Verbal Section
Reading Comprehension on the test day
On the test day, you will expect to see three or four reading passages, each followed with three or four questions. The passages presented depend on how well you are performing on the test. However, the questions presented for the same passage do not depend on your performance. In other word, after you are assigned a reading passage, the next question presented for the same passage will not base on your performance for the previous question.
Why Reading Comprehension is a nightmare to most students?
Most people find the reading compression difficult to prepare because the subject matter is unfamiliar and could be anything. In order to make sure that nobody can take advantages on a particular subject, the test-maker takes every effort to diversify the subjects of the three or four passages on your test day. As a result, obscure subject matter is chosen so that you will be tested, not on your knowledge of a particular subject, but the test-taking skills. Gmat verbal section can prove to be a very high scoring section for few.
In addition, the reading passage is not created like the one we see on magazine, newspaper, or textbook. Rather, it uses a highly compressed style. Subjects of the passages are generally excerpted from academic articles that were published tens of years ago. Usually the chosen article is heavily edited until it is cut down to about 300 words, about one-third of its original length.
Though it is difficult to read, the reading techniques introduced in the following passage will help you pick up the right answer even without understanding the reading passage.
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