在职备战——大道至简

泾渭不凡

。。。姐姐真的很牛了啦。。。。。。。。姐姐加油！

livia2012

Here is my general strategy:

Bottom Line Up Front: Everything hinges on your ability to conquer any SC question (except those that are truly brutal) in around 60 seconds max.

1. Attack SC questions quickly and efficiently, aim for no more than 60 seconds per question. Obviously you will have 2-3 per test that are real tricky and require 60-120 seconds to analyze, break down, and compare answer choices. Think about it - you will get 4 RC passages per test, each with 4 questions. Therefore you're left with 25 CR/SC questions. Assuming you get about 10 CR and 15 SC, you can make up close to 30 seconds per SC question. Assuming you have the 2-3 that require a full 90 or even 120 seconds, you will still be ahead of schedule by about 6 minutes. This is key. It all starts here.

2. Now that you are working with a full extra 5-6-7 minutes of head-scratching, nail-biting POE time, you can really dig into those tough CR and RC passages. Everyone swears by the MGMAT SC guide, but most fail to tout the MGMAT CR and RC guides! These are GOLDEN. You have GOT to use MGMAT CR and RC if you want to score high 90 percentiles on Verbal. A lot of people claim that the "Diagramming" and "Highlighting" Techniques for CR and RC are time consuming and not feasible on the real GMAT due to time constraints. Let me tell you right now: I diagrammed every single CR question and highlighted all four RC passages when I took the GMAT. How was I able to do this? Yes, I worked efficiently and quickly, but I also had those extra 5 or so minutes I had made up by knocking out SC questions in a timely manner. See how it is all related?

3. Early in my prep, I noticed trends in my verbal test-taking. I never had significant problems with SC, but often got tough CR or RC questions incorrect. I couldn't figure out why until I attempted diagramming and highlighting. As it turns out, I was taking TOO MUCH TIME ON SC, leaving me insufficient time to process the barrage of information thrown at you in an RC passage, or leaving me too rushed as I analyzed CR, which often led to careless errors. REMEMBER: for BOTH CR and RC, the key to ascertaining the correct answer is COMPREHENSION of the passage. The best way to do this is make "highlight" or "diagram" notes as you are reading! This way you are literally reading and writing it simultaneously, which maximizes your brain's ability to truly process the meaning behind the words. Yes, this is difficult to do with an average of 2 mins per question, but if you are ahead of pace with good SC skill, you will have more along the lines of 2:15-2:20 average for RC and CR. These extra seconds are CRUCIAL because they allow you the opportunity to really think about the information, and then seriously consider how it relates to what the question is really asking.

Bottom line - first establish your skill with SC. This will gently ease you into verbal in general. Become more familiar with subject-verb agreement, parallelism, and modifiers. These are the things the GMAT will beat you with the most. Once you are at the 700+ level, you will see questions with all three of these issues at fault within the prompt. Read the sentence over once, and cross off the first option as soon as you know it's wrong (or leave it if a possible correct answer). Then read through the other four choices and place them back in the original sentence, looking for those key elements of SV agreement, parallelism, and modifier placement. Obviously this is overly broad, but if you have read the MGMAT SC guide, you'll know what I'm talking about.

这是个V51的牛人的心经，从babybear那里挖到的宝，我的SC还是要加快速度+提高正确率，必须要拿下！

livia2012

回到自己帖子里也贴下感受

我刚刚仔细看了下昨天baby帖子里的大牛心经，觉得其实备战GMAT是这样一个过程

1.接触GMAT,做OG小试身手，发现自己问题在哪里——第一个很浅的层次，比如SC差啊；
2.针对性提高，这个时候要主要引入总结和思考，不仅仅要看manhattan,看OG，更要第二遍甚至第三遍从另一个角度回头整理自己在第一阶段的思路——缓慢提升阶段，会有很多痛苦和恍然大悟的兴奋；
3.将前一阶段总结出来的适合自己的策略用做题的方式来验证——不用题海战术，每天保持一定做题量，就会发现自己深层次的问题，比如SC策略的错误，RC结构把握问题
4.再次进行总结+寻找经典资料的帮助，如OG，manhattan——个人认为，这个阶段是最有价值，最有含金量的，脱胎的策略会是独一无二最适合自己的
5.策略经过习题验证，恭喜大家，成神了。

等待大家拍砖，我个人觉得我正在第三阶段挣扎中

Suri在奋斗

下午的rc练习，先读杨鹏长难句，基础的东西时时不能落下
刚刚把有道上拖欠的单词，一股脑记忆了
我也是在第三阶段哇~~

ansonleeus

livia2012

DAY 19 还有49天——看轻正确率和做题量，重视创建自己的解题策略，明天要起得非常早，今天任务比较轻。
明天早起再来好好分析下prep SC部分

枫若依旧

杨鹏长难句的确好~我最近也在看。就是有一点，尽管嘴上不出声，心中的声音总也消不掉。即使是按照YP说的，加快读的速度，那个声音也消不掉。不知道什么时候才能真正克服。

童颜公主

杨鹏长难句的确好~我最近也在看。就是有一点，尽管嘴上不出声，心中的声音总也消不掉。即使是按照YP说的，加快读的速度，那个声音也消不掉。不知道什么时候才能真正克服。

-- by 会员 枫若依旧 (2012/2/23 22:40:22)

杨鹏说，眼睛看的速度比默读的速度快，跳意群，就可以消除。我用这个办法不错，因为眼走到下一个了，前一个没法读，特别是意群跳，没法读（不可能同时读好几个音，再说想读的时候，眼睛已经跳至下个群，就作罢了）

枫若依旧

杨鹏长难句的确好~我最近也在看。就是有一点，尽管嘴上不出声，心中的声音总也消不掉。即使是按照YP说的，加快读的速度，那个声音也消不掉。不知道什么时候才能真正克服。

-- by 会员 枫若依旧 (2012/2/23 22:40:22)

杨鹏说，眼睛看的速度比默读的速度快，跳意群，就可以消除。我用这个办法不错，因为眼走到下一个了，前一个没法读，特别是意群跳，没法读（不可能同时读好几个音，再说想读的时候，眼睛已经跳至下个群，就作罢了）

-- by 会员 童颜公主 (2012/2/24 0:08:59)

谢谢公主~，我就是用的这个方法，可是感觉没啥效果，继续心读。读得太快，心读是少了，但都不知道自己再读啥，句子读完后一点映像都没有。不知道是不是我按意群的方法没掌握好，还是像杨鹏说的，刚开始这样练会出现这种读完后不知所云的情况。

童颜公主

谢谢公主~，我就是用的这个方法，可是感觉没啥效果，继续心读。读得太快，心读是少了，但都不知道自己再读啥，句子读完后一点映像都没有。不知道是不是我按意群的方法没掌握好，还是像杨鹏说的，刚开始这样练会出现这种读完后不知所云的情况。

-- by 会员 枫若依旧 (2012/2/24 0:57:03)

因为一开始脑子要刻意操纵眼睛比心读快，没有注意力集中看句子。以后就好了。