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GMAT is an entrance test that picks up the suitable candidates for taking admissions into business management programs in reputed B-schools located across the globe. Based on the GMAT scores and a few other measuring parameters set by GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council), candidates get admissions in reputed schools like the ones located in the USA and Canada. Hence, before preparing one’s mind to write GMAT, one must be adorned with a good strategy first. In this article, I am going to pen something on the strategies one should adopt to crack the GMAT Reading Comprehension section.

GMAT reading comprehension passages which are basically long and obscure ask questions from three academic disciplines like Science, Social Science and Business; they test a candidate’s ability to find answers in the lines, his ability to understand the central theme of the passage with the help of inferences and his capacity to infer the information from the complex sentence structures etc. Apart from this, the passage presents four types of important questions based on Fact, Inference, Main Idea and Tone. Out of the three passages, Science passages are a little easier in the sense they are factual in nature. Social Science passages are interesting to read but don’t present facts directly. Hence, here, a candidate has to draw conclusion from the supported ideas presented in the passage. Questions based on Main idea test a candidate’s understanding of the overall theme of the passage and a bit hard to answer. In tone based questions, the candidate has to identify the tone and the intention of the author by drawing inference from the passage.

All information from each paragraph should be jotted down on scrap papers initially which will, later, help a candidate remember them while answering the questions. In Reading Comprehension questions, the test-makers intend to confuse candidates by presenting same answer choices with a slight difference in meaning. Hence, one must try to compare the information presented in the choices with that of the passages and then arrive at the answer. Second, a candidate should read the first question of the passage before going through it to get an idea about the type of information he exactly needs in the passage. However, one must put oneself in the author’s shoes and ask a series of questions to oneself like What is the main idea of the passage? What theme does the author want to present? What does the author want the readers to do in the passages? etc. which, in turn, help him find the clear idea. One may take up as many GMAT practice tests as possible to optimize one’s score.

Manhattan Review, a Hyderabad based test-prep company, continuously formulates strategies to help students to crack GMAT reading comprehension. With the help of its expert faculty and comprehensive study material, Manhattan Review provides excellent coaching in GMAT, GRE, SAT and TOEFL and enables thousands of students every year to get admissions in B-schools of their dreams.