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Science Passage Articles

Executive Assessment: Verbal Strategies – Part 6

by on Jan 9, 2018

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 [...]

Executive Assessment: Verbal Strategies – Part 5

by on Jan 1, 2018

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 GMAT Official Guide 2018 Edition – Part 3

by on Jul 5, 2017

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 [...]

GMATPrep Reading Comp: Review Your Work - Part 6

by on May 1, 2017

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 [...]

How to Improve Your GMAT Reading Comprehension Skills

by on Feb 16, 2017

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, [...]

GMATPrep Reading Comp: Tackling a Science Passage - Part 3

by on Dec 5, 2016

In the first installment of this series, I gave you a Science RC passage and three problems from the GMATPrep® free exams. If you’re just starting here, go through parts [...]

GMATPrep Reading Comp: Tackling a Science Passage - Part 2

by on Dec 4, 2016

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 [...]

GMATPrep Reading Comp: Tackling a Science Passage - Part 1

by on Nov 26, 2016

Science topics on the GMAT can be hard to process. Let’s face it, some of these topics are pretty tedious in addition to pretty technical. How to get past that and [...]

Meteor Streams: Inference on GMAT Reading Comprehension

by on Aug 27, 2015

We’re up to the very last question in the series on the Meteor Stream passage from the free set of practice questions that comes with the GMATPrep® software. If you haven’t [...]

Find the Detail on GMAT Reading Comprehension

by on Aug 19, 2015

I’ve got another installment for you in the series on the Meteor Stream passage from the free set of practice questions that comes with the GMATPrep® software. This post contains the [...]

Find the Assumption on GMAT Reading Comprehension

by on Aug 11, 2015

A couple of years ago, I wrote a small series on the Meteor Stream passage from the free set of practice questions that comes with the GMATPrep® software. A student [...]

Get Ready to Rumble: GMAT RC Start to Finish - Part 1

by on Sep 26, 2014

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 [...]

Reading Comprehension is Like Speed Dating

by on May 26, 2013

Imagine two friends, Gina and Tina, who are going to a speed-dating event. Gina really,  really  wants a boyfriend. Tina is just going because Gina dragged her there, and she’s [...]

Why Does It Say This? The Meteor Stream Passage

by on May 8, 2013

Originally, I was only planning to do one question from the Meteor Stream passage. But this one is so much fun, I figured why not? Yes, I’m being sarcastic. I don’t [...]

How to Read Tough Science Passages

by on Apr 21, 2013

In the past, we’ve done some “one-off” review of parts of RC passages, but this time I’ve got a full one for you. In this article, we’ll look at how to [...]

What NOT to Read on RC Passages

by on Feb 7, 2013

It’s kind of ironic that, in order to do a great job on RC, we actually have to learn what NOT to read. You may already have read an earlier [...]

Grockit GMAT and MBA Admissions Course: Lesson 8, Part 1 – Verbal Critical Reasoning

by on Jan 23, 2011

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

by Manhattan Prep on Jan 20, 2011

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 4, Part 1 – Quant Number Properties and Operations

by Manhattan Prep on Jan 4, 2011

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 2 – Reading Comprehension

by Manhattan Prep on Jan 1, 2011

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 [...]

Beat The GMAT Team's Featured Posts for 2010 - Reading Comprehension

by Beat The GMAT on Dec 26, 2010

2010 has been a special year for the Beat The GMAT community.  This fall we celebrated our 100,000 th member and this important milestone reminded us all that we are, [...]

How to Break Down a Science Reading Comprehension Passage

by Beat The GMAT on Aug 25, 2010

[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 [...]