Advices needed on improving verbal!

Hello, Li6ning. I am glad to hear you are pleased with the e-GMAT course. My advice is to stick with the methods you have learned but to focus increasingly on practicing official questions and mock tests. I was working with someone not long ago who earned a 31 on a GMAT Club Quant quiz (and was crushed) but followed my advice to take an official practice test and earned a 49 in that same section on that test. Quite a swing is not exactly common, but the point is that you never know how your performance on one platform will translate to a performance on official practice tests. Work on the fundamentals to pin down consistency. Do not focus on the clock so much. Just focus on your techniques for taking on whatever question is in front of you, and your accuracy will start to increase while your timing will decrease.

Third-party questions are fine for Quant practice, but I have yet to see anything that comes even close to matching official Verbal questions. (Companies do not want to get sued.) Stick to official questions for Verbal. Even for Quant, you want to make sure you are working with primarily official material. Otherwise, you might have a horrible feeling that you are doing something wrong when you could be better off than you think.

Good luck with your studies.

- Andrew