Best Verbal Question bank?

TheNightKing, also, I would recommend videos by RonPurewal. Search for a repository that carcass compiled. There are about 20 CR videos in which Ron delineates 4-6 questions per video. Also, there is approximately the same number of SC videos in that repository.

I have not used a whole lot of SC resources. Frankly, I think that Manhattanprep SC Strategy Guide is quite comprehensive, and you can pick up explanations by Ron and GMATNinja here at gmatclub. Plus, just go through a bunch of SC Butler questions and read explanations by generis. That should be more than enough to elevate your SC ability. In one of his videos, Ron explains how one can learn from OG questions that a test taker already attempted. So, I really believe that quality >> quantity. This applies to all three Verbal departments.

With all due respect to Ron, I don't follow his teaching style. I have tried to watch his videos but well one size doesn't fit all.


Yes I have completed that Guide and Ninja is my favorite when it comes to SC explanations. So that part is covered.


You know I used to post almost daily on Butler questions but I have stopped now. I will resume that.


I can surely watch this video to get the idea of what is expected when reattempting a question.

I found his explanation very helpful, so unfortunately I cannot give you any other guidance regarding CR/RC.


The idea that Ron conveys in his video is that one should go through every single OG question and look for patterns. What I mean is that imagine you get a question and you answer it correctly/incorrectly by looking at parallelism issues.

First, you have to make sure that you analyze every single answer choice to ID four incorrect options.
Second, you should go through all questions that you have done before and check for most common issues in every single answer choice and see whether you can eliminate some answer choices based on 1 criteria. Say you want to analyze SV agreement. Go through all ~300 (or whatever the number is) questions in a certain OG edition and only look for SV errors. If you cannot answer a particular question (say, you only eliminated option (B)), you should proceed to the next questions. That way you will train your eye to spot SV issues. Then you can go through all ~300 again and look for modifier issues. Then comparison, parallelism, and, finally, pronouns.

The above analysis is quite arduous, but this is one of the few methods that you can surely employ without any external help. Also, I bet that after ~50 questions you will be fluent in a certain SC topic so that you can switch to another SC subject and start analyzing these 50 questions again.

mykrasovski

May be too much to ask. Do you have the link to the exact video that you are talking about?

I did not find it on YouTube and don't want to download the entire collection of such a huge size.

TheNightKing this is your lucky day - the video is #26 in 2010 folder and was produced on November 18. Be ready for a very fastidious process. Good luck!

mykrasovski

Awesome, Thank you for saving my day!

This is excellent advice. Most test takers do not analyze official practice questions as well as they should.

CC mykrasovski

Just to put the summary out there.

Let me know if this involves any copyright issues. I or any moderator can delete the post.

Hey TheNightKing, not sure about the copyright issues. Best to seek guidance from moderators or bb.

But yeah, you perfectly captured the idea. Of course, one may not need to go into such an arduous endeavor to practice SC. IMHO, the method is great for those who "feel/believe/assume" that they covered "all" OG questions and still struggle with SC.

Happy studying!