09/29，二战，五天，750 (V39/Q51)

tinatinajudy

SC
DOING:

solve OG problems, focus the vast majority of your attention on finding ERRORS;
make a tally of the # of errors of each type that you failed to see, and the # of times you detected 'error' that weren't actually errors;
do a group of problems, keep ONE OR TWO of the most persistent errors in mind;
do the same for other error types on later sets of problems.

REVIEWING:
each SC problem should yield enough juice for about 10-15 minutes of review!

what are the SIGNALS in this problem that tell me what problem type it is?
what sort of STRATEGIES have worked on simmer problem?
what FACTORS have caused me to miss similar problems in the past?
STUDY CORRECT ANSWERS, since everything in the correct answer must be correct.

DIFFICULT PROBLEM:

analyze the problem and find the TRICKS AND TRAPS in the problem. (if you missed the problem, there should always be at least one of these!)
find the SIGNALS in the problem that give clues to the correct strategy. this is best done via cross-comparisons among similar problems.
try to find ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES that would work for the problem, as well as for similar problems.

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LZ给力啊~

tinatinajudy

半夜两点了，困觉去了。原来写帖子也这么费事
把先前的东西一样一样刨出来，剃掉过于个性化的，然后还要思量结构、把剩余的有机整合起来。

班西城堡

楼主得到GMAT 想你掌握的精华了。。恭喜楼主

tinatinajudy

楼上，我没明白您的意思。。。

tinatinajudy

BTW，两次考试，一点机经都没看，作为一个中国人，我是不是太傻？
因为刚看到一篇帖子，他看了机经然后考到的题，相当的多，而且跟我考的几乎一模一样，只不过他在广州，我在纽约，前后相隔一天。

所以，我想我的帖子，大概只能针对那些像我这样的偏执狂。如果只是想beat GMAT或者GMAC的话，什么方法都行，只要有帮助。

班西城堡

我想说的是GMAT 是商学院的入学的标准考试，衡量的能力应该也和日后商业管理学习实践的需要的能力一致。而楼主的从中悟出的战略思路就是GMAT 的想要考核考生的方向。GMAT 考试肯定不希望大家花费巨多的时间，用题海战术来获得高分。

所以我很羡慕楼主已得到GMAT 考试的真义，而不是为了考试而考试。相信楼主在的日后的学习实践中也会独到的领悟，取得非凡成就的。

班西城堡

非常欣赏你的战略，而且我也受益很多！ 再次感谢楼主的无私分享！

tinatinajudy

CR


每一种类型TOTALLY DIFFERENT。
问题类型：

FIND THE ASSUMPTION
DRAW THE CONCLUSION
STRENGTHEN/WEAKEN
EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE/DISCREPANCY
BOLDFACE QUESTIONS/ANALYZE STRUCTURE

BOLDFACE
从来没有错过，所以没花一分钟去思考。

ASSUMPTION
an ASSUMPTION is ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED. 简言之，你需要这个statement。shortcut:
1. ANYTHING that is MORE GENERAL than the passage = automatically wrong.
2. ANYTHING that makes a DISTINCTION THAT WAN'T MADE IN THE PASSAGE is automatically wrong.


STRENGTHEN/WEAKEN
这类问题则完全不同于ASSUMPTION，因为它不需要"necessary" or "required"。无论何时，选项给你的，TAKE IT AS FACT。
shortcut:
你的答案一定在原文之外；
任何REPEATING原文内容的，一定DOES NOT STRENGTHEN。
BTW，OG的对repeating的否定，那是相当的明确。任何一个重申的选项，错误原因只有一句话：restate。所以，看到repeating，杀无赦。


DRAW THE CONCLUSION
这并不是日常生活中的 "drawing conclusions"。
GMAT的conclusion MUST stay ABSOLUTELY WITHIN THE SCOPE of the statement in the passage!
shortcut:
迅速排除任何落在原文内容之外的选项！
BTW，PROPERLY INFERRED, STRONGLY SUGGESTED都是变种的DRAW THE CONCLUSION.


EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE/DISCREPANCY
这类问题的难点：找到这个discrepancy！
所以，在看选现前，把这个VAGUE question CONVERT into a SPECIFIC question.


另外，我清楚记得OG给CR部分的建议是：先读问题，再看原文，然后选择正确答案。
这个顺序绝对绝对行之有效！

tinatinajudy

RC


问题类型：

Main Idea
Organization of passage (purpose of this paragraph, what's the difference between paragraph 1 and paragraph 2, etc.)
Author's purpose ("why do they use this/that particular word")
Inference
"According to the passage"/"The passage indicates"

第一次复习的时候，RC错的几乎全是main idea，所以这次针对这个下了大功夫，然后发现以前的解题思路完全不对。改正方法后，没有再错。

MAIN IDEA
NEVER JUST FACTS!
如果你非常机械地去做RC(有时候mechanics在SC有效)，那么你非常有可能完全miss掉文章本要传达的信息。
那么，为什么会做错main idea的问题呢？
先入为主！
如果你先被动接受一个信息/观点，你绝对会不停地尽你全力去找各种各样的信息来support这个被动接受的信息/观点，即使这个信息/观点完全错误。

读完文章，NEVER FORMULATED MY OWN IDEA，直接跳到选项，都觉得似是而非，然后就会到原文中寻找蛛丝马迹，既浪费了时间，也完全掉进陷阱里了。因为选项必然是干扰的。GMAT的出题，哪那么愚笨？都是通过大量数据辅助心理分析，找出普通人解题的弱点，然后拼命在这些地方干扰你。
解决之道：
读完文章，paraphrase main idea。
然后看问题，如果是Main Idea，直接选最接近的表述。

其实，这个策略对这三类问题通通行之有效。它们的共性是：test things that are NOT WRITTEN in the passage
Main Idea
Organization of passage (purpose of this paragraph, what's the difference between paragraph 1 and paragraph 2, etc.)
Author's purpose ("why do they use this/that particular word")

Inference
按照CR的inference来做，也就是变种的draw the conclusion。

"According to the passage"/"The passage indicates"
细节定位，这个没什么好讲的，回原文。千万别以为自己记性好、文章全看懂了，凭印象就选答案。一定要回原文，别在简单问题上栽跟斗。