Hi Rich,

I took your advice and concentrated on my Quant strategies. I just gave my second GMAT and scored 7 in IR and 49 in Quant. But my verbal score dropped to 28. I was consistently scoring 710 in all my mocks. I gave the followin mocks - GMAT Prep 1 and Kaplan - 690 each, GMAT Prep 2 - 710. I am not sure what went wron with my verbal scores, since I was consistently scoring more than 35 in all mocks.

Hi mysterygirl,

Are the gmat prep scores from the default software engine package where you have taken your practice tests couple of months back? If yes, then probably your verbal scores are inflated as you might encounter some questions which you already know on top of your head. You could have tried gmat exam pack1 for assessing the true score range on your real exam. I am sorry to hear your disappointment that your score went down from 36 to 28, but you should know the answer and in fact its you can only assess what went wrong on exam day especially for verbal.

I am still not able to break the barricade the 25 and I have exam in a week, your help on the perspective in regards to your first attempt what strategies made your verbal score to get above 30 would be much appreciated.

thank you
krishna.

Hi,

Concentrate on solving questions on the following areas:
- SC: Work on parallelism
- CR: Strengthen, Weaken, Assumption and Evaluate questions
- RC: Solve minimum 3 passages every day

Hope this helps. Good luck for your exam.

Hi Mystery girl,

Hope you are doing great and well. Just want to touch base with you in regards to how's your preparation going towards GMAT exam. I recently took my exam and I doomed my exam especially on verbal. I wonder if you are interested in online study just in case if you are still preparing for your exam. My desire score is to get 40+ in verbal and I do know that it requires a lot of effort and hardwork, and I am willing to do it. Please let me know if you are interested. Here is my email id for further communication : adoniskrish@gmail.com
BTW do you live in US? I live in US just in case for study timing.

Thank you
krish