Reading Comprehension GMAT Strategy Guide Updated Edition

1. INTRODUCTION TO PRINCIPLES
Logistics of Reading Comprehension, Challenges, Two Extremes and a Balanced Approach, Engaging the Passage, Recruiting for Your Working Memory, Looking for the Simple Story, Linking to What You Already Know, Unpacking, Linking to What You Have Just Read, Signals, Picking Up the Pace, Practicing on Non-GMAT Material

2. COMPONENTS OF PASSAGES
The Point, Background, Support, Implications, Foreshadowing

3. SHORT PASSAGES
Positive vs. Negative Scenarios, The Headline List, Common Notations, Using Your Headline List, Timing Guidelines, Common Structures, Model Short Passages and Headline Lists

4. LONG PASSAGES
The Skeletal Sketch, Using Your Skeletal Sketch, Timing Guidelines, Common Structures, Model Long Passages and Skeletal Sketches

5. THE SEVEN STRATEGIES
Scoring System, Key Word Matching, Proof Sentences, Word Justification, Extreme Word Avoidance, Limiting Inferences, Previewing

6. QUESTION ANALYSIS
Question Type Analysis, Types of Wrong Answer Choices, Model Passages Revisited, Model Questions and Answers

7. PASSAGES & PROBLEM SETS
Seven Sample Passages, 35 Sample Problems, Explanations