Approach to MGMAT SC

You are doing well to get down to a few problems. You are close and I think some additional practice can improve your last elimination process.

Try this...practice SC OG problems in a timed set format - 5 in 6:15 or 10 in 12:30. Your focus is on completing all the SC problems in the given time, not necessarily each problem in 75 seconds. If you find yourself "forcing" a guess on the last 2 options, mark that problem for review. After you finish all the problems in the timed set, go back to the problems you have marked for review (before checking if you are right or wrong) and look at the options again to see if your answer changes. Don't worry about the time in this review, just work hard to determine which is correct (or really which one should be eliminated). Then check your answers to see how you have done. Review the explanations for all problems, but especially those you flagged for review.

Pay attention to when you are "forcing" an answer and analyze when it happens and how your process changes when you don't have the pressure of time. By identifying what you are doing differently when the clock is running and changing your process during your practice sessions you may find that you are improving on that last elimination.

Good luck!
KW

Hi KW

I followed your advice and tried to get a handle on my timing issue.
I have come to realize that SC questions involving the entire sentence being underlined or the ones with a big paragraph tends to throw me off my game in a timed environment.
I have scorched through OG and VR but apparently i am not being able to find many such questions.
SO if you could be kind enough to provide me with an approach to tackle such questions along with links of more of such questions to practice, i would be grateful.

Yes, those longer questions will absolutely throw off your timing if you aren't careful. The strategy changes a bit when you hit the longer sentences. For the most part, those types of questions will be modifier questions, so if you are looking for modifiers (leading modifier, modifiers after commas, etc.) and focusing on those because simple splitting often doesn't work. You have to get really good at making some quick eliminations - i.e. based on finding an erroneous leading modifier or seeing an incorrect noun modifier.

Are you saying you can't find long questions or that you have worked through all the long questions you can find?

KW

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