Tips for Verbal section in GMATGMAT gives you passages which are up to 350 words long.
Topics are usually from physical or biological sciences, social sciences, technology or business
You
need not have any background knowledge of the topics in the passages
and the content in the passage is sufficient to answer the questions.
The Reading comprehension section basically tests your ability to
understand, analyze and apply whats given in the passages.
Tips for Reading Comprehension
As
discussed above GMAT doesn’t test your knowledge on various subjects.
So there is no need to read a lot of content on topics similar to the
ones on GMAT. Surely, read stuff to develop a strategy and improve your
reading speed.
· First, scan the passage to better understand its structure and “big picture” meaning.
· Next, read the first question so you know what to look for.
· Questions usually focus on facts, inferences, main ideas, or the tone of a passage.
· Passages about physical or biological sciences often involve factual questions.
· Social science passages often have inference questions.
· Business passages often have questions about the opinion of the author or the prevailing thought, behavior or attitude.
· Feel free to take notes on scrap paper if this helps you.
Gain a better understanding of an important concept or fact by reading the sentences before and after it.
Critical Reasoning
GMAT verbal section also has about 15 critical
reasoning questions which are mixed with reading comprehension and
sentence correction questions.
Tips for the Critical Reasoning
- Read the question before reading the passage. This lets you know what to look for.
- · Identify the assumptions. Note that if an assumption is not true, the conclusion is not true.
- · Learn
to identify the conclusions as best you can. They are not always
obvious and are not stated explicitly. Sometimes they are implied.
Think about it. Do you really expect a test for this level of education
to say “in conclusion, …” “therefore, …” and such? Taking lots of
practice tests will help you.
- · Be aware that conclusions can be at the beginning, middle or end of the passage.
- · Know the difference between assumptions and conclusions.
- · Beware
the answer that is true. It may not be the correct one. Correct answers
are generally neutral. Emotional answers can generally be eliminated.
Sentence Correction
The sentence correction section judges your command over standard
written English. Sentence correction requires you to correct grammar
and style and also the structure of the sentence so as to make to
correct. You don’t have to write the correct sentence but select one
out of 5 choices which best expresses an idea.
There are 2 types of sentences you are being asked to correct:
- correct sentence
- effective sentence
A correct sentence has good grammar and structure. Do nouns
and verbs agree? Are pronouns consistent? Are verb tenses correct? Know
how to spot and correct dangling participles, lack of parallel
construction.
An effective sentence is clear and concise. There should be
no unneeded words or overly complicated expressions. The words in the
sentence should be appropriate, correct and used in the right context.
Tips for the Sentence Correction Subsection
- Skip answer choice (A) because it is merely repeating the original question.
- · The GMAT does not test punctuation, spelling or capitalization, so don’t waste you time looking for these errors.
- · Sometimes there are no corrections to make. Do not seek errors that do not exist.
- · Eliminate any answers that change the meaning of the sentence.
- Sentences can have more than one error. Find the answer that corrects all the errors
GENERAL TIP:
Elimination strategy works the best. For finding the correct answers,
eliminate the choices. E.g. I don’t know whether c) is the correct
answer or the right sentence but I know for sure that the remaining
choices have some error. That gives me c) as the answer with high
chances success.
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