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Complicated SC questions ... how to approach them?

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nonameee
 Post subject: Complicated SC questions ... how to approach them?
 Post Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:58 am 
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I would like to ask especially Stacey if she could explain how to solve the following situation. But if some members are familiar with it, I would also love to hear their inputs.

I've read a great number of Stacey's articles and posts on SC topics. I've also read her post (I think it was on MGMAT's blog or something) about the general approach to SC. While the approach she recommend is very good, it doesn't address one issue that I struggle with.

My problem is that when sentences tend to be very long or complicated, I become disoriented while reading the answer choices. Because of that I have to re-read a couple of words before and after the underlined part. And if I don't re-read them, I lose confidence in choosing the answer.

The problem becomes especially pressing when I don't initially spot any errors in the original sentence.

Could you please give me some advice on how to tackle this issue?

Thanks a lot.
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assetgmat
 Post subject: Re: Complicated SC questions ... how to approach them?
 Post Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 11:27 pm 
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One approach that works for me, is to break the options into a split like 2-3, or 1-4, based on some word either a verb/tense. Generally, these sentences have more than one issue.
Pick up one for which you are definitely sure, and then work with the split.

Stacey can throw more light on it.
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aliassad
 Post subject: Re: Complicated SC questions ... how to approach them?
 Post Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:16 am 
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A common mistake on sentence correction is to concentrate on sentence. A better approach as suggested above would be to concentrate on eliminating the answer choices.


SC problems are tailor made for POE. Our job is to eliminate the wrong answers not to correct the sentences.
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tim
 Post subject: Re: Complicated SC questions ... how to approach them?
 Post Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 3:48 am 
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Good advice; thanks..

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