Have you ever tried having a conversation with your friend and felt everything bouncing off your head because the words your friend used was far beyond your understanding. It’s absolutely normal and does happen often. The more words used by a person to explain something, the less they know of the subject. The important rule however in a reading comprehension is -when you try making sentences with easy and popular words; you force yourself to understand it. A better way of understanding this would be - Explaining something to your brother or sister where you would use simple and short sentences. This would make you come to the ultimate meaning.

However at the GMAT test level you could understand a reading comprehension as-for instance at the end of every paragraph think about your troublesome brother or sister who keeps pulling your t-shirt...what would this probably mean? The more you concentrate on more confused and difficult words; the better would be your understanding towards a reading comprehension. There are three ways you could try dealing with your reading comprehension, firstly by breaking it up so as to get a better idea. Secondly, you should make your pen your best friend so that you could jot down important points as you go through all paragraphs and thirdly make use of simple words as a substitute for all buzzwords.

Few other ways of tackling reading comprehensions are by reading articles, formulating and analyzing answers out of them. If you’re not sure where you could start off from, you should consider reading newspaper articles. Secondly reading comprehensions would consist of articles based on science, arts, et al. Hence if you’re an arts student, make sure to read up on science articles as well. And thirdly get into the habit of asking why is that the article emphasized on a certain thing or what is this? You should try analyzing and questioning the articles you read, it would only give you a better conclusion to your answer.

Reading comprehensions are easy if you only practice and only practice, so make sure to practice!