spla626 wrote:
I started this topic 3 months and 10 days ago. I needed help because I had taken my diagnostic test and scored just a poor 450 (18 q and 32 v). After following all the helpful advices -really really helpful-, I have recently taken the Gmat Prep I. The score was a happy surprise because it was a 630 (38 q 38 v). A jump of 180 point!
Now I have my real test scheaduled in two months -20th July-, and I would like to have more advice
on how to use this two months left in order to make the last big jump ang get into the 700 swimming pool. Particularly, I know what I have to do on quant -finish geometry, equations and ineqs and word translations guides from
mgmat. the greates souce-. I think that after that I can reach low 40s in quant and then practice until be able to break the 45 barrier.
However, I assume that I won't be able to score 49 in two months left -I think my real limit is 47-, so I am interested in bringing my verbal score from 38 to 42, if possible. Any advice on that?
Any more general advice? I am making any wrong assumptions here? Will I be able to reach 700?
Thanks in advance
First of all, congrats on your 180 points jump!
To improve your Verbal score you should focus in order:
SC, CR and RC.
With practice you start to recognize some patterns in SC (parallelism, modifiers,...) and this will speed up your time in those questions.
Every second you save here can be useful in the other questions.
My advise is CR second and RC third because the skills you acquire with CR can be used also in RC.
So these sections can be seen as one under many points of view (inference, method of reasoning,...)
This is what works for me, hope you find it useful too
If you are looking for books on SC, I can recommend you the SC from the Veritas's Gmat Series or the SC form
MGMAT.
One last thing: if you wanna know "what does it take to reach 700"take a look
here.