A few things that have been helping me (I'm a lot like you by the way, high Quant, lower verbal). Can't say they're that magic pill we all want, but they help.

(1) Look for 3/2 splits.

This completely changed the way that I look at SC. After I read the sentence carefully, I glance through the answer choices to find what's different. Maybe I see a difference in verb tenses, with two answers in the present and 3 in the past. Not all SC have a split, but a lot do. If you know, referring back to my example, that the tense MUST be present, you can begin to eliminate a bunch of answers quickly. Then you keep splitting. By focusing on the differences you can use process of elimination better. This works really well when identifying subjects after introductory phrases (e.g. "While in Paris, the artist painted") and subject/verb agreement items "The orchestra put its instruments away."


One last note on this: only split if there are key indicators that MUST be corrected to continue. For example, GMAT always tricks me with parallelism questions by making me think I need my lists to be a certain way, which I can't find unless I realize that they completely went about the correction in a different way.


(2) After I glance through all of the questions, I eliminate, one by one. I set up my paper like this (for all of my verbal actually)
A B C D E
1
2
3
4
5
etc

I put an X for answers I am confident are WRONG. I draw half circles for the ones I'm not sure of and full circles for what I'm 80%+ confident of. I always read the remaining answer choices even if i think an earlier answer choice is good enough.

(3) Tell yourself why the answers are wrong: As I draw my X's I try to teach myself why the answer is wrong. Another good way to practice this is to help someone in the forums. Even if you peek at the OA, you can still go through and explain to somebody what is wrong.

(4) Finally I use Grockit a lot. You can create your own study group and focus your study on specific types of SC and/or difficulty. I like this because I get a lot of questions that are within the same type of SC category which has really helped me understand things like misplaced modifiers.

Hopefully this helps.

Good luck man,

Blake