620 Q45 V30...........how can I raise the verbal score.?????

Hello everybody,

I've just had my gmat exam yesterday and I got a 620 Q45 V30.
I've been studying on the gmat for 3 months and a half, full time, with an avarage of 4-5 hours a day. At first, I attended a Veritas Course in London (june) and after that I continued studying by myself. Honestly, I'm quite happy of the quantitative section, although I was expecting a 46-48, but this is not the main problem. It is the verbal section to cause me to be disappointed. This is the material I used for the verbal:

- Veritas material (5 books for the verbal);
- Sentence correction book Manhattan;
- Critical reasoning bible by Power Score;
- Official guide 12th edition and Verbal official guide;
- Some questions in the gmat club forum, like brutal sentence correction.

Furthermore I had several CATS simulations, and these are my last results (I have also had 800.score cats):

Manhattan 4 - Q46 V34
Manhattan 5 - V39
Manhattan 6 - Q49 V38
Official 1 (First retake) - Q46 V26
Official 2 (First retake) - Q49 V33
Official 1 (Second retake) - Q48 V37

As you can see from above, my verbal section has always been my weak point, but for me it was strange that I could get better verbal score in the Manhattan Cats than in the Official simulations. I'm aware that I have studied many, many rules of the english grammar and critical reasoning. I really believe that my fundamentals are strong and solid. I know almost everything about strenghten, weaken, assumptions, flaws, bold face, and parallelism, pronouns, idioms, etc....I swear I studied a lot and I spent huge amount of time on them. But when I had to do it under time pressure, having just 2 minutes, having to switch continually my mindset from one question type to another, having to read on a computer without the possibility to underline, and take notes rapidly directly on the paper, the problems began. My english is not so natural and comprehensive to allow myself to read so much material in 75 minutes (2 min. per question) and in this situation I cannot reason well, as I spend most of the time trying to understand and well comprehend what is written. As a result, my CR is quite ****, even though I had studied it intensevely. My RC is better than CR, but the though ones become impossible for me. SC that was supposed to be my strong point during the test was also a problem, as I realized that the specific rules studied with the Manhattan book were not so reflected in the real gmat SC questions. I found that them had a different pattern or maybe it was just a personal impression (don't know). Finally, I have to admit that my strategy for the verbal section was not to frustrate to much my self trying to develop sharp and accurate reasoning for the first questions, or to be as much accurate as possible with the probability of running out of time. Conversely, it was to spend 2 minutes per questions, to be relaxed and do what was for me possible to answer, being as much natural as possible.

To sum up, now I found myself in a situation in which I know that studying further the verbal rules is quite useless, but I don't have an idea how to improve the verbal score and what to do, in how much time, in which manner.

I was thinking of buying some books, read newspaper and ???????? please, please..............adviceeeeeeeeeeeeeee