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18 Aug 2022, 07:01
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Hi KarishmaB egmat GMATNinja @ExpertGlobal5 EMPOWERgmatVerbal RonTargetTestPrep and all gmat expert
My gmat is scheduled two weeks from now. I am particularly facing issue in meaning based SC. Can you please suggest how can I improve it or suggest some video link to refer to.
Instance of the question where I faced issue in eliminating options
The overall slackening of growth in productivity is influenced less by government regulation, although that is significant for specific industries like mining, than the coming to an end of a period of rapid growth in agricultural productivity.
(A) the coming to an end of
(B) the ending of
(C) by the coming to an end of
(D) by ending
(E) by the end of
PS : I have gone through the solution and convinced why C is correct. I want you guidance over how to improve accuracy in such SC
My gmat is scheduled two weeks from now. I am particularly facing issue in meaning based SC. Can you please suggest how can I improve it or suggest some video link to refer to.
Instance of the question where I faced issue in eliminating options
The overall slackening of growth in productivity is influenced less by government regulation, although that is significant for specific industries like mining, than the coming to an end of a period of rapid growth in agricultural productivity.
(A) the coming to an end of
(B) the ending of
(C) by the coming to an end of
(D) by ending
(E) by the end of
PS : I have gone through the solution and convinced why C is correct. I want you guidance over how to improve accuracy in such SC
18 Aug 2022, 08:37
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Hi KarishmaB egmat GMATNinja @ExpertGlobal5 EMPOWERgmatVerbal RonTargetTestPrep and all gmat expert
My gmat is scheduled two weeks from now. I am particularly facing issue in meaning based SC. Can you please suggest how can I improve it or suggest some video link to refer to.
Instance of the question where I faced issue in eliminating options
The overall slackening of growth in productivity is influenced less by government regulation, although that is significant for specific industries like mining, than the coming to an end of a period of rapid growth in agricultural productivity.
(A) the coming to an end of
(B) the ending of
(C) by the coming to an end of
(D) by ending
(E) by the end of
PS : I have gone through the solution and convinced why C is correct. I want you guidance over how to improve accuracy in such SC
My gmat is scheduled two weeks from now. I am particularly facing issue in meaning based SC. Can you please suggest how can I improve it or suggest some video link to refer to.
Instance of the question where I faced issue in eliminating options
The overall slackening of growth in productivity is influenced less by government regulation, although that is significant for specific industries like mining, than the coming to an end of a period of rapid growth in agricultural productivity.
(A) the coming to an end of
(B) the ending of
(C) by the coming to an end of
(D) by ending
(E) by the end of
PS : I have gone through the solution and convinced why C is correct. I want you guidance over how to improve accuracy in such SC
First off, for what it's worth, you chose an example sentence that spun me into knots for about twenty minutes as I read a thread about it to figure out why C was preferred over E. The meaning difference there is very subtle, and even though I understood it, I had a hard time (...and still kind of do, truthfully) seeing why C is preferrable. (Some of the explanations I saw get into some wild metaphysics of phenomenology on this one. Something like, does "my dog" make me happy? Or does "the fact that my dog exists" make me happy? Does "The end of an era" influence something, or does "the fact that an era ended" influence something?")
[Reed screams into the void]
So, first off... I have 760, with a V47. You don't need to get *everything* to do well on this game!
But... to your bigger question... meaning is one of the trickier aspects of SC. It requires a sort of hyper-literalization. Even if you can't choose between C and E, being able to see why "The end of an era" and "The coming to an end of an era" are different is a key skill in SC. (Avoiding the conflation of very similar, or very similar sounding, ideas is a skill that lurks throughout the whole test, really).
A lot of meaning issues deal with modifiers and structure.
"Before the embezzlement was revealed, he believed in his honest business partner" and "Before the embezzlement was revealed, he believed that his business partner was honest" have very different meanings, even though many of the 'parts' are the same. Even:
"Before the embezzlement was revealed, he believed in his business partner's honesty" and "Before the embezzlement was revealed, he believed that his business partner was honest" have different meanings (I think... This one is definitely trickier).
You have to use structure to identify how these meanings differ. If I 'believe in my honest business partner,' the thing I believe in is 'my partner,' who is described as 'honest.' So "I believe in my honest business partner" means "I have faith that my businesses parter, who is honest, can succeed."
If "I believe that my business partner is honest." I have faith that my business partner will not lie. It's a belief that his honesty exists.
Now, the truth is it will be hard to make huge strides on this in two weeks. But I'd check out the link in my signature to the 'studying for verbal' starting kit and watch some of the SC videos. In particular, the ones here:
MODIFIERS AND MEANING:
READING LIKE A ROBOT:
18 Aug 2022, 09:49
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Rickooreo - When it comes to approaching SC questions, you have to make meaning a central part of your process. You need to learn to extract the aspects that the author wants to communicate. I am going to share some resources that will help you inculcate the meaning-based approach that we introduced in 2010.
Free Session on meaning-based approach: https://www.loom.com/share/d33ea09150a6 ... 419d3fb355 . The question that you posted is discussed in this session.
An old article on how the GMAC introduces meaning-related errors: https://gmatclub.com/forum/5-strategies ... 24296.html
Go through these and try to apply the same.
-Rajat
Free Session on meaning-based approach: https://www.loom.com/share/d33ea09150a6 ... 419d3fb355 . The question that you posted is discussed in this session.
An old article on how the GMAC introduces meaning-related errors: https://gmatclub.com/forum/5-strategies ... 24296.html
Go through these and try to apply the same.
-Rajat
. What's more, I would probably get it wrong even if I just attempted it on gmatclub. 
