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Re: How to tackle verbal in 80 days?
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27 May 2016, 10:05
Hi NonPlus,
80 days is a LOT of time to devote solely to the Verbal section, so you have plenty of time to hone your Verbal skills and improve. A few things worth noting though:
1) With your score goal (720+) and your last CAT score, you're almost certainly going to have to improve your Quant score along with your Verbal score.
2) Other than having a certain degree of knowledge for SCs (grammar/idiom rules), much of what it takes to succeed in the Verbal section is about note-taking, understanding the logic and 'structure' that Verbal questions will take and knowing how to spot (and avoid) the common wrong answers. As such, Verbal Tactics play a BIG role in correctly answering Verbal questions. You'll need to emphasize those Tactics during your studies.
To that second point, what 'steps' do you go through when dealing with a typical SC, RC or CR prompt?
How often do you find yourself just 'narrowing down the answer choices and then picking the one that "sounds good?"
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