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06 Jan 2010, 01:14
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I'm new to GMAT Club, so thanks in advance for your comments. I'm considering taking MGMAT or Veritas. From what I've read, excluding the overtly biased comments, MGMAT has better resources and more effective tests. The one concern I have is their approach to RC/CR. I understand they subscribe to paraphrasing what you're reading and writing substantial notes while Veritas has an intuitive approach to RC/CR. Can someone briefly describe the Veritas approach?
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Here is also something to help you: gmat-prep-courses-classes-reviews-ratings-and-comparison-78451.html
(Also GMAT Club has a $100 discount for both Veritas and Manhattan GMAT).
(Also GMAT Club has a $100 discount for both Veritas and Manhattan GMAT).
06 Jan 2010, 14:53
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Good question, crushusc – I'm glad you asked! Veritas Prep's approach to Reading Comprehension and Critical Reasoning is rooted in the facts that:
* The GMAT is a standardized test, meaning that questions about various subject areas (science, history, literature, etc.) must all test similar concepts
* Business schools are much more concerned about your ability to think logically and efficiently than they are about your ability to understand the subject-specific topics covered in these passages
Accordingly, our strategies involve a proactive approach to each question or passage, as we teach you to determine the reason that you're reading about a topic and then read specifically for that purpose. Essentially, we find that "reading for understanding" is time-consuming and can be distracting (how often have we all tried to read something for work or school only to find that, when we glance at the last word, we've been thinking about something entirely different while we scanned the page with our eyes?). Knowing what the GMAT writers want you to glean from each piece of writing first, then reading specifically to accomplish that objective, is a great way to read efficiently, to stay focused, and to ultimately avoid any traps that the writers have set with the answer choices.
As an example, suppose a Critical Reasoning question asks you:
"Which of the following would most strengthen the author's conclusion?"
The paragraph that precedes the question stem could be about anything -– botany, poetry, politics –- but your job is specifically to strengthen the conclusion, not to fully understand the situation or any details that pertain to it. Therefore, we would want you to pay particular attention to the conclusion itself and to its scope, as the correct answer will directly support the conclusion, while the incorrect answers will likely offer quality information, but information that doesn't particularly pertain to the specifics of the conclusion.
Often, if people read for understanding (and, remember, this is a timed test) they'll lose track of their task, which is to strengthen that conclusion. In reading quickly with too broad an agenda, they may infer their own details in to the conclusion.
Consider the question:
Sleep deprivation is the cause of many social ills, ranging from irritability to potentially dangerous instances of impaired decision making. Most people today suffer from sleep deprivation to some degree. Therefore, we should restructure the workday to allow people flexibility in scheduling their work hours.
Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the author's conclusion?
If you were to read the paragraph first, you might become initially distracted by your own feelings toward fatigue and your own workday. You might also miss the specific nature of the conclusion – that we aim to restructure, and not shorten, the workday. Because the conclusion specifically deals with rescheduling the workday, we'll need an answer choice that is specific to that goal:
A) The primary cause of sleep deprivation is overwork.
B) Employees would get more sleep if they had greater latitude in scheduling their work hours.
C) The extent of one's sleep deprivation is directly proportional to the length of one's workday.
Choices A and C would both seem to support a slightly-different conclusion – that we should shorten the workday – but they are out of scope of the existing conclusion, which seeks simply to restructure when people work their same number of hours. Accordingly, answer choice B is correct.
This should demonstrate the importance of our strategy – we ask you to read the question stem first, and then based upon the question we have a methodology for which portions of the paragraph are more important to understand before you attempt to tackle the answer choices. This way, you'll be able to hold yourself accountable for smaller doses of information (important when you'll see 41 questions in 75 minutes, especially coming after you've been testing for over 2 hours and are more prone to fatigue and distraction), and you'll emphasize the important components of everything you read, instead of becoming hung up on inconsequential details (which the writers of the exam love to include to help you succumb to fatigue and distraction).
I hope that helps. Please feel free to contact us to inquire further about our curriculum, or view one of our free seminars (https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep-resource-links-no-longer-available-399979.html#/virtual-free-seminar) to participate in a mini-lesson that will shed more light on the strategies we teach and the reasons for them. Best of luck as you prepare for a successful performance on the GMAT!
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