krishp84 wrote:
mrblack wrote:
I've gone through
MGMAT's SC book and have exhausted the purple
GMAT OG already. Is there a better way to learn all the tricks for SC? I still don't feel comfortable with all the questions and am looking for ways to actually learn as many grammar rules as possible. Reading through the gmatclub's grammar guide has been very helpful but I doubt I can retain most of the information come G-Day.
Thanks
Have you comprehended all the 5 choices for every single SC question in OG-12 ?
Then applied the MGMAT-SC rules as applicable.
Have you identified your strength/weakness in SC ?
Have you been able to eliminate every wrong answer choice correctly without any doubts ?
If answer to any of the above are NO, then please correct it.
You can utilize the free resources available example - Thursdays with ron videos, Video tutorials, etc if you feel you are really lacking something.
DO NOT MEMORIZE THE RULES - Apply them and understand how it works. It will be more helpful because you will always see a new question in GMAT. So understand the concepts.
May be you can memorize the important IDIOMs if needed and create your own concept notes.
But understanding is more important.My way - Understand the meaning(cutting the unneccessary words) of the sentence - Check if logically correct - Cross-check the Grammar rules on the remaining options
You can do the first 2 steps in parallel.How would I analyze my strengths & weaknesses in SC? Do I look for a pattern of right and wrong answers, and if the wrong answers are all parallelism, then focus on parallelisms? Is this correct? Is this method correct? What about the problems that I get correct, and not entirely sure on the rules? Should this question that is right, be put on the weakness list, even though it's right?
You mentioned that you don't need to memorize the rules, just the concepts? Do you know of any web links that has examples laid out, like ( x, x, and y, not x, but y?) on an excel spreadsheet, or possibly a pdf?