nphsingh wrote:
Hello there,
I am planing to take GMAT towards the end of the April.
My target score is 790. Currently my projected verbal score is 31-38.
Can you please suggest me that how i can improve my verbal score to 46-48 range.
To me RC seems to be toughest specially in case of hard questions.
Also, I am planning to take following practice tests:
Manhattan -6 + 1 free
Magoosh - 2 tests
GMAC Prep -2 tests.
As i am planning to take GMAT somewhere towards end of April, could you please suggest
how should I plan my practice test. Should I take all of them in last 15 days or how .
Regards,
Neetu
You are setting yourself up for frustration by setting up a hard target score of 790. Any score above 730 would get similar response from the adcom. Of course, higher is better but then you cannot have both a time constraint and a hard target score. Going from 650 to 750 is the toughest 100 point jump. It really isn't the way it was in school/college where if you slog, you see a proportional increase in your score. The effort required for every 10 points after 650 is much more than that required to jump 10 points after 550.
You have only mentioned practice tests. Which curriculum are you going to follow to work on conceptual understanding and then, from where are you going to practice questions? I suggest you to get hold of the entire curriculum of a test prep company and then go through all of it with special emphasis on Verbal - improvement in RC comes from dedicated long term effort. Along with that, work hard on CR and SC which are more reasoning based. If you are very good in 2 of these 3 question types, your Verbal can go up to 41-42.
Alongside, work on Quant to raise your score up to 50-51. Check out my blog for discussions of advanced concepts:
http://www.veritasprep.com/blog/categor ... er-wisdom/A Q50/51 and V41/42 would be a much more realistic target and would give you about 760. Also, don't forget to focus on IR. A 5 or above is fine in IR.