Hi,

Do comparisons appear much on the GMAT? I ask because I literally suck at them...got none of them right within the purple OG guide. Explanations seem pretty straight forward in the strategy guide but I keep crashing & burning on these questions!!

thanks...I think!

comparisons are a mainstay of parallelism problems on the test, yes.

how do you do on other parallelism problems? if you understand the basic tenets of grammatical parallelism in other contexts, just apply those same tenets to comparisons, and you should be fine.

if the problem is that you have trouble with parallelism in general, though, make sure that you are VERY LITERAL in your interpretation of the sentence, and that you FIRST examine parallelism in GRAMMATICAL terms. in other words, match up parts of speech, word choices, and so on, and make sure that all the mechanical parts of the parallel constructions are used in the same way.