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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.

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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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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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Yes, it could very well be that those hard questions in the beginning were enough to throw off your confidence, perhaps put you behind on time. When you start to think of issues other than the question in front of you, the test-taking task grows far more difficult, and more often than not, your score will come out lower than expected.

If RC is a strength, and it does sound like one to me, then cultivate that asset by practicing a new passage every three or four days (two times a week). Your accuracy for CR and SC seems close to where you want to be, but I mean it when I say to hold firm on a number. (I even kick the benchmark up to 85 percent for my 730+ aspirants.) Close enough is not good enough. Assume that on test day, Murphy's law will apply—90 percent confidence is one thing, missing 2 or 3 out of 10 is quite another. The good news is that a common "side effect" of reaching a higher accuracy on Medium questions is an increased accuracy on Hard questions as well. I would worry less about the 10 percent gap to 60 on Hard questions than I would even the 2 percent gap on Medium questions. When you thoroughly understand 600-level questions, the next step up is not so much of a challenge. I would start putting together some practice sets of official Verbal questions if I were you, maybe ten, twenty at a time. It is important to feel as though you are working toward something.

Good luck.

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Need help in increasing my score from 650(Q48,V33) to 700

Reposting what I wrote in a similar thread!

Here's someone I helped go from a V31 to a V40 in roughly 4 weeks. They took a bit of tutoring (6 hrs) and did some other stuff mentioned in the post.

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Hi Raasikh,
In an online platform you can have a complete course with lots of hours' lessons at a reasonable price , but you can not have the same service from private tutors by spending some money.

Thanks!
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Hi Raasikh,

When it comes to studying for the GMAT, there are a variety of different resources that you might choose to use. The specific materials that you might need will depend a great deal on your studies up to this point. As such, before I can offer you the specific advice that you’re looking for, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

1) How long have you studied? How many hours do you typically study each week?
2) What study materials have you used so far? What “brands” of CATs/mocks have you used?
3) On what dates (or approximate dates) did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?
4) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?

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Need help in increasing my score from 650(Q48,V33) to 700. Should I take online courses or private tuitions ???

Hi Raasikh,

It depends on your style of learning tbh and also your prep time.

Check out how Nishant improved from V31 to V41 in a month's time and scored a 720:

Check out Rishabh's journey from V33 to V41, GMAT 670 to 740 in just 20 days despite a demanding 60 hour work week:


Hope it helps!
Feel free to reach out in case of any queries!
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Hi Raasikh,

I think a self-study course could be a good call. Regarding prep courses, in addition to seeking advice in this thread, take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for the best quant and verbal courses, and also read through some GMAT success stories to see what materials have worked well for other test-takers.

You also may find it helpful to read this article about how to score a 700+ on the GMAT.

Good luck!
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