Sentence Correction Help

[hamant.maini]

Hi all,

If I may kindly seek your advice: While solving SC questions, I have been able to successfully narrow down to two answer choices on toughest questions. However, getting to a 50-50 percent on picking the right answer. Should I keep solving problems or just step back and read more fundamental topics/rules? If latter, can you please advice some good resources.

Thanks a lot in advance for your guidance,

Best regards.

[theCEO]

Hi all,

If I may kindly seek your advice: While solving SC questions, I have been able to successfully narrow down to two answer choices on toughest questions. However, getting to a 50-50 percent on picking the right answer. Should I keep solving problems or just step back and read more fundamental topics/rules? If latter, can you please advice some good resources.

Thanks a lot in advance for your guidance,

Best regards.

Although it is better to guess from 2 choices than 5 choices, I think you are better off reading materials that explain the fundamental topic. Please see: https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/store/books.

[kutlee]

Look for any meaning difference that may exist. For all you know, there is a good possibility that you overlooked a nonsensical meaning. This is hard, but by far the best clue. I have tried this and this trick helped.

[DavidG@VeritasPrep]

Should I keep solving problems or just step back and read more fundamental topics/rules?

Both! For general strategic tips, check out our Sentence Correction lesson: https://www.veritasprep.com/gmat/free-gmat-lesson/

Then go back to the Official Guide and work through all the Sentence Correction problems there. Anything that's unclear, either post here, or check the archives to see if someone else has had a similar question.

[hamant.maini]

Thanks to all. This is helpful.

Best regards

[bonetlobo]

Hi all,

If I may kindly seek your advice: While solving SC questions, I have been able to successfully narrow down to two answer choices on toughest questions. However, getting to a 50-50 percent on picking the right answer.

That's actually not bad at all. Assuming:

i) 10% of all questions would fall under "toughest questions" category
ii) Your accuracy level is 80% on less than toughest questions" category

Then, your overall accuracy rate in Sentence Correction is 80% of 90 + 50% of 10 = 77%

So, your overall accuracy rate is almost 80%. This means that you will only be getting around 2 questions wrong in every 10 questions.

I understand that you obviously aspire your accuracy rate to go higher, but I am right now aspiring to reach that kind of accuracy rate.

Also, I read another useful post by an expert, where the advice was that rather than aspiring for a 100% accuracy rate in a subject, analyze your areas of relative weakness. So, if your accuracy level is lower than 80% in quant, then it might be better for your overall score, to focus on quant and push up that accuracy to 80% or more, rather than just focusing on getting accuracy of Sentence Correction, where you are already hitting 80%.

[hamant.maini]

That's a very interesting perspective.

Thanks for your time to share this!

Best wishes and good luck.

[bonetlobo]

Good to know it helped. Good luck to you too and do keep sharing useful tips on your learning!