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I Suck At Sentence Correction....HELP ME!!

by 740wannabe » Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:53 pm
Hey Everyone,

I'm planning on writing my GMAT very soon and for some reason, I just can't get any better at sentence correction!!!

I found the other sections of the test to be fairly straight forward and easy but SC is REALLY frustrating me. I answered the first 50 questions in the OG very well, gave a few wrong answers between 51-70, but since then I have been getting getting waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many questions wrong (almost half of the questions from 90 - 110). Haven't done the rest yet.

I've gone through and studied the Manhattan Sentence Correction Strategy Guide, and I know the content well. But I find that as I'm reading the SC questions I just can't quickly identify what's wrong. I'm relying a lot on my ear to tell me when something is up - which I think is a problem.

Any strategies or tips? How did everyone else improve their SC? How do you approach SC?

Thanks.
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by Gurpinder » Thu Aug 12, 2010 1:09 pm
740wannabe wrote:Hey Everyone,

I'm planning on writing my GMAT very soon and for some reason, I just can't get any better at sentence correction!!!

I found the other sections of the test to be fairly straight forward and easy but SC is REALLY frustrating me. I answered the first 50 questions in the OG very well, gave a few wrong answers between 51-70, but since then I have been getting getting waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many questions wrong (almost half of the questions from 90 - 110). Haven't done the rest yet.

I've gone through and studied the Manhattan Sentence Correction Strategy Guide, and I know the content well. But I find that as I'm reading the SC questions I just can't quickly identify what's wrong. I'm relying a lot on my ear to tell me when something is up - which I think is a problem.

Any strategies or tips? How did everyone else improve their SC? How do you approach SC?

Thanks.
Hey Buddy,
If I am to give you one tip, it would be "you CANNOT trust your ear all the time." It just doesn't work. This is because in conventional English that we speak, it is not aligned with the languages' grammar rules. And we are so used to it, that we think its right even though its wrong. GMAT takes advantage of this. Learn the rules!
Another advice would be, how are you answering questions. How are you approaching them? Do you begin right at the answer choices? Do you write down ABCDE on your paper. What I do is, and I think it works for me, write down ABCDE on my paper. Then, read the sentence. Then look for differences in answer choices. Then see in which category do those differences fall in: parallelism, subject-verb, noun-pronoun, etc... And then its just a process of elimination game from there on.
I hope this helps.
Tell me what works for you too!!!
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by 007.r.mason » Thu Aug 12, 2010 1:18 pm
I am in the same boat as you are. I have just enrolled in e-gmat and so far it seems to be helping me out. Quite a few people have reported that e-gmat helped improve their accuracy..

Read my previous post regarding the same:

https://www.beatthegmat.com/re-online-le ... 63431.html

Also read the debrief from e-gmat user:

https://www.beatthegmat.com/700-49q-37v- ... 63767.html

They offer a free trial (e-gmat.com)

let me know if it helps!!
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