

Hi lostminer,

I've sent you a PM with some notes and additional questions.

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