Review a list of skills assessed by the Reading Comprehension questions. According to "The Official Guide to the GRE revised General Test," the Reading Comprehension questions test a wide range of abilities, including: understanding the meaning of individual words, understanding the meaning of individual sentences, understanding the meaning of paragraphs and larger bodies of texts, summarizing passages, drawing conclusions from information provided, analyzing texts, identifying strengths and weaknesses of texts, and identifying authors' perspectives.
Consider what verbal test-taking skills the Reading Comprehension questions test. Two Verbal Reasoning sections comprise the entire Verbal Reasoning measure. The Verbal Reasoning measure contains three types of questions: Reading Comprehension, Text Completion, and Sentence Equivalence. Test takers are allowed 35 minutes to answer approximately 25 questions per section. Reading Comprehension questions make up only some of the 25 questions; however, they take the most time to answer since they require you to read a passage before answering questions about it. According to "The Official Guide to the GRE revised General Test," the entire test contains approximately ten passages, and although the majority of the passages in the test are only one paragraph long, other passages may contain two or more paragraphs. Thus, the reading comprehension questions assess your ability to read quickly and critically, while creating informed interpretations with little to no hesitation.
Study and practice for both types of multiple-choice questions. According to ETS's "Official Guide to the GRE revised General Test," the reading comprehension section includes some multiple-choice questions that require test takers to select only one answer, and some multiple-choice questions that require test takers to select one or more answer choices. For these questions, test takers may not be granted partial credit for selecting some correct answers. If two answers are correct, test takers must select both of those answers to receive credit for that question. Likewise, if all three answer choices are correct, test takers must choose all three answers to receive credit.
Study and practice for the Select-in-Passage questions. The computer-based GRE revised General Test includes reading comprehension questions that ask test takers to click on the sentence in a passage that meets a certain description. To answer the question, test takers must choose one of the sentences and click on it. When answering these types of questions, make certain to only evaluate sentences within the paragraph(s) under consideration. Avoid selecting a sentence if the description provided in the question only partially applies.