GMAT RC Question

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Uri: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 229; Joined: Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:56 am; Thanked: 8 times; GMAT Score:700

by Uri » Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:53 am

Can we know beforehand how many questions a RC passage in GMAT will contain? Is there any indication on the screen during the RC passage or before the passage appears?

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peddisetty: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 25; Joined: Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:57 am; Location: Minneapolis; Thanked: 1 times

You can predict

by peddisetty » Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:31 pm

Hi Uri,
No you cannot simply know how many questions there are for a passage. However, you can predict closely, as no of questions is directly proportional to the length of the passage.

Thanks,
Raj Peddisetty

Raj Peddisetty

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Uri: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 229; Joined: Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:56 am; Thanked: 8 times; GMAT Score:700

by Uri » Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:07 pm

Thanks Raj!

But do we ever get more than 4 questions on a passage? In OG and in the books of Kaplan and MGMAT, we sometimes get passages with 7 questions too. Can anybody tell if that is also the case with GMAT?

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by lav » Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:09 am

I also wanted to know if we can read all questions before the passage
I know that this is not recommened but is this possible ?If i skip ques of RC ( not skip whole of RC ) and come back to it later after going through all the questions

Kid in Verbal

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Uri: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 229; Joined: Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:56 am; Thanked: 8 times; GMAT Score:700

by Uri » Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:28 pm

you'll not be able to read all the questions without attempting any of them. that is for sure.

but what i want to know is whether we can know how many questions are there for a particular passage. knowing the no. of qns would help us to manage time properly.

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anishprabhu: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 46; Joined: Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:09 pm; Thanked: 1 times; GMAT Score:720

by anishprabhu » Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:55 am

You will know how many questions are there for a particular RC.

The passage would state questions 6-10 or something along those lines indicating the number of questions.

This helps in time management.

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Uri: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 229; Joined: Tue Jan 13, 2009 6:56 am; Thanked: 8 times; GMAT Score:700

by Uri » Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:03 am

anishprabhu wrote:You will know how many questions are there for a particular RC.

The passage would state questions 6-10 or something along those lines indicating the number of questions.

This helps in time management.

that would be great! but i have never seen this message in any of the practice tests by GMAT Prep/ MGMAT/ Kaplan. Can you please confirm whether this instruction is also available in those practice tests and that I have missed? Or whether this information is available only in the actual GMAT?

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by ketkoag » Sun Apr 19, 2009 6:59 am

i think the indications and the line numbers are not there in the new version of GMATprep, they were there in the older versions.

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