GMAT Club's Reading Comprehension (RC) Quiz-II 2023 05 Days | 10 Passages | Win Prizes | Get Better at GMAT GMAT Club's Reading Comprehension Quiz-II Starts on Friday, Sep 01, 2023 Why? Let's conquer Reading Comprehension together! Participate in this competition and get your RC skills polished while winning exciting prizes. This is a 05 days long quiz and you will definitely see improvement in your Reading Comprehension prep, And yes only in case you participate in all 05 days. How it works: Every day I will post 2 passages for participants to attempt and post explanations. Questions will be posted at 8 am Pacific Time The competition will start on September 1 and end on September 05, Non-stop Prize for Winners The first position will get GC Tests Elite for 3 months 2nd and 3rd positions will get GC Tests Pro for 3 months 4th and 5th Positions will get GC Forum Quiz subscription for 2 months (The number of prizes may increase or decrease based on the level of participation) Competition Rules The questions will be posted in competition mode for 1 day (24 hours) and members cannot see other members’ posts or replies. Members who post explanations will be considered for the prize competition. Copy-paste explanations (if any) will not be accepted and will be deleted. Explanations must be comprehensive, and the reason why wrong answers are wrong and correct answer is correct must be posted. A participant needs to explain all questions of at least 5 RCs to be eligible to win a prize. This master thread will be updated daily so bookmark this thread and keep visiting it to get the new questions and updates Users cannot edit their explanations once submitted. To get an idea, here are some examples of explanations by the winners from a previous competition. Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Example 4 Good Luck! GMAT Club's Reading Comprehension Quiz Day Passage 1 Passage 2 Day 01 Passage 1 Passage 2 Day 02 Passage 1 Passage 2 Day 03 Passage 1 Passage 2 Day 04 Passage 1 Passage 2 Day 05 Passage 1 Passage 2 Quiz Time II.jpg

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GMAT Club's Reading Comprehension (RC) Quiz-II 2023
05 Days | 10 Passages | Win Prizes | Get Better at GMAT

GMAT Club's Reading Comprehension Quiz-II Starts on Friday, Sep 01, 2023

Why?

Let's conquer Reading Comprehension together! Participate in this competition and get your RC skills polished while winning exciting prizes. This is a 05 days long quiz and you will definitely see improvement in your Reading Comprehension prep, And yes only in case you participate in all 05 days.

How it works:

Every day I will post 2 passages for participants to attempt and post explanations.
Questions will be posted at 8 am Pacific Time
The competition will start on September 1 and end on September 05, Non-stop

Prize for Winners

The first position will get GC Tests Elite for 3 months
2nd and 3rd positions will get GC Tests Pro for 3 months
4th and 5th Positions will get GC Forum Quiz subscription for 2 months

(The number of prizes may increase or decrease based on the level of participation)

Competition Rules

The questions will be posted in competition mode for 1 day (24 hours) and members cannot see other members’ posts or replies.
Members who post explanations will be considered for the prize competition.
Copy-paste explanations (if any) will not be accepted and will be deleted.
Explanations must be comprehensive, and the reason why wrong answers are wrong and correct answer is correct must be posted.
A participant needs to explain all questions of at least 5 RCs to be eligible to win a prize.
This master thread will be updated daily so bookmark this thread and keep visiting it to get the new questions and updates
Users cannot edit their explanations once submitted.

To get an idea, here are some examples of explanations by the winners from a previous competition.

Good Luck!

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Sajjad1994 : Apologies but in passage 8 : https://gmatclub.com/forum/day-4-passag ... 18005.html
Q 2 and 3 are the same. Could you please look into this?

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Sajjad1994 : Apologies but in passage 8 : https://gmatclub.com/forum/day-4-passag ... 18005.html
Q 2 and 3 are the same. Could you please look into this?

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DAY 05: September 05, 2023

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Thank you! and congrats everyone who participated in this Quiz

Here is the final result with the overall standings of participants

GMAT Club RC Quiz-II 2023
No.	Participant	Points (Out of 100)
1	nivivacious	91
2	PK1	74
3	Catman	66
4	pintukr	53
5	0Lucky0	28
6	Elite097	27
7	Shadyshades	9
8	Archit3110	4

PS: Participants from serial# 6-8 haven't win any prize.

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*Five passages labeled with the "GMAC Official source" tag have been sourced from the Vstudy Books, a pre-2000s GMAT practice question book. According to the book, these questions are purported to be official GMAC material. After conducting research, it has been determined that a significant majority, if not all, of the questions are of good quality and may indeed originate from the official source. Therefore, the "GMAC Official source" tag has been added to the passages based on this research and the likelihood that they are official material. However, it cannot be claimed with complete certainty authority that these questions are 100% official.

The aforementioned passages were originally in JPG format. In order to make them copyable, I utilized OCR software to convert the images into text. Next, I pasted the text into a Microsoft Word document to identify any spelling or grammatical errors and subsequently removed any such errors. Although the JPG images were not entirely clear and may contain typos, I made every effort to ensure that the resulting text was of high quality, as I believe this would be of value to our members.

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Prizes will be added to the winner's accounts within two working days.

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Sajjad1994: Just wanted to express my gratitude again for this quarter's RC quiz. Your painstaking efforts in not just converting JPEGs to text, but answering every one of our queries with patience, finding new source material, being extremely approachable and just going the extra mile - ensured this was very fun! (Winning it was a joy, and wish it was for more days!)
Also: Catman PK1: your explanations taught me how to process reasoning better always - thanks for making me want to put in effort!!

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Sajjad1994 Heartfelt thanks for your valuable efforts in organizing this competition. The quality of these passage will surely help the member in honing their RC skills.
Congratulations to everyone and nivivacious for your well deserved 1st place. Your explanation are always clear and even I have learned many things from your answers.

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Congrats to everyone for participating/winning in this competition. Everyone is a winner here as we all learned more and became better at RC because of this competition.

Thanks to Sajjad for bringing this and for taking pains to help us with our concerns. We are very grateful.

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Sajjad1994 did you look into one of the passages I tagged you in wherein I wrote the wrong choice but explained the correct choice correctly ?

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Thank you! and congrats everyone who participated in this Quiz

Here is the final result with the overall standings of participants

GMAT Club RC Quiz-II 2023
No.	Participant	Points (Out of 100)
1	nivivacious	91
2	PK1	74
3	Catman	66
4	pintukr	53
5	0Lucky0	28
6	Elite097	27
7	Shadyshades	9
8	Archit3110	4

PS: Participants from serial# 6-8 haven't win any prize.

I have updated the following:

Topic names of the passages as per the RC sub-forum posting rules
All links
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Below is the summary of what you have been served during the Quiz days.

Prizes will be added to the winner's accounts within two working days.

Let me know your thoughts, feedback, or suggestions.

Best Regards
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