Reading Comp.

Uruguai has been popular here in the last few days - there is another new member from there. Interesting; I don't meet people from Uruguay every day... anyway, I will stop here.

RC was the most difficult for me.
I have said it a few times, but I think repeating again won't hurt anybody.

I followed Kaplan's strategy for reading - stopping after each paragraph, summarizing and trying to jot down a few things. Also stopping at the end to tie everything together seemed extremely helpful. I read the whole passage - no skipping. I paid close attention to the first sentences and the last ones too. Trying to catch some key words, but that was usually too much and overloaded my brain that did not know where to escape.

One amazing thing, which usually does not happen on the GMAT was that I improved my reading in 20 minutes or even 5. I had 40-60% success range and after 5 minutes it was 75+. I just did as Kaplan said - read, stop, summarize, think a litttle and read again, etc, etc, etc.

I did this without a time limit obviously the first few times, but I was not reading like a schoolboy either

i was reading my normal pace but without a time concern. I thought I needed to learn how to handle the text first and then worry about time. I also hopped to get more than 60% at least once and I did.

This is what I did and I encourage you to try and see what happens.

I also found Fiction to be very helpful for the GMAT, since I am not a native speaker.....

Does the tutor know what he is doing? I am not picking I am just wondering. SOmetimes people hire non-gmat tutors and that's not advised.


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