Parallelism Articles
Executive Assessment: Verbal Strategies – Part 4
Welcome to the fourth installment of Verbal Strategies for the EA! If you’re just joining us now, I recommend going back to the first part and proceeding from there . So [...]
GMAT Sentence Correction: How to Find the Core Sentence - Part 7
Welcome to the latest installment of our Core Sentence series on SC problems! If you haven’t seen this series before, start here . Last time , we talked about how [...]
GMAT Sentence Correction: How to Find the Core Sentence - Part 6
Harder SC questions often have longer underlines and “jumble up” the answer choices. That is, the answers change so significantly that it’s difficult to figure out what’s different about each [...]
How to Tackle Every Single GMAT Problem (Seriously!) - Part 4
Welcome to the fourth installment of our series: how to tackle every problem on the GMAT. If you’re joining in the middle, go back and learn about the set of [...]
How to Tackle Every Single GMAT Problem (Seriously!) - Part 3
Welcome to part 3 of our series on how to answer every single GMAT problem you’ll ever see. :) If you haven’t already read the earlier installments, start with part [...]
GMAT Sentence Correction: How to Find the Core Sentence - Part 2
Welcome to the second installment of our Core Sentence series; if you haven’t yet read Part 1 , do so now before continuing with this segment. How has your practice [...]
GMAT Sentence Correction: Where Do I Start? - Part 3
Welcome to the third part of our series focusing on the First Glance in Sentence Correction . If you haven’t read the previous installments yet, you can start with how [...]
GMAT Sentence Correction: Where Do I Start? - Part 2
Last time, we talked about how to find a starting point on a Sentence Correction problem when the starting point doesn’t leap out at you . If you haven’t read [...]
Can you Spot the Meaning Error? - Part 2
Last time , we tried a problem that tested meaning; we also discussed how to compare entire chunks of the answer choices. Today, we're going to combine those two things [...]
What’s This Mean? When to Use Common Sense on Sentence Correction
I totally understand why the test writers want to test meaning on SC – after all, business communication hinges more on meaning than anything else. Nobody’s going to care if [...]
What’s Parallel to What? Parallelism and Meaning in GMATPrep
The first time I read the original sentence in the below SC problem, I thought to myself: wait, what? What are you actually trying to say? I knew immediately that [...]
Comparisons and Parallelism in GMATPrep
Last time , we took a look at a Comparisons problem; in today’s article, we’re going to examine another one. This question is from the free problem set included in the [...]
Comparisons in GMATPrep Sentence Correction
I’ve got a fascinating (and infuriating!) GMATPrep® problem for you today; this comes from the free problem set included in the new GMATPrep 2.0 version of the software. Try it out [...]
Where are the Splits? Handling the “New” SC
A lot of students have reported lately that the Sentence Correction questions on the official test were a lot harder than what they were expecting, or that they’ve been having [...]
Comparing Things in GMATPrep Sentence Correction
I’ve got a really interesting GMATPrep® problem for you today. Try it out (1 minute 15 seconds) and then we’ll talk about it! * ” The striking differences between the semantic [...]
Dealing With Partial Underlines in Sentence Correction (Part 2)
Last time, we introduced a new way of dealing with partial underlines : explicitly trying to figure out how the non-underlined (and therefore correct) part of the sentence fits with [...]
What to Memorize for the GMAT: 5 More Must-Know Grammar Rules
In the first post of our “What to Memorize for the GMAT Verbal” series, we covered the business and logic vocabulary you should know for the test. In the second [...]
Dealing With Partial Underlines in Sentence Correction
It has been a while since we’ve done grammar, so let’s try out this GMATPrep® Sentence Correction question. Set your timer for 1 minute and 15 seconds and go! “ [...]
GMAT On Demand: Identifying Comparison Errors
Today, Dave and Jen walk you through Comparison Errors on the SC section. And remember, today's your last chance to win an iPad when you join Knewton GMAT! Click here [...]
GMAT On Demand: Spotting Parallelism Errors on the SC Section
// Today's on-demand preview covers an essential Sentence Correction topic: Parallelism Errors. Remember, this week there's even more reason to check out Knewton on demand: Any student who joins Knewton [...]
GMAT On Demand: The Most Commonly Tested Sentence Correction Errors
// At Knewton we recently a released a new and improved on-demand video player , and to spread the word we're sharing our first GMAT Sentence Correction lesson in nine [...]
Grockit GMAT and MBA Admissions Course: Lesson 5, Part 2 – Verbal Sentence Correction
We’re making sections of Grockit’s GMAT Course available to stream online for free! The course is taught by Grockit Founder Farb Nivi and covers the entire GMAT curriculum in 16 [...]
Thursdays with Ron - A New Approach to Sentence Correction
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 [...]
GMATPrep Q&A: Tackling a Tough Sentence Correction Question
We get a lot of interesting questions from Knewton students about GMATPrep® problems. Today, we'll take a look at a particularly tricky Sentence Correction question dealing with comparisons, modifiers, and [...]
Beat The GMAT Verbal Challenge Question – October 28, 2010
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OujX9o63aeY[/youtube] Congrats to Bharat for being selected as this week’s winner of the Beat The GMAT Verbal Challenge Question. Bharat will receive Premium Access to Beat The GMAT Practice Questions as [...]