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26 Feb 2016, 14:41
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Hi all 
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I planed to take my Gmat at the end of march, and eventaully, if things go wrong, i'll retake it roughly 15/20 days later (due to my deadline at the end of April).
I took the two GMATpre CATs and i scored 23V on both of them. While i'm pretty good at quant, my verb score is too low and i'm not confident I'll be able to improve it in 1 month. More or less I need to get at least v30 to obtain my target score.
I'm not a native speaker, but I performed pretty well in my IELTS reading section, getting 7.5, so i can't figure out why my brain doesn't fit with Gmat verbal questions.
Has anyone some advice to give me to overcome this situation?
, I planed to take my Gmat at the end of march, and eventaully, if things go wrong, i'll retake it roughly 15/20 days later (due to my deadline at the end of April).
I took the two GMATpre CATs and i scored 23V on both of them. While i'm pretty good at quant, my verb score is too low and i'm not confident I'll be able to improve it in 1 month. More or less I need to get at least v30 to obtain my target score.
I'm not a native speaker, but I performed pretty well in my IELTS reading section, getting 7.5, so i can't figure out why my brain doesn't fit with Gmat verbal questions.
Has anyone some advice to give me to overcome this situation?
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26 Feb 2016, 18:04
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Dear giovas94
I'm happy to respond.
The GMAT Verbal is challenging for native speakers of English. It sets the bar much much higher than simply: can you understand English? The demands of the GMAT Verbal are several levels above anything on the TOEFL or IELTS.
First of all, I will suggest this blog article:
How to Improve Your GMAT Verbal Score
Raising your verbal score is not easy, but that article recommends a powerful habit that can help.
Also, if this will be your first time taking the GMAT, I suggest this article:
Lower on the Real GMAT than on Practice Tests
Read that article and the six articles to which it links. If you start practicing the stress-reduction skills in those articles now, it could make a big difference on test day.
Here's a set of free GMAT Idiom Flashcards.
Here's a one-month study plan.
Finally, I will recommend Magoosh. We have a full library of Verbal Video lessons designed to cover all the concepts you need. Here's a sample lesson:
Substantive Clauses
Here's a sample CR question:
Violent felonies in Dismaston
When you submit your answer, the following page will have a video explanation for the question. Each one of Magoosh's 1000+ questions has its own VE, for accelerated learning. That immediate feedback is exactly what you need to make the kind of progress you want to make in a month.
Even if you decide not to use Magoosh, check out all the Verbal posts on that free blog. There's a lot there that can help you.
Let me know if you have any questions! Best of luck!
Mike
26 Feb 2016, 22:41
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Hello giovas94,
I am also an non-English speaker. I wish my experience is helpful.
What I focused on first was to feel very comfortable when reading English articles. When I scored below 30 in verbal, my IELTS reading score was 7.5, and I was almost out of time when I took the IELTS reading section. But after I trained myself to read English faster, I scored 9.0 and I even finished the test 10 minutes earlier. I read 3~4 English articles or passages in a row and sometimes read passages or articles in my native language, which helped me to enhance my reading speed a lot.
Second, I improved my vocabulary. The more you know the words, the well you understand the language.
Then I focused on each section of GMAT. CR and RC parts are handled once you improved your English skills. Only thing you should focus on in CR and RC is to find the main conclusion and figure out the structure of the article/passage.
But SC is quite tricky for internationals.
SC: I tried to be like a machine. I first spotted the main verb and the main subject, and tried to figure out the structure of the sentence. This really helped me to understand what the sentence was trying to say, and thus to remove the wrong answers and narrow down to 1~2 options. If you can do it, you can make 30 easily, I believe. To become a machine, of course, you need to deal with as many questions as possible.
Hope this is helpful!
Wish the best of luck,
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