{"id":3649,"date":"2014-03-17T06:39:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-gmat.com\/blogs\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2014-03-31T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T12:30:28","slug":"the-peril-of-ignoring-the-non-underlined-portion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-gmat.com\/blogs\/the-peril-of-ignoring-the-non-underlined-portion\/","title":{"rendered":"The peril of ignoring the non-underlined portion"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">A <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min read <\/span><\/span><p>After interacting with numerous students, we have come to realize that students need to be reminded of certain \u201ctips\u201d to do well in the GMAT. For this purpose, we have started a series called \u201c<a title=\"Look up details\" href=\"http:\/\/e-gmat.com\/registration\/\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">e-GMAT<\/a>\u2019s Best Practices for Acing GMAT\u201d. This article &#8211; the first in this series &#8211; discusses a \u201cbest practice\u201d in Sentence Correction \u2013 reading and analyzing the complete sentence and not just the underlined portion.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In theory, this best practice may seem obvious; however, in reality we have observed that many students do not follow the same when they are under time constraints. Click below to see how ignoring the non-underlined portion may lead you to choosing the incorrect answer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/e-gmat.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/articulate_uploads\/Article_-_Best_Practices_for_SC6\/story.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img src=\"http:\/\/e-gmat.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/BestPractices1-ReadEntireSentence-GC.png\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And now apply the take away of this article on these\u00a0<a title=\"Look up details\" href=\"http:\/\/e-gmat.com\/registration\/\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">e-GMAT<\/a>\u00a0questions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/mexican-villagers-a-tough-700-level-question-147361.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">mexican-villagers-a-tough-700-level-question-147361.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/another-new-700-level-problem-146404.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">another-new-700-level-problem-146404.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/president-clinton-spent-significant-money-on-700-level-146725.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">president-clinton-spent-significant-money-on-700-level-146725.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Happy Learning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After interacting with numerous students, we have come to realize that students need to be reminded of certain \u201ctips\u201d to do well in the GMAT. 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This article &#8211; the first in this series &#8211; discusses a \u201cbest practice\u201d in Sentence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ub_ctt_via":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Juhi Gupta","author_link":"https:\/\/e-gmat.com\/blogs\/author\/juhie-gmat-com\/"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v17.1.1 (Yoast SEO v17.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The peril of ignoring the non-underlined portion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/e-gmat.com\/blogs\/the-peril-of-ignoring-the-non-underlined-portion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The peril of ignoring the non-underlined portion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After interacting with numerous students, we have come to realize that students need to be reminded of certain \u201ctips\u201d to do well in the GMAT. 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