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What strategies can I use on the reading comprehension questions on the GRE?

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    Bernadette "Bernie" Chimner began teaching in 1999 for a major test prep company. Although she loved her job teaching and tutoring, she found herself unhappy with the company’s stance toward its students and teachers. Her quest for a company with a philosophy more akin to her own would take her through two other large test prep companies before she finally arrived at Griffon Prep. She brought with her an extraordinary reputation as an exceptional instructor and a vast knowledge of both the LSAT and the GRE.

    Bernie is extraordinary in her dedication to her students. She spends her time after class and during break answering questions and she goes to lengths to make sure she is in touch with her students between classes as well. As a teacher, she is patient, friendly, and gifted at explaining questions in a simple way.

    Bernie’s skillful teaching is backed by an array of exceptional test scores. She obtained a perfect 180 score on the LSAT in June 2005, has a perfect GRE math score of 800, and boasts both a GRE verbal score and a GMAT score in the 99th percentile.

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    <p>Host: What strategies can I use on the reading comprehension questions?</p><p>Bernadette Chimner: one of the best strategies to use on the reading comprehension section is what we call active reading. An active reading just means paying attention while you are reading because it is really easy to get to the end of a passage, look back and realize that you haven't been paying attention the entire time. So one of the biggest strategies you can use is to pause after every paragraph and make sure you know what you have read and just to jot of few words down on your scrap paper to make a outline that you can refer to when you are answering those questions. The other strategy you can use on the computer adaptive test is because you are going to get your questions one at a time, before you begin to read that passage, it's useful to read the question that's going to appear with it because there is already going to be one question on the screen. Read that question because of its one little detail you can find that detail as you read and answer that question and then move onto the next question without having to read everything. </p>

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