sentence correction strategy

resilient · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:56 am Post subject: sentence correction strategy

I went through the powerscore sentence correction book along with the manhattan sentence correction book. I learned my lessons and am better at sentence correction. HOWEVER, when taking the practice exam I find my self getting jumbled up or losing points to rules I should have seen because I already knew those tested rules. Can any previous success be applied to my situation? ANy suggestions?

I am not sure if this belongs in strategy or Sentence correction but this loks like a better fit.

beatthegmat · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:41 pm Post subject:

Have you thought about creating flashcards? This is a good technique to constantly review and nail down the principles.

jimmy23 · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:57 pm Post subject: Whats that?

Tell me more about flashcards technique.

resilient · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:50 am Post subject: write down your mistakes

I learned a great trick actually and its a build up on Erics. Get the flashcards study them.. but write down your mistakes and dwell on them !

lunarpower · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:44 am Post subject:

some of my students are, ironically, frustrated by excessive ambition: they try to look for too many kinds of mistakes at once, thus failing to notice just about anything because their attention is spread too thinly.

suggestions:
* collect a lot of data. take many practice tests, solve official guide problems, etc., and then make a tally of the # of errors of each type that you failed to see (and the # of times you detected 'errors' that weren't actually errors).
* the next time you do a group of problems (whether on a practice test or just random problems), keep ONE OR TWO of the most persistent errors in mind. scan the sentences with an eagle eye for those ONE OR TWO errors, looking only perfunctorily for the other errors. if you do this, you will almost certainly detect those ONE OR TWO errors every time you see them.
* do the same for other error types on later sets of problems, once again ONE OR TWO error types at a time.
* eventually you'll start nailing them all more consistently.

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if you've ever played a sport, been a dancer, etc., you know that you can only concentrate intently on one or two physical skills at a time. that truth is unchanged for mental skills such as those required by the gmat.

hth!

OnapiIndia · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:19 am Post subject:

Thanks buddy for raising this topic i am also having very little knowledge about it.

resilient · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:37 pm Post subject: ok

Lunarpower-

according to your suggestions, here is my game plan. I will go through all OG questions and mark off where I get wrong and why. From this point, I will take little lesson from the sc manhattan book and powerscore sc book. Then redo these mistakes with the aim of fixing them. For later purposes, I will keep in mind where I usually went wrong! Good with you?

yalephd2007 · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:56 am Post subject:

thanks, ron

lunarpower · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 2:04 am Post subject: Re: ok