Ultimate Reading Comprehension Encyclopedia

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.