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Hi GMATters,
As a Friday gift for you, here's my new blog post where I serialize the first part of my Reading Comprehension guide (formerly just for students!).
This post covers basic misconceptions about GMAT Reading Comprehension and gives some actionable advice on how to speed up--reading too slow kills effectiveness, but for a subtler reason than you might think...
The full guide is 65 pages long and if you really can't wait there's a download link at the site to get the whole thing. Otherwise, you can just read the pieces as they come out separately. I'll remove the download link sooner or later, so grab it while you can!
Enjoy!
Rowan
https://yourgmatcoach.com/how-to-read-p ... rehension/
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Here's a preview:
You Don’t Read Fast Enough for the GMAT
That’s not a value judgment or insult; that’s a statement of fact.
Top scorers in Verbal simply read more quickly. The people who roll the Verbal section up and smoke it? Usually finished in 60-65 minutes out of the total 75.
What makes the difference for them? Simple. They read more quickly.
But How am I Going to Learn to Read Faster?
That’s a valid question, and quite honestly I can’t teach someone how to read properly. Fast readers tend to get fast through years of training and learning their own shortcuts.
I’m not talking about champion-level speed reading here. I’m just talking solid, grad-school researcher-level reading: approximately 450-600 words per minute.
In the end, I can’t force someone to read but I can give some advice. The horse might die of thirst, but I can assure you that I did drag his ass over to the river.
I Could Never Read That Fast!
Do you want the good news first? Yes, you can. It’s not as hard as it seems.
Do you want the bad news now?
Nope? You’re getting it anyway: you’re going to have to practice your ass off to achieve this.
Basically, a lot of people don’t like to read and don’t do it enough. No judgment, just fact. If you think I’m talking about you, 1) get over yourself and 2) pick up a **** book.
You’ll need to spend time reading. Not really paying a huge amount of attention to what, except that it needs to be accessible and at a reasonable level of difficulty.
My recommendations would be Scientific American and The Economist. These publications tend to have a reading level more or less on par with the GMAT.
Get copies as often as you can and read them.
Change your phone’s wallpaper so that when you grab the phone and start working out your stubby little thumbs you see this message:
JUST GO AWAY AND READ AN ACTUAL THING AND QUIT CHECKING FACETOK AND INSTACHAT AND THE GMAT WILL THANK YOU
Get your magazines. Love your magazines. Read them on the train. Read them in the car (assuming you’re not driving). Read them in the shower, for all I care. Just read whenever you have a moment.
God forbid, you might actually learn something in the process.
Applicable Strategies for GMAT Reading Comprehension
So you want to learn to read faster…
Read the full post here!
https://yourgmatcoach.com/how-to-read-p ... rehension/
As a Friday gift for you, here's my new blog post where I serialize the first part of my Reading Comprehension guide (formerly just for students!).
This post covers basic misconceptions about GMAT Reading Comprehension and gives some actionable advice on how to speed up--reading too slow kills effectiveness, but for a subtler reason than you might think...
The full guide is 65 pages long and if you really can't wait there's a download link at the site to get the whole thing. Otherwise, you can just read the pieces as they come out separately. I'll remove the download link sooner or later, so grab it while you can!
Enjoy!
Rowan
https://yourgmatcoach.com/how-to-read-p ... rehension/
-----------
Here's a preview:
You Don’t Read Fast Enough for the GMAT
That’s not a value judgment or insult; that’s a statement of fact.
Top scorers in Verbal simply read more quickly. The people who roll the Verbal section up and smoke it? Usually finished in 60-65 minutes out of the total 75.
What makes the difference for them? Simple. They read more quickly.
But How am I Going to Learn to Read Faster?
That’s a valid question, and quite honestly I can’t teach someone how to read properly. Fast readers tend to get fast through years of training and learning their own shortcuts.
I’m not talking about champion-level speed reading here. I’m just talking solid, grad-school researcher-level reading: approximately 450-600 words per minute.
In the end, I can’t force someone to read but I can give some advice. The horse might die of thirst, but I can assure you that I did drag his ass over to the river.
I Could Never Read That Fast!
Do you want the good news first? Yes, you can. It’s not as hard as it seems.
Do you want the bad news now?
Nope? You’re getting it anyway: you’re going to have to practice your ass off to achieve this.
Basically, a lot of people don’t like to read and don’t do it enough. No judgment, just fact. If you think I’m talking about you, 1) get over yourself and 2) pick up a **** book.
You’ll need to spend time reading. Not really paying a huge amount of attention to what, except that it needs to be accessible and at a reasonable level of difficulty.
My recommendations would be Scientific American and The Economist. These publications tend to have a reading level more or less on par with the GMAT.
Get copies as often as you can and read them.
Change your phone’s wallpaper so that when you grab the phone and start working out your stubby little thumbs you see this message:
JUST GO AWAY AND READ AN ACTUAL THING AND QUIT CHECKING FACETOK AND INSTACHAT AND THE GMAT WILL THANK YOU
Get your magazines. Love your magazines. Read them on the train. Read them in the car (assuming you’re not driving). Read them in the shower, for all I care. Just read whenever you have a moment.
God forbid, you might actually learn something in the process.
Applicable Strategies for GMAT Reading Comprehension
So you want to learn to read faster…
Read the full post here!
https://yourgmatcoach.com/how-to-read-p ... rehension/
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