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05 Jun 2018, 08:51
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Hi All,
I gave my GMAT last week and scored 720 (V39,Q49). I have decided to give my GMAT again and I am looking forward to your opinions and suggestions to improve my score by at least 30-40 points.
Currently, my strategy is to complete The Princeton Review, Kaplan, Official Guide and Aristotle (RC and SC) in next three months. I am not sure whether I should do Aristotle CR or not. My focus is to solve tougher questions and test series, so please suggest what could be avoided and what could I include in my preparation to score higher.
Lastly, someone suggested that I should solve Manhattan Verbal and Veritas Verbal. So, should I avoid Princeton Review as it is considered comparatively simple?
I gave my GMAT last week and scored 720 (V39,Q49). I have decided to give my GMAT again and I am looking forward to your opinions and suggestions to improve my score by at least 30-40 points.
Currently, my strategy is to complete The Princeton Review, Kaplan, Official Guide and Aristotle (RC and SC) in next three months. I am not sure whether I should do Aristotle CR or not. My focus is to solve tougher questions and test series, so please suggest what could be avoided and what could I include in my preparation to score higher.
Lastly, someone suggested that I should solve Manhattan Verbal and Veritas Verbal. So, should I avoid Princeton Review as it is considered comparatively simple?
06 Jun 2018, 15:17
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ksdarsh
Hi ksdarsh
First congrats on great score of 720 and your pride and willingness to gos extra mile
I am not familiar with Aristotle as company, all their bokks I stumble upon were very old, so I didnt check them.
Princeton is good company, especially for novice and starters in prep, however many people here claimed that they dont have much of harder questions included in their books and it is safe to conclude that you are not novice in the game
Same goes for Kaplan, however dont discard them just based on that, try them, if you find them not particularly challenging or you dont like their teaching style, switch to Manhattan and Veritas.
Manhattan does posses quality, however many people find their strategies unneccesarily complicated and time consuming, so keep in mind that.
Veritas is praised to be on same level of quality as Manhattan prep.
You can read thier reviews here or on Amazon to gain some insights, but only when you try them you will know if they do the trick for you.
We are all different and have different teaching styles preferred, some like to be thorough others prefer shortcuts and cut to the point style.
Good news is that you have time, so give it a try, try to solve the practice questions from every section of the test, from every test prep book mentioned above and you will have your best answer.
There is also a chance that you will cover some topics from one book since you like their teaching style and then solve most of practice questions from another or two.
Dont run from combining materials if you feel like, in another words dont rely solely on one source just because you like how they explain one section or you find their math questions challenging but not verbal ones etc.
Good luck, happy prep and keep us posted !
07 Jun 2018, 23:27
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Hi ksdarsh, Verbal will obviously be the area that will need your specific focus, as you look at scaling 750+.
Which sub-section in Verbal, is your relatively weaker area?
Also, if you could post your ESR here, that might help in further analysis.
Which sub-section in Verbal, is your relatively weaker area?
Also, if you could post your ESR here, that might help in further analysis.
