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03 Nov 2005, 18:07
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Friends,
I need your help in formulating strategy for attacking RC passages. As we do not discuss RC often here it is difficult to learn from others here. Moreever, RC questions are the more in number than any other category in GMAT.
I would appreciate if you can suggest some tips and answer some of these questions:
- what is permissible time to answer RC passage with 5 questions? 10/12?
- For speficic questions (according the passage...), is it good idea to go to passage. It surely takes times to go to passage for all answer choices. However, I cannot claim to know this level of detail during initial passage scan?
- when questions asks about meaning of a word/phrase in a statement, do we need to answer in the context of whole passage or only in the context of the statement?
- during test do we know the number of questions in a passage? If not, what is the average number of questions and avg length of passage I should expect to see in real test?
thanks in advance.
I need your help in formulating strategy for attacking RC passages. As we do not discuss RC often here it is difficult to learn from others here. Moreever, RC questions are the more in number than any other category in GMAT.
I would appreciate if you can suggest some tips and answer some of these questions:
- what is permissible time to answer RC passage with 5 questions? 10/12?
- For speficic questions (according the passage...), is it good idea to go to passage. It surely takes times to go to passage for all answer choices. However, I cannot claim to know this level of detail during initial passage scan?
- when questions asks about meaning of a word/phrase in a statement, do we need to answer in the context of whole passage or only in the context of the statement?
- during test do we know the number of questions in a passage? If not, what is the average number of questions and avg length of passage I should expect to see in real test?
thanks in advance.
03 Nov 2005, 19:31
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Hey duttsit,
The key point here is 'to be an ACTIVE reader'. Do not read it just for information. The moment you start reading the passage, shift your entire focus on to it. Try to reason at every sentence - why this sentence?, what is this passage about?, How the authour approaches the issue?, if there are multiple viewpoints, which one does he support most?, what is the role of each para? - basically build a roadmad. Try this approach with some 10 new RCs (it may take a little longer than it should), but eventually you will not only pick up speed but also will also improve the accuracy.
Read the Kaplan approach. It seemed very similar to how I do the RCs and I was able to refine my approach with that.
Here is another link (one that you participated) -
https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... ht=#145373
Let me know if there is something specific that you need to discuss upon.
The key point here is 'to be an ACTIVE reader'. Do not read it just for information. The moment you start reading the passage, shift your entire focus on to it. Try to reason at every sentence - why this sentence?, what is this passage about?, How the authour approaches the issue?, if there are multiple viewpoints, which one does he support most?, what is the role of each para? - basically build a roadmad. Try this approach with some 10 new RCs (it may take a little longer than it should), but eventually you will not only pick up speed but also will also improve the accuracy.
Read the Kaplan approach. It seemed very similar to how I do the RCs and I was able to refine my approach with that.
Here is another link (one that you participated) -
https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic ... ht=#145373
Let me know if there is something specific that you need to discuss upon.
. But I'd be happy to address any specific questions about Kaplan's method here or in PM. 
