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Thanks HKD1710 so much!
My ESR say that I got 35 and 34 in CR and RC, respectively. Is it true that it is partly because My SC is too low so that is the maximum level of CR and RC in my test?. So if I can improve my SC to 40, for example, I can have a chance to answer much harder question in CR and SC and get a better score overall (if I answer them correctly)?

well, there is a set of hard no of questions in test. algorithm does not give us the questions in ascending order of difficulty. so tough questions are limited only. when you mark a hard question wrong then penalty is low but for easy and difficult question it is high. when we mark an easy or medium level question wrong then we don't get a hard question in general (i mean that's logical). but test may give you hard question in the very start too. Someone, who in the very start of the test gets easy and medium question, does not do well then high level questions will not be provided. look at the bar graph in the ESR, you will see the right picture. so yes, if you do not mark the easy and medium question wrong and do well in the start and also in the end of exam too then score would not be so low. so just start well, and then balance and balance the accuracy till the end of the test.

Guess: When you think you're behind the time, just do an educated guess when you know previous couple of questions were correct and this current question cannot be solved within time.

i think if you practice SC well, then your vebral score will be high. practice CR and RC much more.
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HKD1710 Thanks for the great tips!

One question: regarding strategy 2, a set of questions refers to 10-15 SC question at a time or 36 verbal question set that includes CR & RC? If it means a verbal question set, how do you usually create a set of verbal questions for practice? Besides GMAT PP, what I have been doing is create a question set from OG/OV online question bank. One problem I have with the question bank is that RC question can only be created based on the number of questions instead of the number of articles.
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HKD1710 Thanks for the great tips!

One question: regarding strategy 2, a set of questions refers to 10-15 SC question at a time or 36 verbal question set that includes CR & RC? If it means a verbal question set, how do you usually create a set of verbal questions for practice? Besides GMAT PP, what I have been doing is create a question set from OG/OV online question bank. One problem I have with the question bank is that RC question can only be created based on the number of questions instead of the number of articles.

Hi ColinLin,

Here is what you can do:
1. Go to this URL - https://gmatclub.com/forum/search.php?view=search_tags
2. You can choose - source, diffirculty, section and search.
3. You can do questions one by one or just click on 5-10 questions.
4. Add every question to pdf.
5. do them with timer.

More sources are the directories of OG questions such as:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/official-gui ... 09567.html

You can download gmatprep 1&2 questions pdf and do them with timer:
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Please let us know if we could help you further :)
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I would suggest practice lot of questions topic wise. Just reading the material does not help because you generally struggle to apply concepts in hard questions.
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Ijust got my result. I got 49Q but only 27Verbal. My biggest Problem is SC.

Sorry, I cannot attached file because I did not post enough 5 post (As gmatclub 's rules)

Here is the summary of my ESR:
Your Verbal score of 27 is higher than 47% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean score for this section is 26.86.
Your performance on Critical Reasoning questions was equivalent to a score of 35, which is better than 70% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean score for this sub-section is 27.48.
Your performance on Reading Comprehension questions was equivalent to a score of 34, which is better than 69% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean score for this sub-section is 27.13.
Your performance on Sentence Correction questions was equivalent to a score of 19, which is better than 22% of GMAT Exam scores recorded in the past three years. The mean score for this sub-section is 27.
You completed 36 questions in the Verbal section.
You responded correctly to 63% of the first set of questions, 71% of the second set of questions, 71% of the third set of questions and 75% of the final set of questions.
The average difficulty of questions presented to you in the first set of questions was Medium, the average for the second set of questions was Medium , the average for the third set of questions was Medium and was Medium for the final set of questions.
The average time it took you to respond to the first set of questions presented was 1:29, the average time for the second set of questions was 1:28, the average time for the third set of questions was 2:05 and 1:24 for the final set of questions.
Please Note: If you sat for the GMAT exam prior to April 16, 2018 this section contained 41 questions, on or after April 16, 2018 the section consists of 36 questions.

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