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I just had a session with a tutoring student, and he said something about SC I had never quite heard stated this way, but I thought it was a very useful mindset to share. We were talking about sentence correction, and some of the tricky, subtle meaning errors that can appear. As he came to understand the subtle reason why the sentence he had chosen had an incorrect meaning in its structure, he thought about it and said, "It's almost like I have to think the sentence wasn't written for me."
We discussed this thought, and I saw it was an important insight. He pointed out that virtually everything everything you (generic 'you') read is written *for you.* For *your* perspective. Even in something like a newspaper, or a novel, written for millions of people, the language is written to be easily consumable to you and to your point of view. That doesn't mean it has to align with your experiences, just that there's an understanding of 'there is a human on the other side of this who is reading and interpreting this language from a human point of view.'
I think, in many ways, it's helpful to think of GMAT reading (particularly SC) as a different animal. I've often said to 'read like a robot':
And this is a different way to express that idea. Don't treat the sentence as something for *you*, so that your understanding can fill in the gaps and 'get the gist' even when the sentence itself doesn't express it. It's not for you to understand--it's for the sentence to mean what it says based on the rules of structure and grammar.
It's a subtle mindset shift, but I think this 'stripping of the self' might be a helpful mindset to develop in SC.
I just had a session with a tutoring student, and he said something about SC I had never quite heard stated this way, but I thought it was a very useful mindset to share. We were talking about sentence correction, and some of the tricky, subtle meaning errors that can appear. As he came to understand the subtle reason why the sentence he had chosen had an incorrect meaning in its structure, he thought about it and said, "It's almost like I have to think the sentence wasn't written for me."
We discussed this thought, and I saw it was an important insight. He pointed out that virtually everything everything you (generic 'you') read is written *for you.* For *your* perspective. Even in something like a newspaper, or a novel, written for millions of people, the language is written to be easily consumable to you and to your point of view. That doesn't mean it has to align with your experiences, just that there's an understanding of 'there is a human on the other side of this who is reading and interpreting this language from a human point of view.'
I think, in many ways, it's helpful to think of GMAT reading (particularly SC) as a different animal. I've often said to 'read like a robot':
And this is a different way to express that idea. Don't treat the sentence as something for *you*, so that your understanding can fill in the gaps and 'get the gist' even when the sentence itself doesn't express it. It's not for you to understand--it's for the sentence to mean what it says based on the rules of structure and grammar.
It's a subtle mindset shift, but I think this 'stripping of the self' might be a helpful mindset to develop in SC.
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