Online Lesson: GMAT Reading Comprehension Question Types

Get tutoring from Erika or another PrepScholar GMAT expert: https://goo.gl/NMHV5H Find out more about our online program: https://goo.gl/vxdiZf Check out our blog: https://goo.gl/nUDVzV In "Online Lesson: GMAT Reading Comprehension Question Types", Erika John from PrepScholar GMAT discusses the different types of Reading Comprehension GMAT questions you'll see on test day, how to recognize them, and how to approach each one. We can break down Reading Comprehension GMAT questions into "quick" and "not so quick" questions. The "quick" questions are ones we should be able to answer based on our initial skim of the passage — we often think of them as "general" questions. These include Main Idea, Logical Structure, and Perspective questions. "Not so quick" Reading Comprehension GMAT questions, on the other hand, require test takers to recall specific details from the text or to extrapolate information that isn't explicitly stated in the passage. These questions should not be addressed by an initial skim, and require us to take additional time to look back through the passage. They include Supporting Idea, Inference, and Application questions. So how do we know which questions belong to which of the GMAT Reading Comprehension question types? Each question type asks for something specific, and typically asks for it using certain words and phrases exclusive to that question type. If we know which clues to look for in the question stem and answer choices, we can determine how to approach and how much time to spend on each of the GMAT Reading Comprehension questions we see on test day. Watch the video to learn how to identify each of the GMAT Reading Comprehension question types!