Sentence Correction Strategy

[caputo.robert]

I have a general sentence correction strategy question. I've been working through the MGMAT SC guide, and while I feel like I'm learning the material, I'm having a hard time figuring out the best way to apply the lessons learned on actual problems. For instance, I have a firm understanding of subject-verb agreement and parallelism, and I understand that I'm supposed to read the original sentence and then look for "splits" in the answer choices. However, I'm becoming slow and mechanical with these questions. I suppose my question is, how should I progress through a question, looking for the various, typical SC errors? In other words, it's hard to look for parallelism, subject-verb agreement, etc. all at once. So how do I take all of my SC knowledge and actually apply it to a problem without it taking too much time? Thanks!
-Rob

[tim]

it sounds like you have the right idea, you just need to make sure you're not trying to do everything at once. once you have a good idea in your mind of how you will know each problem type when you see it being tested in a question (do you know what to look for with each one?), you just need to scan over the answer choices (don't even read for understanding during this first pass) and see if you see any words that indicate a certain topic. did you see a pronoun? drop everything and deal with that pronoun until you've eliminated any wrong answers you can. then go back and look for a different topic, and repeat this process until you get rid of all four wrong answers. once you understand this process and can apply it to questions, it's just a matter of practicing until you get good and fast at these!