Reading Comprehension GMAT Strategy Guide, 4th Edition (Manhattan GMAT Guides, No. 7) [Paperback]

Manhattan GMAT (Author)

Book Description

Release date: May 1, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0982423853 | ISBN-13: 978-0982423851 | Edition: 4 Pap/Psc

The Reading Comprehension Guide 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. The content of the book is aligned to the latest Official Guides from GMAC (12th edition).
 
Purchase of this book includes one year of access to Manhattan GMAT's online practice exams and Reading Comprehension question bank.

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From the Publisher

Chapter by Chapter

1. 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

2. COMPONENTS OF PASSAGES
The Point, Background, Support, Implications, Foreshadowing

3. 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

4. LONG PASSAGES
The Skeletal Sketch, Using Your Skeletal Sketch, Timing Guidelines, Common Structures, Model Long Passages and Skeletal Sketches

5. THE SEVEN STRATEGIES
Scoring System, Key Word Matching, Proof Sentences, Word Justification, Extreme Word Avoidance, Limiting Inferences, Previewing

6. QUESTION ANALYSIS
Question Type Analysis, Types of Wrong Answer Choices, Model Passages Revisited, Model Questions and Answers

7. PASSAGES & PROBLEM SETS
Seven Sample Passages, 35 Sample Problems, Explanations

From the Author

Chapter by Chapter

1. Introduction to Principles

2. Components of Passages

3. Short Passages

4. Long Passages

5. The Seven Strategies

6. Question Analysis

7. Passages & Problem Sets

Appendix A: Official Guide Problem Sets --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Manhattan Prep Publishing; 4 Pap/Psc edition (May 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0982423853
• ISBN-13: 978-0982423851
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.5 x 11 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great help for the GMAT December 14, 2007

By english_august

Format:Paperback

Reading Comprehension is one of the most difficult areas to improve in a short time for the GMAT. If you are not getting good scores in this section and if you've not been a life long reader, then it is not easy to improve your score - it will take hard work and a lot of practice, and probably the Manhattan GMAT RC guide.

This book is definitely one of the best out there for this section. The book offers some radically new tricks and tips to better attack this section (I ended up using a few of them and they were very helpful) and it also has a bunch of practice passages apart from pointers to practice passages from the Official Guide.

I will be reviewing other ManhattanGMAT Prep books individually but here's what I have to say about the entire series - buy them all, it will cost you less than 150 dollars and believe me, it will be money well spent (I scored 760 on my GMAT last month).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't take the GMAT without it December 6, 2009

By J. Mak

Format:Paperback

I wouldn't take the gmat without comprehensively reviewing all the workbooks and online material for manhattan GMAT. They are simply the best books and most directly relevant books to studying. They don't care about teaching you material, but teaching exactly what you need to know for the GMAT, and nothing more!

If you get this book, you should also get access to the online material. I would highly suggest you do all the material and time yourself. There are 6 practice tests that in my opinion are the best in the market. I would do the pearson/GMAC provided test once in the beginning to see where you stand. Then take on practice test from Manhattan GMAT per weekend. Treat it like a real test! Then carefully go over all your answers and mistakes. Even go over the ones you got right!

During the week, I would focus on going through the workbooks and other online exercises.

It is a major commitment but it was worth it...I got a 740

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Reading Comprehension GMAT Strategy Guide December 19, 2010

By Womannwhite

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I purchased this book because I was taking a nursing exam and needed at least a 90, well what I got was a 109 after using the Strategy in this book. I use it for all my tests and I am doing very well. Thank you very much, and the suppier was excellent would use them again. Came in so fast.