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RC Resources - urgently required

by KK Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:37 pm

Hello

Not sure if its weird or not but my most difficult section in GMAT has become that of RC. It is screwing up all my scores. Although i have really improved on SC and CR but RC is killing me despite the fact that i feel i am totally understanding the passage. I have been practicing it for a long time but no improvement. its not in one question i screw up in almost all questions. I believe only more practice will help. Please suggest me additional resources i can refer for RC as i have exhausted all of ManhattanGMAT. I will be facing real GMAT in 3 weeks time and really want to work on this weak are.

Please help anyone who know some good resources online/offline for Reading Comp.

Thanks in advance
Kuleen
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by StaceyKoprince Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:23 pm

Lots of people struggle with RC. I can suggest some additional stuff but my biggest piece of advice is: if your performance is not where you want it to be yet, you're not done with the OG. You haven't actually learned what you need to learn, so don't move on from it, even though you've done the problems already. You have to actually analyze them.

For practice reading the types of stuff that tend to show up on the GMAT, my fellow instructor Jad did a survey of publicly available sources and determined these ones to be good:
* http://magazine.uchicago.edu/ - particularly articles in the "Investigations" tab
* http://harvardmagazine.com/
* http://sciam.com/ (This can get a bit too casual for the GMAT, but it's probably worth including because so many of our students get freaked out by science passages on the GMAT.)

Also, start studying why the wrong answers are wrong. See this post for some ideas: http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/post13370.html

That post also contains some other general ideas for RC - see if they're useful for you.
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