Thursdays with Ron - A New Approach to Sentence Correction

by Manhattan Prep, Nov 25, 2010

Every other Thursday, our instructor Ron Purewal (known on the Beat the GMAT forums as lunarpower) hosts a free study hall session, called Thursdays with Ron, where anyone can submit questions ahead of time and attend. Ron chooses a few themes from the questions he gets and goes over strategies for them.

In this session, Ron gives us a new approach to sentence correction:

Heres an outline of what Ron covers, with the minute markers. Make sure to watch the video, though, so that youre able to follow along!

• 00:00 The problem with sentence correction is that it's a complex skill
• 02:14 How you can train yourself to really grasp the concepts behind sentence correction: ignore the whole problem and focus just on one aspect at a time.
• 4:29 Ron illustrates how to focus on just one concept, using parallelism as an example.

If you want to view recordings of past Thursdays with Ron or submit questions for the next live session, which takes place on December 2, you can do so here.