Forum: GMAT Reading Comprehension

I see peolple just keep piling their email-ids to this thread. http://www.urch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8905 Does anyone really has the passages..? I can't access the link given in the thread. It might be a good idea to upload it to a new thread rather than posting email ids.

Frazier and Mosteller assert that medical research could be improved by a move toward larger, simpler clinical trials of medical treatments. Currently, researchers collect far more background information on patients than is strictly required for their trials-substantially more than hospitals...

Hi , Though my reading speed is quite good, i guess i still need a lot of practise on my RC. Could someone tell me where i could download some passages from the net for practice...... :hmm:

Lets find assumtions leading up to the conclusion. "Obliquity clearly was important at one point," http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=96&e=1&u=/space/iceagesblamedontiltedearth In the past million years, the Earth experienced a major ice age about every 100,000 years....

Hello friends, i am a non-native speaker of English. so each and every time i find a qsn based on authors' tone, i find atleast two to three choices for which i have to refer the dictionary. So if possible, can any one of you send me possible exhaustive set of answer choices for author's tone. ...

I need some help with my reading comprehension. I have issues with figuring out the Author's Main Point or primary goal in the passage and also with questions that ask What is inferred by the passage..... The primary purpose of the passage is ... Tone of the Author and other general...

Guys, Is there a set pattern about the subjects of GMAT RC...? For example: 1 RC will be from a science paragraph Another 2 RC will from business writeups and so on. I am asking this because I have a problem with social and anthropology type of paragraphs. If the writeup is from...

I am unable to finish the 18 questions in Kaplan's RC tutorials on time. Should this be cause for alarm? Just like other Kaplan material, the RC passages in the RC tutorials do look more dense and long compared to the ones in the OG. Can someone share their experiences regarding Kaplan RC...

lets read and discuss this rc Passage 1 Recent years have brought minority-owned businesses in the United States unprecedented opportunities-as well as new and significant risks. Civil rights activists have long argued that one of

My previous thought was that answers to questions like these are not explicitly stated in the paragraph. I was under the belief that you have to dig a little deeper and go beyond what the paragraph is saying to find an answer in this case. But as I was doing my prep work today (OG 10th edition,...

Japanese firms have achieved the highest levels of manufacturing efficiency in the world automobile industry. Some observers of Japan have assumed that Japanese firms use the same manufacturing equipment (5) and techniques as United States firms but have bene- fited from the unique...

Can we discuss this ? A good one. Passage Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal idea of the economic market when he said that the free enterprise system is the most efficient

Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal idea of the economic market when he said that the free enterprise system is the most efficient economic system. Maximum freedom means (5) maximum productiveness; our "openness" is to be the measure of our stability. Fascination with this ideal...

Please tell me the best strategies for RC - GMAT . (Brief)

As the climate in the Middle East changed beginning around 7000 B.C.E., conditions emerged that were conducive to a more complex and advanced form of civilization in both Egypt and Mesoptomia. The process began when the swampy valleys of the Nile in Egypt and of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers...

I heard a lot of people take note for RC. How do you do it? What points do you write down?

24. The passage provides support for which of the following statements? c) Managers' intuition works contrary to their rational and analytical skills. e) Intuition enables managers to employ their practical experience more efficiently. OG didn't explain C much. Please advice why it is not...

Most economists in the United States seem captivated by the spell of the free market. Consequently, nothing seems good or normal that does not accord with the requirements of the free market. A price that is determined by the seller or, for that matter, established by anyone other than the...