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23 Apr 2020, 14:40
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Hello,
Until last week I did not know what the GMAT was. Today I took the full Verbal section of the test. I got a 51% percentile. I am not a native English speaker. Is this a good score to have, considering I have not prepared for the exam? Also, is a 40% percentile improvement realistic over the next 4 months if I study average 15/h week? Thank you..
My score on the verbal section was 28
Until last week I did not know what the GMAT was. Today I took the full Verbal section of the test. I got a 51% percentile. I am not a native English speaker. Is this a good score to have, considering I have not prepared for the exam? Also, is a 40% percentile improvement realistic over the next 4 months if I study average 15/h week? Thank you..
My score on the verbal section was 28
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23 Apr 2020, 16:03
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Hello, beta2122. A 28 is not a bad starting point at all for a non-native speaker who has not prepared for the GMAT™. What you will want to do next is get your hands on high-quality study guides or online courses. An Official Guide is pretty much compulsory for the sheer volume of practice you can get from it. The OG 2021, digital edition, is being released quite soon; the print form will follow in about a month. Although the OG is great for practice, you should learn technique elsewhere before working through too many questions. Otherwise, you risk exhausting the single best resource for Verbal study before you have adequately learned how to approach the topics and questions. What you will likely start to see if you put in a steady number of hours per week is a quick progression followed by a plateau period, during which you will probably feel as if you are getting nowhere and do not know where to turn. Your practice results at this point would probably fall in line with where you would perform on the test. It is true that a 40-percentile jump up to about the 90th percentile is much harder than going from, say, the 30th percentile to the 70th, but it can be done. Just keep putting in those hours, look up questions from the OG on this forum, and learn from the best. Both Expert and community member replies to questions are often way more helpful than the official explanations, and when you learn to think like a pro, you get better results.
Best of luck to you in your studies. If at any point you have further questions, feel free to reach out to the community.
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23 Apr 2020, 19:10
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beta2122 - Welcome to GMAT Club!
Trust me when I say that a baseline score of 28 is fantastic. With a structure online course and religious practice, you could very well reach the 90 percentile mark or beyond. For now, I recommend that you take a look at GMAT Club's in-house study plan that has helped thousands of test-takers achieve a high GMAT score.
GMAT Club Study Plan: https://gmatclub.com/forum/gmat-study-plan-217827.html
Trust me when I say that a baseline score of 28 is fantastic. With a structure online course and religious practice, you could very well reach the 90 percentile mark or beyond. For now, I recommend that you take a look at GMAT Club's in-house study plan that has helped thousands of test-takers achieve a high GMAT score.
GMAT Club Study Plan: https://gmatclub.com/forum/gmat-study-plan-217827.html
