By Vince Kotchian. Full-time GRE tutor since 2007, author of Barron's 6 GRE Practice Tests, three perfect 170 verbal scores on the real GRE, and moderator of r/GRE.
The biggest lesson I teach people about GRE reading comprehension is simple: don't spend a lot of time reading the passage at first. But what DO you want to get out of a passage if you're not going to read it carefully? In this video, Vince explains the key to understanding the purpose of a passage, so you can read more efficiently and effectively.
Bonus: this skill works for reading in real life, too!
Pro tip: After you check out this video, it's important to calibrate your understanding of reading comprehension questions by practicing with the official ETS GRE prep books, as well as the ETS Big Book (the old PDF with 27 tests).
For a page-by-page list of every question type in the ETS Verbal Practice book, see GRE Reading Comprehension Question Types.
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