GRE Reading Comprehension made easy

Hey folks, was a bit busy! here i come up with the most sucking topic of all! I hate writing it, but just doing it so that you guys will never feel it in that way! During the first few days of my prep, my eyes had put on a default closing button upon reading 4 sentences! 

 I was never an avid reader on the PC, i loathed it. For Gre it was something inevitable and hence i had to! even you have to! It took a week for me to complete the non-interesting and worst article of my life! 
                       You don't get articles or comprehensive passages that are flavorless, boring, insipid, wimpy and so on. A few one's make you feel that hitting yourself with hammer is more comfortable than reading it! 

Look at the smile on his face! :) just kidding! anyways i wanna start off here!
I don't know if you believe something or not but i read a book just 4 days before my GRE (mind you my reading isn't that quick) to increase my reading speed! lol I agree it was crazy but things happen! 
                    Let's come to the point here:

• You must have already been familiar with the timing of GRE ain't that? So did you ever figure it out how much time does it take for each question! dear it costs a minute! Wow so you'll probably get around 7 to 9 questions from the 30 questions( i hope its the right figure) and around 7 to 9 minutes to answer 'em reading all! 
• So Probably you need around 400 words in a flash and answer 4 questions about in just 4 minutes :O, so are you ready for the challenge? Wanna do one here? Check your time, start it off!

An RC from Test magic Forums:

Historians have long thought that America was, from thebeginning, profoundly influenced by the Lockean notion of liberty, with its strong emphasis on individual rights and self-interest. Yet in his recent book, historian J. G. A. Pocock argues that early American culture was ac-tually rooted in the writings of Machiavelli, not Locke. The implications of this substitution are important: ifPocock's argument is right, then Americans may not be as deeply individualistic and capitalistic as many believe. Pocock argues that out of the writings of antiquity Machiavelli created a body of political thinking called “classical republicanism.” This body of thought revived the ancient belief that a human being was by nature a citizen who achieved moral fulfillment by participating in a self-governing republic. Liberty was interpreted as a condition that is realized when people are virtuous and are willing to sacrifice their individual interests for the sake of the community. To be the marketplace. The greatest enemy of virtue was commerce. This classical republican tradition is said byPocock to have shaped the ideology of America during the eighteenth century.Many events in early American history can be reinterpreted in light of Pocock's analysis. Jefferson is no longer seen as a progressive reader of Locke leading America into its individualistic future; instead Jefferson is understood as a figure obsessed with virtue and corruption and fearfulof new commercial developments. Influenced by Pocock, some historians have even argued that a communitarian and precapitalist mentality was pervasive among the eighteenth-century farmers of America. Yet Pocock's thesis and the reinterpretation of the history of eighteenth-century America engendered by it are of dubious validity. If Americans did believe in the ideals
of classical virtue that stressed civic duty and made the whole community greater than its discrete parts, then
why did the colonists lack a sense of obligation to support the greater good of the British Empire? If indeed America has not always been the society of individual rights and self-interest that it is today, how and when did it be come so? Classical republicanism is elitist, and it certainly had little to offer the important new social groups of artisans an shopkeepers that emerged in America during the eighteenth century. These middle-class radicals, for whom John Wilkes and Thomas Paine were spokesmen, had none of the independence from the market that the landed gentry had. They were less concerned with virtue and community than they were with equality and private rights. They hated political privilege and wanted freedom from an elite-dominated state. In short, the United States was created not in a mood of classical anxiety over virtue and corruption, but in a mood of liberal optimismover individual profits and prosperity.


QUESTION : The passage suggests that, if classical republicanism had been the ideology of eighteenth-century America, which of the following would have resulted?
(A) People would have been motivated to open small businesses and expand commercial activity.
(B) Citizens and politicians would not have been encouraged to agitate for increased individual rights.
(C) People would have been convinced that by pursuing their own interests they were contributing to the good of the group.
(D) The political and social privileges enjoyed by the landed gentry would have been destroyed.
(E) A mood of optimism among people over individual profits and prosperity would have been created



I prefer to maintain the font like it! And what's your time buddy? :) check it! keep reading a few more from anywhere and first check your time! 
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• Now that we are done with the reading section! Dear, you need to answer things now! Answering an RC was like a hell to me, i could never figure it out what he was asking! I don't wanna go deeper into as if how you are going to answer a question, you can find it in here: Test magic-GRE RC

I hope it clears you of all the different things an GRE RC contains right? Lemme give you a check of what effects your RC :
 -> The speed of reading
->Speed of completing remaining sections
-> Your vocabulary
->Studying not just reading
->Short RC vs Long RC
->Patience
->Whatever it takes
  A briefing of each and every sub title:

 -> The speed of reading: I covered it as the first topic.

->Speed of completing remaining sections: Here is where you can have a niche in doing and reading RC's. Okay if you are able to keep the antonyms and Sentence Completions in half a minute or  less then you'll have ample time enough for the RC's.

-> Your vocabulary: This could sound tricky but it's not! You can't expect passages with a simple English like i prefer to write :). The RC's are excerpts from most famous authors of the esteemed Language, so prepare for the worst ( i mean with most complicated words)

->Studying not just reading: I don't mean that you gotta do some extensive study on the passage, i just want you to start studying the passage. By studying, i mean that you must be quick enough to think and put yourself in shoes of the author! practice this as much as you can!

->Short RC vs Long RC: There could be two long RC's or three short one's. Don't stumble if you've got two longer one's, they do have an added advantage for eg: a question could be like this, in the para 6 what did the author say about something! so any RC is better, it's your practice that makes things happen!

  ->Patience: Don't expect yourself to be a pro in solving RC's in a 3 days! I did expect my self and was drowned. Be patient, very patient while solving them, any frustration could kill your score!

->Whatever it takes: Whatever it takes, practice solving two Reading Comprehension's a day! You gonna love it by your exam! Whatever it takes the Score is what we are determined for!

Will be updating! 

Thanks for reading! 

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