‘Reading Comprehension’ – the two most-lovable words for every GMAT aspirant. Isn’t it?
Many aspirants are still having troubles scoring well in reading comprehensions. And most of them are trying way too many tricks and methods, that they are confusing themselves and not getting results. RCs are not as difficult as the student community has made them to be, so, first of all you need to understand, that RC is also just another type of question in the paper and no big deal. Stop making it a big deal first of all.
Verbal section is the do-or-die section, you may hate it but you cannot ignore it, and what comprises the verbal section mostly? – READING COMPREHENSIONS. Almost 2/3 of the whole section has RC questions. Those aspirants, who have been reading good amount of books over their school and college days, find the RCs a cake-walk and fun-to-do. What a blessing, eh? Until recently, one could manage to score decent scores in verbal by attempting more of non-RC questions, but those were the days when there were very few RCs in the question paper, now the proportion is different, now you NEED to clear through RCs, and you can do that only if you UNDERSTAND the RC.
Now, if you have been reading good amount of quality English in the past few years, you would have developed THE ‘gut feeling’ that sails you across most of the RC questions and you won’t get confused between close options. IF NOT, then you just need to play smart- don’t gamble on the questions where your gut feeling tells you that all options can be correct, or even two for that matter. Target the technical questions first. If you don’t know which are the technical questions in RCs, they look something like these –
‘find the main idea of the passage‘
‘what is the tone of the passage’
‘what is the writing style of the author’
‘the passage can be an excerpt from what’, and so forth.
Such questions have a fixed set of options, and have a more technical approach to answer, than a gut-feel approach. So you can try mastering these questions one-by-one. Good enough, eh? Seeing some hope in RCs now?
And you don’t need to fiddle around here and there to figure out how to do that. I’ve made things easier for you. I’ve collected all the required study material at one spot for you to become an RC master through precise articles and video lectures needed for same, and I’ve also provided you with the tests you need to take afterwards to solidify those RC concepts.