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GMAT Sentence Correction: 9 Most Common Errors!!! [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 25 Sep 2014, 04:12
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Every day we'll be finding discussions of interesting and tricky questions from previous years. We will be finding 5-10 Sentence Correction topics every day based on Most Common Errors tested on the GMAT:
  • subject-verb agreement errors,
  • grammar, meaning, concision errors,
  • parallelism errors,
  • pronoun errors,
  • modifier errors,
  • verb tense, mood and voice errors,
  • comparison errors,
  • idiomatic errors
  • sentence structure and style errors,

Study those hand-picked tough and tricky questions which have not been discussed for at least a year or two (you may have missed them otherwise) and review replies and tips from our expert team and prominent members.

Theory Article - How to Solve any Sentence Correction Question
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Re: GMAT Sentence Correction: 9 Most Common Errors!!! [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 27 Sep 2013, 11:58
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September 17th (day 1): Subject-verb agreement errors.



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Re: GMAT Sentence Correction: 9 Most Common Errors!!! [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 27 Sep 2013, 12:04
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September 27th (day 9): Sentence Structure, Style & Usage, and Misc Concepts



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Re: GMAT Sentence Correction: 9 Most Common Errors!!! [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 27 Sep 2013, 11:59
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September 18th (day 2): Grammar, meaning, concision errors.



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Re: GMAT Sentence Correction: 9 Most Common Errors!!! [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 25 Sep 2013, 10:47
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September 25th (day 7): Comparison



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Re: GMAT Sentence Correction: 9 Most Common Errors!!! [#permalink] New post   26 Sep 2013, 10:39
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September 26th (day 8): Idioms



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Re: GMAT Sentence Correction: 9 Most Common Errors!!! [#permalink] New post   19 Sep 2013, 10:35
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September 19th (day 3): Parallelism errors.



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September 24th (day 6): Verb Tense, mood and voice erros



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September 20th (day 4): Pronoun errors,.


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Re: GMAT Sentence Correction: 9 Most Common Errors!!! [#permalink] New post   27 Sep 2013, 23:59
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Very much helpful forum... thank you for sharing such information sir.. Highly Appreciate the effort done by you all .. :)

I will definitely go through every single link and study.. :)
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Re: GMAT Sentence Correction: 9 Most Common Errors!!! [#permalink] New post   01 Oct 2013, 22:21
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Update :- New Article released by e-GMAT added in the Pronoun Errors section.
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Update :- Addition of Link to the Theory Article (By Stacey Koprince - MGMAT) in the Main Post. Check Here
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Re: GMAT Sentence Correction: 9 Most Common Errors!!! [#permalink] New post   11 Nov 2013, 15:35
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I highly recommend something similar for CR. One question type each day and pick the threads that have had the best discussions on OG / Gmat prep questions.


Hi fozzzy,
A similar compilation for CR is available gmat-critical-reasoning-10-most-common-question-types-162476.html#p1286256
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I highly recommend something similar for CR. One question type each day and pick the threads that have had the best discussions on OG / Gmat prep questions.
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Re: GMAT Sentence Correction: 9 Most Common Errors!!! [#permalink] New post   11 Oct 2013, 06:39
fozzzy wrote:
I highly recommend something similar for CR. One question type each day and pick the threads that have had the best discussions on OG / Gmat prep questions.


thanks so much for liking the concept and encouraging us. We will definitely try to bring up something similar to this on CR at the soonest. If you would like to suggest anything on top of this , you are most welcome to do so.
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