sudhir18n wrote:
abhicoolmax wrote:
What has your strategy been in the verbal section? Could you please share your insights my friend? What are the high-level tips would like to give and recommend me to get my score close to 40? I am not asking more - I think 40 is doable, but I am just not able to get the confidence to do so! Thanks man.
Hi Abhi ,
I spent around 4 months on verbal. The first couple of months were on understanding the underlyingconcepts, techniques of SC. I read most of the posts of Ron purewal on the manhattan forum, read through
OG 11/12 to understand how gmat frames correct answers. I guess gmat uses very standard way of framing the right answers for SC and CR. I'm not sure why we from India think that SC is very difficult. Infact gmat sc = maths, just follow the rules ( in very very extreme case u will have an exception). For SC i used Aristotle SC,
Mgmat SC. I think the most important thing u shud know on gmat SC is " comma+ing" modifier and no comma +ing ( adjec and adverbial)- . Preposition + appostives are also helpful. Solved around 1200+ SCs.
CR i used powerscore bible. I guess i learnt CR will lots of practice, solved
og 11/12/verbal guides...kaplan (all 3 books). Solved around 700-800 CRs.
RC - I seriously dont have any tip here. I read the whole passage ..I dont note anything and answer the question . I believe that incase u understand the passage u can kill it ..otherwise
Please do let me know incase you need any specific help, will be happy to share.
Btw i will be very happy to get a 700 .. 800 shayad thoda zyada ho jayega ( i guess 800 will be quite a few !!)
All the best buddy .
Thanks for the follow up man. You got it, and exactly the kind of revelation I had after giving 3 GMATPreps in last 2-3 days.
You are right about SCs - it's nice to learn all the crazy rules, gotcha, idioms and what-not, but ultimately, like math, SC also tests the basics. 90+% of the questions in GMATPrep can be solved with the basics of sentence construction. As long you have the basics clear - main clause, ing modifiers, relative clauses, prep phrases and appositives - I think 90% of these SC questions could be solved just by these understandings of the sentence in general. For CR, I watch a couple of Ron's videos last week, and I had a big-time revelation THEN AND THERE - it's all about intuitive thinking for 80-90% of CR questions, and the rest are formal logic inference type (a=b implies b=a sort of). Just knowing that makes things so much easy. Although I know that I will have tough time in RC during the test and I can't do much about it NOW, I will stick to the basics in RCs - continue doing what I do, try as much as I can to understand what's the author's intent and the flow of ideas in-general, and hope for the best
Thanks for your enlightening thoughts on these types of questions - glad we are on the similar page (I won't say same though, as you are much ahead :p). I feel MUCH MORE CONFIDENT NOW - thanks so much; that's exactly WHAT I NEEDED! Truly appreciated man! I am now thinking of the entire GMAT as I have always thought of math - no need to tax too much, just stick to the basics, understand what's tested at high level, trust yourself and fight
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06 Sep 2011, 09:22
. Thanks and All the best for your exam.
