sharmasumitn1 wrote:i never put effort to see the relationships of the paragraphs. But, now as you pointed out that there has to be some sort of relationship in each paragraph with overall passage, i will explicitly try to get that.
go back and read these words (your words) again ... and note that this is
exactly how you read normal books, magazine articles, or whatever else.
you probably don't think *explicitly* about these relationships, but think about how weird it would be -- and how
bad the writing would be -- if the writing consisted of paragraphs that literally had nothing to do with each other. you wouldn't be able to follow anything! you'd just put away the book/magazine/whatever in disgust.
that's the thing that a lot of people don't realize here --
for the most part, the optimal way to read a GMAT passage is very similar to how you would browse a normal piece of reading!
you shouldn't treat GMAT passages as though they are "special" just because they are "academic" -- that kind of attitude is your enemy. instead, just read these things the way you
normally read things (NOTE: *not* things like technical journals, etc). if you do that, then you should
automatically start seeing main ideas and relationships, because that's exactly how people read things in the real world!
just remember this:
DO NOT read these passages as though they were "school" reading. DO read them as though they were "normal" reading.
if you can get this idea thoroughly into your head, then most of the resultant reading strategy will make perfect sense, instantly.
Ron has been teaching various standardized tests for 20 years.
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