因为RC是a pure test of reasoning，如果大家对RC的考察内容有一个比较清晰的认识，即有正确的考试观，那么在策略上就不会出现严重偏差(比如尝试精读、通读)。今天我们就看看大神Ron给出的GMAT阅读备考建议。
RC is not something that requires a greatdeal of topic-specific preparation. after a certain, fairly modest, amount ofstudying, you are probably going to reach the upper limit of where you're going to get with specific gmat-related studying.
after all, the point of RC is that no pre-existing knowledge is necessary.unlike, say, the quant section, the rc section does not require any memorized facts or formulas; it is a pure test of reasoning.(此处高亮注意一下，Ron给GMAT的RC定性为：a pure test of reasoning，而不是Reading skills or reading speed，当然RC一定会涉及你的阅读速度&说阅读技巧，但是如果一定要给GMAT的RC定性的话，只能是reasoning, 也就是说它致力于考察你的逻辑思维。)
therefore, after a fairly short period of time, continued practice is not going to yield much, if anything, in the way of results. (i understand that this new scan be somewhat painful for many posters on this board, who come from a culture and upbringing that emphasize the idea of “the guys who works the hardest andspends the most hours wins”, but that is NOT the way this test -- or business management, for that matter -- works.) in fact, if you have the wrong habits or the wrong mentality, then studying more and more is just going to dig that hole deeper and deeper, eventually making it more, not less, difficult to develop the correct mentality and habits. (也就是我们老生常谈的一个问题：方向不对，你还一个劲的努力，只会离既定目标越来越远。此处想到之前一位最终取得750优异成绩的学员，她一开始的阅读方法是，将OG上的每篇RC精读，逐字逐句翻译，难些的长阅读一篇要花上2小时。虽然付出很多努力，但由于阅读方法本身的错误，准确率忽高忽低，没有取得任何实质性的进步。)
in any case, if you are still stuck at a very low performance in rc after a certain amount of studying, then at least one of the following two things -- maybe both of them -- will be true:
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you aren't thinking about the passages or problems in the right way, or you haven't really learned what the different question types are actually asking you to do.(各个题型的解题技巧)
2/
your English proficiency isn't sufficient yet.(通篇没有提到阅读速度这件事情，所以不要主观臆测这里的English proficiency就是特指阅读速度，“阅读速度”重要，“正确的阅读方法”更重要!)
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OG RC is,obviously, a good source;it is actually designed for this exam, and so the passages and questions will be of the type that you'll actually see on the exam. (specific gmat-related studying)
the two official guides (the twelfth edition and the verbal supplement) contain plenty of passages; you really shouldn't need more material than that. beyond that number of passages, you are really just spinning your wheels; if you still have issues, then your problem will be one of #1 and #2 above (or even both).
you shouldn't use RC99, which is a compilation of passages stolen from other prep companies, mostly from kaplan's MCATbooks. (come on, guys, do you think they could really sell ninety-nine passages for $15 USD if they hadn't stolen them?)
from the student's perspective, the real problem with RC99 is not the fact that the passages are stolen; that's an intellectual-property issue for the prepcompanies to handle. the real issue is that the RC99passages are not GMAT passages,and so they don't work like GMAT passages.(这就是我为什么一再跟大家强调一定一定要使用官方题源，我觉得大神这里说的足够清晰和明确了。)
most of the passages in RC99 are taken from MCAT passages -- which are exactly what gmat passages are not: mostly just giant clusters of facts with few, ifany, overarching relationships. (this makes sense for the MCAT, because medical school is mostly just a bunch of memorization.) therefore, if you do lots of practice in that source, you may well be less prepared -- and certainly less well oriented-- for GMAT RC than before you even started. (使用非官方题源的副作用)
in short:
stick with OG passages.
if you get through a large number of OG passages and you are still having a lotof trouble, then the issue isn't the problems themselves; stop, andthink about #1/#2 above.
做一个简单小结：
①阅读速度在GMAT的RC中不起决定性作用，因为GMAT的RC是a pure test of reasoning;
②方法正确还是第一步，如果方法不正确，很容易出现做了大量的题目却依旧没有进步这种情况，强调：我们对于“准确率忽高忽低”定性为“未取得实质性进步”;
③题海战术没有用，如果做了很多题，进步不明显，那么就应该开始反思是否自己的方法不得当(have the wrong habits or the wrong mentality)，而不是继续一条道走到黑，拼命的做题，这是对官方题源的一种浪费，因为起不到任何的训练效果;
④一定一定要使用官方题源，不知道强调多少遍了“if you do lots of practice in that source, you may well be less prepared -- and certainly less well oriented -- for GMAT RC than before you even started.”也就是说如果你经常做一些非官方题源的练习，对你的RC没有帮助也就算了，还有可能有副作用。
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