AndrewN
Hello, Raasikh. I agree with the earlier poster that private tutoring is costly. You stand to gain the most by improving your Verbal score, and a 33 section score does not reveal much, to be honest. You should take some time to really delve into your practice sets to figure out whether a particular area—CR, RC, or SC—is causing you trouble, or whether you keep making mistakes across the board that hinder your progress. For instance, many students place too much emphasis on Hard or 700-level questions when they should really be focusing on Medium or 600-level questions. Until you are virtually assured not to make a mistake on Medium-level questions, per official designation, you will probably keep bouncing around in middle territory on the exam, and your score will suffer. You may want to consider establishing accuracy benchmarks for each general type of question and each difficulty. For instance, you could set the bar at 90 percent accuracy for Easy questions, 80 for Medium, and 60 for Hard. If you can achieve consistency across these thresholds, and especially if you can meet your marks on the lower two difficulties, you will be setting yourself up for success on the exam.
The decision is up to you whether you do some introspection and see if you can come up with the next 50 points on your own or you decide to fast-track your studies by pursuing some sort of outside help. Either way, you will have to work hard, focus on shoring up your weaker spots, and earn consistent results that will give you the confidence you need to perform at your best the next time you take the exam. Those next 50 points are not as far away as you might think.
Good luck with your studies.
- Andrew
Thank you for the response Andrew. I am good at RC as I did only one question incorrectly in the GMAT PREP test 1 and none in GMAT PREP 2. My CR has always been fairly accurate. My accuracy is around 80%. In SC my accuracy in easy questions is more than 90%, in medium questions it’s around 78% and in hard questions it’s around 50%.
I don’t know but my verbal score has fluctuated between V35-V39 in the gmat prep tests. I really can’t seem to understand how my Verbal score was so low. Maybe because I got 3 very hard RC questions in the beginning of the test.
I really can’t seem to understand what went wrong.
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