Need HELP GMAT in 3 weeks

Hi gocoder,

Although I’m unsure how long you have been studying, if you can study “smart” over the course of the next few weeks, you probably can squeeze a few more points out of the verbal section.

Considering that you scored a 36V on a GMAT prep practice exam, you seem to have a solid grasp of the fundamentals of GMAT verbal. Thus, rather than starting with the foundations of GMAT verbal, you might find it useful to do some focused practice in Critical Reasoning, Reading Comprehension, and Sentence Correction. The idea behind doing focused practice is that by completing many questions from one particular topic, you should be able to uncover any lingering weaknesses from that topic.

For example, if you are reviewing Critical Reasoning, be sure to practice a large number of questions just from Critical Reasoning: strengthen and weaken the conclusion, resolve the paradox, find the conclusion, must be true, etc. Once you complete that practice, thoroughly analyze your wrong answers to determine your weaknesses within Critical Reasoning and spend some time eliminating those weaknesses. Once those weaknesses have been addressed, move on to the next verbal topic. I realize that Reading Comprehension is your weakest verbal topic; however, by striving to improve all aspects of verbal, you may have a better shot at raising your overall verbal score.

In regards to Reading Comprehension, outside of doing a lot of focused practice, I agree with your plan to read publications such as The Economist and The New York Times. You may also consider reading others such as The New Yorker, Scientific American, and Smithsonian, so you can get used to reading and analyzing long, sophisticated, well-written passages.

When practicing verbal questions, you may find it beneficial to practice with fresh questions, rather than repeating already answered questions, so you can get an unbiased view of your exact weaknesses. Once you feel you have improved your verbal skills, take some more MBA.com practice exams to track your progress. After taking those exams, feel free to report back here or reach out to me directly to let me know how thing are progressing. I’m always happy to lend a hand!

For some more verbal advice, you may find it helpful to read one of TTP’s latest Poets and Quants articles, which provides further tips on how to improve your GMAT verbal skills.

Good luck!!

Hi gocoder,

The best way to improve is by drilling down deep into specific problem types:

SC: The questions test various concepts such as S-V agreement, modifiers, parallelism etc. Find out what troubles you.
CR: There might be certain types of questions that are troubling you. May be Assumption, may be conclusion, inference etc.
You need to find that out and then practice them
RC: This again can be drilled down into different types of questions and also different topics. See what questions and topics trouble you the most and then practice accordingly.
Quants: Again try to break the questions in topics such as Algebra, Number system (very important), Geometry, PnC etc.

As an addition, start preparing an error log and keep a note of all the mistakes you made and the lessons you learnt from the problems. This will ensure you do not make the same mistake again.

Make sure you complete all of the OG and the Verbal review and if required, you can buy the Question pack1 from mba.com