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18 May 2020, 20:14
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My SC is weak and I want to improve my SC, for the GMAT and also for personal/professional development.
I realize that GMAT SC rules might be a bit different than standard English, but do you have any ideas on how I can incorporate SC into my everyday activities?
Should I start criticizing my writing after every (or few) sentence that I write; it seems like this would take A LOT of time. I know that MS Word or other Softwares like Grammarly criticize your writing, but I am not sure GMAT SC uses the same rules as them. Is there a GMAT specific software that can give feedback on writing?
I realize that GMAT SC rules might be a bit different than standard English, but do you have any ideas on how I can incorporate SC into my everyday activities?
Should I start criticizing my writing after every (or few) sentence that I write; it seems like this would take A LOT of time. I know that MS Word or other Softwares like Grammarly criticize your writing, but I am not sure GMAT SC uses the same rules as them. Is there a GMAT specific software that can give feedback on writing?
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18 May 2020, 23:54
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Hello, i have a suggestion(it might be different from what you are asking for).
While solving an SC question, try to analyse why you selected a particular answer choice or why you rejected the others and match those reasons with solutions provided.Doing this for all available OG questions would help you increase your SC proficiency.
Hope it helps.
While solving an SC question, try to analyse why you selected a particular answer choice or why you rejected the others and match those reasons with solutions provided.Doing this for all available OG questions would help you increase your SC proficiency.
Hope it helps.
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Hi pigisstupid
It is a great idea to try to improve SC through everyday activities. One way would be to read quality newspapers such as The Economist and The New York Times. However, occasionally even these newspapers do not always follow all the rules. For example, I recently came across this in an article in The Economist "Barely a week later, not only have 210m Pakistanis been largely confined to their homes; on March 24th next-door India shut in all 1.3bn of its citizens, too." (Source: https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/03/ ... ty-at-home) This sentence would be incorrect in GMAT because a semicolon needs two independent sentences on either side and 'Barely a week later, not only have 210m Pakistanis been largely confined to their homes.' is not an independent sentence.
I would recommend you to practice what you learn in SC in your everyday writing. For example, I used 'such as' (and not 'like') in 'newspapers such as ...' above because I learned during the course of my SC preparation that we should use 'such as' or 'including' and should not use 'like' when providing examples. Previously I used to use 'like' and 'such as' interchangeably.
I just realized that in my sentence above 'However, occasionally even these newspapers do not always follow all the rules.', it is redundant to use both 'occasionally' and 'always'. So it is better to get rid of one of these two words. Start noticing such issues in your own writings and try to write in the GMAT way.
It is a great idea to try to improve SC through everyday activities. One way would be to read quality newspapers such as The Economist and The New York Times. However, occasionally even these newspapers do not always follow all the rules. For example, I recently came across this in an article in The Economist "Barely a week later, not only have 210m Pakistanis been largely confined to their homes; on March 24th next-door India shut in all 1.3bn of its citizens, too." (Source: https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/03/ ... ty-at-home) This sentence would be incorrect in GMAT because a semicolon needs two independent sentences on either side and 'Barely a week later, not only have 210m Pakistanis been largely confined to their homes.' is not an independent sentence.
I would recommend you to practice what you learn in SC in your everyday writing. For example, I used 'such as' (and not 'like') in 'newspapers such as ...' above because I learned during the course of my SC preparation that we should use 'such as' or 'including' and should not use 'like' when providing examples. Previously I used to use 'like' and 'such as' interchangeably.
I just realized that in my sentence above 'However, occasionally even these newspapers do not always follow all the rules.', it is redundant to use both 'occasionally' and 'always'. So it is better to get rid of one of these two words. Start noticing such issues in your own writings and try to write in the GMAT way.
