How to "Improve" Reading Habit

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bobbyreddy: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 1; Joined: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:46 am

by bobbyreddy » Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:52 am

Hello Everyone,
Before I start with my GMAT preparation, I would like to know the best url where I can find topics to read so that I can spend daily 30 mins of my time to improve reading habit which would be useful for GMAT - RC section.

Waiting for reply!

Thanks,
bobby.

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by raunekk » Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:36 am

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follow tis... it might help..

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by raunekk » Tue Jun 03, 2008 5:49 am

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by Stacey Koprince » Wed Jul 30, 2008 5:37 pm

I just recently got an email from a fellow GMAT instructor whose opinion I respect very highly on this issue, so I want to share his research with you. I haven't looked into this myself, but I have no doubt that his findings are accurate - as I said, I respect his opinion very much.

After spending a couple of hours on this, I've found that the following sources are NOT as useful as one might suppose:

* NYTimes, the Economist, BBC - paragraphs are often too short, too easily digestible to be useful.
* New Yorker - many paragraphs lack a main point, because articles often feature chunks of meandering first-person narration
* New York Review of Books - some articles are very GMAT-like, but others are overly polemical on political issues and others have an overly informal tone (e.g. "Still, like all notable English novelists, he was a tricky bugger.")

The best sources I could find are a couple of alumni magazines and Scientific American. These describe scholarly research in relatively formal prose, with the aim of making the research intelligible to educated non-specialists:

* https://magazine.uchicago.edu/ - particularly articles in the "Investigations" tab
* https://harvardmagazine.com/
* https://sciam.com/ (This can get a bit too casual for the GMAT, but it's probably worth including because so many of our students get freaked out by science passages on the GMAT.)

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by raunekk » Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:05 pm

Thanks stacey...

The articles are quite similar to Gmat passages...

Thanks..

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by cryptic_loll » Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:48 pm

thank s a lot....

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by gunjan1208 » Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:48 pm

Hi Stacy,

I am losing lot of points on the Physics passages. Will the scientific american be of help? Is there any other source also that you know?

Thanks in Advance.

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