GMAT strategies

Not to invade, but I liked Kaplan the best. It seemed to be the best value for the money. I have written reviews for many books, there are also comments by visitors.

You are absolutely right. It is hard to practice verbal (except SC, maybe where you can get it by practice) but generally you need to polish your verbal strategy and follow it on the test, otherwise if you are just going there blindly, prep is not much helpful for reading or SC.
THough styding grammar is very helpful for SC, and it is probably the easiest of the three...

Somehow I feel that CR is easier than RC and SC.
RC is by far the toughest, as it eats into both time and score! SC has its own difficulties, you will never know if a question is easy or tough! CR is more logical, though sometimes it gets difficult too!

I think I always got a better score in SC, and it seemed "easy" because you can actually learn a rule for almost everything. CR and RC - no rules really....

I've taken the GMAT recently. And I've received a pretty good score of 710 (48/38 ) at the first try. I wasn't preparing very hard, just practicing simulated tests on the computer about 2 times a week for two months and 7 days of tough everyday preparation a week before the test. My English isn't ideal, though as you can see I received quite a good verbal score. In my opinion, GMAT defeating is quite a matter of strategies and luck. I would not reccomend Princeton Review book because I didn't find anything of value here. Moreover, I'm also not of a good opinion about other preparations tools like Kaplan, actually I met only about 25% of tasks in Math part of GMAT which are described in those books. In verbal section I advice the following:
in CR adhere to the passages as close as possible, don't infere to much, sometimes from our Slovenic point of view some answers would seem even too simple just a restatement of the said above.
in RC if it is possible try to eliminate wrong answers looking for references in the text every time, don't rely on your memory or understanding of the text
actually I didn't find SC part to be very difficult in GMAT, knowing "general" types of GMAT mistakes in SC it is just a matter of eliminating wrong choices.
Good luck.

Folks,
It's very useful to know from your GMAT experiences that we ought to
attack the exam in a structured way. I am planning to take it after
a few months . Just wanted to say THANKS for your feedbacks .
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