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Hi all,
I don't know where to begin. After 3 months of intense studying (mostly verbal) I took the opportunity to take a couple of free CATs from GMAT Holloween free test event and discovered that not only did I not improve, but I went back a couple points from V32 to V29 and V25.
during the last 1 and a half month I subscribed to Lawhub and consistently drilled one section of either LR or RC per day and doing blind review after. I would do a little bit of grammar every day as well, but clearly it's not enough.
I think my weakness is definitely SC, given that I scored disastrously in the first couple of questions on my two attempts today. When I study for SC, I usually just visit the GMAT club and do SC questions and review my errors.
I do think I made some progress in CR and RC doing Lawhub test sections everyday, but as long as I don't improve much on SC i'm guessing it doesnt mean much.
Please help and give some recommendations, thank you.
Edit: please see my newest comment, I scored much higher in the OFFICIAL GMAT mock. My GMAT club test results were highly inaccurate.
I don't know where to begin. After 3 months of intense studying (mostly verbal) I took the opportunity to take a couple of free CATs from GMAT Holloween free test event and discovered that not only did I not improve, but I went back a couple points from V32 to V29 and V25.
during the last 1 and a half month I subscribed to Lawhub and consistently drilled one section of either LR or RC per day and doing blind review after. I would do a little bit of grammar every day as well, but clearly it's not enough.
I think my weakness is definitely SC, given that I scored disastrously in the first couple of questions on my two attempts today. When I study for SC, I usually just visit the GMAT club and do SC questions and review my errors.
I do think I made some progress in CR and RC doing Lawhub test sections everyday, but as long as I don't improve much on SC i'm guessing it doesnt mean much.
Please help and give some recommendations, thank you.
Edit: please see my newest comment, I scored much higher in the OFFICIAL GMAT mock. My GMAT club test results were highly inaccurate.
31 Oct 2021, 20:31
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Hi Haryem.
Your experience is certainly not unique. Many people find that their verbal preparation isn't working very well and wonder what they have to do differently to increase their verbal scores. Part of the issue is simply that a preparation approach that will work for GMAT quant, particularly for a person who is already strong in quant, won't necessarily work for verbal.
So, to improve your SC performance, and to score higher overall on GMAT verbal, you have to get what GMAT verbal is really about and prepare effectively.
As you've discovered, preparation that involves mostly answering SC questions and going over your errors isn't going to get you very far. In fact, what you have to add to doing mixed practice questions as you have been is do a deep dive into the concepts, working on areas of SC, such as subject-verb agreement, sentence structure, modifiers, etc., one at at time to make sure you fully understand them and then doing practice questions, untimed at first, until you are getting almost all of them correct.
For some more tips on how to prepare effectively for SC, see this post. GMAT Sentence Correction: 8 Essential Tips
For an in-depth discussion of how to effectively prepare for GMAT verbal see this post. How to Score High on GMAT Verbal
Your experience is certainly not unique. Many people find that their verbal preparation isn't working very well and wonder what they have to do differently to increase their verbal scores. Part of the issue is simply that a preparation approach that will work for GMAT quant, particularly for a person who is already strong in quant, won't necessarily work for verbal.
So, to improve your SC performance, and to score higher overall on GMAT verbal, you have to get what GMAT verbal is really about and prepare effectively.
As you've discovered, preparation that involves mostly answering SC questions and going over your errors isn't going to get you very far. In fact, what you have to add to doing mixed practice questions as you have been is do a deep dive into the concepts, working on areas of SC, such as subject-verb agreement, sentence structure, modifiers, etc., one at at time to make sure you fully understand them and then doing practice questions, untimed at first, until you are getting almost all of them correct.
For some more tips on how to prepare effectively for SC, see this post. GMAT Sentence Correction: 8 Essential Tips
For an in-depth discussion of how to effectively prepare for GMAT verbal see this post. How to Score High on GMAT Verbal
31 Oct 2021, 22:15
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Haryem
Hi Haryem,
I'm not sure which tests you took, but here's what I think:
1. Some variation is expected across tests, especially if the tests were taken under different conditions.
2. We shouldn't compare scores across test providers.
3. Non-official tests usually don't generate very reliable score estimates.
Have you taken any of the official practice tests yet?
