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Hi,

I recently gave a gmat mock and found 5 rc's with 3 questions each (if not mistaken) and my entire verbal section was ruined.

Kindly guide in sucha situation 
1)Is it advisable to leave a rc set?
2)What time should be spent doing each rc+ question individually in such a situation.
3)What should be the time bifurcated to each rc and question answering individualy.

Kindly guide.

mikemcgarry · Answer

Dear kk12 , I'm happy to respond. :-)

First of all, context, my friend. You say you took a mock GMAT, a practice test. What practice test did you take? I assume it was not a MGMAT practice test or GMAT Prep. If it had five different RC passages, with 3-questions each, it sounds like the work of some company that doesn't understand the GMAT very well. Whose practice test did you take? Mike

kk12 · Answer

Hi Mike,

Very rightly said,I have been mistaken there were only four passages.I took the an exam from gmat pack.

Further i have been solving the official guide where i see passages with 6/8/9 questions aswell.
Kindly guide how much time should be alotted in solving such passages.

Further kindly guide how much time should be spent individualy to solve 
1.Long passages with 4 questions each
2.Short passages with 4 questions each

Time management is being a problem with the rc's
Firstly dont understand how much time should be spent on each passage+ questions
accuracy is being an issue when i go fast.

mikemcgarry · Answer

Dear kk12 , I'm happy to respond. :-)

My friend, there is no "trick" to developing reading speed. You have to practice, practice, practice. On the GMAT, you will have short passages (200-250 words) typically with 3 questions and long passages (300-350 words) typically with 4 questions. The OG vastly oversupplies the questions associated with each passage. The recommendation is 2.5 minutes to read a short passage, and 3.5 minutes to read a long passage, which leaves you about 60 sec for each question. Notice, those times are not super-fast: it is enough time to read once thoroughly and "map" out the content of the passage. See these four blogs: 1) How to Study for GMAT RC 2) The Most Important RC Strategy 3) Strategies for the six RC question types 4) The "Secret Sauce" of RC Success As I suggested, though, none of these strategies will be helpful if you do not practice. If you have any desire to achieve mastery in GMAT RC, you need to read every single day. You need to read hard sophisticated reading on academic topics. You need to read for at least a hour every single day without fail---that's a hour over and above any GMAT-related preparations you are doing. See this blog: How to Improve Your Verbal Score My friend, I know we have spoken before, and I know you have ambitious for a truly stellar GMAT performance. If you want a score that few people achieve, that will require work that few people are willing to do. I wish you the very best of luck! Let me know if you have any further questions. Mike :-)

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