VARC Crackers: Reading Comprehension Tips

 TIPS

(1) Note the time spent for each passage. 

- Consider the total time alotted (say 40 minutes). Ask yourself: what is your RC goal for the exam? Accordingly alot time (say need to do 3 RC in 18.30 minutes or 6.10 minutes average) and stick to it during mocks practice. 

(2) Check the QA first and go back to the RC. 

(3) While reading RC check what arguments are presented by writer OP. Are they:

- Presenting claims?

- Presenting statements? 

(4) RC are usually laying the following trap：

- Makes the test taker make their own new understanding from the information given in the question and mix that with writer OP's arguments. 

- That is, the questions are framed so that the test taker will create new arguments which were never there in the first place. 

EG- RC states:

(1) Y is pushing X to take a stance.

(2) X defies Y by banning (event) because of a scientific cause.

Questions asks: The (event) which Y banned would most likely result in? 

Trap: RC is talking about X defying Y first. Makes the user go back to statement 1 and think it is related to X and Y.

Solution: Answer however lies in (event) leading to (cause) that X does not want to partake in.

Make note of the traps, stick to the arguments given by the writer OP and only use that as an inference to answer the argument of the question.