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by nickhar130 » Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:06 pm
Hello so I feel that I am ready to start upon Verbal studies for the gmat and I've completed the math portion. I've started to do sentence correction today and to me I feel overwhelmed how difficult it is. So far I've done about 25 problems on the GMAT REVIEW 11TH EDITION book, but I'm wondering if any tips for me to approach study for this sentence correction portion?

I have minimal understanding of words like idiom, diction, past, present, future. I've been mainly attacking these questions by seeing if it sounds ok. Please help me with some tips to study for this. Thanks.

P.S. I've read over Kaplan GMAT Verbal Foundations book a while back so I slightly remember some stuff in there.
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by frank1 » Fri Nov 12, 2010 2:42 am
nickhar130 wrote:Hello so I feel that I am ready to start upon Verbal studies for the gmat and I've completed the math portion. I've started to do sentence correction today and to me I feel overwhelmed how difficult it is. So far I've done about 25 problems on the GMAT REVIEW 11TH EDITION book, but I'm wondering if any tips for me to approach study for this sentence correction portion?

I have minimal understanding of words like idiom, diction, past, present, future. I've been mainly attacking these questions by seeing if it sounds ok. Please help me with some tips to study for this. Thanks.

P.S. I've read over Kaplan GMAT Verbal Foundations book a while back so I slightly remember some stuff in there.
I would say
Dont attack OG question straight away.
Take OG diagonostic test (or any other GMAT SC diogonostic test)
then go for Manhattan SC guide
GMAT english is not all about normal grammer.Here you have to choose good among other good answers.Many times you have to use question specific approach.
So that book will make you aware about things test in GMAT like verb and pronoun agreement,modifiers,logical predications,2/3 split and all
then come to OG.
Dont try to solve all question at one go.
Initially,Take 10 questions at once.After each 10 questions either make an error log or access why you made mistake and compare what were you thinking when you chose that wrong answer and in further question try not repeating same mistakes.
Then keep on visiting forum.This forum will always have some old and new question.
Once you feel corfortable with it try solving it here.

Just suggestion from my experience.
If possible always keep eye on time and try to minimize it.
and read some articles from this site...lots of good articles here...
for eg when whole sentence is underlined go first for either logical predication or modifier error .....many others..
best of luck

thanks
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by Jim@Grockit » Sun Nov 14, 2010 7:02 pm
Also, if you have the luxury of time, concentrate on doing SC questions right (without watching the clock); you will pick up speed with time. You can get timed practice by doing full-length practice tests regularly.

I think you need to review your grammar terms very thoroughly, though, or you won't be able to get the most out of the explanations in test prep sources. And definitely keep an error log so you can determine patterns.
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by David@VeritasPrep » Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:30 am
As the posts above indicate, you certainly will need to know some terminology when approaching sentence correction. And you will need to know some grammar as well. However, we can make use of your idea to "see which one sounds better" but only if you take small decisions rather than the whole sentence. For example, if you are able to put together the subject and verb you will likely be able to tell which works - the singular verb or the plural verb. For example, "the number is increasing" versus "the number are increasing." So you can often make a choice based on which sounds better, the trouble is that you have to get rid of the prepositions and modifiers separating your subject from your verb.

Perhaps the one important thing you can do is to make the sentence your own. In the Veritas Sentence Correction books we emphasize the fact that much of the sentence is clutter. Find the part of the sentence that matters and you will find your decisions are much simpler.

As far as a general philosophy - please do not think of sentence correction as a grammar test involving the entire sentence. Sentence correction is more a test of logic and decision making.

Here is a link to a post that might help you to think about sentence correction as a series of small decisions. Link: https://www.beatthegmat.com/sentence-cor ... 69595.html
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by GMATMadeEasy » Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:02 am
As far as a general philosophy - please do not think of sentence correction as a grammar test involving the entire sentence. Sentence correction is more a test of logic and decision making.

David, thanks for your advice.Excellent post. What you have written is a golden piece of advice. I realised this after hell lot of work. Thanks for all your posts .
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by nickhar130 » Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:27 am
what is an error log and where can i purchase such a thing?
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