Hi Santora,

Before I can offer you the specific advice that you’re looking for, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

Studies:
1) How long have you studied?
2) What study materials have you used so far?
3) How have you scored on EACH of your CATs (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?

Goals:
4) What is your goal score?
5) When are you planning to take the GMAT?
6) When are you planning to apply to Business School?
7) What Schools are you planning to apply to?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
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Hi santorasantu
Suppose you see many questions in which 'AND ALSO' together is not correct. So you make a general understanding that whenever you see such usage you'd eliminate that choice. Now what GMAT would do is, it will throw a question (higher level of course) at you in which AND ALSO together is correct. This is where most of us go wrong because we need to learn how a concept is twisted and layered with difficulty of 500/600/700 level.

Do this to improve on SC:

1. Go through entire MGMAT SC guide. Also watch each RON's video on SC and you will improve really quickly. it is going to be time taking but will pay off really well.
2. Make a strategy to tackle the SC question and follow it.
3. Start doing official SC questions.
4. Start writing Take away from each question you do. Of course you don't want to make the document unnecessary long by writing the same learning coming from two questions. So write UNIQUE take aways.
5. Do more practice, learn more concepts, learn more from other official SC questions and every day revise from the document you keep updating with take aways.

This document will make you see how GMAT exploits a concept in different questions. you will then see the difference in a 600 and a 700 level question testing you on a same concept.

Apart from official practice questions, you can practice MGMAT questions too.

Please post if you have nay follow up questions.
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Thanks for the tip Vipulshahi. I did try egmat, quite some time ago. I bought MGMAT Interact and the concepts/videos are quite good.

Hi Santora,

Since you've been focused on studying for the last month, we need more detailed information about your CAT results (not just the 'ranges' of your Score, but the exact results for each CAT that you've taken. This will help define how well you've been progressing, potential patterns in your performance and any outliers to your Scores.

1) On what day - and what time of day - did you take each CAT?
2) How did you score on EACH CAT (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH?)
3) Did you take the FULL CAT - including the Essay and IR sections?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
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Thanks for the tips GMATpill. I shall post the results in few days after following your strategy.

Hey santorasantu,

If you're confident that you are comfortable with most of the main rules, chances are that it isn't just an issue of practice - it's probably a matter of strategy. One of the things that many people overlook on sentence correction is that there are indeed rules and exceptions to those rules. However, when there are exceptions to the rule in the answer choices, generally the GMAT is going to give you another way of differentiating between answer choices.

One thing that help is prioritizing the order in which you look at each of the differences between the answer choices -- don't just work from left to right. Suppose you have a subject/verb agreement change, passive voice versus active voice, and a modifier at the end of a sentence. Even if that passive voice versus active voice change in the answer choices comes before the subject/verb agreement decision point, you should prioritize the subject/verb agreement decision point because it's straightforward. (After all, passive voice can sometimes correct.) Then move on to the modifier at the end of the sentence. By the time you've eliminated answer choices based on these decision points, chances are you won't even have to make a decision between active and passive voice.
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