KillerGMAT wrote:
Hello,
I am in the final stretch of my GMAT study, with my test coming up on Feb. 17. I have two full weeks and the last week to brush up and relax to be in good shape. While my studying for the past 3 months has been a roller coaster, I am finally on the verge of getting a respectable score. I scored 660 this past weekend with 47Q, 34V. I still have a lot of space to improve with my goal of 50Q, 45V. For math I more or less know what to do, but with Verbal I still can't crack it. I improved on V from 28 to 31 to 34 in 2 weeks. I got 10 wrong on the last CAT : 6/11 CR, 12/13 RC, 13/17 SC. I would imagine that my score should be higher since I felt great during the exam and destroyed RC, but still got a mere 34 ( I got #1, and #7-9 wrong). My biggest problem is CR. I get about 70% on
OG Medium questions, and 40-60%
OG hard questions, but I can choke on exam questions pretty easily. What can be done in the last 2 weeks? I was told to buy the CR bible but I already have the
MGMAT CR and I don't find CR tips very useful in general. What does it take to get a 45 on Verbal. I know that I can do well on RC, SC 3-4 wrong depending on what I get, but CR is super unpredictable which makes me mess up the rest of the score. Does anyone know of any sets that I can do besides the
OG questions (I see people posting them online sometimes). Thank you for the help.
Long, timed practice sets. Do some sets of just a single Verbal problem type (just SC or just CR). Do other sets of all three problem types mixed. Every time you do a set, take a break for a few minutes, then come back and review it
in detail.
Reviewing means NOT just reading the explanation - it means trying to figure it out on your own as best you can first. Then, once you have an answer (even if you have to use the explanation as a hint), take notes. Generalize! A good way to make yourself take good notes about Verbal problems is to ask yourself two questions, every time you get one wrong:
1. "Why didn't the right answer look right to me immediately?"
2. "Why did the wrong answer look good? Why didn't I want to eliminate it?"
If you can correctly answer those two questions, then you just learned two new things. One, you learned something new about what makes right answers right. Two, you learned something that
doesn't make an answer right. Every time you do that, you're equipping yourself to answer more questions right in the future.