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I mean I am able to distinguish 70-80% times, but on a few occasions, it is very perplexing for eg. the passage tries to explain the importance of innovations by Florentine in the field of nursing... a statement which looks quite true but is incorrect. Perhaps, I am not comprehending the way I should. How can you tell whether the passage has a theory or a methodology or a scheme, etc... And is it contrasting, or, critiquing, etc.. I have done 20 odd passages so far and have been able to make out in 70% cases. Sometimes, the language or the confusion between two choices does me in.
Please, if anyone can help. CR is a big bane already.
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These 2 videos helped me a lot and others also vouch for it. https://www.manhattangmat.com/thursdays-with-ron.cfm Look for: August 19, 2010: Reading Comprehension: Long Passages & Main Idea Questions January 6, 2011: Reading Comprehension: A Trick for Finding the Main Idea Data Sufficiency: Number Line problems, part 1
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For me the best strategy is to read the entire passage. if you do this is almost impossible do not find the main idea
remember: science passage generally DESCRIBE something, instead social scienceARGUE something
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These 2 videos helped me a lot and others also vouch for it. https://www.manhattangmat.com/thursdays-with-ron.cfm Look for: August 19, 2010: Reading Comprehension: Long Passages & Main Idea Questions January 6, 2011: Reading Comprehension: A Trick for Finding the Main Idea Data Sufficiency: Number Line problems, part 1
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I still get the main purpose of the passage wrong every time and my Gmat is on Monday. Really worried on how to improve here.
60% of the time the main idea is there: in the first sentences of the first paragraph or in its entierly.
20% in the second
20% in the third or following
I suggest you you to read the entire passage as whole ( do not focus too much on the details though). After this the main idea almost always jumps as you go through the answer choices.
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