Hi All. I am facing difficulty in dealing with passages that are based on the theme of humanism, women empowerment and their role in some historic era, and any discussion on historical political topic.
Could anyone please advice in tackling these passages? Also, if possible, let me know any good source for general reading or GMAT passages on these topics.
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- PratulM825
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Re: Reading Comprehensions on Women
there's no good advice that is meaningfully different for these passages vs. other kinds of passages.
remember—the content isn't the point anyway, so, honestly, the nature of the content shouldn't really have much of an effect at all here.
• for whole-passage / main-idea questions, an efficient "reading" skips most or all of the details anyway, so, the nature of those details is irrelevant.
• for detail questions, the essence of the task lies in just finding keywords in the text of the passage, and then locating answer choices that just re-state something that the passage already says. in order to do this, you don't need any sort of deep understanding of the information in the text.
in fact, honestly, on GMAT RC, a deep understanding will probably do you more harm than good.
on detail questions, the correct answers quite literally just re-state things that the passages already say. (if the passage says "my brother is taller than me"... a correct answer would say "i'm shorter than my brother".)
if you KNEW or LEARNED tons of stuff about the content, then, honestly, you'd just become more likely to start OVER-THINKING the questions.
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remember—the content isn't the point anyway, so, honestly, the nature of the content shouldn't really have much of an effect at all here.
• for whole-passage / main-idea questions, an efficient "reading" skips most or all of the details anyway, so, the nature of those details is irrelevant.
• for detail questions, the essence of the task lies in just finding keywords in the text of the passage, and then locating answer choices that just re-state something that the passage already says. in order to do this, you don't need any sort of deep understanding of the information in the text.
in fact, honestly, on GMAT RC, a deep understanding will probably do you more harm than good.
on detail questions, the correct answers quite literally just re-state things that the passages already say. (if the passage says "my brother is taller than me"... a correct answer would say "i'm shorter than my brother".)
if you KNEW or LEARNED tons of stuff about the content, then, honestly, you'd just become more likely to start OVER-THINKING the questions.
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Re: Reading Comprehensions on Women
in any case, if you still think you want materials (even though i swear that no such materials are necessary -- or even beneficial in any way), then, this question would be better posted in the "General GMAT Study Questions" folder (= the first folder on the forum home page).
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