Science Passage Articles
Executive Assessment: Verbal Strategies – Part 6
Welcome to the sixth and final installment of Verbal Strategies for the EA! If you’re just joining us now, I suggest going back to the first part and proceeding from [...]
Executive Assessment: Verbal Strategies – Part 5
Welcome to the fifth installment of Verbal Strategies for the EA! If you’re just joining us now, you may want to head back the first part and proceed from there [...]
The GMAT Official Guide 2018 Edition – Part 3
The new Official Guide (OG) books have landed and I’ve got the scoop for you! (If you’d like, you can start with the first installment of this article series.) Today’s [...]
GMATPrep Reading Comp: Review Your Work - Part 6
We’re done! Phew! That was a complicated passage and those questions got pretty tricky at times. (If you’re just joining us for the first time now, follow this link back to [...]
How to Improve Your GMAT Reading Comprehension Skills
I’ve had multiple conversations recently with different students about how to improve Reading Comprehension (RC) skills, and each person had a somewhat different angle or issue going on. I realized, [...]
GMATPrep Reading Comp: Tackling a Science Passage - Part 3
In the first installment of this series, I gave you a Science RC passage and three problems from the GMATPrep® free exams. If you’re just starting here, go through parts [...]
GMATPrep Reading Comp: Tackling a Science Passage - Part 2
In the first installment of this series , we deconstructed a science-based Reading Comprehension passage from the GMATPrep® free exams. I gave you the full passage plus three problems, and [...]
GMATPrep Reading Comp: Tackling a Science Passage - Part 1
Science topics on the GMAT can be hard to process. Let’s face it, some of these topics are pretty tedious in addition to pretty technical. How to get past that and [...]
Meteor Streams: Inference on GMAT Reading Comprehension
We’re up to the very last question in the series on the Meteor Stream passage from the free set of practice questions that comes with the GMATPrep® software. If you haven’t [...]
Find the Detail on GMAT Reading Comprehension
I’ve got another installment for you in the series on the Meteor Stream passage from the free set of practice questions that comes with the GMATPrep® software. This post contains the [...]
Find the Assumption on GMAT Reading Comprehension
A couple of years ago, I wrote a small series on the Meteor Stream passage from the free set of practice questions that comes with the GMATPrep® software. A student [...]
Get Ready to Rumble: GMAT RC Start to Finish - Part 1
We’ve done a lot of RC over the years, but a passage contains so much text that I rarely do a full passage with all of its questions. We’re going to [...]
Reading Comprehension is Like Speed Dating
Imagine two friends, Gina and Tina, who are going to a speed-dating event. Gina really, really wants a boyfriend. Tina is just going because Gina dragged her there, and she’s [...]
Why Does It Say This? The Meteor Stream Passage
Originally, I was only planning to do one question from the Meteor Stream passage. But this one is so much fun, I figured why not? Yes, I’m being sarcastic. I don’t [...]
How to Read Tough Science Passages
In the past, we’ve done some “one-off” review of parts of RC passages, but this time I’ve got a full one for you. In this article, we’ll look at how to [...]
What NOT to Read on RC Passages
It’s kind of ironic that, in order to do a great job on RC, we actually have to learn what NOT to read. You may already have read an earlier [...]
Grockit GMAT and MBA Admissions Course: Lesson 8, Part 1 – Verbal Critical Reasoning
We’re making sections of Grockit’s GMAT Course available to stream online for free! The course is taught by Grockit Founder Farb Nivi and covers the entire GMAT curriculum in 16 [...]
Thursdays With Ron - The Main Idea of a Reading Comprehension Passage
Every other Thursday, our instructor Ron Purewal (known on the Beat The GMAT forums as lunarpower ) hosts a free study hall session, called Thursdays with Ron , where anyone [...]
Grockit GMAT and MBA Admissions Course: Lesson 4, Part 1 – Quant Number Properties and Operations
We’re making sections of Grockit’s GMAT Course available to stream online for free! The course is taught by Grockit Founder Farb Nivi and covers the entire GMAT curriculum in 16 [...]
Grockit GMAT and MBA Admissions Course: Lesson 3, Part 2 – Reading Comprehension
We’re making sections of Grockit’s GMAT Course available to stream online for free! The course is taught by Grockit Founder Farb Nivi and covers the entire GMAT curriculum in 16 [...]
Beat The GMAT Team's Featured Posts for 2010 - Reading Comprehension
2010 has been a special year for the Beat The GMAT community. This fall we celebrated our 100,000 th member and this important milestone reminded us all that we are, [...]
How to Break Down a Science Reading Comprehension Passage
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULZuU9WcYM0[/youtube] On Friday August 20, famed Beat The GMAT member Dana Jinaru ( DanaJ ) held a live workshop on tackling one of the toughest problems on the GMAT, Reading [...]