syedrabiya Posted August 13, 2005 Share Posted August 13, 2005 i am not able to downdown the given material ,help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrdstein Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 As a foreign student my score was 183 / 100%. I guess I'm trying to get the content right, but I believe I'm wasting too much time on plain reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariush Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 Yeah ... why aren't those attachments available for download ? :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shariq Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 Not able to download, can anyone send me the attachments @ ansari.shariq@gmail.com thnx in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbage100 Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Can somebody send me the notes too? my email id is santhoshkan@gmail.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N Z O M N I A C Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 360wpm 91% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bansalra Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 Jamesbond007 I have always realized problem with my reading speed but have never done anything substantial about it. This material is really helpful. In the test my speed was 206wpm with 82%. Comprehension may be even less as lot of the questions were kind of logical. But I am sure material would help in improving the speed as well as comprehension. Â Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futurei Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 HI James, I have just taken the readingsoft test. MY wpm is 224 with 82% accuracy, which I believe is kind of ok ..but I definately need a improvment. Please keep posting Your views and ideas for beenfits of everyone. cheers!! Abhishek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlodil Posted September 12, 2005 Share Posted September 12, 2005 365 wpm / 82% here. I agree about word groups vs. individual words, but even I've a lot of work to do in that respect. Any tips on how to improve speed AND comprehension 4 days before GMAT day? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomWalk Posted October 1, 2005 Share Posted October 1, 2005 As ETS puts it in OG , 'For RC , understanding is more important than speed'. I don't believe one needs a speed of 300 wpm to do well in RC Look at the breakup of questions 15 SC * 1.25 ~ 20 minutes 12 CR * 1.5 ~ 20 minutes 14 RC * 2 ~ 30 minutes (including reading and answering the questions)  still 5 minutes to spare ! , add these 5 minutes to RC or which ever section one needs more time to answer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kack Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 hey, im taking my gmat in nov and am working on my RC (my weakest part).. im trying to do all the questions from OG.. but i may not be able to finish all of them .. wnated to know if the questions become harder as we progress .. as in, are the laterr half of the quest tougher than the earlier ones ? thanks  kack  I think reading speed and comprehension are important for the RC, but IMO there is another factor: it is hard to explain in words exactly, but you need to "get the hang" of how ETS presents a RC question and its 5 accompanying answer choices.  Getting the hang of it naturally involved doing the RC questions in the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip], and reading the explainations for them. There are patterns in how ETS presents a question and the answer choices. Again, I could not state explictly what they are, but after doing several of the RC questions in the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip], I began to sort of sense these patterns. Sometimes I was able to guess what answer was right and what was wrong by "gut feel". I was not 100% accurate, but was much better than 20% accurate (i.e. better than random guessing) by the time I had finished the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip].  What I am saying is, success in RC is about general reading speed and comprehension, a skill we all use everyday. But it is also about skills that are unique to the GMAT RC. Doing better in the RC involves both improving our gerneral reading skills, and learning the specific GMAT RC quirks. Sorry if this sounds a bit zen-like and mystical, but after working on all the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip] RC questions, hopefully you will develop this sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTG1983 Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I think reading speed and comprehension are important for the RC, but IMO there is another factor: it is hard to explain in words exactly, but you need to "get the hang" of how ETS presents a RC question and its 5 accompanying answer choices.  Getting the hang of it naturally involved doing the RC questions in the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip], and reading the explainations for them. There are patterns in how ETS presents a question and the answer choices. Again, I could not state explictly what they are, but after doing several of the RC questions in the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip], I began to sort of sense these patterns. Sometimes I was able to guess what answer was right and what was wrong by "gut feel". I was not 100% accurate, but was much better than 20% accurate (i.e. better than random guessing) by the time I had finished the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip].  What I am saying is, success in RC is about general reading speed and comprehension, a skill we all use everyday. But it is also about skills that are unique to the GMAT RC. Doing better in the RC involves both improving our gerneral reading skills, and learning the specific GMAT RC quirks. Sorry if this sounds a bit zen-like and mystical, but after working on all the [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip] RC questions, hopefully you will develop this sense.   I really agree with u. Sometimes u don't need to read the passage at all to ans. the Q, if u get the 'feel' of ETS ansa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dineshreddy Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 gud work james thank u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supurna Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Hi people, I have just started tracking mesg in this part of the forum. I need the masters of RC to help me with a problem: I jhave a good reading speed and can also comprehend well, but somehow when answering the Rc questions I am hardly 50% correct. I some how confuse on the content and just screw up. Also my score is 215wpm at 64% accuracy. I could have read faster than this but, would have resulted in a far lower accuracy. :- Help needed!!! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChhotiAankhe_BadeSapane Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 I have few suggestions on RC. At least I am going to use those. I never have problem completing the Verbal section and I do save time in the end. I know people are talking about the readin speed here but this is little bit opposite. This is what I think we should do.  1. Read RC passages a little bit slowly compared with the way you read SC and CR. Of course you should not spend too much time but definitely you can spend some extra time if you are good at SC and CR. 2. When RC pops up, first see the question on the right hand side. In that way you will have 1st question in your mind and when you come across the similar wording while reading the passage you will have the answer for the 1st Q. I will say instead of reading too fast and comprehending nothing or very little in the end confuse people more.  Stay calm and just read the passage little bit slowly. See if it helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsalopek Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 hi my results: 199 wps- not bad/ 55% - not too good it seems i need some practice ... not native speaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welegans Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 It is very helpful to me, thank you for your sharing :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vijay_muddapu Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 This is really a good post. Thanks jamesbond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyro2 Posted April 17, 2006 Share Posted April 17, 2006 i cant find the extracts which Bond promised.. is it bcos its not der or did i miss it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passingthrough Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 Excellent post! I got 276wps with 91% retention. I have to give my GMAT in 3wks time and this will definitely help in the RC section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rahul2706 Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 i got 311wpm and 83% is it good enough ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catnil Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 Hi, I am not able to download the documents posted by 007, Can someone re-post it please? Thanks and Regards, Nilesh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naguib Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 very useful... Thanks Ahmed Naguib ahmed.naguib@ncr.com Hi Guys and Gals, When I took GMAT first time, I came to know that my biggest weakness lies in Reading Comprehension. URSULA helped me a lot in guiding about how to get maximum from RC questions. I tried to work on those strategies. You all can find those strategies in her one of the post. I will paste here the link later on. But I still found that my main problem is not the comprehension but the speed. Due to slow reading speed, I used to become panic, particularly at the end of test. So I found my main weakpoint. It was slow reading Speed. I did some research on it. Step - 1: Measure your current Reading Speed. Go to following Link. Take a Speed Reading Test. If it is less than 200 WPM, then you have to really think of increasing your Reading Speed. But Don't worry. Do not buy any Speed Reading Software. It is very expensive to increase your reading speed. Read my Step2 and Step3 below. http://www.readingsoft.com/ Step - 2: How to Improve your Reading Speed. See my attachments HOW to Increase Speed - I, II, III Practise daily with those suggestions. Step - 3: How to Improve your Reading Comprehension. See my attachment HOW to improve Reading Comprehension. I will soon add some great articles closely resembling the GMAT level. I have taken them from The ECONOMIST, THE TIME, BBC and many other Websites. But the size is too large to Upload them here. But soon will find the way to do it. All the best guys. JamesBond007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lav000 Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 my first day of joining...i went thru the link james has given.. i got 191 wpm and 91% accuracy. being the first test of my preparation i wanted to have most of it right.But I doubt the material that comes in test is of the same level.  Can some one post what kind of material generally they give in the test...??? thanks a lot james..for a gudstart..:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PechenataTikva Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Thank you very much it was really helpful for me :tup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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