GMAT1 700 Q51 V32

I appeared my GMAT on 18 August 2014. I prepared using the Economist GMAT tutor, the OG, and the GMAT prep.
Although the Economist had helped me build a solid foundation in Quants and Sentence Correction, the tutor was not that efficient in CR, RC and Strategising time.
The GMAT club CAT and the GMAT prep software are very close to the real GMAT. Infact in my last CATs and GMAT prep mock I consistently got 700 with similar score.
I could feel the need to improve my timings in the verbal section, but could not do that. Anyways I have planned to retake GMAT before Round 2 calls.

I will stress on the following points:

Strength:
Quant Strategy:
In quants,I believe, it is very important to save time in the early questions.: Read the question in 20 Sec, Take 8-10 sec to analyze and solve in the next 20 Seconds for the first 4 Questions.
Then give each question at least 10-15 sec time for the analyze part and solve in 30 seconds max for rest of the test.

In my opinion it is better to have more time in the end, when the pressure is maximum. Try to move in the quants section in such a way that at 20 min remaining you have 10 questions or less left. A decent practice and good strategy will easily get you a really good score in Quants.

Weakness:

Verbal- Reason for failure and suggested improvements :

In Verbal my score is 32, which is pretty much consistent with what I got on GMAT Club tests and GMAT prep.
Although I got V34, V36, V38, V38 and V42 in the Economist and V38 in the Manhattan Free test, it was not good to get me a similar score in the real GMAT
The main reason that I identified is the time lag caused in RC questions and pressure of the test near the end.
In the last 10 seconds I had to face a 4 paragraph RC behemoth with 4 questions, 3 CR questions and 1 SC question.
I panicked and killed my score.

Guys I would suggest that even though the GMAT Tutor and MGMT are great sources to get your concepts, they are not good mirrors of the real GMAT.
If you want to build a strategy build it while reading the OG and appearing the mocks in GMAT prep.
Steps:
1- Get the concepts right
2- Solve OG and as many questions as you can from and by GMAC.
3- Identify the weaknesses( such as RC Inference Questions and CR Evaluation Questions for me)
4- Create a timing strategy, preferably one with maximum time remaining towards the end.(at least 15 min for the last 8 questions)

I believe my experience and debrief can be of some use to you people.