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by [email protected] » Wed Aug 17, 2011 2:16 am
Dear All,

I will be writing GMAT next month. Although I prepared for 3 months and tried to solve OG and went through the MGMAT Reading Comprehension guide, I am always making mistakes in "Main Idea" and "Tone" questions :?. I am not sure what's wrong and how can I improve this?
Need your expert opinion that how may I come over of this situation?

Please help me.
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by sunnyjohn » Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:11 am
For Main Idea -

Consider each paragraph a dot and connects all dots.

> Read few lines of first paragraph until you get a context of the subject.
> Read first line of second paragraph and see how it is connected to subject. For example - Explain in detail a part of subject, giving example of subject, explaining a counter argument of subject etc.
> Repeat the second step for all the others paragraph.

For Tone -
See how many views (including author's view) in the RC and how they are related to main idea. you will get the idea of tone by related author's view to subject.
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by [email protected] » Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:19 am
Thank you Sunny. I will try to apply as you suggested and shall keep you posted.

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by sunnyjohn » Wed Aug 17, 2011 6:27 pm
Hi Arun,

If you want you can post some RC here (One by One) and we can discuss.

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by Brent@GMATPrepNow » Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:39 am
To get good at Main Idea questions, be sure to know the 4 most common passage themes (Different perspectives, The fix, The explanation and The prediction)
The sooner you can identify the passage theme, the sooner you can identify the main idea (this is covered in lesson #6 in my free set of Reading Comprehension videos: https://www.gmatprepnow.com/module/gmat- ... prehension)

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by [email protected] » Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:44 pm
Thanks Guys for reply. I scored 660 (Q-48 and V-32) and 5 in Essay. Brent, I scored 5 in essay after going through the podcast for essay by GMATPrep, I am very much thankful to you guys.
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by Brent@GMATPrepNow » Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:09 pm
[email protected] wrote:Brent, I scored 5 in essay after going through the podcast for essay by GMATPrep
Good to hear, Arun.

For those of you who might be interested, Arun is referring to my series of free videos for AWA: https://www.gmatprepnow.com/module/gmat- ... assessment

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by viv09 » Wed Sep 28, 2011 7:35 pm
Hi Brent,

I am not able to access the video link.

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by runthegmat » Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:45 pm
Whoa! Thanks Brent for those 4 types of passage themes. Will try to implement them and let you know whether I could identify the passage theme.
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by viv09 » Fri Sep 30, 2011 1:48 pm
Hi Brent, It is working fine now.. Thanks
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