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18 Aug 2022, 06:17
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Solving 700+ level questions requires consistent application. To help you continually enhance your skills, we at e-GMAT have curated a list of essential GMAT Skills that will help you improve from good to excellent in GMAT SC. GMAT Skill of the Day, GSotD, is an initiative by e-GMAT with the sole goal to teach you ONE GMAT Skill in under 10 minutes. You learn this skill through application on difficult Official Questions, and you get to apply this skill for practice right away on difficult 700+ level official questions.
So, let’s get started:
GSotD 1 – How to tackle Illogical Meaning in Choice A
A bit of pondering is needed from your side - when you read a sentence in a GMAT SC question, do you ask, “Does it make sense?”
And now a quick knowledge check - do you know what is the “elegance” trap in GMAT SC questions?
If the answer is “no” to either one or both of these questions, then watch this GMAT Skill of the Day video and learn not one but two GMAT skills of the day!
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• If you selected choices A/D/E, then you failed to ask the question “does it make sense?”. The practice question for you is inspired by another official question from OG Advanced – I have taken the most popular incorrect choice in this question. Read the sentence below and answer the questions that follow:
Although the hagfish secretes a small quantity of slime when threatened, it expands several hundred times as it absorbs seawater, forming a slime ball that can coat the gills of predatory fish and either suffocate them or distress them enough to make them flee.
• If you selected choice C, then you fell in the “elegance trap?”. The practice question for you is another official question from OG Advanced – Solve the question at this link and then answer the following questions.
Overall Slackening of growth in productivity question
Looking forward to reading your responses to the above exercises.
Regards,
Payal Tandon
So, let’s get started:
GSotD 1 – How to tackle Illogical Meaning in Choice A
A bit of pondering is needed from your side - when you read a sentence in a GMAT SC question, do you ask, “Does it make sense?”
And now a quick knowledge check - do you know what is the “elegance” trap in GMAT SC questions?
If the answer is “no” to either one or both of these questions, then watch this GMAT Skill of the Day video and learn not one but two GMAT skills of the day!
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• If you selected choices A/D/E, then you failed to ask the question “does it make sense?”. The practice question for you is inspired by another official question from OG Advanced – I have taken the most popular incorrect choice in this question. Read the sentence below and answer the questions that follow:
Although the hagfish secretes a small quantity of slime when threatened, it expands several hundred times as it absorbs seawater, forming a slime ball that can coat the gills of predatory fish and either suffocate them or distress them enough to make them flee.
- 1. According to the sentence, what expands several hundred times?
2. According to you, does that make sense?
3. What is your learning from this exercise?
• If you selected choice C, then you fell in the “elegance trap?”. The practice question for you is another official question from OG Advanced – Solve the question at this link and then answer the following questions.
Overall Slackening of growth in productivity question
- 1. Which choice has the elegance trap?
2. Does the choice with the elegance trap also change the meaning of the sentence?
3. What is your learning from this exercise?
Looking forward to reading your responses to the above exercises.
Regards,
Payal Tandon
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GSotD 2 – Don’t ignore those pesky little comma changes!
Ask yourself – when you evaluate answer choices, how many times do you pay close attention to the changes in punctuation – addition of a comma or perhaps deletion of one or moving a comma? Watch this video to learn how GMAT test makers utilize such placement of commas to create incorrect answer choices.
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Now that you will be more conscious of errors introduced by those pesky little comma changes read this sentence and answer the questions that follow:
The five-store retailer experienced a prolonged sales slump at the beginning of the year, but towards the third quarter, it experienced a significant improvement in business after the marketing efforts to improve the visibility of the stores were increased, and the new “shop and earn” program that included many benefits for customers became popular.
Looking forward to reading your responses to the above questions.
Regards,
Payal Tandon
Ask yourself – when you evaluate answer choices, how many times do you pay close attention to the changes in punctuation – addition of a comma or perhaps deletion of one or moving a comma? Watch this video to learn how GMAT test makers utilize such placement of commas to create incorrect answer choices.
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Now that you will be more conscious of errors introduced by those pesky little comma changes read this sentence and answer the questions that follow:
The five-store retailer experienced a prolonged sales slump at the beginning of the year, but towards the third quarter, it experienced a significant improvement in business after the marketing efforts to improve the visibility of the stores were increased, and the new “shop and earn” program that included many benefits for customers became popular.
- 1. Logically, according to the author, how many activities took place before the uptick in business at the said retailer happened?
2. Grammatically, is the sentence written correctly to communicate the above?
Looking forward to reading your responses to the above questions.
Regards,
Payal Tandon
