Welcome to the verbal GMAT forum. This forum will become a useful tool for you if you seek to improve upon your verbal score. I hope this post will help you to get the maximum utility out of this forum.


I. Starting From the Basics

1.Find areas that need improvement

2.Get necessary materials

3.Learn the concepts and strategies

a. Basic grammar rules, idioms and SC strategies

b. Basic rules of critical reasoning and strategies

c. Reading comprehension concepts and strategies

4.Start practicing questions

a. Keep the error log

b. Participate in forum discussions

5.Review the progress with full length test

II. Advanced Verbal Preparation

1. Quick list of links for review, practice and improvement

2. What makes Verbal Questions Tough and How to Deal with them.

4. Error Analysis Again.

3. Share your knowledge and contribute to GMAT community.

For just the links and nothing extra go here - Just Links. Nothing extra.
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Advanced Verbal

If you have a natural inclination to linguistics, and verbal has always been you strength or you have already reached high scores in verbal the following might help in reviewing the knowledge and using your strengths to their maximum potential.

1. Quick list of links for review.
List of Idioms - list-of-idioms-for-gmat-8281.html
Advanced grammar points by Laxieqv - advanced-grammar-points-28708.html
Brutal SC by GMATT73 - the-brutal-100-sc-test-questions-1-70-and-growing-34300.html
If X then Y, help for CR by HongHu - if-x-then-y-help-for-cr-14547.html
Logical Fallacies by HongHu - logical-fallacies-help-on-cr-and-awa-40345.html
CR Vocabulary - http://gmatclub.com/wiki/CR_vocabulary
How to improve verbal tips by Nervousgmat- 720-q42-v47-how-to-improve-verbal-tips-50635.html

Fiction Books to read, improve your RC and CR, and enjoy it.
Good books to read prior to MBA


2. Error Analysis Again
It is time to take a second glance at your errors. Since you already had some success in verbal, most likely this process is not going to be new for you. Now besides the notion of errors related to specific area of knowledge,make sure to identify the reasons why errors occur and classify them, for example:
- lack of attention/careless/tiredness, jumping to conclusions, self-assumptions;
- time pacing issues;
- fear of complex terms and passages, etc
Understanding your problem will help in finding the remedy for it.

3. What makes Verbal Questions Tough and How to Deal with them
There are many factors that contribute to the question difficulty. I have noticed several ways how the task of making a question difficult is achieved.

For Sentence Correction,
- question is appealing to more than just grammar rules
If look at most complicated SC question, you will find that they require more than just knowledge of grammar rules. In order to answer tough SC questions it's necessary to understand what the author is trying to convey. This requires good vocabulary - for understanding every part of a sentence; and logic - for figuring out the sentence idea and what is needed to be stated. This is especially true for problems involving relative pronouns. Moreover, complicated questions require knowledge of stylistics.
Solutions: Reading economic and business journals and fiction literature will help to get used to complicated sentence structures. Also, of course more practice.
Manhattan GMAT Sentence Correction Guide does a great job in teaching how to tackle even the toughest SC's.

For Reading Comprehension
- question is based on scientific content
If you've been taking GMAT CAT's, you most likely noticed that many GMAT problems in the question pool are based on topics like biology (genetics, disease, and drug effectiveness) and astronomy,– the sort of thing most potential MBA candidates never give a second thought to.
Given as much as 350-400 words, you're expected to keep track of multiple arguments, and on top of that notice specific details.
Science content not only increases the difficulty for Reading Comprehension passages, but also does so for Critical Reasoning questions.
Solution: Read and share your thoughts in Science RC passages topic

4. Sharing your knowledge and contributing to GMAT community.
This "Advanced Verbal Preparation" post has a huge room for improvement, please help in this task.Your knowledge is highly valuable. Please share it with others and help them grow as well.
Post your strategies on tackling tough questions.Consider participating in this topic - Advanced Grammar Points
Collect extra hard questions and share them. Other students, who are on the same level as you, will be extremely grateful.
For example GMATT73 collected 70 extra hard SC's - THE BRUTAL SC TEST
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Great post!
If anyone has any other suggestions or comments, please continue to add to this thread.
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Hi dudes,

After having a V 31 in MGMAT free test, I have decided to kick off my GMAT preparation with the verbal part. This post will be the guide line during the whole of my verbal preparation. Guys, you are gods!! I have realized after joining this club that I was living in a dark well with no info whatsoever. You have changed my thoughts, given me the oppurtunity to think about new areas.

Thanks a lot again!!
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AWESOME!!!

purely for practice, would you folks recommend 1000 SCs?

thanks a lot

This is great info guyz, I have gained a lot frm these doc's.....thanks for sharing it..

Thanks Sahil and Spidy. Your notes are awesome.