Reading Comprehension GMAT Strategy Guide, 4th Edition (Manhattan GMAT Guides, No. 7) - Softcover
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).
Purchase of this book includes one year of access to Manhattan GMAT's online practice exams and Reading Comprehension question bank.
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).
Purchase of this book includes one year of access to Manhattan GMAT's online practice exams and Reading Comprehension question bank.
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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
Positive vs. Negative Scenarios, The Headline List, Common Notations, Using Your Headline List, Timing Guidelines, Common Structures, Model Short Passages and Headline Lists
4. LONG PASSAGES
The Skeletal Sketch, Using Your Skeletal Sketch, Timing Guidelines, Common Structures, Model Long Passages and Skeletal Sketches
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
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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
Positive vs. Negative Scenarios, The Headline List, Common Notations, Using Your Headline List, Timing Guidelines, Common Structures, Model Short Passages and Headline Lists
4. LONG PASSAGES
The Skeletal Sketch, Using Your Skeletal Sketch, Timing Guidelines, Common Structures, Model Long Passages and Skeletal Sketches
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
Chapter by Chapter
1. Introduction to Principles
2. Components of Passages
3. Short Passages
4. Long Passages
5. The Seven Strategies
6. Question Analysis
7. Passages & Problem Sets
Appendix A: Official Guide Problem Sets
1. Introduction to Principles
2. Components of Passages
3. Short Passages
4. Long Passages
5. The Seven Strategies
6. Question Analysis
7. Passages & Problem Sets
Appendix A: Official Guide Problem Sets
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- PublisherManhattan Prep Publishing
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0982423853
- ISBN 13 9780982423851
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