Though is suggested to improve Rc to read excerpts from books or magazines such as The new Yorker or The Economist, these have drawbacks: - are not free of charge and cheap to subscribe - maybe are too tough and require skills that not all students have or are far from the concepts related to Gmat - are not so fun to catch your will to read - having a reading fast and userfriendly on your laptop or smartphone (maybe an android ) Instead here I suggest you the best resources that you may find to fix the aformentioned points. BEST RESOURCES bizedmagazine : downloadable magazine endorsed by GMAC ; also see here : ISSUU The atlantic : My favourite: you can read articles from a broad area of contents Sciencenews : amazing to improve your reading about science topics for the exam The University of Chicago Magazine : also downloadable PDF The Freeman : Foundation for Economic Education : also downloadable PDF businessinsider : maybe the best resource of the bill The EconoMonitor : the site founded by my favourite Professor aka Doctor Doom: Nouriel Roubini, famous for his economic predictions. Professor of Economic at Stern University NYC, he is well known from the establishment. New Economic Perspectives : a landmark Each site has its feed RSS; you could put them in your Feed Reader. I use the best at the moment; it is another level and experience to read this good stuff. App for both iOS and Android . Feedly Hope you like my effort to improve your RC skills.

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Though is suggested to improve Rc to read excerpts from books or magazines such as The new Yorker or The Economist, these have drawbacks:

- are not free of charge and cheap to subscribe
- maybe are too tough and require skills that not all students have or are far from the concepts related to Gmat
- are not so fun to catch your will to read
- having a reading fast and userfriendly on your laptop or smartphone (maybe an android :-D

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Instead here I suggest you the best resources that you may find to fix the aformentioned points.

BEST RESOURCES

bizedmagazine: downloadable magazine endorsed by GMAC; also see here : ISSUU
The atlantic: My favourite: you can read articles from a broad area of contents
Sciencenews: amazing to improve your reading about science topics for the exam
The University of Chicago Magazine: also downloadable PDF
The Freeman : Foundation for Economic Education: also downloadable PDF
businessinsider : maybe the best resource of the bill
The EconoMonitor: the site founded by my favourite Professor aka Doctor Doom: Nouriel Roubini, famous for his economic predictions. Professor at Stern University NYC, well known from the establishement
New Economic Perspectives : a landmark

Each site has its feed RSS; you could put them in your Feed Reader. I use the best at the moment; it is another level and experience to read this good stuff.

App for both iOS and Android.

Feedly

Hope you like my effort to improve your RC skills.

Thank you a lot for the awesome reading suggestions. Just out of curiosity though, how could you know that bizedmagazine.com was endorsed by GMAC?

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when we read we have to realize the grammatical role of each phrease, the pattern of sentence . this make us truely understanding the passages

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I'm giving this thread a gratuitous bump because I think it's absolutely wonderful, and I keep sending it to students as part of their pre-tutoring prep for GMAT verbal. As usual, you rock, Mr. carcass!

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Instead here I suggest you the best resources that you may find to fix the aformentioned points.

BEST RESOURCES

bizedmagazine: downloadable magazine endorsed by GMAC; also see here : ISSUU
The atlantic: My favourite: you can read articles from a broad area of contents
Sciencenews: amazing to improve your reading about science topics for the exam
The University of Chicago Magazine: also downloadable PDF
The Freeman : Foundation for Economic Education: also downloadable PDF
businessinsider : maybe the best resource of the bill
The EconoMonitor: the site founded by my favourite Professor aka Doctor Doom: Nouriel Roubini, famous for his economic predictions. Professor of Economic at Stern University NYC, he is well known from the establishment.
New Economic Perspectives : a landmark

Hi Carcass,

Thanks for sharing this list.

What would you suggest for history related passages?

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Thank you for sharing.

I am still more of a fiction/books guy. I feel that not home allow me to get into zone and focus for a long enough time.

The weakness of course is that books tend to be on paper but I found I could go longer and be less interrupted if I read a paper book instead of an article from an online publication.

This is purely me of course.

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I also prefer reading novels instead of articles, I am weak in RC ...

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I also prefer reading novels instead of articles, I am weak in RC ...

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I'm reading articles form Scientific American and National Geographic in order to improve my reading skills.

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I have been reading articles from https://www.thoughtco.com
It provides excellent background information for numerous topics (excluding business) covered by GMAT RC passages.

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Hi. Any recommendations for novels? Especially light novels? I have recently seen them on many sites but I think they are in a language other than English may be Korean or Japanese. Are they available in English too?

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