jlee306 Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 I am retaking the GRE this Wednesday (the 21st) and I need advice on the reading comprehension portion. I know what you may be thinking: "That is the easiest part of the verbal because the answers are practically given to you." Well, it is not so easy for me. I am a slow reader and I think that maybe I stress out that I am wasting so much time reading that I am not even paying attention to what I am reading. Any tips or advice on how to do well on this section would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you! tarski 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesethunder Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 i forgot when i took it that there is a highlighting tool. i find the reading comp really hard/ scary. when i wrote the test the 1st time i had 3 reading comp articles for my last sets of questions and i had no time to read/answer them! when i did it the 2nd time on my scratch paper i wrote the topic, what about the topic it was addressing, and a key point for each paragraph so i could make an easy reference to where each argument was coming from the hardest questions i thought were the ones that asked you what would the next sentence be for the last question, they all sounded good to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlee306 Posted October 18, 2009 Author Share Posted October 18, 2009 i forgot when i took it that there is a highlighting tool. i find the reading comp really hard/ scary. when i wrote the test the 1st time i had 3 reading comp articles for my last sets of questions and i had no time to read/answer them! when i did it the 2nd time on my scratch paper i wrote the topic, what about the topic it was addressing, and a key point for each paragraph so i could make an easy reference to where each argument was coming from the hardest questions i thought were the ones that asked you what would the next sentence be for the last question, they all sounded good to me! Ohhhh, good tips. I didn't even know about the highlighting thing. That would definatly come in handy! Also, writing the topic and stuff down for each paragraph is also really good advice. Thank you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socialcomm Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Also, just practice as many as you can before test day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a fragrant plant Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 how to highlight paragraph/sentence during the test? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlee306 Posted October 19, 2009 Author Share Posted October 19, 2009 Also, just practice as many as you can before test day. Will do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peppermint.beatnik Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 The Kaplan test prep method really helped me. Practice (on computer, not paper) helps too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pea-jay Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 I signed up with 800score.com (it was cheap) and went through their reading comp lessons and found their suggestions kinda unworkable. The suggest way too much writing down as you read and that is time consuming. So for this and the math part I signed up with princeton review online to get a better feel for this section. As for reading speed, I'm a pretty fast reader but that isnt much better cos i'll miss the teeny tiny details ETS will ask on some questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziz Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 I would just add that I found the Princeton Review's tips helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlee306 Posted October 24, 2009 Author Share Posted October 24, 2009 how to highlight paragraph/sentence during the test? By the way, when I took the test on Wednesday, there was no highlighting feature. I looked it up in my study book the day before and it also said nothing about being able to highlight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a fragrant plant Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 By the way, when I took the test on Wednesday, there was no highlighting feature. I looked it up in my study book the day before and it also said nothing about being able to highlight. i know they're going to add the highlighting feature in the future but when i took it in august there was no hightlighting feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColorlessGreen Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 I think that usually, the most important thing about reading comprehension is time management. I don't know how you've been doing it, but I would suggest that you NOT read the passage before reading the questions. It wastes quite a bit of time, since the passage they give you will usually be about something you have no experience with, so you won't retain the information well enough for it to be helpful. Read the question, then search for the answer in the passage. Just be sure that you double-check the context to be sure it's right. It's different for every person, but I find that this is the easiest way for me to deal with reading comprehension passages. Practice with reading for content is also extremely important, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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