Sentence Correction

I think it's parallelism as follows:

By Showing......for sympathizing....

Thanks,
Varun Jaswal

AIM GMAT wrote:

vineeshp wrote:

rohu27 wrote: i read somehwere by one of the experts that they are too concerned abt the quality of materials posted here. random sources, unofficial ones, dubious answer chocies, incorrect questions - not to say all but there are enough to turn the experts away who always advise us (and correctly so) to study only from reliable sources.
and also they are concerned whn the posts get too technical - SC is all about eliminating choices and gettin to the right one, not to dissect each and evry answer choice to the bare and improve our grammar skills.

I agree. Sometimes, I find myself spending time on questions that are not perfect.

SC is definitely about eliminating. But if our concepts are not clear, we cant begin elimination either.

I too agree with you guys . My achilles heel is SC , others areas can be improved but SC seems to be stagnant for me , sometimes after solving questions at forum my morale gets sinking , i refer back to official sources for some relief . Vineesh & Rohu , guys what you think more can be done to perform above 80% on SC ?

Let me tell you an easy way to attain more than 90% accuracy in Sc, interested? ..yes i do knw the mantra..



borrow one of the experts brain for your test day

seriosuly speaking im as clueless as you are, and past few months on this forum have scared me even more.(readign test day exps)
it is said at the EOD gmat tests only the few known topics but then again those few are enugh for GMAC to create enugh traps for us i guess.
all we can do is prepare the *right way* and be confident. again its not only abt solving questions. as Ron says, dont leave an OG problem unless u get atleast one takeway frm it.
not sure even this would help. but we cant remember all the grammar rules too - no point, unless you have good 2 years on hand to prepare for gmat, even tht would not be useful i guess.
i knw people who scored 760's and trust me they are no grammar whizzes,they dnt knw all the modifier rules by heart, just they appraoched the test in a right way and in their words OG is the bible (no surprises in that)

rohu27 wrote:

vineeshp wrote:Wonder why the experts dont reply to Verbal as often as they do to Quant questions.

I really want to know why C is correct and B is wrong.

i read somehwere by one of the experts that they are too concerned abt the quality of materials posted here. random sources, unofficial ones, dubious answer chocies, incorrect questions - not to say all but there are enough to turn the experts away who always advise us (and correctly so) to study only from reliable sources.
and also they are concerned whn the posts get too technical - SC is all about eliminating choices and gettin to the right one, not to dissect each and evry answer choice to the bare and improve our grammar skills.

I think it's the latter that keeps experts away, more than the former. It's pretty easy to say "hey that is a terrible Verbal question, three of the answers are grammatically correct." Quant is, simply put, more bound by fixed rules and strategies than Verbal is, so it is easier to answer questions with definitive answers. Not only is what is "correct" in a language always debatable -- dictionaries publishing new editions have to put together panels of usage "experts" who talk about what "sounds right" to them -- but we are dealing with GMAT grammar, which is in turn a subset of actual real-life English grammar. There are grammatically-correct wrong answers in the OG!
So we are faced with the same impossible task you are -- sifting through what experts say, what the OG says, and what test prep sources you all find on the internet say about correct English, and trying form a cohesive set of rules and strategies for a much larger, more fluid, and (because none of us actually make the GMAT) ultimately unknowable data set, compared to Quant. Verbal is much more complex than Quant (not that Quant is somehow easy!).

Of course, I lurk in SC more than anywhere else because I think grammar is really fun (:(), and enjoy talking about it with people who learned English grammatically.