Help GMAT Club Decide: How to Determine RC Difficulty

Option 1.

Please upload hard official LSAT and Official GRE passages in SCIENCE (We really lack good Biology and Marine related passages), BUSINESS, and Social Science . They are very few or maybe I am done with all of them

bb request you to ask carcass to upload official GRE RC and LSAT RC here !!!!!

Thank you!

Can you please clarify what you mean by make them bigger?

Thanks!




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Can we put passage reading timer for the RC question as well? Its quiet difficult to comprehend time along with solving questions?

Other than that, I guess we need a more elaborated answers or the official solution for the problems. There are discussion for some particular questions, but not really have any standard parameter to evaluate the understanding of one's passage. Can we work on RC solutions too?

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Hi bb,

Great initiative, as we have lately seen a lot of posts asking for the difficulty level of each question. I would prefer option 1 to handle the overall RC passage difficulty, but would the length or the ease in reading of the passages be a part of this average as sometimes the passages can be easy and questions difficult and vice versa or the average would be based just on the level of questions.


Thanks.

Thank you. Whatever methodology we come up with, it would need to be driven by numbers. So average difficulty of the passage would be just taking all the questions and averaging a difficulty. Unless there is a way to come up with measuring difficulty of the actual passage. If not it would be the average of all questions difficulties.

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Oh, so would it possible to have a separate tag for the level of the passage and a separate tag of average of overall difficulty of the questions. Like currently we have tags as Long passage, short passage, similarly if tags for the read of the passage could be introduced, and the user who posts can add those as tag as well. As in that case, even if that tag doesn't have a number, it could still show the level whether passage was a hard or an easy read. Not sure if that is possible.

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Hi bb I was just about to suggest what bm2201 suggested above -
"separate tag for the level of the passage and a separate tag of average of overall difficulty of the questions"

I can only talk about myself and I found out that with abstract/harder to comprehend passages, I needed some sort of note taking strategies - more of a mind map. And currently we do not have the means to filter these passages out in GC.

Also regarding the difficulty level of passages, I think it should not be a simple average of the numbers. Rather some sort of logic should be there, for example - a passage is 700+ level if it has more than three 700 level questions. This will filter out oddities and dodgy questions skewing the RC in a particular group.

yashikaaggarwal regarding passage timer, what I do is start the timer of the first question while I am reading the passage. This works fairly well for me. I think the problem if we do implement reading timers is that it 'stands out' in the error log.

One more point regarding formatting, RC formatting is not ideal. We need to implement a system where we can give line breaks. And also we need a separate column entry for line numbers. I do not think I explained myself clearly, but what I am trying to say is the line numbers should not with the text. Further to the formatting, the iOS app RC formatting does not work well - the questions appear after the passage.

I would prefer option 1.

Also, in GMAT Club's RCs, once a question is answered the result is shown before one moves into next question. Knowing the result of the question that one has just answered do influence accuracy while attempting remaining questions.
It would be great if there is a toggle button, which when turned on will enable one to see the results only after attempting all the questions of a RC.

I think the question difficulty level should be selected as per the accuracy of answering one question because sometimes the difficulty level doesn't justify the question. for instance - in the attachment below, the difficulty level should be 700+ given only 16% were able to get the answer right.
For starters, we can put the difficulty level tag according to the given passage source, and alter its tag later according to the average accuracy of all questions.

Sorry, I have gotten a bit distracted with the Master's Spotlight (feverishly looking for other excuses)

I think this is a good suggestion to add to the RC forum, not showing the answers until all questions have been answered. I will need to check with our developers to see if this is possible, I am sure we can figure something out....