Sentence Correction

Hi Everyone,

I want your guidance, as how should I approach preparing for SC. I have completed Aristotle SC but still not able to recognize the pattern on how to tackle a SC question. Sometimes while tackling a question which contains multiple errors; I land up with choices very close and get the answer wrong.

I am literary very confused and do not know how to proceed. I have very less time for my exam.

Waiting for your guidance.

Thanks,

ABHIJIT

abhi_jeet203 wrote:Hi Everyone,

I want your guidance, as how should I approach preparing for SC. I have completed Aristotle SC but still not able to recognize the pattern on how to tackle a SC question. Sometimes while tackling a question which contains multiple errors; I land up with choices very close and get the answer wrong.

I am literary very confused and do not know how to proceed. I have very less time for my exam.

Waiting for your guidance.

Thanks,

ABHIJIT

Hi,

I say you go through the MGMAT SC once. Also you have to practice questions regularly to understand traps and regular GMAT question types. I would also suggest you to check this below:

https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/resources#linkcat-65

The forum is open to help you anytime. Just try solving problems on your own.


All the best!

I do not favor the way that you say, "contains multiple errors."

Except for misplaced modifiers, which are self-evident, I never refer to something in the original sentence as an "error." It is a "possible error" and it is only helpful if you find that there are options in the answer choices. Then this location becomes a "decision point" and it is your job to determine which of the options is correct.

Many years ago when I started working with the GMAT, I would miss about 4 out of 14 sentence correction questions. This was a problem because I did not miss any CR or RC questions and so sentence correction was holding me back. The reason that I missed these questions was that I had the wrong approach. Now that I have the right approach I rarely miss and SC question any longer.

Here are two things to do:

1) "Slash and Burn" is the Veritas Prep strategy of eliminating the clutter from a sentence so that you can focus on what is important.

You should practice ignoring three things: Extra clauses that have nothing to do with the underlined portion; prepositions of all types; modifiers - UNLESS those modifiers are misplaced.


2) Identify decision points - which are simply differences in the answer choices - and try to match these with the "decision makers." A Decision maker is the portion of the sentence that tells you which option for the decision point is correct. For a singular/ plural verb decision point, the subject will be the "decision maker."

Sentence correction is primarily a matter of focus and if you can focus on the correct things - primarily decision points and decision makers - and if you can ignore the correct things - extra clauses, prepositions, and correctly placed modifiers - then you will be able to have a high degree of accuracy and efficiency.

Here are a couple of articles to help you think about sentence correction.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/sentence-cor ... 69595.html


https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2011/01/ ... correction