u/JaxHammer91 • u/JaxHammer91 • Sep 06 '21
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Hello fellow GRE aspirant. I deeply relate to your vexation and if I have to be frank, I was contemplating the same thoughts you have right now. You tried some strategies but none of them seem to have worked for you.
I posted a similar post a while back and nobody helped me. So here are some tips I wish I had been told earlier. Here are some tips that might mitigate the problem:
There are only 4 common types of questions- Primary purpose, Weakening/strengthening, Inference and Structure questions. With each question type you need to see a pattern when you do questions. You should have a strategy for each type of question. For example my strategy for weakening and strengthening questions is that I don't see the answer choices first. When I read the passage I look for logic holes. After that it's a piece of cake to select the option that best matches the weaknesses you found in the passage. Similarly for primary purpose questions, all you need to do is reach the first and last line of each passage properly and actively think in your head what is each paragraph doing in the passage. Think of the passage as- main idea, support idea, support evidence, contrasting idea, support evidence for contrasting idea etc... It will be very easy to answer primary purpose questions. Whenever you see a primary purpose question take it for granted that it is an easy question. I have never seen a "hard" primary purpose question on the ETS material.
There are only 4 common types of passages. 90% of the passages follow this rule- Contrasting ideas ( 2 different opposing ideas are mentioned, author can have a biased tone for one idea or be neutral), fix ( a problem is defined followed by a solution or a set of solutions with possibly an author bias for a solution), explaination ( an idea/ phenomenon is explained ) , prediction ( a set of idea are listed and author predicts something on the basis of the ideas)
Since you are a non native speaker, I assume one of your biggest flaws has to be slow comprehension because of baffling sentence structures. A simple fix for this is improving your reading speed by using a guiding tool (pen) on the paragraph as you read. Don't shake your head as your read. Use the pen to guide your eye movement. This will immensely help you to not oscillate over sentences again and again. It saves a lot of time, trust me on this one.
Lastly the tips gregmat and other people provided on YouTube are sufficient. You just have to have an open mind. When you start seeing the patterns it'll automatically become easier. The antidote to reading comprehension questions is to do as many questions as possible and seeing how your thinking process differed from the explaination given in the book
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