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I'm terrible at it. I tried the OG and I can do most of the easier and middle level ones. However, once they start talking about biology or chemistry with weird names and whatnot I get confused and things go downhill.

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seeing that this is clearly a weakness of mine, I need help. Has anyone tried to use LSAT to help them get better? If so, how much better is it and how much did it help. I have about 30 days before I take it. I'm right around the mid to low 30's for verbal - which for me is cool. I just need to pat down the RC to make sure I'm solid on it. SC and CR, I'm fairly good in them. Just RC is the culprit :-D

I took the GMAT on the 18th and I ended up canceling the score not because I felt that I did bad on the math but that the RC was critically intense! Usually I'll get like 2 easy ones and this time, I got 3 extremely long and complex ones and one that was mediocre so It ended up giving me a real bad feeling in my stomach and decided to cancel. Thanks for your advice.
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Reading Comprehension.... 22 Sep 2010, 10:52
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With me also RC is the culprit :) Also, I believe LSAT RC is tough than the GMAT RC.
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yeah I find that RC is usually the most difficult part in a lot of people's verbal section. Any recommended sources from LSAT to study from? Kaplan? Princeton? etc etc
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Reading Comprehension.... 22 Sep 2010, 11:28
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Have you checked this link study-plan-for-verbal-gmat-98342.html

I believe this will work for everyone! Only practice can do the magic on RC!
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Read: Economist, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, and Scientific America daily.

Also here are official LSAT materials, they are a crapload longer and harder than GMAT ones:
https://www.amazon.com/Official-SuperPre ... 885&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.com/Next-Actual-Offic ... gy_b_img_b
https://www.amazon.com/More-Actual-Offic ... gy_b_img_b

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when i gave the GRE & GMAT i would have killed to get only passages from the sciences like chemistry or biology, they do tend to have structures to them. i agree the terms get complicated, but often times the more complicated and longer they are the simpler the questions tend to be.

my personal weakness used to be the philosophy ones. not sure how well you deal with those.

on my GRE, the third or fourth question i got was an RC about aristotelian philosophy and its application to management of national parks and recreational centres ... honest to God i never got beyond line 5 of that paragraph, it was (ironically enough) all greek to me.
and then on the GMAT, i got this one on some book written by an asian female and how it subversively described the political climate of and the the role of feminism in 19th century Indian society or some cr@p like that .... again hopeless, no clue what they were going on about. Plus it was long .. I mean like >1 screen long
If it comes to reading ... I would def read some philosophy journal to get a hang of stuff like that

I think I have read the name of a journal recommended somewhere on these forums, but it just isnt coming to my head right now
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The best advice I can give you is to start preparing yourself by looking up New York Times or The Economist or WSJ and picking a topic that you would normally skip and read through it. Try to frame the message the article is giving in a sentence or two, organize the structure of the passage (Message, Evidence, Contradiction and so on) for one article each day. And keep attempting the passages. With RC, only practice can get you through. You need to be able to read these without sleeping through :P

You might check out other links in the RC forum. This is the technique that I follow:

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As for RC, try deconstructing the passage into four main parts:

1. Main Idea
2. Structure - (First para: Second Para: Etc)
3. Purpose - Why are they talking about this here? Like, an explanation of a new test for cancer would help thousands of people in early detection. This is usually in the last paragraph.
4. Perspective - Is the author agreeing with the statement presented in the intro? Is he contradicting it? What is the flow of the passage like?

This will help you narrow down answer choices.
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And refer to this thread as well: RC Strategy Guide
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Also have a look at
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