Hello everybody,

I've just had my gmat exam yesterday and I got a 620 Q45 V30.
I've been studying on the gmat for 3 months and a half, full time, with an avarage of 4-5 hours a day. At first, I attended a Veritas Course in London (june) and after that I continued studying by myself. Honestly, I'm quite happy of the quantitative section, although I was expecting a 46-48, but this is not the main problem. It is the verbal section to cause me to be disappointed. This is the material I used for the verbal:

- Veritas material (5 books for the verbal);
- Sentence correction book Manhattan;
- Critical reasoning bible by Power Score;
- Official guide 12th edition and Verbal official guide;
- Some questions in the gmat club forum, like brutal sentence correction.

Furthermore I had several CATS simulations, and these are my last results (I have also had 800.score cats):

Manhattan 4 - Q46 V34
Manhattan 5 - V39
Manhattan 6 - Q49 V38
Official 1 (First retake) - Q46 V26
Official 2 (First retake) - Q49 V33
Official 1 (Second retake) - Q48 V37

As you can see from above, my verbal section has always been my weak point, but for me it was strange that I could get better verbal score in the Manhattan Cats than in the Official simulations. I'm aware that I have studied many, many rules of the english grammar and critical reasoning. I really believe that my fundamentals are strong and solid. I know almost everything about strenghten, weaken, assumptions, flaws, bold face, and parallelism, pronouns, idioms, etc....I swear I studied a lot and I spent huge amount of time on them. But when I had to do it under time pressure, having just 2 minutes, having to switch continually my mindset from one question type to another, having to read on a computer without the possibility to underline, and take notes rapidly directly on the paper, the problems began. My english is not so natural and comprehensive to allow myself to read so much material in 75 minutes (2 min. per question) and in this situation I cannot reason well, as I spend most of the time trying to understand and well comprehend what is written. As a result, my CR is quite shit, even though I had studied it intensevely. My RC is better than CR, but the though ones become impossible for me. SC that was supposed to be my strong point during the test was also a problem, as I realized that the specific rules studied with the Manhattan book were not so reflected in the real gmat SC questions. I found that them had a different pattern or maybe it was just a personal impression (don't know). Finally, I have to admit that my strategy for the verbal section was not to frustrate to much my self trying to develop sharp and accurate reasoning for the first questions, or to be as much accurate as possible with the probability of running out of time. Conversely, it was to spend 2 minutes per questions, to be relaxed and do what was for me possible to answer, being as much natural as possible.

To sum up, now I found myself in a situation in which I know that studying further the verbal rules is quite useless, but I don't have an idea how to improve the verbal score and what to do, in how much time, in which manner.

I was thinking of buying some books, read newspaper and ???????? please, please..............adviceeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Thanks for your advice, but how did you primirly improved your verbal section? Have you ever studied in an english institution? Are you used to read accademic topics or newspaper in english? You mean that it is more important to have a good strategy for the RC passages than to have a good vocabulary and natural and fast approach to the reading. What do you think it is more important for it.......read, read, read or sharp the strategy (as I could see in the file you forwarded me...thanks)?.....I'm asking you that because I believe that I studied the verbal fundamentals and, in this case, the RC approach and question types quite well...........What did u primirly do to raise your score??????? Very important, Have you already got a strong accademic english before starting studying on the GMAT???????????

It's so strange after scoring so high... You must have been unlucky on the actual exam...

Anyway you can retake the test and get very high 600 or even 700 just don't be discouraged!!!

Good luck

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It was November last year when I started to think about verbal section. When I went through RC section, the results were horrible. I managed to read the passage & answer the questions in more than 12 minutes. I thought with the passage of time & practice I would bring this time downwards but nopes!! No improvement!! Then I went for a different policy. I installed Time, Newyork Times, Washington Post, Business Week Applications on my Blackberry handheld. Made a habit to read atleast three articles daily. This resulted in a know how of sentences, & different formations within sentences. Today I still go through atleast three articles from any of these publications.

RC strategy varies from person to person. So you have to develop something for yourself. Try to put some plugs in your ears, & FOCUS while reading the passage. I hope you can get better results.

Best of luck & keep us posted.
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Sorry, what is RC 1000 series....I have never heard of it before......is it a book projected specifically for the gmat?? What kind of topics are there inside....just management and economics or also geology, antropology, etc..........in such a case I would buy it immediately............. I will follow your path my friend.....

You can find that 1000RCs online if you search in google.
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Nice to hear from you. I'm still struggling with RC

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