. The tables below feature passages that drew strong engagement from the community, either because they were widely appreciated or because they sparked extended discussion. These topics are especially useful for practice, as they reflect passages that many test-takers found challenging and worth revisiting in depth.
| Topics with the Highest Number of Kudos in 2025 |
| No. | Kudos | Topic | Source |
|---|
| 1 | 120 | In Winters v. United States (1908), the Supreme Court held that the | Official Guide, OG 2017, OG 2016, OG 2015/OG13, OG 12, OG 2020, OG 2021, OG 2022, OG 2024-2025 |
| 2 | 111 | Reading Comprehension Question Directory | |
| 3 | 107 | Ultimate RC Guide for Beginners | |
| 4 | 106 | 100 Hardest Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions | |
| 5 | 93 | Jon Clarks study of the effect of the modernization of a telephone ex | Official Guide, OG 2019, OG 2018, OG 2017, OG 2016, OG 2015/OG13, OG 12, OG 2020, OG 2021, OG 2022, OG 2024-2025 |
| 6 | 83 | Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave l | Aristotle |
| 7 | 79 | Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal idea of the | GMAT Paper Tests, 1000 Series |
| 8 | 78 | Scientific advances in the latter half of the twentieth century have a | Manhattan GMAT |
| 9 | 75 | Many stars are born in clusters of hundreds or thousands crowded | GMAT Prep (Focus only) |
| 10 | 74 | Reading Comprehension Resource Collection | |
| 11 | 70 | Nearly a century ago, biologists found that if they separated an inver | Official Guide, OG 10, 1000 Series |
| 12 | 68 | Conodonts, the spiky phosphatic remains (bones and teeth composed of | Official Guide, OG 2019, OG 2018, OG 2020, OG 2021, OG 2022, OG 2024-2025 |
| 13 | 64 | It is an odd but indisputable fact that the seventeenth-century Englis | Official Guide, OG 2019, OG 2018, OG 2017, OG 2020, OG 2021, OG 2022, OG 2024-2025, OG 2025-2026 |
| 14 | 64 | Micro-wear patterns found on the teeth of long-extinct specimens o | Official Guide (Verbal Review), Verbal Review 2019, Verbal Review 2018, Verbal Review 2017, Verbal Review 2016, Verbal Review 2020, Verbal Review 2021, Verbal Review 2022 |
| 15 | 64 | When asteroids collide, some collisions cause an asteroid to spin fast | Official Guide, OG 2019, OG 2018, OG 2020, OG 2021, OG 2022, OG 2024-2025, OG 2025-2026 |
| 16 | 62 | Because the framers of the United States Constitution (written in 1787 | Official Guide, OG 2019, OG 2018, OG 2017, OG 2020, OG 2021, OG 2022, OG 2024-2025, OG 2025-2026 |
| 17 | 61 | Mathematical principles of probability entail that for any future | GMAT Prep (Focus only) |
| 18 | 60 | HOW TO DESTROY READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGES BY RHYME | |
| 19 | 58 | A meteor stream is composed of dust particles that have been ejected | Official Guide, GMAT Prep (Classic only), GMAT Paper Tests, OG 10, Verbal Review 1ST, 1000 Series, EA |
| 20 | 58 | Reading Comprehension Butler Archive | |
| 21 | 58 | Galaxy clusters are vast groups of galaxies. Extremely hot, thin gas | GMAT Prep (Focus only) |
| 22 | 56 | Jacob Burckhardts view that Renaissance European women stood on | Official Guide, OG 2019, OG 2018, OG 2017, OG 2020, OG 2021, OG 2022, OG 2024-2025, OG 2025-2026 |
| 23 | 56 | Behind every book review there are two key figures: a book review edit | Official Guide, GMAT Advanced |
| 24 | 56 | RC 1000 Series Complete Reading Comprehension Collection 2772 Q's | |
| 25 | 55 | Historians sometimes forget that history is continually being made and | Official Guide, OG 11, 1000 Series |
| Reading Comprehension – Topics with the Highest Number of Replies in 2025 |
| No. | Replies | Topic | Source |
|---|
| 1 | 28 | Reading Comprehension Butler (NEW EDITION) | |
| 2 | 18 | The factors cited by historians as having motivated American territori | Other |
| 3 | 15 | Micro-wear patterns found on the teeth of long-extinct specimens o | Official Guide (Verbal Review), Verbal Review 2019, Verbal Review 2018, Verbal Review 2017, Verbal Review 2016, Verbal Review 2020, Verbal Review 2021, Verbal Review 2022 |
| 4 | 14 | Many policymakers adopt macro approach to environmental problems | GMAT Prep (Focus only) |
| 5 | 12 | One function of language is to influence others behavior by changing | Official LSAT |
| 6 | 12 | Economies of scope, in which a single enterprise realizes efficiency | Other |
| 7 | 11 | In an unfinished but highly suggestive series of essays, the late Sara | Official Guide, OG 10, 1000 Series |
| 8 | 11 | Can a sovereign have unlimited legal power? If a sovereign does have u | Official LSAT |
| 9 | 11 | By the early 1970s, historian Gabriel Kolko and economist George | GMAT Prep (Focus only) |
| 10 | 11 | Use of ecological theory for management of nature needs to follow diff | Barron's GMAT |
| 11 | 10 | Stealing thunder is a courtroom strategy that consists in a lawyers | Official LSAT |
| 12 | 10 | Many policymakers in the United States claim that a high national | GMAT Prep (Focus only) |
| 13 | 9 | Years before the advent of plate tectonicsthe widely accepted theory | Official Guide, GMAT Prep (Classic only), OG 2025-2026 |
| 14 | 9 | Long regarded as a necessary evil, the royal mistress is a classic sta | Manhattan GMAT |
| 15 | 9 | Most management theorists have long told marketers that the marketing | GMAT Prep (Focus only) |
| 16 | 9 | In 2006, the International Astronomical Union changed the definition o | GMAT Prep (Focus only) |
| 17 | 8 | Barbara Strozzi was a singer and composer of madrigals, aria | Official Guide (Pre-2000) |
| 18 | 8 | Bog bodies, most of them dating from between 500 BCE and 100 CE, have | Kaplan |
| 19 | 8 | While hotels have traditionally held a firm grip on the market of vaca | Other |
| 20 | 8 | Manufacturing technicians and engineers favor product teardowns, the | GMAT Prep (Classic only), GMAT Prep (Focus only) |
| 21 | 8 | Whales, the majestic giants of the ocean, face numerous threats in the | Other |
| 22 | 8 | Nineteenth-century neurology was dominated by two opposing schools of | GMAT Prep (Focus only) |
| 23 | 8 | According to Christopher Leo, reviewing Douglas Rae's book City | GMAT Prep (Focus only) |
| 24 | 8 | In the ancien rgimepre-Revolutionary France's rigidly hierarchical | GMAT Prep (Focus only) |
| 25 | 8 | Organizations that produce similar goods tend to concentrate in the sa | GMAT Prep (Focus only) |