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Hello. Congratulations on your work through SC. I think, however, that you are not asking the right questions. Should you go through SC again? Only if you need to. I would break this advice into two parts (1 -- assessment & 2 -- critical reasoning):
(1) Before you read SC again, take another practice test from either MBA.com or manhattan. Since you bought the books, you will have access to their practice tests. Take the practice test and review your SC. I don’t just mean look at the questions, I mean seriously analyze the question type & the level of difficulty. You need to make a spreadsheet with all of your missed questions & all of your missed “topics” (that is, verbs, idioms, whatever).
As you take the practice tests, you will notice patterns of mistakes. You need to go back into SC to re-learn those patterns of mistakes. I know you are not “feeling” the test, but you really need to understand what you don’t feel. You are not confident; that’s clear. But why not? Is it a GMAT thing or an English thing?
For idiom questions, you unfortunately have to memorize them. As a native English speaker, will get most idioms correct by using my ear, but I have to remember my rules when looking at modifiers, because native English speakers, quite frankly, speak incorrectly.
I would pay special attention to: subject-verb agreement, parallelism, & collective nouns. As you learn CR, go back to verb tense (since verb tense is about meaning and logic instead of “grammar” rules).
Finally, whenever you read your SC, you really need to understand the sentence. Who is doing what, when. Why is it happening. How is it happening. If you truly understand the sentence, then a lot of the logic (Who is ACTUALLY hurting the dolphins?) will naturally fall into place. Make sureyou understand what you are reading and the rest will work.
(2) Critical Reasoning.
CR is a different beast. You need to focus on finding assumptions. A neat little trick for CR (every answer refers to the assumption the argument is making, in one way or another). So, you know that Manhattan is a little bit too verbose in this section (they write too much). But, if you focus on FINDING ASSUMPTIONS, you will do much better.
For example, 5 questions are (assumption, strengthen, weaken, if true... lend support, & if true... cast doubt):
All of these questions are really asking you to either write the assumption, negate the assumption, or provide information that refers to the assumption or makes the assumption totally wrong.
It will take more than a few paragraphs to teach “how” to answer these questions, but if you are just starting, you absolutely MUST find the assumptions in every argument. If you do that, it means you “Get” it. Focus on that in your CR review.
Best of luck
Craig |
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