Reading Comprehension Gmat Strategy Guide (Manhattan GMAT Preparation Guides) - Softcover

Manhattan Gmat Prep

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981853358 ISBN 13: 9780981853352

Publisher: Manhattan Prep Pub, 2008

Synopsis

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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From the Publisher:

About the ManhattanGMAT Strategy Guides

The ManhattanGMAT Strategy Guides offer students a unique balance between two competing emphases: test-taking strategies and in-depth content understanding. Most prep courses focus on the strategic portion of the GMAT - timing, shortcuts, etc. However, we believe that unless a student has a solid understanding of the content, the tricks won't be of any use. Therefore, we include practice problem sets that build specific foundational skills in each topic as well as advanced content that many other prep books ignore.

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Manhattan Prep Pub
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0981853358
• ISBN 13: 9780981853352
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 147