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Hi All
I took my first step towards my GMAT journey by writing the official GMAT MOCK. However I am not quite satisfied by my opening score!!
Q49
VA27

Overall 640

Finished the QA with 15 mins left in hand. I am not able to time up each question based on the difficulty level. For VA, I am a non native speaker and not a regular reader as well.

Looking forward to hear detailed strategies to increase my score. Target score:730-740. GMAT planned in End September 2020.

Section wise strategy would be of great help. Planning to do by self study.
Working Professional and will be able to give 15-16 hours a week.Willing to stretch if required.

From my experience on GMAT club, you can start with following GMATNinja and VeritasKarishma.
Look for their explanations in official questions, you will learn a lot.

Further since you are new I would suggest you to go through below videos and post by GMATNinja
https://gmatclub.com/forum/all-gmat-nin ... l#p2396353
Above post have all video explanations by GMATNinja on how to approach SC, CR and RC.

Below is thread that will also help in same way.
CR- https://gmatclub.com/forum/experts-topi ... 43170.html
RC- https://gmatclub.com/forum/experts-topi ... l#p1857560
SC- https://gmatclub.com/forum/ultimate-sc- ... l#p1887645

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hi,

i tried to access to the links you provided avobe, but i couldn't get in there. could you pls share the links again.
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https://gmatclub.com/forum/experts-topi ... 41004.html

https://gmatclub.com/forum/experts-topi ... 43170.html

https://gmatclub.com/forum/ultimate-sc- ... 44623.html

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Hi AbhISB2021

Thanks for reaching out on the forum, it feels good to see you coming out and asking for advice.

Looking at your scores, I can say that you need significant improvement in Verbal. Majority of students falter in their GMAT exam because they start their preparation with OG.

This is a major mistake because if you start your preparation by solving OG questions, you are skipping to practicing questions without learning the concepts. This is a trial-and-error based preparation methodology which cause a two-fold problem:

1. It increases your preparation time by up-to 5X.
2. You tend to miss out on concepts even after solving many questions.

We have helped more than 25,000 people in last 1 year in achieving their target of a good GMAT score. Maximum people attributed their success to the structured process which we suggested them. I suggest you break your preparation into 3 stages and follow the below plan:

Stage – 1 --> Learn the concepts
Stage – 2 --> Cement the concepts by practicing a sub-section in Isolation
Stage – 3 --> Become test ready (practicing all the sub-sections together)

If you follow the above approach you can expect your preparation to get over in a timeline of 2-3 months with 18 hours of preparation time per week.

You can also analyse your ability topic-wise and skip stages if you are good in a topic, this will expedite your preparation even further.

I would be happy to explain this Strategy in detail and create personalized milestones for you on a quick call. Please select a time slot that works here.

Hope the above strategy get you to your target score

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tnx harsh2111s,

there are useful topics.
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