#1 GMAT Reading Comprehension Trick: How to Avoid Trap Answers

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In "#1 GMAT Reading Comprehension Trick: How to Avoid Trap Answers", Erika John from PrepScholar GMAT explains the best way to avoid getting stuck in wrong answer traps on Reading Comprehension GMAT questions.
Wrong answer choices on Reading Comprehension GMAT questions are designed to include words, phrases, and ideas from the passage. This means that many wrong answer choices look right, since we can find "evidence" for them in the text. We can only successfully eliminate the answer if we are careful to read and understand the context of the related portion of the passage, which is 1) easy to mess up and 2) tremendously time consuming.
To bypass these wrong answer traps altogether, we can use one of the most valuable GMAT Reading Comprehension tips: make a prediction before looking at the answer choices. This means that before we start eliminating answer choices, we should spend time attempting to answer the question in our own words based on information from the passage. If we make a solid prediction, the correct answer choice will often be immediately apparent, as it will match our prediction perfectly. In the case that the correct answer isn't immediately obvious, we'll still be able to eliminate most (if not all) of the wrong answer traps for not matching our prediction, increasing our accuracy and saving us time.
Used in conjunction with the GMAT Reading Comprehension tips from our GMAT Reading Comprehension Question Types video (check it out here if you haven't already: • Online Lesson: GMAT Re... ), making predictions can transform your performance on the Reading Comprehension section. Making predictions is also a valuable strategy on the Critical Reasoning section, where wrong answers are often closely related to the wrong part of the passage.

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Reading Comprehension Tips 1.SIMPLIFY passage/summarize in ur own words 2.Develop INTEREST in the passage 3.Have a MENTAL summary 4.Identify MAIN ideas /Key points 5.PREDICT right answers. 6.ENGAGE your emotions. 7.TAKE notes on Whys and Whats. (SIMMPET)

[@TheTestedTutor]

Using these tricks I just did an RC video with 4 worked examples...

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thank you!! it helped me a lot! but where can I find rest of the videos of reading comprehension strategies?

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Hey there! Please make a video solving all the Gmat OG RCs covering the entire OG book. That would help us a lot. Thankyou.

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I have a question. I don't understand why the answer is (a). According to the passage, Bourgeois focused on legal reform. The question is asking the one that Bourgeois disagreed. The answer (a) is the one that Bourgeois focused on but why is that an answer?

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Hey Erika! I have a very general query about the RCs. In the example shown above, when you encountered an RC problem, you first read the question stem and then moved back to the passage. Is this an effective strategy? Actually, I am trying to find out what exactly works for me, and I ruled this strategy out because I think we need to understand the passage first. I mean, what if we encounter a Main Point question? Btw, Thanks a lot for all these videos! They are really helpful! PrayasT

[@sparshgupta5749]

Thank you for this informative video. I am facing issues in the reading comprehension passages alot as compared to the other two topics. What issues I face are when we have to infer from the passage and the primary purpose of the passage. So what do you suggest for that?

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So we should always read the question first?

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Is there any tips for skim reading? Sometimes I do skimming but fail to comprehend the content, so i do need some tips for skim reading!

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Sister,please make a class about subject verb agreement.. icant solve this chapter..give some exceptional rule and make it easy

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I am so bad at this. I have a two weeks to become decent at this comprehensive reading and it’s not looking too well.

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how much time should one take to solve each passage?

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8mins

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depends on the no. of questions

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When a question is trap is when the exams is pulling at straws.

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The only right way of doing it is finding 4 wrong answers; and not just one right Answer. These are just gimmicks and would actually work against you on the actual exam. There is no short cut to acing verbal.

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