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GMAT Ninja's Sentence Correction Resource Collection
So you're on the world's biggest and best GMAT website, and you're probably trying to figure out how to get better at sentence correction. With the epic piles of stuff on this site, where should you start with SC?
Well, how about here? This is our attempt to curate the literally millions(!) of words we've jammed into posts, articles,
full explanations, and
videos in our years as the GMAT Club verbal experts.
Part 1 of this post includes just the most basic starting points:
- General advice for improving your SC performance
- Where to find practice questions and exams
- Where to find an endless pile of full SC explanations
Part 2 features SC resources by question type, including articles, videos, and complete explanations of a few of our favorite SC questions.
Frankly, we're not huge fans of hyper-focusing on individual SC question “types”, mostly because official GMAT questions typically cover multiple grammar, usage, and meaning issues in each individual question. But if you’re struggling with certain commonly tested SC concepts, we'll point you to some of our favorite examples for each of these 12 types:
1. Pronouns, part 1: “it” and “they”
2. Pronouns, part 2: “that” and “those”
3. Modifiers, part 1: “which”, “that”, and related noun modifiers
4. Modifiers, part 2: countable vs. non-countable
5. Modifiers part 3: “-ing”, “-ed”, and other modifiers
6. Subject-verb agreement
7. Parallelism
8. Comparisons & like vs. such as
9. Verb tenses
10. Meaning
11. Punctuation
12. Miscellaneous
Enjoy, and if there's anything you think we're missing, feel free to add a comment in the thread below.
Part 1: General GMAT SC Advice & Resources
Sentence Correction: The Basics
Articles & Forum PostsVideosSC Questions & Practice Exam Resources
Excessive Quantities of Full SC Explanations, Organized by Question Source
How to Become Better at Reading in General for the GMAT
This isn't what anybody wants to hear, but GMAT SC isn’t strictly a grammar exercise, and if your entire SC strategy is based on rote memorization of grammar rules, you’ll inevitably struggle, since GMAT SC requires you to grasp fine differences in meaning among the answer choices.
Nobody wants to hear this either, but the upshot is that your underlying reading skills matter for SC, just as they do on CR or RC. So here are two articles that can help you get you started with improving your reading ability:
Part 2: GMAT SC Resources by Question Type
Apologies if you already read this above, but just in case you didn't: we're not huge fans of hyper-focusing on individual SC question “types”, mostly because official GMAT questions typically cover multiple grammar and usage issues in each individual question. Also, meaning and logic play a large -- and arguably dominant -- role on SC, so obsessively categorizing SC questions isn’t particularly effective.
Of course, there are still some grammar foundations that are essential on the GMAT, and if you’re struggling with certain commonly tested SC concepts, here are some resources that might get you back on track.
1. Pronouns, part 1: “it” and “they”
VideosBest postsFull explanations2. Pronouns, Part 2: “That” and “Those”
ArticlesVideosBest postsFull explanations3. Modifiers, Part 1: “Which”, “That”, and Related Noun Modifiers
ArticlesVideosBest postsFull explanations4. Modifiers, Part 2: Countable vs. Non-Countable Modifiers
VideosBest postsFull explanations5. Modifiers, Part 3: ”-Ing”, “-Ed”, and Other Modifiers
ArticlesBest postsFull explanations6. Subject-Verb Agreement
Best postsFull explanations7. Parallelism
VideosBest postsFull explanations8. Comparisons + Like vs. Such As
VideosBest postsFull explanations9. Verb Tenses
VideosBest postsFull explanations10. Meaning
Disclaimer: pretty much all GMAT sentence correction questions are about meaning, at least to some extent. Even if a particular question feels mostly “grammatical”, the whole point of proper grammar is to make sentences clearer and easier to understand.
At the same time, we completely understand that it can feel much easier to get better at spotting grammar-related SC issues than meaning-based issues. There are absolutely no magic bullets for getting better at spotting the meaning differences between answer choices, but here are some resources that might get you pointed in the right direction:
ArticlesVideosBest postsFull Explanations11. Punctuation
VideosBest postsFull ExplanationsYou’re probably wondering about idioms, huh?
12. Miscellaneous
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