sandeeepsharma wrote:
hey congrates for your good score
Good luck for app's part.
Could you please share your verbal strategy and also what was your accuracy level (sc cr and rc)?
The magic sauce to doing well in verbal is to only practice with
OG questions. ESPECIALLY SC.. When I was practicing with SC1000 I was driving myself nuts! Half of the questions would be contested without a very good explanation. Doing the 400 question bank will help you very much. For RC.. I read one of the guides on here, and it really helped me out. One advice that really stuck out to me was that you need really need to focus on EVERY SINGLE WORD they use in the questions/answers. So if the author is presenting an idea, but the answer looks half right but says the author is discussing an idea.. it's wrongggg.. even if the idea they identify is the correct one. that shiz will kill you. Same thing goes with CR.. I think if you do enough CR you will start to see a pattern to the types of questions they try to trick you with. That's equally as important as knowing how to locate the right answer. Stick with ALL
OG questions.. When I got to the real thing, I felt like I was just doing the types of questions I always practiced for.
The first time I took the test, I was using various sources.. and when I got to the real verbal, I felt the questions were different and I was illprepared. I actually used the gmatpill for SC also.. I think it helped me because it teaches you how to "cut the fluff". You need to know how to read sentence correction a specific way.. always cut out all the information that is useless and used to trick you with information overload. ALWAYS look for parallel, modifications, and subject verb agreement. I didn't study idioms other than the main ones that I learned just because they kept showing up. I was hitting around 85-90% in SC and CR by the end.
I would like to also add that I got a 1180 in my SAT's which is a really sad score. The lesson is that you can get any score you want, you just need to put in the time and carefully come up with a strategy on how to study and achieve your goal.