The Reading Comprehension Guide illustrates innovative sketching techniques designed to balance speed and comprehension.Each chapter builds comprehensive content understanding by providing rules, strategies and in-depth examples of how the GMAT tests a given topic and how you can respond accurately and quickly. The Guide contains a total of 69 'In-Action' problems of increasing difficulty with detailed answer explanations. The content of the book is aligned to the latest Official Guides from GMAC (12th edition).
Chapter by Chapter
1. INTRODUCTION TO PRINCIPLES
Logistics of Reading Comprehension, Challenges, Two Extremes and a Balanced Approach, Engaging the Passage, Recruiting for Your Working Memory, Looking for the Simple Story, Linking to What You Already Know, Unpacking, Linking to What You Have Just Read, Signals, Picking Up the Pace, Practicing on Non-GMAT Material
2. COMPONENTS OF PASSAGES
The Point, Background, Support, Implications, Foreshadowing
3. SHORT PASSAGES
The Skeletal Sketch, Using Your Skeletal Sketch, Timing Guidelines, Common Structures, Model Long Passages and Skeletal Sketches
4. LONG PASSAGES
Close Ties to the Conclusion, Categories of Assumptions, Wrong Answer Choice Types, Least Extreme negation (Advanced)
5. THE SEVEN STRATEGIES
Scoring System, Key Word Matching, Proof Sentences, Word Justification, Extreme Word Avoidance, Limiting Inferences, Previewing
6. QUESTION ANALYSIS
Question Type Analysis, Types of Wrong Answer Choices, Model Passages Revisited, Model Questions and Answers
7. PASSAGES & PROBLEM SETS
Seven Sample Passages, 35 Sample Problems, Explanations