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从babybearmm那里转来的帖子，很好
看到Ron讲methodology太有启发了，发上来分享........
他自己没受过学院派的语法学习，能把SC给学生讲那么清楚那么深刻，他说他讲的那些语法知识都是捉摸OG出来的
-研究OG正确句子，要包括非划线部分-
well ... if you've actually studied a thousand SC problems, i can definitely tell that you aren't studying in the right way.
if you've gotten through that many problems, that means that you're just going through problem after problem after problem after problem and just solving the problems, spending little to no time on review.
no matter what you're studying, make sure that you study with the appropriate DEPTH, not just BREADTH.
in particular, you should try to RELATE problems to each other, and look for GENERALIZABLE lessons, in order to gain the maximum benefit from your practice.
THE PROBLEMS ON THE TEST ARE NOT GOING TO LOOK LIKE THE PRACTICE PROBLEMS!
IF YOU JUST MEMORIZE/REMEMBER THE PRACTICE PROBLEMS EXACTLY AS YOU SAW THEM, THEY WILL HAVE NO VALUE!
they may even have negative value, if the same constructions happen to be used in different ways on the official test.
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for EVERY problem:
* don't concentrate on the solution to that actual problem, since you can be sure you aren't going to see that actual problem on the exam
* instead, try to find TAKEAWAYS from the problem, which you can then APPLY TO OTHER PROBLEMS. this is key - DO NOT LEAVE A PROBLEM until you have extracted at least one piece of information, whether a formula, a strategy, a trick/trap, etc., that you can apply to OTHER problems.
do not leave a problem until you can fill in the following sentence, meaningfully and nontrivially:
"if i see _____ ON ANOTHER PROBLEM, i should _____"
for EVERY OFFICIAL SC problem:
be able to explain every aspect of every construction in the correct answer choice -- including the parts that are not underlined. (remember, this is the only place where you can be 100% assured of finding constructions that are correct!)
this means that you should be able to explain both the grammar and the meaning of everything those choices -- again, including the stuff that isn't underlined.
if you do what i've suggested above -- especially with the correct answers** -- you will probably find that the OG12 alone provides enough SC material for at least a couple of months of study.
honestly, if you put that together with the manhattan SC guide, you should already have more than enough material. quantity is not quality, and, after a certain point (which you have long ago passed if you have actually solved 956 problems), quantity and quality become each other's enemies.
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**i'll let you in on a little secret here: studying the correct answers in this way is really the hidden weapon on this test.
fun fact:
before i started teaching the gmat, i had zero formal training in english grammar -- i'd never studied it academically, and had basically no idea of any of the non-basic rules that i talk about here. (instead, for SC i relied only upon my experience as a professional editor/writer and upon my sheer exposure to tons and tons and tons of material written in highly formal, scholarly english. even though i didn't know any of the actual grammar rules, my experience allowed me to identify "right" and "wrong" immediately and almost instinctually without any sort of formal breakdown -- much as people are able to identify the nature of, say, facial expressions without having to break them down muscle by muscle. for all practical purposes, that sort of approach is impossible for non-native speakers of english.)
here's the fun part:
every single thing i've ever posted on this forum about english grammar, i learned by studying correct answers to official SC problems.
this is not an exaggeration.
here was the process:
* study a correct answer
* justify the use (= grammar and meaning) of EVERY construction in the correct answer
* attempt to generalize the result
* if the generalization is questionable, search other official SC problems for the same construction, and see whether the generalization works. |
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