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I'm an engineer, so let me start with the part that bothered me most. It wasn't that my verbal score was low. It was that I couldn't predict it.
I started this process at a 585 with a V82. For someone who works in numbers all day, V82 wasn't a disaster — it was the inconsistency that got under my skin. One practice test I'd pull a V82, the next I'd drop to a 78, then claw back up. I'm used to processes that give you the same output when you put in the same input. Verbal didn't behave that way for me, and I couldn't figure out why. I'd reread a Reading Comprehension passage three times and still feel like I was guessing. I'd get to the end of a Critical Reasoning question and realize I hadn't actually pinned down the conclusion. And I had this bad habit of eliminating answer choices fast, on instinct, then second-guessing every one of them.
The thing I did consistently wrong, which I only understood later, was killing correct answers because the wording felt slightly off to me. As an engineer I wanted the "clean" answer, and the GMAT loves to make the right choice sound a little awkward and the trap sound polished. I was eliminating my way to the wrong answer over and over.
I started working with Marty Murray, and what changed wasn't that he made me "smarter at verbal." It's that he showed me verbal isn't the subjective coin-flip I thought it was. There's an algorithm underneath the GMAT Focus questions — a consistent logic to what they're testing and how the right answer is built — and once Marty walked me through it, the questions stopped feeling like mood swings and started feeling like a system. That reframe alone is what an analytical brain needs. He didn't ask me to "get a feel" for verbal. He gave me a repeatable way to attack it.
We went straight at my specific weak points. He slowed down my eliminations so I stopped reflexively cutting choices. He retrained me to stop rejecting answers just because the phrasing wasn't pretty. He gave me a way to stay engaged through a dense passage instead of letting my eyes glaze over halfway down. And he drilled me on actually locating the conclusion before I touched the choices, which fixed a huge chunk of my CR misses.
The other half of this was the mental side, and I think it's the half most people underrate. My score variability wasn't only a skills problem — a lot of it was how I executed under pressure on test day. Marty gave me concrete mental performance tools to take into the official exam: how to settle myself, how to stay deliberate when the clock is loud in your head, how to not let one hard question wreck the next five. That's what finally stabilized me. My verbal pulled up to a V85, and it stayed there instead of bouncing.
I finished my GMAT journey with a 695, and more importantly I walked out of the official exam knowing I'd executed, not gotten lucky.
If you're analytical and verbal is the section that makes no sense to you — or worse, makes sense one day and not the next — Marty is the person to work with. He'll show you the structure underneath it and then make sure you can actually deliver on the day it counts. I'm genuinely grateful for his help.
I started this process at a 585 with a V82. For someone who works in numbers all day, V82 wasn't a disaster — it was the inconsistency that got under my skin. One practice test I'd pull a V82, the next I'd drop to a 78, then claw back up. I'm used to processes that give you the same output when you put in the same input. Verbal didn't behave that way for me, and I couldn't figure out why. I'd reread a Reading Comprehension passage three times and still feel like I was guessing. I'd get to the end of a Critical Reasoning question and realize I hadn't actually pinned down the conclusion. And I had this bad habit of eliminating answer choices fast, on instinct, then second-guessing every one of them.
The thing I did consistently wrong, which I only understood later, was killing correct answers because the wording felt slightly off to me. As an engineer I wanted the "clean" answer, and the GMAT loves to make the right choice sound a little awkward and the trap sound polished. I was eliminating my way to the wrong answer over and over.
I started working with Marty Murray, and what changed wasn't that he made me "smarter at verbal." It's that he showed me verbal isn't the subjective coin-flip I thought it was. There's an algorithm underneath the GMAT Focus questions — a consistent logic to what they're testing and how the right answer is built — and once Marty walked me through it, the questions stopped feeling like mood swings and started feeling like a system. That reframe alone is what an analytical brain needs. He didn't ask me to "get a feel" for verbal. He gave me a repeatable way to attack it.
We went straight at my specific weak points. He slowed down my eliminations so I stopped reflexively cutting choices. He retrained me to stop rejecting answers just because the phrasing wasn't pretty. He gave me a way to stay engaged through a dense passage instead of letting my eyes glaze over halfway down. And he drilled me on actually locating the conclusion before I touched the choices, which fixed a huge chunk of my CR misses.
The other half of this was the mental side, and I think it's the half most people underrate. My score variability wasn't only a skills problem — a lot of it was how I executed under pressure on test day. Marty gave me concrete mental performance tools to take into the official exam: how to settle myself, how to stay deliberate when the clock is loud in your head, how to not let one hard question wreck the next five. That's what finally stabilized me. My verbal pulled up to a V85, and it stayed there instead of bouncing.
I finished my GMAT journey with a 695, and more importantly I walked out of the official exam knowing I'd executed, not gotten lucky.
If you're analytical and verbal is the section that makes no sense to you — or worse, makes sense one day and not the next — Marty is the person to work with. He'll show you the structure underneath it and then make sure you can actually deliver on the day it counts. I'm genuinely grateful for his help.
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