Tips that actually move your RC score.

No recycled checklists. Short, honest reads on what is actually breaking your score and what to do about it this week.

Diagnose what is actually broken before you grind more passages

How to improve your DAT RC score, starting with a real diagnosis

Most RC advice is just do more passages. That is not a plan. Here is a five-bucket diagnostic that tells you exactly which skill to fix this week.

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An honest read of what the section demands and where students fall

Is DAT RC hard? What the score data actually says

RC is the section students fear most and the section with the widest score spread. Here is what the data shows about who struggles and why.

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Percentiles, school expectations, and where you should aim

What is a good DAT RC score?

Average is a moving target. Here is the breakdown of percentiles, school expectations, and how to set a realistic RC goal for your application list.

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60 minutes, 3 passages, 17 questions each, no break

How long is the DAT RC section, and how to think about the clock

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The single pattern that separates 22s (430) from 25s (490)

DAT RC inference questions, and how to stop overthinking them

Inference questions reward boring, defendable answers. They punish creative ones. Here is how to build the discipline that fixes this for good.

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Why extreme choices are almost always wrong

DAT RC tone questions, and the moderate-answer rule

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Information density is a strategy choice, not a curse

DAT RC science passages, and why they feel harder than they are

Science passages are not harder. They are denser. The fix is not reading slower. The fix is summarising paragraph by paragraph as you go.

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Pinpoint the leak before you spend another hour on practice

Why you are bad at DAT RC, in 6 diagnoses

Almost every RC failure traces back to one of six causes. Identify yours, fix that one thing, and the score moves more in two weeks than two months of mixed practice.

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A 12-week roadmap built around what actually moves the needle

From a low score to a 25, a realistic RC improvement plan

Going from a 17 to a 25 is not magic and it is not luck. It is roughly 90 days of focused work on three specific things. Here is how to spend each one.

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What to do each week, in plain language

A 12-week DAT RC study schedule

A week-by-week plan that builds reading speed first, then strategy, then question-pattern discipline, with built-in rest weeks so you do not burn out.

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Picking the right tool for the passage in front of you

10 DAT Reading Comprehension strategies, ranked by passage type

Search and Destroy is not always the answer. A breakdown of 10 RC strategies and when each one actually works, and when it tanks your score.

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A field guide to what the questions are really asking

The 7 DAT RC question patterns and how to beat each one

Every RC question falls into one of 7 patterns. If you do not know which one is eating your score, you cannot fix it. Here is the taxonomy and the fix for each.

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The three habits quietly dragging your WPM down

How to read faster for the DAT without losing comprehension

Most students cannot crack 180 WPM on a dense passage. Top scorers sit closer to 280. Here is how to close the gap without gutting your accuracy.

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