Reading Comprehension

In the GMAT TODAY about how many questions are there per passage in the RC section, assuming my target score is really high?

Currently in doing the OG problems I typically see a long passage with between 5 and 8 questions. I spend about 4 minutes reading the passage (high) but only about a minute on each question (low). For a 5 question set that's about 9 minutes total with an average under 2 minutes which is good.

But if there are a lot of long passages with only 3 questions that method puts me long on time. I think I saw somewhere else that it was said current GMAT RC questions fall into this category.

Any insight on this?

ldoolitt wrote:In the GMAT TODAY about how many questions are there per passage in the RC section, assuming my target score is really high?

Mostly 2 Long passage and 2 Sort.

In Long passage 4 Que / passage & in sort 3 Que / passage.

But this is general trend, it might differ in some cases.

Target2009 wrote:

ldoolitt wrote:In the GMAT TODAY about how many questions are there per passage in the RC section, assuming my target score is really high?

Mostly 2 Long passage and 2 Sort.

In Long passage 4 Que / passage & in sort 3 Que / passage.

But this is general trend, it might differ in some cases.

So why in the world does the OG present like 8 questions per passage? Not that I'm arguing, I just wonder why.

I think I'm just going to practice by doing the first 4 questions for each passage, for all the problems. Then come back when I don't remember the passage anymore and do the last couple.

ldoolitt wrote: So why in the world does the OG present like 8 questions per passage? Not that I'm arguing, I just wonder why.

I think I'm just going to practice by doing the first 4 questions for each passage, for all the problems. Then come back when I don't remember the passage anymore and do the last couple.

That is because OG contain Retired GMAT question. And on any given Passage GMAC prepare Some different difficulty questions. 3 to 4 of them appeared depending on your performance in GMAT. Now since Passage got retire and appeared in OG, GMAC provide all those question for practice. You can still opt to solve 3-4 on first go and then when u reach at end come back and solve the rest.

Hope this helps.