Reading Comprehension: Main Purpose, Inference [+4 Worked RC questions] - GRE, GMAT and other exams!
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2019
- This video covers my best tips for picking the right answer for 'main purpose' and 'inference questions on the GRE and GMAT.
My main advice/strategy for RC main purpose questions is to pick the broadest answer, while for inference, we need proof that would fit a court of law.
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THIS IS GOLD!
Absolute peach of a video.
But I messed up the last two questions.😕
Now we know the right way to solve RCs.
Too strong, too narrow and misinterpreted options are the WRONG ones.
Thanks a ton Sir and surely you’ll get thousands of more subscribers in the future!
What a wonderful comment! My favourite.
I got 4/4 correct following your instructions. You're a champ. Keep 'em coming. There's a guy GregMat, teaching online... I think you should do too.
Maybe!
Pure gold! There is a calmness in your voice that makes me want to watch your videos over and over.!
Such a concise and clear video on deriving inference. Thank you so much for this and your video on assumptions!
Your way of representation makes everything so easy. Thank you 😊
Philip!
Thank you very much for your time and the fact that you are sharing your problem-solving approaches with us.👍
OMG, thanks man. I got all of them right after I used the way of thinking that you told at the start. This is really good
Thank you so much for helping us. This is reassuring to see that this is possible to read slowly. I'm a french speaker and I always tried to read fast because of time, but I did not understand nor memorize anything. Now I'm implementing your methods and that is much better! I take time to read slowly and I get my answers correct! Thank you so so much! :D
Thank you for making reading comprehension questions a piece of cake. There are still some questions in which I am able to break it down to two options, but always end up choosing the incorrect one. I hope you can help me solve this problem. Thank you for your efforts.
You nailed this one dead center!!! You’re a genius!!!
I am far from taking a GRE test, but I am hooked on to this series because of you. Wonderful teaching. Your series is enticing me to take GRE test again just for the fun of it 😄
Such a helpful video, I feel 1,000% more confident in passages now. 🎉
Tip number 1 was worth watching this video alone. Now on to the rest. Thank you!
Great video mate, Keep up the good work , Absolutely loved the way you explained and clear all my doubts , Thank you
I was a student who was very weak in verbal but after watching this video, it really helped me how to solve RC passages and you exactly pointed out the mistakes that I usually do. I'm worried why I didn't watch this earlier not before 4days of my GRE
Hands down!! What a wonderful explanation.
Was anxiously waiting for this. Helped a lot. Thank you 😎
Thanks so much abbhijith
Got confidence to solve RC by seeing your videos and applying the tricks you gave.
excellent explanation !!thank you!!! you are right, reading slowly is the trick
This is truly marvelous way to solving. Thanks a lot. ❤
This helps a lot! For the first time I was able to answer all the 4 correctly
This is so useful. Looking forward to taking my score to a higher level thanks to you sir!
Thank you so much sir! This video was really helpful. You are a legend and your explanation is fabulous. This channel is so underrated and I really wonder how come you have so less subscribers? Keep growing and may god bless you!
wow. reading this slowly actually helped me see the extra info to condense this down even further, helping me understand what i read even more and the questions became second nature! THANK YOU!!
Excellent!
I really love the content, tips, and strategy discussed here. keep doing 😊
Hey!! Thank you so much. This helped me improve a lot and also helped increase my solving speed.
Awesome explanations. Thank you!
All your videos are so precision and precious! They are just wau too much help. Thank you so much! They are some of the best I have watched with perfect tips!
Thank you so much for commenting Swaroopa. I am really glad they helped. Let me know if there are other topics I can cover, have just been a bit ill recently.
@@TheTestedTutor could you please make a video on the TRAPS that are present in GRE questions and how not be distracted by them? (Verbal and quant)
I am really anxious about the verbal section on the GRE, my strategy so far has been to nail the 10 questions from SE and TC in each section and try to solve the RCs as accurately as possible. This lands me in 15/20 score territory which is pretty good. Thanks for the super helpful video Philip!
Thank you, Philip! You're fantastic
Thank you!
Nice, clear instructions and it's super helpful you going over a RC passage in this manner. We would love to see a couple more examples to hammer the message home :)
Thank you for your comments Danya - you will get plenty more examples. :)
Thanks for your incredible lesson.
Thank you so much for posting these videos.
RCs were really getting on my nerves.
Great stuff. Is really helpful your detailed explanations on such broad topics!
Glad it was helpful Jorge!
If this video works out for me on my GRE, when I come to the states, I will find you(Liam Neeson style) and I will take you out on a treat, 'cause this video is Golden! The tips are so useful.
Haha nice
You are the best teacher ever for english atleast for me! Thanks a lot😊😇 may this universe bless u!🙏
Wow, thank you Shristy!
Great work!! Kudos
Messed up the last one but such a helpful video 🙏🏻
Thank you so much for your videos, especially your reading comprehension and sentence completion. They helped me do very well on the GRE with very little practice!
Great to hear Ananth!
Thank you for the clear explanation!
You bet Yeshashree!
You are the best GRE teacher, nou doubt!
Thank you Ana! 😃
thanx for help computer syntax makes more sense to me then human syntax so these vids have been helping alot ty so much
very helpful, thank you!
I do common mistakes sometimes and it's really silly. I hope I'll overcome that through practice but it really annoys me. Thankyou so much for these videos. It's really helpful.
Very helpful, thanks alot!!!!!!
Many Thanks for helping !
Thanks Vineet!
So helpful!
You explain so well☺️
your method is really good please make more videos on same topics👍
Emotional engagement with the text and constant summarization are the two things I have to get in my dna
Great video. Keep posting!
Thank you, I will Himanshu!
A thing that REALLY is to note for most of the people is that it may seem like too slow of a reading, but the timing is not that bad. That is why most of them at the gmatclub suggests READ SLOW. We assume that we are already reading slow to have timed such bad, but actually we are reading the same sentences over and over again. Thanks, man.
Exactly, Puneet
Thanks a lot, this passage was difficult but u made it look easy
Glad to hear that Ibironke
love this
thanks for your wonderful video. Most of the time I forgot the line when I moving forward in the passage.
Me too! We need the techniques...
Thank you.
Thank You so much sir !!!
Helped me alot...
Great to hear Ajay!
Nice Explanation....You are a gem...
Thanks Rasheed!
Thank you 👍
You're a saint!
Thanks so much for the support Mayank!
Great video sir, really helped a lot.keep going👍 ..lots of respect
Thank you, I will
love your videos! keep it up!
Thank you so much!!
Thank you
you are a PRO
thx, it helps me a alot
You are the best!
I am? Wow!
1.4k subs and already your video and audio quality is great!
Futureproofing your content eh?
Thanks Gnome, though it could definitely be better! I have a huge microphone but do like standing.
I have my exam in 16 days, and i got your channel...your videos are really helpful, let's see how much I will get in gre
Hey when is ur exam actually....mine is on 1st july
Thanks for this video. I am preparing for GRE and your videos are very helpful.
Could you also make a video on the RC questions where one or two sentences are highlighted and they ask the relation of those sentences. e.g. first is the topic of the passage and second is the conclusion. Or first mentions general concept and second refutes it.
I get these questions wrong many of the times.
It would be helpful if you could make a video dedicated to this. Thanks in advance! 🙏
This is helpful, how to decode a logical context more easily? Sometimes after half of the passage reading I find myself blank, what should I do to mitigate it?
GOLD!
Thank you.
Could you please make a video on how you take a gre exam. I mean an outline on how you go through the questions. Which question you attack first and how you manage the time and maintain good spirit during the exam.
Maintaining good spirit. Great point!
Wow great video sir. enjoyed it a lot
Thanks nischal
Thank you :D
Hi, how to differentiate between confusing phrases in questions such as explains/supports/gives examples of/questions etc?
That would take a long reply! Is your exam soon? I would have to do a video on each!
Thank you very much
No worries
Hope to become expert just like you
Hi Philip, when can I expect a video on normal distribution? Great video anyways!
In 5 minutes
Thankyou for wonderful content, Any suggestions for practice materials on GRE verbal?
GMAT Critical reasoning and RC content is actually really helpful if you run out of official GRE material.
Thanks!
10:10 On Q1, was confused between C and E but I chose E because I thought that throughout the whole text he has shown that there are similarities, despite the fact that there are some notable differences. By 'fundamentally' I thought I could ignore those differences and go with E. I cancelled C because he says at the very end that it merits more studies by scholars but was that the main point?
Reductionistic beautifully :)..........
Congratulations on building this community! Impressive stuff.
I have my GRE in 5 days and I am struggling with timing on the RC. Could you please give me an estimate on how long should I ideally spend on a long GRE passage? I am currently scoring in the range of 157-158 in V, getting 4/10 RC questions correct, though if I had more time, I think I could get more! Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
Instead of focussing on the overall time taken for RC, instead try to reallocate the time by investing more in understanding the passage and less on answering the questions. 8 questions answered properly is better than 10 rushed. Thank you for the comments on the community, I hope you stay part of it as it branches out.
@@TheTestedTutor Thanks mate! I'll try that.
Definitely.. All the best to you 😊
Main purpose - answer is a broad theme, eliminate narrow ones
Inference - proof(hand of God) from passage - binary
Oh damn! u deserve a lot many subscribers than you have nevermind one day certainly it will reach millions all the very best :)
Hi I'm preparing for CLAT exam, India, I'm facing lot of difficulties in RCs I really owe you for this video make more videos
Two questions I have
1) Please suggest me how to reduce negatives and get a cent percent score in reading comprehension and critical reasoning
(passage based)?
2) few best non fiction novels essays name which I can read?
Thank you sir thankyou infinite times for these videos.
Hey, thank you so much. I loved reading Sapiens by Harari.
@@TheTestedTutor oh great! Thanks will give it a read certainly :)😊
Hi This video is great. These tips are great. I am preparing for GRE. Please suggest RC passages book or online documents for RC , Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence.
Have you tried GMAT RC resources? They are perfectly relevant! Thank you for the comment.
@@TheTestedTutor Thanks for replying so quickly. I did not try GMAT RC resources. I will check.
Hey!
Awesome video 😄
quick question, I'm about two weeks off from my scheduled GRE exam, out of the GMAT RC sources and the old GRE book, which, in your opinion, would be the better option?
GMAT RC definitely, very similar
The Tested Tutor - thank you!
any suggested source?
I got 4/4. For the 3rd question I was confused between A and B though.
Is it possible to apply the same trick for all inference based passages sir? I do well in main purpose. Very bad in inference based questions. How many passages or days do we need to master in inference?
Primary purpose vs main purpose of the passage, is there any difference?
where is the proof in the passage for the inference question ? can't find it. Could you please help me locate this evidence in the passage ?
Hey ready for RUclips silver button
I need about 10 viral videos for that. Spread the word!
please if a question ask for main purpose in a paragraph are we to go broad or specific
Broad for that paragraph
Hi I am doing sat prep and please do help in detail for comprehensive reading...I saw yr video but still I need help
Will do more
Hello , i have been doing Reading comprehension , since a while now . Not ashamed to admit i have done more than 60 passages and still find it tough to get an accuracy of more than 65 % . I am unable to understand how to improve. everytime i attempt a question , i make some new mistake . I try not to get disheartened , but my patience has reached a threshold . Any suggestions?
Hey! I really find your videos helpful. But my reading comprehension score is 60-65%.. Please give me some advise how to improve it. Thank you
Reading relentlessly, resources such as NYT, Guardian helps longer term. Or just work on reading slower and more thoroughly
Can you please make a lengthy reading comprehension video covering difficult topics (like literature) from 5lb manhattan book. I find them difficult to understand. Please help.
4:19 my bookmark
So I was getting a consistent 167-168 in quants on my mocks including the official ones, but somehow ended up with 160 on the actual test. Any suggestions for preparing for my second attempt?
Other than completing a minimum 10-12 practice tests to develop stamina then no, just accept there will be variance on the day. Definitely do it another 1-2 times.
do you nee more than 160?
What do you reckon is an appropriate time limit that I could set myself with while solving one of these long passages? (5 - 6 minutes perhaps?)
P.S: Great video, I have watched all your videos and they have helped me greatly!
Thank you so much Nandan. I think 4-5 minutes is maybe more appropriate for a long passage. Engaging critically but not too slow.
how much time at maximum can we allocate for a long passage on the test?10/15 minutes for a single passage?
If you include answering 4 questions then yeah 10 mins if needed