VipinSingh0793 wrote:
Hi guys,
I just gave the GMAT exam a couple of days back. Need your help to review and analyze my score, and need your suggestions on what I should plan for and strategize now before I give my next attempt.
So the score I got was 680 - Q48, V34.
I did have a look at the ESR and in verbal my weak areas are RC and CR. I want to focus on these areas now, while keeping a decent grip on my Quant and SC. Can someone suggest what I can do to better my RC and CR score? Any suggestions on what I should focus on and where I can practice RC and CR will help. I want to give my next attempt after 3-4 weeks' time. My target score is ~720.
Thanks a bunch!
Cheers.
Hi Vipin,
The first thing to do in the process of improving your score is to identify what's holding your score back. Once you do that, the process becomes a lot more easy. In the case of CR and RC, identify if it's the concepts or the application that you are faltering in. If it's the concepts, revisit the concepts of the topic. If it's the application part in which you are struggling, make sure to analyze the solutions of the questions you have solved in detail.
The right process to solve CR questions:
If you are directly jumping into answer choices after reading the argument and the question stem, then I'm afraid that's not the right process. Pre-thinking the missing link before moving on to the options will help eliminate the answer choices with ease. But you might be wondering is there any structured process to pre-thinking. The answer is Yes!
Most of the CR questions are based on a certain framework. And each framework has certain guidelines which help you pre-think the missing link. So, once you understand the framework and learn the guidelines, your process of pre-thinking will be a lot more effective.
The right way of reading a passage:
The best way to read the passage is to read it in an inferential manner. The focus should be to identify the purpose of the passage. While reading a sentence, make sure to understand why it is written and to connect it with the previous sentence. This way you can make a structure out of every para and once you finish reading the whole passage, you will be having a mini-summary of it. One more important thing to keep in mind is do not stuff yourself with details while reading the passage. There might be a few details which you might want to take note of but when you come across detailed questions, you can always go back to the passage and answer them.
Should you worry about the topic of the passage?
A few students get nervous whenever they come across passages which deal with certain topics such as History, Biology etc. But you need to understand that GMAT doesn't test your knowledge on any topics.
GMAT gives you ample amount of information in the passage and if you understand the passage as a whole, you can answer all the questions related to it. So, it is the methodology which you have to learn. Once you are comfortable with the methodology, the process is same for every passage no matter what the topic is.
So, I recommend you to start reading in an inferential manner.
Do not time yourself during the initial stages. The process might take time in the beginning but it is important to invest this time to get better results in the future. You can understand the gist of the approach by going through the following video.
I hope it helped. We are in fact conducting a series of webinars which deal with all these topics. And we have a webinar on the topic "
Can't pre-think in CR: What to do?" this Sunday. So, do attend it for sure. You can register for the webinar using the below link.
If you have any more queries regarding the study strategy, you can get in touch with me using the below link.
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03 Mar 2021, 08:07
