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vinay1983
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Hi all,
After so many days spent on this forum, I felt I needed to to tell something to some the aspirants of GMAT who might not be well endowed in English usage and who might find it difficult to apply all/some grammar rules. Anybody is free to add to this. But these tips have to generic in nature and not 'heavy in grammar' terminology. I would be thankful to all concerned who can share some tips.This is not meant to be a flashcard rather a guide for effective sentence Correction solving.
1. Sentence correction is not just pure mechanical process. Parallelism, SV agreement, Modifier issue are also dependent on meaning of the original sentence
2. Meaning clarity according to me supersedes most other issues, but I feel it is most neglected.
3. Correct/good English does not necessarily mean usage of "flashy words"
4. Many a times, using simple basic common sense the options to the question can be reduced to 2 or 3 by using plain english.
5. Don't tend to be obsessive over critically examining SC sentences, they are not supposed to be tough as is, but are made to appear tough. Agian basic english is enough.
6. Try to guess what could be the words or phrases that can give the intended meaning.
7. This is one of my favourites of the many tips from "Ron"
GMAT SC is not meant to be test of rules that can be memorized!It's meant to be a reasoning test
If I can I would add more to this.
After so many days spent on this forum, I felt I needed to to tell something to some the aspirants of GMAT who might not be well endowed in English usage and who might find it difficult to apply all/some grammar rules. Anybody is free to add to this. But these tips have to generic in nature and not 'heavy in grammar' terminology. I would be thankful to all concerned who can share some tips.This is not meant to be a flashcard rather a guide for effective sentence Correction solving.
1. Sentence correction is not just pure mechanical process. Parallelism, SV agreement, Modifier issue are also dependent on meaning of the original sentence
2. Meaning clarity according to me supersedes most other issues, but I feel it is most neglected.
3. Correct/good English does not necessarily mean usage of "flashy words"
4. Many a times, using simple basic common sense the options to the question can be reduced to 2 or 3 by using plain english.
5. Don't tend to be obsessive over critically examining SC sentences, they are not supposed to be tough as is, but are made to appear tough. Agian basic english is enough.
6. Try to guess what could be the words or phrases that can give the intended meaning.
7. This is one of my favourites of the many tips from "Ron"
GMAT SC is not meant to be test of rules that can be memorized!It's meant to be a reasoning test
If I can I would add more to this.
You can, for example never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to!
