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 Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:52 am Post subject: How to "Improve" Reading Habit |
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Hello Everyone,
Before I start with my GMAT preparation, I would like to know the best url where I can find topics to read so that I can spend daily 30 mins of my time to improve reading habit which would be useful for GMAT - RC section.
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I just recently got an email from a fellow GMAT instructor whose opinion I respect very highly on this issue, so I want to share his research with you. I haven't looked into this myself, but I have no doubt that his findings are accurate - as I said, I respect his opinion very much.
| Quote: | After spending a couple of hours on this, I've found that the following sources are NOT as useful as one might suppose:
* NYTimes, the Economist, BBC - paragraphs are often too short, too easily digestible to be useful.
* New Yorker - many paragraphs lack a main point, because articles often feature chunks of meandering first-person narration
* New York Review of Books - some articles are very GMAT-like, but others are overly polemical on political issues and others have an overly informal tone (e.g. "Still, like all notable English novelists, he was a tricky bugger.")
The best sources I could find are a couple of alumni magazines and Scientific American. These describe scholarly research in relatively formal prose, with the aim of making the research intelligible to educated non-specialists:
* http://magazine.uchicago.edu/ - particularly articles in the "Investigations" tab
* http://harvardmagazine.com/
* http://sciam.com/ (This can get a bit too casual for the GMAT, but it's probably worth including because so many of our students get freaked out by science passages on the GMAT.)
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Thanks stacey...
The articles are quite similar to Gmat passages...
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