RC Question bank by Carcass

Hi folks,

I am here once again with one of my question bank. This turn, I am back with a reading comprehension material to help the students that struggle really a lot with this portion of the test.

No matter how old you study for this test, no matter which way you take to handle this section or to improve your verbal overall score the problem still remains unsolved: people DO NOT know how to improve their score , actually because they do not know how to overcome RC part.

It is the most negletted and underrated part of the test. Still, it is the most important. That say, for two main reasons:

First of all people do not want understand that the quant part of the test is crucial for a good score, indeed. That is true but is only part of the story. GMAC does not care if you do not know some math formula or pick some question wrong. They care of your verbal part, mostly than quant. If you want a score above 750, yes you must do well in both part. But if you want a score that is good for your application and is enough for most of the case, you must do well in verbal part more than in quant. People constantly do the excatly contrary.

As it turns out, for doing well and increase your verbal score you must do well in RC, no matter what.

The second reason is: if you are good at SC and CR is a big deal but is not sufficient. Whenever you deal with a tough passage, convoluted and awkward, then you are lost. You will be in a situation similar to a soldier in the swamps of Vietnam ( I admit: I love the movie platoon ). As such, your score is ruined simply bacause you will find yourself in a situation that is detrimental for your performance: you DO NOT know how to handle a passage in the allotted time. This at most. Minimum will not understand anything.

How can I understand the difficult passages that GMAT popup us into the screen ?? how many time should I spent for this sub-section of the exam ??


For this purpose see: The best reading to improve Reading Comprehension


How many passages should I practice before to reach a solid base or a really good proficiency ??


How much practice should I do ?


For more on strategy and useful videos that cover all the aspects of a RC passage (main idea, inference question , and so forth) see ALL RC Strategy+Official Q by Experts&Legendary Club Members

For those who want all GMATPrep passages in one collection (notice that this collection not cover only the RC section but is a file that contains all the GMATPrep questions: both quant and verbal) see: ALL GMATPrep questions Quant/Verbal

Other resources could be finded here in one of my post in which I have gathered the most usefel links on the board about RC/CR/SC in one spot, see: 1) Verbal question bank and directories by Carcass;

My question bank is composed of 18 passages with OA and partially OE but the good news is that those have only the OA are the nearest thing to the official passage that you could find out there. The difficulty level is remarkable. Hope you find it useful.