Thanks everyone, apologies for the lack of replies, I was spending as much time as I could studying.
Let's get to the result first, I did the actual GMAT test today and bombed out, getting only 680 (Q48, V34 and IR8), so I cancelled the result and looking to regroup for round 2.
I think my downfall is I tried to study too many materials in too short space of time, I went through the
MGMAT SC book in 1 weekend, at first that improved my SC accuracy to 50%, but it quickly went back down to 20% as my brain just couldn't retain that much information.
I am thinking about enrolling in the
eGMAT course, but it seems like while I know all the theory, it doesn't improve my ability to solve SC questions, what's the best way to break out of that barrier? For example, let's say there's a question about parallelism and subject-verb agreement, I would see the word "and" and say, "aha, that's a parallelism question", but then I would struggle to find which verb should be parallel. Even if I correctly eliminate the wrong answers that are not parallel, I couldn't figure out what to look for next, maybe it's the "which" in answer choice B, but in the heat of moment I can't really tell whether "which" should be in the sentence or not.
It just feel really frustrating because I have been using English since I was 9, yet I just couldn't get my head around sentence correction despite studying for it for the last 2 weeks and I have just about exhausted the sentence correction questions in
the official guide. I am still getting 90%+ for RC and CR questions, but getting 20% on SC.
I am not sure what's the best way to convey the difficulty I have having, it's as if I am asked to draw a 3D picture and I know all the techniques needed to draw 3D, but no matter how hard I try I just keep drawing a 2D picture instead of 3D....
ScottTargetTestPrep wrote:
Hi Athenian49,
Feel free to reach out with further questions.
Good luck!!
Thanks for such a detailed reply, I must admit I fall into the "trap" answers more times than I got the correct answer! You mentioned one method is to try 30 questions in one area before moving on, may I ask what would be a good source for this?
The official guide don't have that many questions and in any event, you can't do those questions by topics tested.
Right now my "best" method is to use my ear, which as you said is far from ideal, but when I tried to use the techniques I learned I really struggled. It's easy when it's a simple parallelism issue, but when you then stack that with answer choices that tests you on the entire modifier being moved around in the sentence and subject verb agreements, my brain just wave a white flag.