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Hi itoyj,

Could you provide us with some more details on how you have been studying?

-- For how many months and how many hours per day have you been studying?

-- How have you been scoring on your official MBA.com practice exams?

-- How have you been scoring on the actual GMAT?

-- What is your score goal?

-- When do you plan to apply to business schools?
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verbal score remains stagnant
Hi! Stagnant at what?

Also, which specific section in Verbal is bothering you the most?
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Hi itoyj,

Could you provide us with some more details on how you have been studying?

-- For how many months and how many hours per day have you been studying?

-- How have you been scoring on your official MBA.com practice exams?

-- How have you been scoring on the actual GMAT?

-- What is your score goal?

-- When do you plan to apply to business schools?


I have been studying regularly from past an year 4 hours a days and more on weekends, but from past 4 months I have been studying for more than 6 hours daily.
For verbal I aim to score above 45
I wish to apply in R2


On official exam my score have been very fluctuating, one reason I can think of is the relaxed state/ overthinking
When I sit to write an exam, I overthink a lot and end up marking a wrong answer
And when I am just leisurely sitting and solving questions without thinking much I am able to solve questions correctly

During my practice test I have been scoring above 35 but in actual exam I bumped down to 24

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Hi! Stagnant at what?

Also, which specific section in Verbal is bothering you the most?

In the mocks given in past 4 months I have beens stuck at around 26-29 in verbal
Before that in January or before that I was scoring in early 30s

I really can't figure out any specific section that is troubling me

But yes I get that most of the questions that trouble me are the questions in which I am not able to comprehend "context"/"meaning" perfectly be it RC or CR or SC
though I have been able to work on SC but rest are just stagnant

Solving powrscore CR my accurate was about 80-85%
Solving OG, my accuracy both in SC and CR is above 85%
But still the actual score is too bad

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