Passage and Questions
- Before you look at any actual reading comprehension questions, you'll have to read a passage.
- You'll get somewhere around ten passages, which are typically pretty short.
- Most of them will be a single paragraph, but some of them will be longer, multi-paragraph passages.
- The topics of the passages can be almost anything, but you'll be able to understand them without any specialist knowledge.
- Each passage can have anywhere from one to six questions.
- The questions ask you only about the information in the passage.
Strategy
Now you're familiar with the format of the test; it's time to talk strategy. Test-taking strategy on the GRE can get you everywhere - here's how to do it on the reading comprehension questions.
- Don't skip the passage.
- Read the passage for the argument.
- Approach the questions in this order: question, passage, answer choices.
- Skip when necessary.
- Even if you skip a question, mark at least a random answer for everything.