I keep getting 1 or 2 wrong in Writing

donnykim
Sun, 24 Feb 2013 13:42:48 +0000

To consistently get a perfect on the MC, you have to first master identifying the No Error Questions. To do this, get a list of over 100 No Error Questions, mix them up with 500 other random sentence identifcation questions, and see how many No Errors you miss. Go back and carefully identify the ones that you did miss, and familiarize yourself with certain expressions that that I often see on the No Error Section, such as “as a means of” or “need not”…“long since been gone…”

If the sentence identification errors are not a problem, and you’re getting killed on questions 13 and 14 in the last part, then you need to study MISUSED/MISPLACED MODIFIERS and TRICKY ADVERBIAL PARTICIPLES/CLAUSES…because that’s what I’ve seen tested a lot in those last 2 questions… where an incorrect placement of “either” or “also” changes the entire meaning of the sentence…

Also, don’t overthink it. A lot of questions in the last part of the sentence identification errors will use extremely tricky verb tenses/modifiers/inverted subject verb structure/strange-looking adverbial clauses… when you read them, you are inclined to try to find an error, when, in actuality, there is none…