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Hello guys,
I have completed my RC and CR lecture videos of a course I had taken but my accuracy is still subpar (70-85%) with higher than average amount of time.

My professor suggests it’ll get better as you more and more questions. But it will take multiple weeks for me to get start getting better there

So should I work on this section and keep solving questions until I get to the desired accuracy level or should I proceed to studying other sections and come back to it at the end?

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

Hi ayushmittal22,

I see you’ve finished the RC and CR lecture videos, but how many practice questions for those question types do you still have left?

AjiteshArun · Answer

Hi ayushmittal22,

If you stick with just one section or topic, you may get bored. It can also sometimes be helpful to take a (short) break from something and work on something else for a while. However, this does depend on your strengths and weaknesses, as well as how close you are to your exam.

lordbeerus · Answer

I think you should do targetted practice. Unless you see a visible improvement in one topic, don't move to the next topic, before strengthening your muscles. If you do that, it will seem that you're starting from scratch again and again. Use the streak method, solve the easy questions first, to build your concepts like a fortress, then start solving the medium difficulty questions, and train yourself in offensive mode. Once you get confident, and once your concepts are rock solid, check your speed, and move on to the more difficult terrain. Keep revisiting problems, concepts in "spaced repetition" manner.

All the best !

All the best !

GMATinsight · Answer

ayushmittal22

The notion of getting better with practice is not entirely correct unless you learn the mistakes you make and not make them next time.

If you don't pay attention to mistakes and just focus on practicing then it's possible that even after a year you would have the sam accuracy.

I suggest go very strategically about your problem areas and see whether remedial actions are improving your accuracy or not.

GmatKnightTutor · Answer

Checking out posted explanations in the gmatclub threads of, for example, official questions you found challenging could be helpful. For RC, becoming familiar with how inference questions work may also help a bit. If you find CR assumption questions a bit slippery, the negation technique could be useful to learn as well.

How to score high on GMAT Verbal.

MartyMurray · Answer

Leaving Verbal for now and coming back to it after studying other topics may not work out. You'll probably get better results by continuing to work on Verbal while it's fresh in your mind.

At the same time, you don't have to focus exclusively on Verbal. Rather, you could start working on other topics and keep practicing Verbal in the background.

Also, for insights into how to improve in Verbal, see the following post and videos.

How to Prepare for GMAT Verbal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVKp3TvCWxI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUNnNEkpkug

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