GMAT Comparisons

By Abhishek Tomar on Aug 25, 2009 with Comments 0

In the previous chapter you learned about parallelism. If you were alert in that chapter than you will find this chapter easy. Comparison is similar to Parallelism and need special attention.

Remember: Comparison is always to compare at least two things. Although the things that are been compared are similar or different within the sentence may be complex or simple.
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Getting perfect in the GMAT Comparisons you must first able to spot them at one go. How to do that? There are keywords and phrases that show signs that the sentence is a Comparison sentence. You should be pretty sure that the two things are been compared are truly parallel both in regard of structure and meaning.

Important:

GMAT know what you are looking for so they plant falls sentence in choices or keywords in a sentence that may look like Comparisons sentences

Certain words and phrases signals that the sentence is comparing two or more things. Here is a chart that shows important keywords and signals. Whenever you see any of the thing keywords be on a look out for Comparison.