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Hey Sean
The very top verbal scorers (v47+), I have noticed, tend to have a critical thing in common. They read a lot. Have a look through the debriefs and the 99%club thread to see what I mean.

I got a v47 with about 20hrs verbal study, and I'm a science major. I credit that to years of reading, leading to what has become almost an innate skill at the stuff tested in verbal.

On top of your verbal study i suggests you read more in your free time. What to read? The topics that come up in the gmat - politics, economics, business, history, science, strategy. Economics and American history comes up all the time in RC. There is a very good list of books on the forum and I also recommend the following journalism
The London review of books
The economist
FT
New statesman
New scientist
The Atlantic
Foreign Policy
Foreign Affairs
Monocle
HBR
New York Times Long form pieces


No one else seems to recommend the Princeton Review book but this is what I used for verbal outside of 2018 OG questions, and I found it pretty decent.

If you're getting certain easy SC ones wrong then it's probably to do with some gmat specific grammar/idioms that you use differently in your everyday life. A good example is "consider X to be Y" which gmat classes as incorrect but personally I use quite frequently. So it may be that you need to unlearn certain things.

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