Andrea_ wrote:
hi guys,
I'm just really fed up with GMAT. I've been studying it for last 3 years...
Don't be afraid - I'm jokin'.
I've been studying last 2 months. I spent really a lot of time on it, but my RC is still very bad.
Well, it's not always bad, it depends. But I'm not confident in it at all.
my scores:
Kaplan 640, 610
Princeton 590(1.5 months ago), 610,700
"Gmat 800" ~700
Power Prep 550, 550 (1.5 months ago)
the problem is that after all my preparations, I barely imroved my RC, despite the fact that I've read tons of these tedious texts from ETS Guide.
It still a matter of luck for me - whether I will answer correctly or not.
Do you know if there are any ways to really improve reading comprehension? I'm an international student, and effective reading of such passages is still a problem for me
I really fed up with all this preparation. I don't know maybe I should just go and pass the test whatever happens.
But I need really high score, that's the problem...
any feedback appreciated!
Andrea, welcome to the site,
I can suggest what I did. I am from Kiev and RC was the worst, I guess a similar story.
Try to stay involved in the passage. I have caught myself a dozen of times thinking about a beach while reading a gmat passage about marine biology or smth of that sort.
I usually would force myself to "guess" how it would go further, what would the passage containt, and how it would end. I guess the same way as we are reading interesting books.
I also sometimes stopped and summarized (5 secs) what I have just read. Sometimes I would spend 10 secs to summarize a paragraph or just would put a label on it. For example, if I read about two theories and the next paragraph is describing why one is good, I would say in my mind: free market economy theory is better than dictatorship becuase: reason 1: more money reason 2: faster growth reason 3: political stability.
Then at the very end, I would try to trace how tha passage went: two theories --> theory 1 --> theory 2 --> comparison --> conslucions: theory 1 is better
Obviously this is simplified.
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