Hello. I have been studying for the GMAT for a long time. I continue to struggle with reading comprehension. My scores vary all depending on these questions; when I guess well and get lucky on some questions its great but when I get these questions wrong its disastrous. My verbal scores on 8 tests have ranged from 34%-90%. I have a very short attention span which does not help my cause. I do my best to read difficult material (economist, Smithsonian , etc) but I still lose concentration and fail to capture the main ideas and details that are questioned on the test. I need to spend more time working with reading comprehension but I really dont know what is the best way to study. I get several questions wrong in a row which absolutely kills my score. With one of my MGMAT CAT test, I was in the 80% after 17 questions then got 11 questions wrong in a row to bring me down to 14%. I just did an OG Passage and set of questions and got all 5 wrong (all 300-600). This can be extremely difficult or impossible to recover from.
Whenever I get a difficult passage with scientific themes, I cannot grasp any of it and find myself guessing and hoping for the best. Beyond that and even with passages I feel that I can grasp, I really struggle with inference questions.
If you cannot understand the passage thats in front of you, how are you supposed to answer any type of question? You can be presented with a 400-500 level question and be totally lost.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can lengthen my attention span and improve my comprehension and accuracy with RC? I really want to improve. Thanks for your help & support and I will give kudos.![]()
Whenever I get a difficult passage with scientific themes, I cannot grasp any of it and find myself guessing and hoping for the best. Beyond that and even with passages I feel that I can grasp, I really struggle with inference questions.
If you cannot understand the passage thats in front of you, how are you supposed to answer any type of question? You can be presented with a 400-500 level question and be totally lost.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can lengthen my attention span and improve my comprehension and accuracy with RC? I really want to improve. Thanks for your help & support and I will give kudos.