Any recommendation for where to look for complex articles?

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  canihazJD Alum Member Sage ⭐

  November 2020 edited November 2020 8491 karma

  RC can come from anywhere. The killer passage this month was an NYT article. Economist is good, Scientific American, Nature, etc.... maybe if you can get you hands on some academic journals, but the best source is other RC sections. I just worked from PT 1 up or any PT I broke up. Some can be drills, some just to ID reasoning structure, some just read with the objective of learning something. Unless you’ve seen every released RC section, I think any other reading should be secondary... for prep purposes anyway.

  Edit: PTs (and flex tests!) also give you the source material used at the end of the test.
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  chaplin___ Alum Member ⭐

  November 2020 edited November 2020 601 karma

  academic journals might be an overkill but if that's what interest you and you also got the time then go for it. I find reading the Economist helpful: Leaders resembles a typical RC passage in terms of length, By Invitation are longer opinion pieces which are good for practicing structure and memory recall, 1843 Magazine articles are also a bit lengthier but the topics are pretty eclectic and fun in a way, Prospero is good for having more exposure to arts, culture, books etc

  for more longform memory retention practice, I read the New Yorker and the Atlantic, sometimes Foreign Affairs (their law and institutions section make law passages with unfamiliar terminologies and legal concepts less daunting, like the one about Hart's legal positivism)

  I'm weaker in the hard sciences passages so I often check out Science, but for arts and culture, Paris Review comes in handy, it's also just great for leisurely reading
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  Chris Nguyen Alum Member Administrator Sage ⭐ 7Sage Tutor

  November 2020 4598 karma

  Arts and letters daily has helped me tremendously with art and humanities passages. You can find them here: https://aldaily.com/
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  rgoho89 Core Member

  November 2020 33 karma

  Thank you Christopherr, Chaplin__ and CanihazJD for your input. I really appreciate it. I'll look into your suggestions right away. Thanks guys.