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[shechoselove]

Does anyone have any "tried-and-true" tips for conquering the GRE's Reading Comprehension questions? I have a degree in English, so I'd like to think I'm pretty good at drawing from what I've read. My issue here is that my eyes tend to glaze over while reading (or even skimming) their excruciatingly boring passages, to the point where answering

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[ramen_rules]

Read academic journal articles and nonfiction. Practice reading difficult material and grasping their meanings. Perhaps use your scratch paper for notes?

[vision_divine90]

Thus far, the only think I've done to prepare for the "English" part of the GRE is memorizing vocab words.
Today, I just got the Princeton Review's cracking the New GRE (Is it any help?)
All I've done was flip through a different book which regarded the reading comprehnsion. I found it to be rather good...Called 'Manhatten Prep,' they have 8 books. I have all 8, but one 'book' specializes solely in reading comprehension; maybe you can just buy that?
Lots of luck studying!! =)

[royalewcheeze]

practice, practice, practice. take as many practice tests as you can. I struggled with that the first time I took it, too, but with practice I was able to kind of focus. the test taking strategies help too; the way they show you to parse the answers was helpful for me. I used Princeton Review and Kaplan.

[thegeneralx]

As an English person, I found a lot of the reading comprehension questions to be counter-intuitive. I suggest that you not approach the reading passages like you normally would as a trained close reader because finding subtle nuances in the passages will only lose you points. Read the right bits of the prep books and then do a lot of practice tests, actually checking the questions you missed to see how your answer was "wrong" (do this timed!).

[cosmicwonder]

I was an English major, and yes, it will not help you with the GRE verbal.

Rather, what I did find helpful was to look at the questions being asked about the reading before reading the passage. That helped me read the passage more actively instead of skimming. I haven't taken the GRE in more than 3 years, but I think you only see one question at a time, but you can still look at that one question before reading the passage.

I practiced for this part of the GRE by getting a GRE practice book that only contained previously administered tests by the ETS and going through those reading comprehension tests. That helped me hone my skills for this part of the test.