KarthikvsGMAT wrote:
Dear Experts,
I guess everyone would be familiar with the below passage from GMAT Prep1 test.
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When a large body strikes a planet or moon, material is ejected, thereby creating a hole in the planet and a local deficit of mass. This deficit shows up as a gravity anomaly: the removal of the material that has been ejected to make the hole results in an area of slightly lower gravity than surrounding areas. One would therefore expect that all of the large multi-ring impact basins on the surface of Earths Moon would show such negative gravity anomalies, since they are, essentially, large holes in the lunar surface. Yet data collected in 1994 by the Clementine spacecraft show that many of these lunar basins have no anomalously low gravity and some even have anomalously high gravity. Scientists speculate that early in lunar history, when large impactors struck the Moons surface, causing millions of cubic kilometers of crustal debris to be ejected, denser material from the Moons mantle rose up beneath the impactors almost immediately, compensating for the ejected material and thus leaving no low gravity anomaly in the resulting basin. Later, however, as the Moon grew cooler and less elastic, rebound from large impactors would have been only partial and incomplete. Thus today such gravitational compensation probably would not occur: the outer layer of the Moon is too cold and stiff.
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I guess everyone would be familiar with the below passage from GMAT Prep1 test.
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When a large body strikes a planet or moon, material is ejected, thereby creating a hole in the planet and a local deficit of mass. This deficit shows up as a gravity anomaly: the removal of the material that has been ejected to make the hole results in an area of slightly lower gravity than surrounding areas. One would therefore expect that all of the large multi-ring impact basins on the surface of Earths Moon would show such negative gravity anomalies, since they are, essentially, large holes in the lunar surface. Yet data collected in 1994 by the Clementine spacecraft show that many of these lunar basins have no anomalously low gravity and some even have anomalously high gravity. Scientists speculate that early in lunar history, when large impactors struck the Moons surface, causing millions of cubic kilometers of crustal debris to be ejected, denser material from the Moons mantle rose up beneath the impactors almost immediately, compensating for the ejected material and thus leaving no low gravity anomaly in the resulting basin. Later, however, as the Moon grew cooler and less elastic, rebound from large impactors would have been only partial and incomplete. Thus today such gravitational compensation probably would not occur: the outer layer of the Moon is too cold and stiff.
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Easy translation of the above into 2 or 3 sentences. :
When some space collision happens....some hole is created, reducing the strength of gravity near that region. Because of this, one would expect [X], but actually data from 1994 shows [Y]. Some further details, etc.
Keyword THUS --- basically saying what happened in the past probably wouldn't happen in today's conditions because the Moon is too cold now. So this above example is just an edge case (doesn't happen often).
How's that?
For RC - the best way to improve is to practice.
I highly recommend Harvard Magazine articles? Why? Because they have a lot of short articles - that are very similar to what you might see on the GMAT exam -- usually 4-6 paragraphs citing some kind of social or science research.
Favorite this:
https://harvardmagazine.com/topic/Research

Look for where it says: "Select a topic:" - Humanities, Social Science, Science, International
Go to the above link and read some of the articles.You'll see these are almost the exact topics you will see on the actual GMAT exam.
Here's one example:
https://harvardmagazine.com/2018/02/how ... lationship
Are you able to quickly read through it - ideally without reading every word - and identify WHO is writing it and WHY they are writing it - WHAT's the whole point to the author spending time to write these passages?
These are great for RC comprehension - with practice, time management becomes a non-issue.
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