11 Websites for GRE Reading Comprehension Practice
Reading Comprehension (RC) section in GRE Verbal section is easy to tackle. If you get long boring passage as first 4 to 6 questions, then you are in for some tough Verbal section (score) ahead.
You can improve your GRE Reading Comprehension score by practice. If you have regular reading habits (Magazines, Novels, News Papers) your are very likely to get high score in GRE Verbal Section.
But, not everyone have reading habits, where can you find passages to practice for GRE RC section?
GRE Reading Comprehension passages would include topics you don’t read in text books.
So, you need to have skills to understand the main idea and attitude of the passage within a few hundred words. You can use following websites and blogs to practice reading comprehension for GRE Exam. As you read different articles, which are usually lengthy, you will
- get used to the format and style
- develop a reading style
- comprehend ides in less time
- relate similar ideas and form opinions
GRE Reading Comprehension Practice Sites
- www.fastcompany.com
- http://news.discovery.com
- www.washingtonpost.com
- www.smithsonianmag.com
- www.nytimes.com
- www.time.com
- www.businessweek.com
- http://online.wsj.com
- http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org
- www.theatlantic.com
- www.sciencemag.org
11 websites listed are U.S. based and you will get used to style of writing and language. Reading articles written for other countries will not be of much help. [GRE Reading Comprehension – Books]
How to practice Reading Comprehension
Not everyone reading this will spend will put in enough effort even to visit those sites. And visiting the sites few times will not improve your GRE Reading Comprehension score. You have to have develop regular reading habit.
Here is a action plan for you
- Subscribe to RSS Feeds using Google Reader from few ( or all) of the above listed sites. (If you don’t know how to use Google Reader, you better get used to it)
- Open Google Reader same time when you check your email
- Scan through the new articles published. Pick a topic and read entire article.
- Most of the articles will be related to U.S. Politics will be dry and boring to read, but you have to force yourself to read few such articles.
- Form a habit of reading articles atleast 10 to 20 minutes per day for 3 to 4 months.
- You will see considerable change in the way you solve GRE Reading Comprehension problems
Don’t expect to to see improvement within 1 week or 1 month. It takes time and dedication, if you don’t have natural ability to read passages, then you have to work hard to develop the skills. Also, While reading the articles, don’t read like you are reading a book for an exam.
If you are not used to reading magazines and websites, blogs and only used to reading (and/or memorizing) text book, then you are very likely to have tough time in GRE Verbal. So, by incorporating reading habits to your daily routine, you have better chance to improve your reading skills and lead to higher GRE Verbal Score.
The Google Reader no longer exists. Alternative for google reader can be Feedly:- https://feedly.com
There is this website called http://www.rcprep.com that i found on some preparation forums, and it has helped me in my preparation, it should help others to.
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I found the above link’s tip for RC helpful.
http://www.800score.com/gre-pages/GRE-Reading.pdf.
just have a look at it.hope it d be useful..
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Dear HSB,
Even The Economist is a good publication for GRE styled passages. And if any one reads The Indian Express, it has a page dedicated to articles from The Economist, so you can read along with the daily news.
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A genuine doubt.
I have 2months left like most other guys here because i am planning to give GRE in august end and i am just starting my preparation.
How on earth can someone read everything on these 11 sites.
And since its not feasible what exactly should one read in these sites.
There must be so many people who do not have interest in most of the stuff on these sites so it becomes a very tedious task to decide.
Kindly help!!!
There is no short cut for success. How can you say you have only 2 months to prepare like most other guys? What kind of data do you have to show everyone is studying only for 2 months? If you want to get high score, you have to plan accordingly. It can be 2 months or 2 years. If you want to more them then postpone GRE.
For a person planning to take up GRE, this piece of information is truly required and highly appreciated.I really liked the idea of a Google Reader.Thanks!
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hey thank you so much for providing dis websites ,this will surely help me out with all my queries…
thank you very much for providing the list of web sites related to GRE Comprehensive test. It will definately helps to reader for maximizing the GRE verbal score.