How to improve my RC from the 91st percentile?

Question

Hello, 
I wanted to know what resources to use if I already have a good RC percentile in my last GMAT attempt.

What would be the best source to keep my rc skills sharp and/or improve them from a 91st percentile?

As for OG, I've gathered 50 OG passages that have have a high difficulty level, these I plan on doing a 100% 
But are there any other sources I can take advantage of? 
For example, 
Aristotle 99
LSAT passages 
Manhattan prep passages

Which ones would be the most GMAT like and challenge me the most at the same time? 
Any inputs would be appreciated.

For reference, my ESR break up of my last attempt was identify inferred - 100% identify stated - 80%

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EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi Dhwani12,

We last discussed your studies approximately 1.5 years ago - and you were performing at this same general RC 'level' back then. If you've been consistently performing this well on RC, then it might be that the additional points that you're looking for are going to be found in other Verbal areas (and possibly in the Quant section). Before we discuss how you might best proceed with your studies, I'd like to know a bit more about your prior Official Scores and current goals:

1) On what dates did you take each of your Official GMATs and how did you score on each attempt (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for each)?
2) Is your Score Goal still 720+ or is it something else? 
3) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?

While the ESR doesn’t provide a lot of information, there are usually a few data points that we can use to define what went wrong on Test Day (and what you should work on to score higher). Since you purchased the ESR, then I'll be happy to analyze it for you.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

Hi Dhwani12,

Since you are looking to improve your RC skills, here is a helpful article that you can check out:

GMAT Reading Comprehension Tips: Top 8 DOs and DON’Ts

Feel free to reach out with any questions.

ReedArnoldMPREP · Answer

Check out the Advanced Official Guide.

You're obviously already very strong in RC.

You really want to take those difficult passages and identify, based on the passage, why a right answer is right and why a wrong answer is wrong. Particularly the tempting wrong answers. There's a reason they are tempting. Specify what that is. What about the answer is very similar to what the passage states? What is your mind 'twisting' in order to really make that wrong answer tempting?

At that level of RC, you want to be an effective inference maker. Sometimes, you should read an RC passage untimed, as many times as you want, and write down any inferences you think you can support based on the text of the passage and basic logic. There are two major forms of inference: the 'flip' (e.g. if X is mostly Y, then X is less than half Z; If X got higher over a decade, at the beginning of the decade there was less X then at the end); and the 'syllogism' (e.g. if Xs are Ys and all Ys are Zs, then all Xs are Zs. If A is Not X, and only X's are Z, then A is not Z).

Here are some other RC drills to do (I particularly like 'reverse RC':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJfvkth69Us

avigutman · Answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyd5onrqTgc

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