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Description: The Reading Comprehension Guide (152 pages) 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. Special Features: Purchase of this book includes one year of access to ManhattanGMAT’s online Reading Comprehension Question Bank (accessible by inputting a unique code in the back of each book). Manhattan GMAT has categorized all the Reading Comprehension problems in The Official Guides by question type. These categorized problems have been organized into problem lists that appear in the Reading Comprehension Strategy Guide. 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
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