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Everyone who hates reading comprehension questions please raise your hand and shout, "Yes! Yes! RC is a colossal pain in [ insert body part here] Okay, Enough with the primal scream therapy. Now sit down and compose yourself.
Everyone by now knows that RC is the most important section in the GMAT Verbal and trust me, Having strong verbal skills extends beyond increasing your appreciation of proper grammar and learning how to deconstruct the arguments.
Well, you might be expecting a shortcut or a way out to tackle those huge looking RC passages which are meant to be solved under 8-10 minutes. But honestly There isn't one. GMAT is beyond shortcuts as it's a smart test expecting you to be smarter than that. So from here on, Those cheap tricks such as reading the first and the last line of a paragraph aren't going to work for you anymore. Applying to business schools is decidedly a verbal process, during which you will be judged by how well you assimilate information and how well you express yourself. So train yourself from day 1 of your prep. going harder each day and getting stronger. Trust me getting a good score in verbal will just be a by-product if you strive for excellence. I recommend that you read. yes you heard me, you just have to READ! Every single day dedicatedly.
You have to make this a regular practice and you wouldn't even notice how far you have stretched your verbal score.
I'm making a list below of the must reads that you should start with to get a hang of RC section overall.
A) Magzines
Try to read the following every single day.
1. The Wall street journal.
2. The Economist USA
3. The Scientist
4. Scientific American
5. Techlife USA
6. Muscular Developement
7. Business Insider
8. Harward Business School Review
B) Best books to read in various segments Classified in RC
1.Humanities
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
-Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
-The Art of War by sun tzu
-Hamlet by William Shakespeare
-Mythologies Roland Barthes
-To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper lee
2. Science
-A breif History of time by stephen Hawkings
-How Healing Works by james jonace
-The Spinning Magnet by Alanna Mitchell
-The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku
-How Science Works by DK
- Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich
-Enlightenment Now by Stephen pinker
3. Business
-Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser
-Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
-The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert Gordon
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
-Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Thaler
-House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening
Again by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi
Well ,These are just a few recommended books. Of course when it comes to reading, there isn't a stop. but the point here is, try to make reading comprehension a part of your everyday schedule and don't just limit it to a section in GMAT verbal. Also, Try to practice 2-3 RC passages everyday. make this a habit. and please don't fall the cheap tricks played out by a lot of prep companies out there. Reading is like dreaming with your Eyes open
GOODLUCK WITH YOUR PREP. Oh ofcourse, You can thank me up with kudos if you like the article. I'd appreciate that
Everyone by now knows that RC is the most important section in the GMAT Verbal and trust me, Having strong verbal skills extends beyond increasing your appreciation of proper grammar and learning how to deconstruct the arguments.
Well, you might be expecting a shortcut or a way out to tackle those huge looking RC passages which are meant to be solved under 8-10 minutes. But honestly There isn't one. GMAT is beyond shortcuts as it's a smart test expecting you to be smarter than that. So from here on, Those cheap tricks such as reading the first and the last line of a paragraph aren't going to work for you anymore. Applying to business schools is decidedly a verbal process, during which you will be judged by how well you assimilate information and how well you express yourself. So train yourself from day 1 of your prep. going harder each day and getting stronger. Trust me getting a good score in verbal will just be a by-product if you strive for excellence. I recommend that you read. yes you heard me, you just have to READ! Every single day dedicatedly.
You have to make this a regular practice and you wouldn't even notice how far you have stretched your verbal score.
I'm making a list below of the must reads that you should start with to get a hang of RC section overall.
A) Magzines
Try to read the following every single day.
1. The Wall street journal.
2. The Economist USA
3. The Scientist
4. Scientific American
5. Techlife USA
6. Muscular Developement
7. Business Insider
8. Harward Business School Review
B) Best books to read in various segments Classified in RC
1.Humanities
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
-Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
-The Art of War by sun tzu
-Hamlet by William Shakespeare
-Mythologies Roland Barthes
-To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper lee
2. Science
-A breif History of time by stephen Hawkings
-How Healing Works by james jonace
-The Spinning Magnet by Alanna Mitchell
-The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku
-How Science Works by DK
- Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich
-Enlightenment Now by Stephen pinker
3. Business
-Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser
-Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
-The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert Gordon
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
-Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Thaler
-House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening
Again by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi
Well ,These are just a few recommended books. Of course when it comes to reading, there isn't a stop. but the point here is, try to make reading comprehension a part of your everyday schedule and don't just limit it to a section in GMAT verbal. Also, Try to practice 2-3 RC passages everyday. make this a habit. and please don't fall the cheap tricks played out by a lot of prep companies out there. Reading is like dreaming with your Eyes open
GOODLUCK WITH YOUR PREP. Oh ofcourse, You can thank me up with kudos if you like the article. I'd appreciate that
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Hi there,
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Where to now? Join ongoing discussions on thousands of quality questions in our Verbal Questions Forum
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