desertEagle
After 50 hrs of preparation, my Verbal has gone down to 10 from 28 in my first mock. I took Princeton review test and scored a measly 10 on mock after my first mock on manhattan where I got 28 on verbal. I improved on Quants from 48 to 51. What should I do now. I want to give GMAT in July end or August first week
My target score for verbal is 45+. I have read
Manhattan books of Sentence correction , Critical reasoning and Reading comprehension. I have done Aristotle RC 99 on gmat cclub. I have also solved around 100 questions on each CR and SC on gmatclub (mostly 700+ questions)
Kindly suggest.
Nice work on quant.
50 hours and 100 questions is not a lot of verbal prep, although that fact does not explain the score drop you experienced.
A possible explanation for the drop is that the questions you saw on the Princeton Review test may have been flawed. So, that score may not be accurate. If you want to get a more accurate sense of where you stand, you could take an official practice test.
That said, if your score goal is V45+, then you need to get 90+ percent of verbal questions correct to achieve your score goal. So, if you are not getting close to 100 percent of medium and hard verbal questions correct when you practice, then you know you aren't at your score goal. So, taking a practice test may be a waste of time and and a test.
All the same, if you really want to see what kind of progress you have made, take an official practice test. If your score hasn't increased, then you know that you need to change how you have been preparing for verbal.