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Wow! That’s an amazing Verbal score!

That's still an amazing score..

Hopefully can replicate on D day

And you spent 3 minutes on it? or am I misreading that? I love how the time is given in decimals. 2.78 mins. Forces you to do math to even figure out your verbal

That’s definitely true. I usually do write something down then the passage get suppper dense and I can’t keep it all in my head for later. But my handwriting and micro decisions with how to represent info concisely and accurate get in the way of timing. I suppose that’s a practice thing - give I have like 5 days, I don’t think I can get comf enough with it. Yeah... I dont remember what the issue was exactly but i did some mental acrobatics and misread the question (even on multiple reads lol) yeah gmac got no chill

With your score, you do not need to take notes. I came from a lowly Verbal score, so I had to pull out all the hacks I could and every point counted, so if I could bump it up a bit with notes, I took notes. If I could get it higher by reading upside down, I would even do that (we did have a guy who read the passages backwards and it supposedly worked for him really well).... GMAT Prep is a very personal thing (something that works for one, does not always work for the other), Dream009 , you need to make sure you are very self-aware in what works for you. Your CR timing can be tightened if you are looking for more time. If you answer the question in your own words, it tends to work faster on medium/easy questions rather than elimination method/etc but it does not look like you need any help and I would definitely not change anything if things are working well.

Trust me any equivalent for quant would hold true for me lol. Fought my way up to an avg of 82/83+. Still trying to pump it up over next few days

Any insights on my case that already attempted all official mocks (and retakes) and also the GMAT Club tests? I scored a 655 on the exam (Q86/V83/DI78)

Pre thinking the answers right? Yeah, I do try that but I think I overthink certain choices and fight till im comf between the last 2. Usually a eureka moment but yeah could improve on timing there. All I can think of rn is practice and hopefully all of this will be more natural

Got it - we all have our battles. Quant was more comfortable for me as you would actually get a hard answer and it was not wishy-washy.

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