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"Cheat sheet" for SC

by PavelN Tue Apr 05, 2016 10:07 pm

Is there available "cheat sheet" for SC with all idioms, rules, etc. in one place?
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Re: "Cheat sheet" for SC

by tim Sat Apr 09, 2016 8:53 pm

No. There is no comprehensive list of all possible idioms anywhere. What I recommend instead is that you create your own cheat sheet consisting of the issues you find most frequently in SC questions. Even if such a resource did exist, you would benefit far more from creating one yourself because then you would more deeply understand all the issues it addressed.
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Re: "Cheat sheet" for SC

by RonPurewal Sun Apr 10, 2016 12:40 pm

ah, i see that you're the same user who asked this about the quant section.

remember—it's IMPOSSIBLE to "memorize your way to success" on this exam.
really, that says "impossible", and it means what it says.
it doesn't just say "really hard" or "time-consuming" -- it actually says "impossible".

in fact, that's actually THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS EXAM -- to be "memorization-proof".
you already have all those years of high-school and college grades. THOSE already tell the schools everything they might want to know about how well you can memorize things and then reproduce them on exams (which is what school grades are mostly about).
if the GMAT worked like that, then the GMAT wouldn't even exist, since it wouldn't add any value beyond your school transcript.

this is even more important to realize for SC, because SC is mostly a test of a small number of key concepts -- with lots and lots of distractions thrown in.
if you tried to construct the type of "universal cheat sheet" you're talking about here, then you would actually do WORSE on SC, because you'd just spend more and more and more time studying the LESS important things—things that were put on the test to distract you from the MORE important things.