Help regarding Verbal Reasoning

I did all I could in last 6 months to improve my verbal score.
Did only veral questions for last 6 months (from OG 10, OG 2020, Verbal Reasoning 2020) and quant, IR, AWA for around 1hr everyday for 20 days before my last attempt yesterday.
Accuracy while solving OG was
Sub-600
SC - 95% CR - 95% RC 90%
600-700
SC - 90% CR 90% RC 80%
700+
SC - 80% CR 85% RC 70%

Score during mocks was 670-710
Quant 47-50
Verbal 32-38

I don't know what to do. How to improve. Feel totally aimless.Can anyone please guide me.It's been 1.5 years I have studied for GMAT from 2 different coaching. I just feel like I am wasting time and resources after looking at my result.

Results are
12 feb 2021 Q-46 V-17 Overall-530 IR-3
13 Aug 2021 Q -47 V-17 Overall-530 IR-5 AWA-6

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Hi ar21x

Please go through the below articles by team TTP. You might find some useful :

1. https://blog.targettestprep.com/gmat-learning-tips/
2. https://blog.targettestprep.com/be-accu ... mat-score/

Also, you can try out their free 5 days course for Verbal.
Feel free to reach out to ScottTargetTestPrep for more details

Cheers!

Hi ar21x,

I'm sorry to hear that Test Day did not go as well as planned. When these types of score drops occur, the two likely "causes" involve either something that was unrealistic during practice or something that was surprising (or not accounted for) on Test Day. Before we discuss any of those potential issues though, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

Studies:
1) Over the last 3 months, how many hours did you typically study each week?
2) What study materials have you used over the course of ALL of your studies? What “brands” of CATs/mocks have you used?
3) On what dates (or approximate dates) did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?

Goals:
4) What is your overall goal score?
5) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?

If you took your Official GMAT at a Test Center, then you might also choose to purchase the Enhanced Score Report. While the ESR doesn’t provide a lot of information, there are usually a few data points that we can use to define what went wrong on Test Day (and what you should work on to score higher). If you purchase the ESR, then I'll be happy to analyze it for you.

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carouselambra

Thank You for your reply I will check it out.

Check the link in my signature for a host of verbal studying tips.

But mostly--WHAT is going on on test day? Your verbal score is plummeting from mid 30s to a 17, am I seeing that correctly? How is your timing? Are you running out of time and having to guess at the end? That can really kneecap a score. Are you trying to get every question right you can until you realize you're out of time and then burning to the end? It's far better to strategically burn throughout the whole test.

A drop like this is usually due to timing or nerves. Nerves don't seem to affect your quant scores, though.
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ReedArnoldMPREP
Hello sir,

I feel very anxious while attempting verbal and on the contrary very confident in quant. I feel like I can solve quant anytime that after my first attempt in feb I solved quant questions only for 15 days or so berfore my second attempt.
and right when I saw the first question of verbal on the screen at the back of my head I was thinking
1) verbal will help me now reach the desired score.
2) am I perfrorming well ?
3) I was sweating out

Yes sir I did guessed last 2 questions on the vebal.
Thank You for your reply I will check out verbal studying tips you mentioned

Please check the post link metion below what I did during the prepration.
https://gmatclub.com/forum/help-regardi ... l#p2838988

So it really sounds like anxiety got the best of you. That's a huge part of prep. Mindfulness and meditation have been shown to help. You can't worry about how you're doing on the test--you just have to look at the question in front of you and use the time you have wisely.
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