Main Point Articles
GMATPrep Reading Comp: Tackling a History Passage - Part 4
Are you ready for your fourth question? We’ve been examining a History RC passage from the GMATPrep® free exams. If you’re just starting, go through the earlier installments first , then [...]
GMATPrep Reading Comp: Tackling a History Passage - Part 3
In the first installment of this series, we examined a History RC passage from the GMATPrep® free exams. If you’re just starting, go through part 1 and part 2 first, then [...]
GMATPrep Reading Comp: Tackling a History Passage - Part 1
Some people really like history-based Reading Comp passages—and others find them pretty boring. Either way, you’ll probably have at least one historical passage, so let’s talk about how to tackle [...]
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 [...]
Get Ready to Rumble: GMAT RC Start to Finish - Part 2
We’re continuing on with our full review of a GMATPrep® RC passage and all of its associated questions! ( Click here to read part 1.) Last time, we deconstructed the entire [...]
What to Read – and What Not to Read – on RC Passages
A student recently asked me to show an example of how I read and take notes on a reading comprehension passage. In this older article , I discussed how to [...]
Grockit GMAT and MBA Admissions Course: Lesson 7, Part 4 & 5 – Verbal 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 [...]
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 7, Part 2 – Verbal 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 [...]
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 4 – 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 [...]
Grockit GMAT and MBA Admissions Course: Lesson 3, Part 3 – 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 [...]
Thursdays With Ron: Short Reading Comprehension Passages
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 [...]
How To Tackle Main Idea Questions on Reading Comprehension
We’re continuing our recent RC theme and I have another student question for you: what’s the best way to tackle Main Idea or Primary Purpose questions? Reading the passage In [...]
Thursdays With Ron: Reading Comprehension - Finding the Point of the 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 [...]
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 [...]
How to Make Educated Guesses on Verbal
A few weeks ago, we talked about how to make educated guesses on quant (you can click here for that article). This week’s article covers educated guessing in verbal. What [...]
How To Find The Point in an RC Passage
Last week, a Beat The GMAT student asked me to write an article on finding “The Point” in a reading comprehension passage – specifically, what is The Point and how [...]