KAPLAN VERBAL: Please Reply

Question

Is the KAPLAN VERBAL section significantly harder than the REAL GMAT ?, specially the RC ?

Please advice.

amit_drummer · Answer

As much as I support practice of extra hard math section through KAPLAN, is the verbal section at al representative of the REAL GMAT.

If not then the low scores in the VERBAL section of KAPLAN can be very demoralizing.

POWERPREP SCORE:- 50M 40V 
KAPLAN SCORe:- 50M 24V

Taking the vast discrepancies between the score for the VERBAL part, I am a bit dubious.

Kindly advice.

Paul · Answer

Your math scores are great. Verbal is NOT representative of the actual exam verbal. Do not worry. I also got very low verbal scores for Kaplan, especially RC. I would say that SC and CR are ok but RC is just brutal. I remember getting about 50% RC correct whereas I would get 85% correct from OG.

amit_drummer · Answer

Paul Thank you for the insight.

RC is really brutal in the KAPLAN CD. So do you advice that I religiously do the VERBAL section from the OG ?Would that be good enough?

Also are there any significant variations in the VERBAL section between the OG and the REAL GMAT. 
I know for certain that OG does not fully represent the MATH section appearing in the REAL GMAT(You encounter much harder stuff).

amit_singh · Answer

hi there,

Well you are good at Quant, but if you can try to do better on verbal it's good for you.

It's very true that they are tough, but i think the basic fundamentals are same.

Your scores are great i think you can do lot better. :good

Paul · Answer

If you go through OG in detail, you should be doing good in the exam. For additional "sweetener", download the 885SC at https://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=5210 and you should have plenty of material there. Remember though that it is not sufficient to just do a lot of practice. The most important is to go through the concepts and make sure you understand them. Check out the "verbal lesson forum" and you will find some attachments for CR questions which are of very good quality. I suggest you to download those as well.

amit_singh · Answer

I think Paul is right. The most important factor is basic fundamentals. I'm just done woth my all KAPLAN CATs here are my scores. CAT-1; 540 Quant-40; Verbal-18 CAT-2; 660 Quant-49; Verbal-33 CAT-3; 660 Quant-50; Verbal-30 CAT-4; 650 Quant-51; Verbal-28 CAT-5; 660 Quant-49; Verbal-31 I found myself ok with CR, but RC was horrible and SC sometimes ok sometimes....... :evil:

. And i think if i were worked on my SC section a bit more i had done better than this. But RC is just a game of concentration, I can say i drove my score totally with CR & SC. Sometimes i did ok on RC sometimes i got totally busted. Just work on fundamentals.........that's it :cool

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