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Verbal experts GMATNinja MartyTargetTestPrep RonPurewal please help!!!
Can you please share some tips on how to improve Verbal score from 36 to 40s? My approach for each subsection is as follows:
SC: Read and understand meaning, find out errors in original sentence, then look up the options to see which one is devoid of these errors. I can finish the simple SC Qs within 1.5 mins but when the sentence is fully underlined or when there are no concrete errors, then it takes me 2-2.5 mins to pick the right choice (I am unable to reduce this time as it results in inaccuracy)
CR: Read Q stem first, find out P and C, pre-analyse (if not pre-think) and then look up options one at a time. This takes me 2-2.5 mins. Accuracy is horrible especially in Assumption type questions and sadly in my last GMAT, I had 60% of assumption type questions
RC: Read and comprehend passage while making para summaries cum passage map in 5-10 words per para. This takes me 4-4.5 mins.Then answer Questions in 1-1.5 mins per Q. But I make mistakes in inference and functional type Qs (end up choosing the second best choice, despite complete understanding of passage).
I have diligently maintained an error log too. I have exhausted all official resources as in OG, Verbal Review and Advanced Prep. SC, I can still practise from those books but CR and RC, I literally remember the passages so it won't be worthwhile to do the same. Please suggest what else to refer to practise?
I've practised untimed at first and my accuracy was way better, but with time I tend to lose points because of inaccuracies. Please tell me where am I going wrong? Are 10 days for full-time prep, in any way, sufficient to improve my score?
Can you please share some tips on how to improve Verbal score from 36 to 40s? My approach for each subsection is as follows:
SC: Read and understand meaning, find out errors in original sentence, then look up the options to see which one is devoid of these errors. I can finish the simple SC Qs within 1.5 mins but when the sentence is fully underlined or when there are no concrete errors, then it takes me 2-2.5 mins to pick the right choice (I am unable to reduce this time as it results in inaccuracy)
CR: Read Q stem first, find out P and C, pre-analyse (if not pre-think) and then look up options one at a time. This takes me 2-2.5 mins. Accuracy is horrible especially in Assumption type questions and sadly in my last GMAT, I had 60% of assumption type questions
RC: Read and comprehend passage while making para summaries cum passage map in 5-10 words per para. This takes me 4-4.5 mins.Then answer Questions in 1-1.5 mins per Q. But I make mistakes in inference and functional type Qs (end up choosing the second best choice, despite complete understanding of passage).
I have diligently maintained an error log too. I have exhausted all official resources as in OG, Verbal Review and Advanced Prep. SC, I can still practise from those books but CR and RC, I literally remember the passages so it won't be worthwhile to do the same. Please suggest what else to refer to practise?
I've practised untimed at first and my accuracy was way better, but with time I tend to lose points because of inaccuracies. Please tell me where am I going wrong? Are 10 days for full-time prep, in any way, sufficient to improve my score?
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Hi Athena22.
10 days of prep could be enough for a significant increase if things click for you.
Given that CR and Inference in RC appear to be your weakest areas, it's likely that answering reasoning questions in general is what you need to work on the most.
What's your accuracy when you answer CR questions untimed?
10 days of prep could be enough for a significant increase if things click for you.
Given that CR and Inference in RC appear to be your weakest areas, it's likely that answering reasoning questions in general is what you need to work on the most.
What's your accuracy when you answer CR questions untimed?
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Thank you for replying.
In 3-4 mins, I can nicely find out P and C, prethink, look into the options and then even negate and come up with the right answer in 80% + of the assumption questions. Time is a big barrier. Also, I think I have to work on SC to reduce the time per Q (even harder ones) to 1.5 which I guess is the average time taken by all top scorers?! Without time management, I can't even completely attempt 36 Questions in the given time
I badly wish to know the secret behind a whopping score of 45 on the verbal section. 
I can study full time in these 10 days to incorporate whatever changes are required, given that I don't have to work on quant. 
