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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Welcome to the final installment of our series on tackling a tough Reading Comp passage from the GMATPrep® free exams! If you’re just joining us now, go all the way [...]

In the first installment of this series , we deconstructed a challenging Reading Comprehension passage from the GMATPrep® free exams. Pull up that page and keep it handy; it contains [...]

In the first installment of this series, we deconstructed a challenging Reading Comprehension passage from the GMATPrep® free exams. Pull up that page, as I’m not going to repeat the [...]

In the first installment of this series, we deconstructed a challenging Reading Comprehension passage from the GMATPrep® free exams. Pull up that page, as I’m not going to repeat the [...]

Halfway through a GMATPrep® free practice test, I hit the passage I’m going to discuss in this series—and I groaned aloud the second it appeared on the screen. Why? Here’s what [...]

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 [...]

Most Reading Comprehension questions are “what” questions. What is the primary purpose? Which of the following does the author claim when discussing…? It can be inferred that the author would [...]

// Thanks to everyone who tried Knewton's RC Challenge yesterday! For the answer and explanation, check out this video from our GMAT teacher Jess. If you haven't answered yet, the [...]

Last week the Knewton challenge question was an RC problem that over 50% of students miss. Ready for another tough question from the same tricky passage? Leave your answer in the [...]

// // // Thanks to everyone who tried yesterday's RC Challenge question ! Here's Jess, one of our GMAT instructors, with the answer and explanation. If you haven't had a [...]

Dense, technical passages can be especially tough on the GMAT. Here's an example of an RC question that over 50% of students miss. Try it out, leave your answer in the [...]