DS 142

Work on sentence correction during spare time.


Problem Solving is complete.  Slow down, be careful, attention to detail, mastery of algebra and exponents are crucial. 

Trying to finish up Quant so that I can take a practice test, having gone through all the questions in the review guide.   I already finished verbal, so hoping to finish quant really soon.

Quant:
I'm making the same stupid mistakes again.  I NEED TO ANSWER THE RIGHT QUESTION!!!!!!  Stop taking useless shortcuts, and take the extra seconds to write the units of measure to make sure I'm organized.   WRITE DOWN THE UOM that the question is asking for.

For long work (w = r x t) problems, its probably going to be easier to plug in the answer choices.   Use this strategy for Quant for the actual GMAT.

For long word problems, read the problem twice:
1) Try to get the gist of the problem and not read the math.  Pay attention to the words/situation.
-organize and make a table or chart

2) go back and investigate the math



PS 157, DS 140

Reading Comprehension:

For the "primary purpose of the passage" questions, don't default to pick answers that sound like "present evidence that resolves a contradiction.  more likely the answer will be challenge a widely accepted explanation.   The notes should be sufficient to answer the question.

If the question says "explicitly" that means the answer is in the passage.

Completed: ALL RC, ALL CR,  PS 125, DS 130

Reading Comprehension:

Skim the passage, but write notes for each paragraph.  Get the just and write down key words and trigger words.   Know where the detail is, but don't read them too carefully.

The first sentence and last sentence of a paragraph are probably the most important.

Critical Reasoning:  Boldfaced sentence questions:  Determine if both sentences are positive and negative.  Look at both of the bold parts, ignoring everything in between, an access their relationship that way. 


Completed: RC 133

Reading Comprehension:  Find a way to stay organized for passages that are long, boring, and complex.

- Take good notes.

Critical Reasoning:  Use more abbreviations and less words for deconstructing.

Completed: RC 119, CR 115,  DS 120,

Completed: DS 111, PS 108, CR 110, and did some more sentence correction work on Pronouns.


"remember that PRONOUN AMBIGUITY IS NOT AN ABSOLUTE RULE"  

Critical Reasoning:
1) Pay attention to the switching of directions.
2) Pay attention when the question has the word "Except" in it.  Answer the right question.

Completed: PS 106, CR 104, Sentence Correction: Prounouns from OG12 (still need to do the ones from the Verbal book)