GMAT Verbal – The Bracketing Technique
GMAT Sentence Correction Tip: Ignore Distractions Between the Subject and Verb of a Sentence On the surface, subject-verb agreement is a fairly simple English grammar concept. Subjects and verbs must always agree in a sentence. Singular subjects require singular verb conjugations, while plural subjects require plural verbs. Simply put, we say “I like cake” instead […]
Collective Nouns
Collective Nouns as Antecedents A collective noun is a word used to define a group of objects, where the objects can be people, animals, emotions, inanimate things, concepts, etc. For example, in the phrase “a gaggle of geese,” gaggle is a collective noun. The important understanding for the GMAT is that while the group is […]
Get Ready for the “NEW” GMAT
Next Generation GMAT with Integrated Reasoning I heard it said once that the only constant in life is change. That may be true, yet it seems like nobody really likes change. Why, then, would the GMAC up and change the GMAT after so many years when the GMAT seems to have been doing its job […]
GMAT Grammar – What is an Ellipsis?
GMAT Sentence Correction Grammar Rule: ELLIPSIS What is an ellipsis, why should you bother to know it, and how is it tested on the GMAT? Let’s get this out of the way right up front: We’re not talking about an ellipse, which in geometry is a plane curve that’s the slice of a cone (and […]
“A number” vs “The number” – GMAT Sentence Correction
GMAT Subject-Verb Agreement Rule Subject-verb agreement is one of the most important and most commonly-tested points of grammar on GMAT sentence correction questions. In fact, it should be among the first things you look for when evaluating the underlined portion of a sentence on the GMAT, and the “bracketing technique” we teach is incredibly useful […]
GMAT Sentence Correction Rules – Tip of the Week
GMAT Modifiers – GMAT English Grammar GMAT Tip of the Week for the week of November 7, 2011 This week’s GMAT tip* is to look for a tip-off in a GMAT sentence correction sentence that there may be a misplaced modifier error: If you see a modifying phrase followed by a comma, check to make […]
GMAT Reading Comprehension – Tip of the Week
GMAT Reading Comprehension Questions Tip of the Week for the week of October 24, 2011 This week’s GMAT tip* is to focus on the first and last sentence in each paragraph of GMAT reading comprehension passages. Check out this video to see why, and how it will help you read more quickly and get more […]
Effective GMAT Time Management Techniques
Effective time management is important for scoring well on the GMAT. Learning how to solve all of the major questions types tested on the GMAT is only half the battle; at the end of the day, you need to translate that knowledge into getting right answers on the actual test. And here’s the rub: you […]
GMAT Sentence Correction Tip: Spot the Differences
Don’t you hate it when you’re working a GMAT Sentence Correction problem, you eliminate a couple clearly wrong answers, and yet you just can’t seem to choose between the remaining answer choices? The longer you look at them, the more they seem to blur together, right? You start to convince yourself that one of the […]
Suggested Reading List – Reading Comprehension
GMAT Reading Comprehension questions test — get this — your ability to comprehend what you read! Crazy, huh? Sure, you can learn how to read the passages in a way that is most effective for setting you up for the best chance to identify right answers. Sure, there are tricks for figuring out the main […]
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