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by Amadalia » Mon Jan 27, 2014 6:05 am
Good day,

I would like to ask for advises regarding handling the comparison issu,I've read the whole Manhattan sentence correction book, but I'm still struggling when it comes to that particular point specially because of the Ellipisis issue.I really need a kind of mathematical logical approch I can follow to nail any comparison problem

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by Patrick_GMATFix » Mon Jan 27, 2014 9:52 am
Just my opinion:

if reading up on rules and strategies in a good book did not help you, reading up on general strategies from a forum post may not help much either. You might have better luck working through problems with someone better than you (friend/tutor) so that you can get feedback on what's wrong with your approach, rather than get general instructions on how to do comparison (you've already had such instructions from the MGMAT book).

I would bet that a lot of the general advice you get from competent people will be similar to what you've already read. Have you thought about getting a tutor even for one focused session to explore what you're doing wrong?
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by [email protected] » Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:00 pm
Hi Amadalia,

The GMAT tends to repeatedly test straight-forward grammar rules, although sometimes those rules can be "packaged" in ways that you're not used to seeing.

Comparison questions come down to this basic rule: you must compare LIKE things, but the number does not matter.

For example, you can compare a person to another person. You can also compare a person to several people. You CANNOT compare a person to another person's grades. In GMAT SCs, be on the lookout for whichever part of the comparison is NOT underlined; that non-underlined portion is what the OTHER part must match.

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