Need Review from experts about my Official Mock 2 Verbal Section

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Hello Experts, could you please review my Official mock score and provide me feedback for improving my score in the verbal section?
Official Mock 2 - 650. V30 Q49.

PLEASE CHECK OUT THE ATTACHMENT. FOR STATISTICS OF MY SCORE IN THE VERBAL SECTION.

Few details about me:
I took the 1st mock in March 2022. (510 - V21 Q39)
Got a 470 in my first attempt

After that, I used these
Study resources - TTP (Quant and SC), CR(Powerscore and Dominate the Gmat), RC( I just did on my own)
Practiced untimed only OG questions 
For Quant - OG questions of 4 years,
For Verbal- OG 2022(All sections) and only CR from Verbal review 2022.

I attempted Quant first because I feel I am unable to recall formulas with a tired mind and DS questions require mental alertness 
but I will alternate the section order in the forthcoming tests to see which one works for me.

I will also post scores of my Forthcoming tests, to stay motivated.

MartyTargetTestPrep · Answer

HI Afn24.

Nice work so far going from V21 to V30.

Regarding the verbal section on this practice test, your performance, both in terms of time per question and accuracy, indicates that you need to continue working on CR. I'm guessing that something hasn't clicked for you yet in CR.

You might get some useful insights regarding CR from this video.

Critical Reasoning Masterclass

Meanwhile, while your accuracy in RC is OK, you took a lot of time answering RC questions, leaving yourself without time to complete the last few questions of the verbal section. If you still have a subscription to TTP, it might help to use the RC portion of the course to learn some strategies for answering the various types of RC questions since you'll likely answer the questions faster if you have clear strategies for answering them.

Also, you can get some ideas for answering RC questions faster and speeding up in verbal in general from this post.

How to Get Faster at GMAT Verbal

Afn24 · Answer

MartyTargetTestPrep .
Thanks for replying Marty.
I read your article on How to get faster at verbal.
I follow 3 points that are mentioned in the article except for the Five finger method.

I will go through the video that u mentioned above and get back to u after i have practised some CR from TTP.

Posted from my mobile device

EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi Afnan24,

We last discussed your studies back in early April, so I'd like to know a bit more about how you have been studying over the last 7 months:

1) What type of study routine have you been following? How many hours have you been studying each week?
2) Have you taken any OTHER CATs/mocks over the last 7 months? If so, then on what dates (and how did you score on each CAT - including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores?)?
3) Is your Score Goal still 740+ or is it something else?
4) What are your current application plans?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Contact Rich at: [email protected]

GmatKnightTutor · Answer

for improving my score in the verbal section?
Official Mock 2 - 650. V30 Q49.

Here's someone who improved their V31 to a V40 on a retake. May be some quick tips you can leverage.

https://gmatclub.com/forum/gmat-online- ... 68599.html

Have also suggested Manhattan-Prep's 6th Edition for SC and CR to students.

All the best.

Idiom list for Sentence Correction

Afn24 · Answer

1)I have been studying daily for 6 to 7 hours.

2) Have you taken any OTHER CATs/mocks over the last 7 months? This is my first mock in 7 months. Quant took me a while to complete.

3) Is your Score Goal still 740+ or is it something else? - The goal is still 740

4) What are your current application plans? - I was hoping to apply in round 2 for US and European B schools. But now I feel like I might have to push the applications to round 3. Because I am from India, it isn't advised to apply in Round 3, I am not left with a lot of choices

Afn24 · Answer

Thanks for the suggestion. I have studied SC and CR from Manhattan guides. They were helpful but not that much.

egmat · Answer

Hi  Afn24 ,

I went through your excel and did some analysis. I  recorded a video  to explain my analysis and suggestions. Ideally, we would need more data (a bigger sample size) for this analysis. But, I’m taking the data in your excel for granted to do this (hopefully, this gives you a framework to analyze your quizzes and mocks in the future). Here is my video –

https://gmat750.info/Afn24

https://e-gmat.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Afn24.png

Here is the summary of the video –
 
 CR accuracy is not good. When you spend more time per question (on the correct ones). But you also spent a decent time on the questions that you got incorrect. 
This shows a timing problem for sure and a problem with conceptual understanding and methodology. You will have to work on both aspects.
But this data is not enough to conclude this (Ideally, we would need more data on about 70 medium and Hard level questions in CR)
 
 You are stronger in SC overall. Both accuracy in hard questions and timing is good. Your concepts and methodology are good. But there could be some weak areas considering your performance in Medium difficulty levels.
 
 In RC, for some reason, the test gave you only Medium level questions. Accuracy is good. But you took a bit more time to get them correct. You have to check your RC accuracy separately in hard-level questions to see if you need to make small changes in approaching RC. 
 
 Overall, you are spending more time on CR and RC. We need to fix it so you can complete the test with higher accuracy. 
 
 Many times, candidates get 4 RC passages
 
 You must complete the test. 
 
 I recommend that you take a SIGma-X mock so that we can give a much better analysis (since it comes with an ESR).

Hope this helps!
-Sundeep

Afn24 · Answer

Hello Sundeep,
I am extremely thankful and really appreciate that u took out the time for doing such an in-depth analysis of my mock score. I do have to improve my CR methodology. I did untimed practice to understand how to solve the questions. My accuracy in medium CR is 64% and in Hard level CR is 44%.

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

In addition to the advice provided by Marty, I have a video regarding GMAT motivation and an article about test order that you may find helpful:

GMAT Motivation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joEzxL3VfgQ

Best GMAT Section Order: How Do I Choose?

EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi Afnan24, I've sent you a PM with some notes and additional questions. GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made, Rich Contact Rich at: Rich.C@empowergmat.com

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