Updated for the 12th Edition of the Official
Guide!
The Reading Comprehension Guide (152 pages) 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.
All Strategy Guides come with 6 Full-Length Computer Adaptive
Online Practice GMAT Exams.
Special Features
Purchase of this book includes one year of access to ManhattanGMAT’s
online Reading Comprehension Question Bank (accessible by inputting a unique
code in the back of each book).
Manhattan GMAT has categorized all the Reading Comprehension problems in The
Official Guides by question type. These categorized problems have been organized
into problem lists that appear in the Reading Comprehension Strategy Guide.
Chapter by Chapter:
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
COMPONENTS OF PASSAGES: The Point, Background, Support, Implications,
Foreshadowing
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
LONG PASSAGES: The Skeletal Sketch, Using Your Skeletal Sketch,
Timing Guidelines, Common Structures, Model Long Passages and Skeletal Sketches
THE SEVEN STRATEGIES: Scoring System, Key Word Matching, Proof
Sentences, Word Justification, Extreme Word Avoidance, Limiting Inferences,
Previewing
QUESTION ANALYSIS: Question Type Analysis, Types of Wrong
Answer Choices, Model Passages Revisited, Model Questions and Answers
PASSAGES & PROBLEM SETS: Seven Sample Passages, 35 Sample
Problems, Explanations
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