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Received Same Verbal Score : Going for Third Attempt! Please help.... 24 Aug 2019, 03:17
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Dear GMAT Experts,

Please help me as I am going to take my third attempt at GMAT in a month. Here is the snapshot of my verbal performance in the last two shots:

First Attempt: V-32 (SC: 39%ile, CR: 82 %ile, RC: 83 %ile)
Second Attempt: V- 32 (SC: 73%ile, CR: 65%ile, RC: 41 %ile)

Even after scoring Q-51, because of the Verbal score, I am lagging behind my target GMAT score. To meet the R1 application deadlines, I have to reattempt GMAT in a month. Any kind of expert guidance, feedback, suggestion, help will be too much helpful.

Please help!! TIA.
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HI mallicks123

It is better to attach ESR to analyze the timing per section, which you spent.
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HI mallicks123

It is better to attach ESR to analyze the timing per section, which you spent.
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Thanks for sending in your ESR!

The thing that stands out regarding your time management in test 2 is that you've taken too long on the CR and SC questions, and this has left you with very little time to get through RC passages. The effects are not surprising; your weakest performance is on RC because at least in part from this.

Ideally, the targets you're looking to hit should be around 1:30/Q for SC, 1:45/Q for CR, 2:00/Q for RC.

That being said, it does appear that this is a reaction to your first performance, in which the time management was A LOT better but you struggled with SC. What this indicates to me is that your efforts should primarily be directed towards being able to solve SC questions at a faster rate than you currently do while maintaining the accuracy you developed in that time.

In doing so, you might benefit from thinking about a sentence as components that need to fit together (Action, Doer of Action, Non-doer of Action, Descriptor) rather than simply about the individual words that make up any given sentence.

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