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The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time

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The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   02 Jun 2021, 07:24
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The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time


Hello Everyone!

We have spent a handsome number of hours creating this thread, we went through all approximately 270+ available GMAT Official RC passages and found these passages the hardest among the available, we have compiled a table thinking it could be helpful for the aspirants trying to be high achievers. If you think you can deal with RC passages easily then be prepared and challenge yourself to ace these RC passages.

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The Hardest Official GMAT RC Passages of all time
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1The impressionist painters expressly disavowed anyGMAC Paper Test
2Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal ideaGMAC Paper Test
3When A. Philip Randolph assumed the leadershipGMAC Paper Test
4Behind every book review there are two keyGMAT Advanced
5Despite their many differences of temperamentGMAT Advanced
6Recent feminist scholarship concerning the UnitedGMAT Advanced
7Since the early 1970’s, historians have begun toGMAT Prep
8The ultimate pendulum clock, indeed the ultimateGMAT Prep
9In a 1984 book, Claire C. Robertson arguedGMAT Prep
10Correspondences were a method of thought andGMAT Prep
11The brain contributes to the adaptive successGMAT Prep
12In mid-February 1917 a women’s movementGMAT Prep
13Over the last 150 years, large stretches ofGMAT Prep
14Although the industrial union organizations thatGMAT Prep
15Dendrochronology, the study of tree-ring recordsGMAT Prep
16Historians sometimes forget that history is continuallyOfficial Guide
17In Winters v. United States (1908), the Supreme CourtOfficial Guide
18Jacob Burckhardt’s view that Renaissance EuropeanOfficial Guide
19Nearly a century ago, biologists found that if theyOfficial Guide
20Because the framers of the United States ConstitutionOfficial Guide
21When asteroids collide, some collisions causeOfficial Guide
22It is an odd but indisputable fact that theOfficial Guide
23Conodonts, the spiky phosphatic remainsOfficial Guide
24Most attempts by physicists to send particlesOfficial Guide
25Antonia Castañeda has utilized scholarship fromOfficial Guide
26Micro-wear patterns found on the teeth ofOfficial Guide
27In current historiography, the picture of aOfficial Guide
28A review of the treatment of female charactersOfficial Guide
29Barbara Strozzi was a singer and composer ofOfficial Guide
30The antigen-antibody immunological reactionOfficial Guide
31Labeling Zora Neale Hurston "a writer of theOfficial Guide
32Photography in Europe was largely guided byGMAT Prep
33As the economic role of multinational, globalGMAT Prep
34Changes in the volume of unemployment areOfficial Guide
35The discoveries of the white dwarf, the neutron starOfficial Guide
36In strongly territorial birds such as the indigo buntingOfficial Guide
37Australian researchers have discovered electroreceptorsOfficial Guide
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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   02 Jun 2021, 07:29
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Sajjad1994, nice initiative Sajjad. :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

Thank you for taking out time and doing this.
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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   02 Jun 2021, 07:44
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This is going to be Fun !!

First that 1000 RC's excel sheet now this.

Sajjad1994 thanks !!
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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   02 Jun 2021, 07:53
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Nipungupta9081 wrote:
This is going to be Fun !!

First that 1000 RC's excel sheet now this.

Sajjad1994 thanks !!


Prepare your GMAT, prepare you MBA application and have fun this is the beauty of GMAT Club :)
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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   02 Jun 2021, 08:02
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Wow. This collection will be extremely helpful. Thanks a ton. 😇 Sajjad1994 Sir.

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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   03 Jun 2021, 18:15
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Sajjad1994 this is awesome. Quick silly question though, the GMAC paper tests are different than the 6 GMAT prep tests right?
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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   04 Jun 2021, 03:02
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Sajjad1994 this is awesome. Quick silly question though, the GMAC paper tests are different than the 6 GMAT prep tests right?


Yes! they are different, paper tests are older version.
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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   05 Jun 2021, 01:19
Hey Sajjad1994, is the 2nd passage (Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal idea) an official passage? Few experts have commented that the passage is from the LSAT. The source tagged is 1000 Series.
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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   05 Jun 2021, 02:16
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Hey Sajjad1994, is the 2nd passage (Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal idea) an official passage? Few experts have commented that the passage is from the LSAT. The source tagged is 1000 Series.


Yes this is an official GMAT question from GMAT Paper based test.

PS: There are multiple GMAT official questions from OG that are also a part of RC 1000 series.
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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   02 Jul 2021, 07:32
Mr Sajjad, you are king among men. how about something similar with LSAT passages?
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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   04 Jul 2021, 06:15
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yahya729 wrote:
Mr Sajjad, you are king among men. how about something similar with LSAT passages?


This is possibly a future plan, once all the LSAT passages get discussed i will creat a list of hardest passages.
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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   06 Jul 2021, 11:10
Sajjad1994 sir may I know how to get the pdf for these passages?
I want to prepare and practice them in an offline mode
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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   07 Jul 2021, 08:13
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Sajjad1994 sir may I know how to get the pdf for these passages?
I want to prepare and practice them in an offline mode


Hi Piyush785

PDF is not available you can practice here at GMTA Club.

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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   04 Sep 2021, 01:31
hi,
just to conifirm that these passages will not repeat in gmat prep mocks.

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Prihans wrote:
hi,
just to conifirm that these passages will not repeat in gmat prep mocks.

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Hi Prinjans

The chances are rare these passages will appear in the GMAT Prep CATs, and among the passages in the table above 11 passages are from GMAT Prep so a slight chance still remains perhaps any of them can appear again.
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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   09 Sep 2021, 23:35
Thank you so much for consolidating this list 😄
I did 30% of this list. These passages are supper tough :'(

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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   12 Nov 2021, 04:18
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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   06 May 2023, 15:32
I'm aiming for a 90th percentile in RC; what should be my accuracy on these specific passages in order to achieve that? I am currently at 86% accuracy. This is probably a vague question but a general guideline will do.
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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   06 May 2023, 22:46
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Syavashp wrote:
I'm aiming for a 90th percentile in RC; what should be my accuracy on these specific passages in order to achieve that? I am currently at 86% accuracy. This is probably a vague question but a general guideline will do.


95-100% accuracy on easy questions
80% accuracy on medium questions and
70% accuracy on hard questions will do work for you.

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Re: The Hardest GMAT Official RC Passages of all time [#permalink] New post   07 May 2023, 01:34
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Therealharsh wrote:
Nipungupta9081 wrote:
This is going to be Fun !!

First that 1000 RC's excel sheet now this.

Sajjad1994 thanks !!


Can you share the 1000 RC excel sheet?

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Here you go, you can find the excel sheet at the very end of first post.

https://gmatclub.com/forum/complete-rea ... 58858.html

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