Online GMAT Verbal Course Schedule
Workshop 1: 13th March, 2012, 8:00pm-10:00pm
• Deconstructing Sentence Correction on GMAT
• What makes SC so challenging?
• Why GMAT makes Logic > Rules
• Advanced SC Strategy: Vertical Scan technique
• Basic Grammar 101: Parts of Speech, Subject, Object, Predicate, and Punctuations.
• Basic Grammar 201: Verbals (Gerunds, Participles, Infinitives), Run-on sentence, and Sentence fragments.
• SC Rule #1: Subject-Verb agreement.
Workshop 2:15th March, 2012, 8:00pm-10:00pm
• SC Rule #2: Comparisons.
• SC Rule #3: Pronouns.
Workshop 3:19th March, 2012, 8:00pm-10:00pm
• SC Rule #4: Modifiers.
• SC Rule #5: Parallelism.
Workshop 4:22nd March, 2012, 8:00pm-10:00pm
• SC Rule #6: Tenses.
• SC Rule #7: Idioms
• Advanced SC Strategy: Testing clarity, concision, and meaning.
• Advanced SC Strategy: Application of multiple rules
Workshop 5:26th March, 2012, 8:00pm-10:00pm
Critical Reasoning – Strong fundamentals to crack 2/3rd of CR questions. Solving 80% of questions through Assumptions.
• Deconstructing Critical Reasoning on the GMAT
• Why Lawyers & Marketers are good at Critical Reasoning
• Assumption-based questions: Find assumption
• Advanced CR strategy: 5 common tricks used by GMAT test-setters.
• Advanced CR strategy: Using negation.
Workshop 6:29th March, 2012, 8:00pm-10:00pm
• Revision of Assumption-based CR questions.
• Assumption-based questions: Strengthen/Weaken/Flaw
• Content-based questions: Find the inference/conclusion/main point.
• Advanced CR strategy: Using the 100% true rule.
Workshop 7:3rd April, 2012, 8:00pm-10:00pm
• Content-based questions: Resolve the paradox/problem.
• Structure-based questions: Bold-face questions
• Structure-based questions: Parallel the argument questions
• Advanced CR strategy: Solving in less than 2 minutes.
• Advanced CR strategy: “EXCEPT” questions.
• Advanced CR strategy: Solving single-stem multiple-questions.
Workshop 8:5th April, 2012, 8:00pm-10:00pm
• Deconstructing Reading Comprehension on the GMAT.
• “Reading” on RC including the 3 cardinal sins one should avoid.
• Getting the GIST: General Information, Structure, and Tone through MAP.
Workshop 9:10th April, 2012, 8:00pm-10:00pm
• Reading techniques: Effective translation, Critical Reading, Long v/s Short passages
• Strategy for each Question Type: Big Picture, Anchor phrase, and Inference based.
• Advanced RC strategy: Cute-phrasing, and Halo-effect.
Workshop 10:12th April, 2012, 8:00pm-10:00pm
• “Comprehension” on RC – interpreting multiple POVs.
• Anatomy of Information: Qualifiers, Conjunctions, and Transitional Phrases.
• Advanced RC strategy: Tonal variations to get a sense of the passage.
• Advanced RC strategy: Eliminating wrong answer choices.
• Advanced RC strategy: Staving off distraction.
Workshop 11(Recorded)
AWA
Workshop 12(Recorded)
GMAT plan and Test taking strategy
Workshop 13(Recorded)
Advanced Sentence Correction
Workshop 14(Recorded)
MBA Application process