Welcome to the latest installment of our Core Sentence series on SC problems! If you haven’t seen this series before, start here . Last time , we talked about how [...]

Last time , we talked about how to read for meaning and spot redundancy traps on Sentence Correction. I’ve got another trappy SC for you; this one is from the GMATPrep® [...]

If you’re a non-native English speaker, you know that you’ll need to be extra careful with idioms and other constructions that native speakers just “know.” If you’re a native speaker, [...]

It’s here at last: the fourth and final installment of our series on core sentence structure! I recommend reading all of the installments in order,  part 1 , part2 , respectively [...]

Welcome to the third installment of our Core Sentence series. In part 1 , we began learning how to strip an SC sentence (or any sentence!) down to the core [...]

Welcome to the second installment of our Core Sentence series; if you haven’t yet read Part 1 , do so now before continuing with this segment. How has your practice [...]

Recently, I was discussing sentence structure with one of my classes and we practiced a crucial but difficult GMAT skill: how to strip an SC sentence to its core components. [...]

Welcome to the third part of our series focusing on the First Glance in Sentence Correction . If you haven’t read the previous installments yet, you can start with how [...]

Last time, we talked about how to find a starting point on a Sentence Correction problem when the starting point doesn’t leap out at you . If you haven’t read [...]

On some Sentence Correction (SC) problems, an error jumps out at you immediately. On others, you’re left trying to figure out where to start. How do you dig in when [...]

Welcome to the final installment in a series of three articles about meaning and sentence structure in sentence correction. Our first one tested meaning and also covered issues related to [...]

Last time , we tried a problem that tested meaning; we also discussed how to compare entire chunks of the answer choices. Today, we're going to combine those two things [...]

Sentence Correction tests grammar, yes, but it also tests meaning. In fact, a decent chunk of grammar actually revolves around meaning in the first place. Try this GMATPrep® problem from the [...]

I totally understand why the test writers want to test meaning on SC – after all, business communication hinges more on meaning than anything else. Nobody’s going to care if [...]

The first time I read the original sentence in the below SC problem, I thought to myself: wait, what? What are you actually trying to say? I knew immediately that [...]

I’ve got a fascinating little GMATPrep® problem for you today. Try it out (1 minute 15 seconds) and then we’ll talk about it! * ” As the honeybee’s stinger is heavily [...]

A lot of students have reported lately that the Sentence Correction questions on the official test were a lot harder than what they were expecting, or that they’ve been having [...]

I’ve got a really interesting GMATPrep® problem for you today. Try it out (1 minute 15 seconds) and then we’ll talk about it!   * ” The striking differences between the semantic [...]

We’ve talked a lot about meaning in sentence correction recently and I’ve got another problem along that same theme for you. The problem I chose comes from the new GMATPrep [...]

We’re going to continue on our Meaning streak because so many students have told me that they love this topic. This one, though, is not going to address modifiers (at [...]

We’ve been examining the issues of modifiers and meaning quite a bit lately because these topics are both so important on the GMAT. I’ve got another one for you today. This [...]

Modifiers have always been commonly tested on the GMAT and emphasis on meaning has increased recently. In addition, these two areas can often be quite tricky – it’s hard to [...]

Last week, I wrote about meaning issues in sentence correction , and there’s more to say – so here’s part two of this topic. We’ll keep going till we don’t [...]

Recently, we heard from GMAC that it has been testing meaning more often in sentence correction than it used to (this increase started years ago). In the last couple of [...]