Wow.......Didn't expect so many responses for my post. I am glad that there are some fellow forum members who do recognize me.
Economist, If you see my posts, most of them are from Quant. I hardly participapted in any of the verbal forums. I know from beginning that I am poor in verbal. But did the least effort to bring the score up.
I thought fixing the D Day will give a strong push for my preparation. But as the time is ticking, didn't get enough time to practice in Verbal. Ofcourse not trying to give any execuse. But, now I am going thru couple of posts to come up with a game plan that fits my verbal preparation. Let me see what I can do.
Nink, Thank you for providing some suggestions on improving the verbal. Believe me, I have almost all the material that you are referring to. And I even have gone thru the books. I was under the impression that I was doing good until I took my GMAT Prep. The score busted with Prep 1 being 22 and Prep 2 being 28. After that how many every times, I did the Prep exam, the score is swinging between these scores. In fact to be frank, I went forward to take the exam, to try my luck even thouhg my prep score was only topping 640.
ugimba, W.r.t Quant, I cannot compare my GMAT Prep results with actual GMAT. Simple reason, most of tricky questions that appeared in GMATPrep did appear in the forums. And most of them I did solve them in the forums even before I took my GMAT Prep exam. Most of the times my Quant score in prep exams was 50. So I was thinking that if I get a raw score of 35 + in verbal, that will help me in reaching my target score. But in actual exam I scored only 49 in Quant. But that is ok.
After coming out of the exam center, I was trying to understand where things went wrong. And one reason as I already mentioned, very less Verbal preparation effort. Second, my speed in grasping the Verbal things was way too poor. My SC or CR, which should normally be the time savers, I was using atleast 2 min. And by the time I was half way thru the exam, I lost my energy and patiece and almost gave up on the exam. I believe this weakness can only be improved by reading more and more boring stuff and trying to understand what is said in the content that we read. So this is where now I am concentrating on. CR is ok I would say only around 2 - 3 questions were wrong, that too without much practice.
GMATTiger, Yes RC is definitely my weakest area. There is ample scope in this section for me to improve. Hope I will do good.
JohnLewis1980Hope you will do good in your third attempt. Do let me know the result once it is done. BTW, one thing I can say is that, Verbal is very much on par with GMAT Prep. So what ever least you are scoring in the GMAT Prep, is what I believe you can expect in the real exam. Atleast that might be the min provided you are not practising too many GMAT Prep questions in the forum even before you take the exam. If you do so then your GMAT Prep might reflect your actual score.
gmat911My scores in GMAT Prep were 590 and 640. Very much in line with actual GMAT. So I was not very confident that I can get some thing above 700+ with these scores in Prep. But still, there is nothing I can do other than giving the exam. I hope I will improve my score in the second attempt.
If any of the moderators are going thru this post, I have a request which I am not sure if it is possible and feasible or not. Can we have a seperate forum for GMAT Prep questions alone. This can help some of us(like me) who do not want to go thru the GMAT prep questions even before evaluating overselves.
Thank you mates, for checking on me and providing your opinions. Happy preparation.