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27 Jan 2015, 02:53
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Hi all!
I would be very thankful if anyone can offer some advice. I was looking for any resources that would help me get to V45+. Currently I am scoring in the V39-V41 region.
I have exhausted MGMAT SC,RC & CR and OG 2015. My errors on CATs seem to be evenly spread among RC, CR and SC and are usually 6-8 per test. In short, I am looking for resources/strategies that would help with improving accuracy on advanced questions (700-800).
* I'm scoring Q50-Q51, so I'm really only interested in the verbal part of the books
** Non-native, but the undergraduate degree I am about to complete is in the UK
What do you guys think about:
-OG Verbal 2015 Review
-Kaplan GMAT 800
-any other resources that you think might help me bump up my verbal score
I have time on my side, so any suggestions regarding books and question banks are very, VERY welcome!
Thanks a lot for any help - very much appreciated!
I would be very thankful if anyone can offer some advice. I was looking for any resources that would help me get to V45+. Currently I am scoring in the V39-V41 region.
I have exhausted MGMAT SC,RC & CR and OG 2015. My errors on CATs seem to be evenly spread among RC, CR and SC and are usually 6-8 per test. In short, I am looking for resources/strategies that would help with improving accuracy on advanced questions (700-800).
* I'm scoring Q50-Q51, so I'm really only interested in the verbal part of the books
** Non-native, but the undergraduate degree I am about to complete is in the UK
What do you guys think about:
-OG Verbal 2015 Review
-Kaplan GMAT 800
-any other resources that you think might help me bump up my verbal score
I have time on my side, so any suggestions regarding books and question banks are very, VERY welcome!
Thanks a lot for any help - very much appreciated!
27 Jan 2015, 12:12
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Congratulations on getting to that point where you're in striking distance of a monster verbal score! A couple things that might help:
1) The Veritas Prep Sentence Correction lesson is currently available for free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8YVymgVTcg We set that lesson up to be stronger as a "strategy" lesson than a content lesson, so particularly for high-scorers it's valuable to help you put all your knowledge to efficient/effective use.
If you browse through the rest of that YouTube channel there are some tips on CR and RC that might help, too.
2) Especially for teaching verbal I'm a big fan of the GMAT Prep Question Pack from www.mba.com - it's all official problems broken into easy/medium/hard and with thorough explanations, and it forces you do to them on a computer screen the way they look on test day, so that's really helpful too.
3) I don't think we sell it separately but we do have an "Advanced Verbal Strategy" lesson that I'm a huge fan of (as we were writing it we took a GMAT Prep test and checked off how frequently each strategy was necessary/helpful on the toughest questions...Chris and I went 41 for 41 so the algorithm was throwing us the toughest stuff it had, and we used those strategies a lot). That book is a little thinner on practice problems than other volumes, but the strategic breakdown I think is really helpful if you pair it with good OG practice problems. (and that lesson is only available in the current series of books, the 3rd edition that look like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Veritas-Prep-GMAT-Course-Materials-by-Galvin-and-Kane-2012-Paperback-/231462925776?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35e443f5d0)
1) The Veritas Prep Sentence Correction lesson is currently available for free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8YVymgVTcg We set that lesson up to be stronger as a "strategy" lesson than a content lesson, so particularly for high-scorers it's valuable to help you put all your knowledge to efficient/effective use.
If you browse through the rest of that YouTube channel there are some tips on CR and RC that might help, too.
2) Especially for teaching verbal I'm a big fan of the GMAT Prep Question Pack from www.mba.com - it's all official problems broken into easy/medium/hard and with thorough explanations, and it forces you do to them on a computer screen the way they look on test day, so that's really helpful too.
3) I don't think we sell it separately but we do have an "Advanced Verbal Strategy" lesson that I'm a huge fan of (as we were writing it we took a GMAT Prep test and checked off how frequently each strategy was necessary/helpful on the toughest questions...Chris and I went 41 for 41 so the algorithm was throwing us the toughest stuff it had, and we used those strategies a lot). That book is a little thinner on practice problems than other volumes, but the strategic breakdown I think is really helpful if you pair it with good OG practice problems. (and that lesson is only available in the current series of books, the 3rd edition that look like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Veritas-Prep-GMAT-Course-Materials-by-Galvin-and-Kane-2012-Paperback-/231462925776?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35e443f5d0)
27 Jan 2015, 22:58
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Hi rpa101,
A V40 is a really strong performance (it's right around the 90th percentile). At this 'level', the GMAT becomes really sensitive to "little mistakes", so you need to figure out as much as you can about the types of questions that you're getting wrong. To that end, I have a few of questions:
1) When you take your CATs, do you take the ENTIRE CAT (including the Essay and IR sections)?
2) When you get questions wrong in the Verbal, how often do you "narrow it down to 2 and then 'guess wrong'?"
3) How often do you get a Verbal question wrong because of a silly/little mistake?
4) How often are you getting SCs wrong because of a rare grammar rule that you did NOT know?
5) Do you have to rush to finish the Verbal section (meaning that you guess on a few questions at the end of the section)?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
A V40 is a really strong performance (it's right around the 90th percentile). At this 'level', the GMAT becomes really sensitive to "little mistakes", so you need to figure out as much as you can about the types of questions that you're getting wrong. To that end, I have a few of questions:
1) When you take your CATs, do you take the ENTIRE CAT (including the Essay and IR sections)?
2) When you get questions wrong in the Verbal, how often do you "narrow it down to 2 and then 'guess wrong'?"
3) How often do you get a Verbal question wrong because of a silly/little mistake?
4) How often are you getting SCs wrong because of a rare grammar rule that you did NOT know?
5) Do you have to rush to finish the Verbal section (meaning that you guess on a few questions at the end of the section)?
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
