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by Osirus@VeritasPrep » Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:10 am
In a question that asks "the author would most likely agree with" how do you find the answer if the author does not directly state anything in the answer choice? Is it ever appropriate to use information from a quote that the author provided and assume that he included the quote because he agrees with the sentiments?
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by hrishi19884 » Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:50 am
osirus0830 wrote:In a question that asks "the author would most likely agree with" how do you find the answer if the author does not directly state anything in the answer choice? Is it ever appropriate to use information from a quote that the author provided and assume that he included the quote because he agrees with the sentiments?
First of all, thanks for coming up with such nice questions.

I think, once we find the main idea of the passage, we should look for the words like - "however" , "but" , "even though"

"although", "in my view" ...bla ...bla...bla..

and try to find out from that words, if the tone in the passage(author's inclination) is supportive to the idea or opposing to it.

Sometimes what happens is -- in the whole passage author is positive about the main idea and appreciate it's causes,
but when we see the ending para or few lines - author concludes that though efforts to succeed(main idea) are very progressive, it would prove to be little better(effortless) in the end.

Now, here comes the PAIN --- as author negates in the last line...if we forgot to read the conclusion, we are gone!

So see to it that ----1) you find those word that I said above
2) look at the few initial( opening) lines of passage.
3) look at the conclusion(supports or opposes by the author)

Also, while selecting options, don't forget to see if the option you re selecting is relevant to the idea of passage or not. It may not be directly inferred from passage ...but should relate to the main idea of passage.
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by Osirus@VeritasPrep » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:44 am
Thanks for that. I appreciate it. What source did you use for Reading Comp?
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by hrishi19884 » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:57 am
osirus0830 wrote:Thanks for that. I appreciate it. What source did you use for Reading Comp?
Frankly speaking, I am really weak in RC( weaker than you). I used to solve questions from Grockit and 3 OG's. But that didn't helped me much. Then I started reading "I just beat the GMAT" and read various strategies for RC from the top scorer people. But believe me, their strategies are working wonderful for me. Especially read the debriefs from DanaJ, Logitech, Cramya, stop@800, parallel chase...and few others. They have mentioned some amazing techniques to tackle such RC questions.
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