提到财，要说哪个出国考试是跟财最有关系的，当然是GMAT考试，因为GMAT考试是考商学院研究生的，GMAT考好了，进了好的商学院，毕业后平均收入是比较有竞争力的。所以这个考试还是带财的。

那么问题来了，

GMAT考试 难 不 难

这句话可能会有不同的理解：

GMAT阅读难？不难！

GMAT阅读难不难？

GMAT阅读难不？难！

来都来了!

基麦哥在这里当然不会在这里恶心你，可以肯定的告诉你，GMAT不考专业知识，词汇以托福雅思词汇为主，不考专有名词的解释，文章比托福雅思短。所以，难不难，你自己品。

那考什么？

今天我们来说下GMAT阅读；因为GMAT核心内容是语文和数学，语文由三部分组成：阅读+逻辑+语法；而阅读能力和阅读的思维方法论可以说是语文三大项的基础。

那GMAT阅读考什么？

首先，虽然GMAT是美国商学院研究生入学考试，考GMAT的同学或职场人要读的专业是MBA，金融，会计，商业分析等；但是GMAT阅读里面的商科文章只是其中一部分，里面还有大量的生物学，天文学，地质学，美国政治，国际关系等。可以说是五花八门，非常无趣。

那阅读到底考什么，和托福雅思阅读的最大区别是什么？

鉴于篇幅原因（我一会儿还得吃饺子），今天先讲一个核心要点：逻辑推理能力。

看下面文章节选：

Some observers have attributed the dramatic growth in temporary employment that occurred in the United States during the 1980s to increased participation in the workforce by certain groups, such as first-time or reentering workers, who supposedly prefer such arrangements. However, statistical analyses reveal that demographic changes in the workforce did not correlate with variations in the total number of temporary workers. Instead, these analyses suggest that factors affecting employers account for the rise in temporary employment. One factor is product demand: temporary employment is favored by employers who are adapting to fluctuating demand for products while at the same time seeking to reduce overall labor costs. Another factor is labor's reduced bargaining strength, which allows employers more control over the terms of employment. ...

The first sentence in the passage suggests that the "observers" mentioned in line 1 would be most likely to predict which of the following?

　　A. That the number of new temporary positions would decline as fewer workers who preferred temporary employment entered the workforce

　　B. That the total number of temporary positions would increase as fewer workers were able to find permanent positions

　　C. That employers would have less control over the terms of workers' employment as workers increased their bargaining strength

　 D. That more workers would be hired for temporary positions as product demand increased

E. That the number of workers taking temporary positions would increase as more workers in any given demographic group entered the workforce

这是GMAT官方指南（OG）上的一道题；大家先想想这道应该选哪个？

首先我们要找到题目问的对象observers,在第一句，明确他们的观点，看长句要看框架结构：找主干结构和关键信息；1主干：临时工temporary employment增长的原因归因；2重要信息（原因）：这些做临时工的人prefer such arrangements.这里有一点要明确，就是一般强转折词后面是作者的观点，在这里observers观点提出后，后面被作者用However否掉了。显然observers和作者是敌人，这一点是逻辑和态度判断，是GMAT考试的重点，也是以后大家做大量题目的思考方向。题目问的是与observers的观点，所以要选与第一句一致的，当然选项会做同义改写。我们看一下A选项：That the number of new temporary positions would decline as fewer workers who preferred temporary employment entered the workforce. 关键词 decline as fewer workers who preferred；是文中第一句的双重否定，负负得正，所以这道题选A。不涉及任何社会学 经济学 政治学知识；是考逻辑正反推理。

再看一题：

In 1955 Maurice Duverger published The Political Role of Women, the first behavioralist, multinational comparison of women's electoral participation ever to use election data and survey data together. His study analyzed women's patterns of voting, political candidacy, and political activism in four European countries during the first half of the twentieth century. Duverger's research findings were that women voted somewhat less frequently than men (the difference narrowing the longer women had the vote) and were slightly more conservative...

The passage implies that, in comparing four European countries, Duverger found that the voting rates of women and men were most different in the country in which women

A. were most politically active

B. ran for office most often

C. held the most conservative political views

D. had the most egalitarian relations with men

E. had possessed the right to vote for the shortest time

本题问最大差异，对应最后一句：Duverger's research findings were that women voted somewhat less frequently than men (the difference narrowing the longer women had the vote) and were slightly more conservative.关键词：the difference narrowing the longer women had the vote；也就说女性had vote时间越longer，和男性在投票上的difference越小。而题目问的是啥情况下 difference最大呢？按正反推理，你看应该选哪个呢，留言告诉我。

这就是GMAT阅读的三个推理法的第一种。