Better than expected Quant & worst Verbal, Pls help, pls..

Hello, Kashishk15. I agree with you wholeheartedly: just practicing questions will not help you get better at Verbal reasoning. Like produces like, and I am sure that if you are stuck in the upper 20s, you are probably making the same sorts of mistakes over and over. If you are using the OG, it would probably be more useful to look up corresponding questions through this site to read the analyses provided by the Experts and community members. You have to take the time to understand what makes the wrong answers incorrect before you can achieve any real breakthrough in Verbal. Along these lines, you should keep track of the different categories of questions, Reading Comprehension, Critical Reasoning, and Sentence Correction, and then the different types of questions within each category that you tend to miss more frequently. You might draft something like the following and then keep a spreadsheet off to the side:

RC - Passage type (business, historical, science-based); Question type (detail, infer/suggest)
CR - Evaluation of plan/argument, boldface, fill-in-the-blank, assumption
SC - idiom, parallelism, subject-verb agreement, commas, semicolons, "which" clauses, unclear meaning

There are plenty of ways to categorize the questions, and how you do so is less important than organizing the information in some way. It might seem counterintuitive to dedicate yourself to not actively studying questions to get better at the next set, but organization and qualitative study can beat haphazard quantitative study any day. When you start to notice patterns in the types of questions you are missing, and you analyze what is making your responses incorrect by reading what others have written about the same questions, you will start to improve your own understanding of the questions. You can work in small sets of practice questions just to test your newfound skills, but remember, take things a step at a time.

Good luck.

- Andrew