Popular Reading Comprehension Guides

• Manhattan GMAT RC, 5th Edition: May take a substantial amount of time to internalize the strategies mentioned in this book. But, whithout any doubt one of the best GMAT RC books available in the market.
• Manhattan GMAT Foundations of GMAT Verbal, 5th Edition: The most useful parts of this book for RC are the ones containing short but sweet list of GMAT idioms and vocabulary. Highly recommended for beginners.
  
• Books to Read (Improve Verbal Score and Enjoy a Good Read):I recommend going through a few books from this list; however, pick at least one book that you may find boring.
  
• The PowerScore GMAT Verbal Bible: A good strategy guide but contains fewer questions as compared to the individual strategy guides.
  
• Veritas Prep Reading Comprehension Guide
  
• Aristotle Prep GMAT Reading Comprehension Grail
  
• GMAT Pill e-Book 1 & 2 - Free!
  
• LSAT Reading Comprehension Guide:Great book, but to be used with caution. It may consume a lot of your time practicing the strategies, most of which are meant for LSAT. Initial few chapters are really good.

Reading Comprehension Strategy Resources

• GMAT Club Verbal Advantage Resources: GMAT Club and its partners (e-GMAT, Magoosh, and Manhattan GMAT) have joined forces to provide you with a high-intensity verbal prep on the pages of the GMAT Club forum.
  
  • Practicing Main Point
  • Twin Passages for practicing Main Point questions
  • How to Read a Reading Comp Passage by MGMAT
  • Paragraph Summaries - An approach to Main Point
  • RC Ideas from MGMAT Experts
• Reading Comprehension Keywords: Downloadable file containing a comprehensive list of keywords for GMAT Reading Comprehension.
  
• Keyword glossary with synonyms: Downloadable file containing a list of commonly used keywords for GMAT Reading Comprehension.
  
• Reading critically in action (Video): Video lessons on how to read critically on GMAT Reading Comprehension passages.
  
• Rhyme's "How to Destroy Reading Comprehension" Strategy - Recommended!: RC strategy resource by rhyme - Great post with awesome discussions.
  
• List of all Reading Comprehension Tones: A comprehensive list of Reading Comprehension Tones.
  
• Inference on GMAT Reading Comprehension: Mike from Magoosh discusses how far you can go on GMAT inference questions? answer is Not far at all!
  
• GMAT RC: Eliminating Wrong Answers: Learn tips for simplifying your approach to GMAT Reading Comprehension by Magoosh.
  
• GMAT Reading Comprehension Technique: Read Carefully Once: Some like to skim, or to speed read, or to read the first paragraph carefully and skim the rest. Magoosh Says read carefully once. My advise - Practice the way that works best for you.
  
• Curiosity: The “Secret Sauce” of GMAT Reading Comprehension Success: An under-appreciated approach to RC! by Magoosh.
  
• GMAT Reading List: Suggestions on what to read now to prepare yourself for GMAT RC.
  
• GMAT Club RC Downloads: Awesome tool to search GMAT Club's collection of downloadable files.
  
• Efficiently tackle Inference questions in CR and RC: Discussions with practice questions on how to tackle inference questions in RC and CR.
  
• Thursdays with Ron on MGMAT: This is an archive containing 5 Reading Comprehension and a total of around 70 recordings from "Thursdays with Ron" conducted by one of the most popular MGMAT instructors Ron Purewal.
  
• How to improve my RC accuracy?: A post with really insightful discussions on how to improve ones accuracy in GMAT RC.
  
• HD recording and 40+ Practice Questions: Video lesson by e-GMAT + file containing around 40 practice questions
  
• Learning RC through YouTube Videos: A huge collection of YouTube videos on GMAT RC.
  
• MGMAT Reading comprehension Blog: A collection of insightful articles on RC by MGMAT
  
• How to stay focused on RC by Knewton: An article by Knewton from the GMAT Club blog.
  
• Free RC video course by GMAT Prep Now 10 free video lessons by GMAT Prep Now.
  
• Master GMAT RC question types part 1 and part 2 by Kaplan :Short and sweet articles on GMAT question types by Kaplan.

Reading Comprehension Question Banks

• GMAT Club Reading Comprehension Question Directory with Passage Content Area and Difficulty Level: Directory made by bb which contains all the GMAT Club RC questions categorized into different content areas and difficulty levels.
  
• Official RC Questions Database:This resource compiled by Souvik101990 contains all the official RC questions ever made.
  
• Official Guide Verbal Question Directory:Have questions about the OG explanations? We have scavenged the forum for the best of the best OG Question discussions and presenting to you the Verbal Collection!
  
• 400+ RC Passages: Compilation of more than 400 Passages from GMAT/GRE/LSAT.
  
• 1500+ RC Passages: Gigantic collection of RC passages compiled by the user Legendaddy.

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Great thread.. The Aristotle Prep RC Grail link has a problem though. It incorrectly links to SC Grail

Hi FuzzyLogic,

Thanks for noticing, I have updated the post with the link.

Thanks,
Vercules
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Great compilation. Fantastic job. very helpful. cant write more....

+1 to you, is there no way to give more....cos these efforts does deserve more, you have no clue how it helps many like me

Thanks for the encouragement, I am glad that you find the resource helpful..

Vercules
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Hi Folks,

Added the following resources to the Ultimate Reading Comprehension Encyclopedia

• Free RC video course by GMAT Prep Now 10 free video lessons by GMAT Prep Now.
  
• Master GMAT RC question types part 1 and part 2 by Kaplan : Short and sweet articles on GMAT question types by Kaplan.

Vercules
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an amazing post vercules!+1!

This is AMAZING MAN! Accept my biggest thanks. Hope I will be able to learn many things from this wonderful thread.

Excellent post.
Contains a ton of valuable resources.

Fantastic list of resources! I also wanted to add that since the original post was created, Economist GMAT Tutor launched its blog, and we feature reading comprehension tips quite often. Just this week we posted an article about how to avoid extremes in reading comprehension answer choices.

Here’s the take-home idea: if you need to quickly eliminate answer choices in a tone question, find the ones that contain words that seem extreme to you. Consider what words an academic author would or would not use in his or her writing. You can probably eliminate any extreme answer choice.

If you want to check out the whole article, you can do so here:
http://gmat.economist.com/blog/verbal/g ... -questions

I am also happy to answer any questions!

Regards,

Elizabeth
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My weakest point is RC. Therefore, this is a great post for me. Thanks a lot.

Dear All,

I have just finished to read notes on RC from Manhattan. Besides, I have started to read notes from Veritas RC. However, there is a huge contrast between these sources. Such as, Manhattan claims that when one reads a passage she/he must make a diagram to be able to answer the questions. As for Veritas RC book, it notes that diagramming is meaningless...

To what extent do you agree/disagree with these approaches?

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