Hi SUNNYRHODE002.
Moving the needle in verbal takes a LOT of work. Now that you have done a bunch of reading and presumably have a decent grasp of verbal concepts, you have to do a lot of slow, careful analysis of verbal questions and learn to define and clearly articulate exactly why incorrect answers are incorrect and correct answers are correct. In doing so, you could easily spend 20 minutes or more per question, analyzing choices and articulating what's incorrect or correct about them. You may even have to do some research as you are analyzing a question to learn more about the concepts that that question involves.
The point of doing all this work is to develop an eye for what you need to see in order to correctly answer verbal questions.
As you do this work, your reasons for eliminating or choosing choices should NOT be like these:
- This version sounds funny / sounds the best.
- This choice uses the same words that the passage uses / discusses topics that the passage discusses.
- I don't see how this is relevant. The passage never mentions X.
Here's how to clearly articulate why a verbal choice is correct or incorrect:
- Through the use of a closing participial phrase, this sentence suggests that there is a cause-and-effect connection between two events that actually have no such relationship.
- While this choice seems to weaken the argument, it actually weakens the support for a conclusion related to but slighty different from the one made by the argument's author.
- While this choice uses wording similar to that used in the passage, the passage does not actually say that electrical energy was necessary for making the experiment work. It merely says that electrical energy was used to speed up the process to be observed.
What GMAT verbal tests is basically the level of sophistication of the thinking that you bring to bear when answering the questions. So, you have to develop an eye for what's going on in the questions and learn to use logical, complete, and clearly convincing reasons for eliminating or choosing choices.