By now.. I am wondering what has gone wrong with my verbal

Hi levin343,

Seems like you are struggling with all the three modules in Verbal. And coming to Quant, the struggle is mostly with Geometry and Algebra. Let me help you with Verbal first.

As discussed earlier, each module in Verbal needs certain skill to be mastered. For example, to solve SC questions you need to master the comprehension skill. Having said that, before you learn the concepts of any module, it's important to understand what is tested using that and the right way to solve them. Let me give you an example of Sentence Correction.

How to solve SC questions?

SC questions on GMAT test your ability to convey the right meaning without any ambiguity. So, it's important to approach them from a meaning stand-point. You might have often come across answer choices which are both grammatically correct and convey a logical meaning but are indeed incorrect because they do not convey the intended meaning. So, the process to approach SC questions is to:

• Comprehend the original meaning of the sentence
• Identify errors if any (both grammatical and meaning wise)
• Eliminate answer choices which either are grammatically incorrect or do not convey the intended meaning

You can go through the recording below to understand the process in a better way.

Critical Reasoning:

And similarly, before solving CR questions, you need to understand that most of the CR questions are based on one of the four frameworks:

• Plan - goal
• Causality
• Comparison
• Quantitative

And each framework has a set of guidelines to pre-think. So, once you learn the framework and the guidelines, the process of solving CR questions becomes a lot more structured.

Reading Comprehension:

You seem to be struggling with RC passages as well. You need to understand that while reading RC passages on GMAT, it's important to read them in an inferential manner. It's important to understand the purpose of writing the passage. The right way to go about it is to map various paragraphs of the passages and finally derive the main point.

How to proceed further?

By now, you must have understood that focusing on the process is more important than focusing on practicing questions. You need to understand where exactly you are making the mistake and then work on that. For example, solving SC questions can include various steps such as:

• Reading the sentence
• Comprehending
• Identifying the errors (both grammatical and meaning)
• Eliminating incorrect answer choices

You can do this by going through the detailed solutions of the questions. Identify the exact step at which you are making the mistake, introspect what led you to take that decision at that point of time and then learn the right approach.

Quant:

And coming to Quant, you are struggling with Geometry and Algebra. If you have any conceptual gaps in these topics, make sure to fill those gaps. Once you do that, learn the right approach to solve questions. This approach will mainly help you in solving DS questions in which you have to consider many cases and you should make sure not to assume any unstated information in the passage.



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