scored 620 (Q51 V23) - VERBAL NEMESIS

Thanks ROHINI !!!

mustdoit,

You should easily be able to reach 700. If you manage to score 35 on the Verbal section and your quant scores falls by 1 or 2 points, in the worst case scenario, you'll touch 700.

Keeping fighting! All the very best for your next attempt

Cheers!
Ravi

I'm sorry about your verbal. What resources did u use for SC. Did u use the Manhattan guides ? Did u try ur hands on the 1000SC doc. Maybe with a little more focused practice on verbal, u should be able to cross the line

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where can I find 1000sc, 1000rc and 1000cr. I tried searching but no luck.

Started with a few SC’s which were not straightforward by any means. Then, a few CR’s and around the 6th question an RC. Got 4 RC’s in the usual intervals (6th, 14th 23rd, 33rd). I didn’t get any boldfaced CR’s (which I realized only after stepping out), which perhaps was an indication that I wasn’t doing too well. But I decided not to analyse much after what I read from pandeyrav’s debrief hours before I went to take mine. The surprising thing about the Verbal questions was I wasn’t sure about 60% of the answers. Though, I was able to zero down to 2 options (sometimes 3), I wasn’t confident about my final choices and so I was wasting a lot of time deciding as a result. And to add to that misery, I got a looooong RC around the 14th question about history on literature which I didn’t follow. Those 4 questions took a huge chunk of time and I wasn’t even sure if I was getting them right. I started getting frustrated. The next few CR’s and SC’s, I didn’t spend much time analyzing/deciding. Finally, I ran out of time on the last SC. Chose A. I think the CR’s weren’t too difficult but I always was a person who had to spend more than the average time on every CR to get it right. I couldn’t afford to do that on the exam as I was running behind time after the 2nd RC. As a result, I answered the Critical Reasoning questions without much reasoning and solely based on instinct. CR turned CI.

Regarding the SC’s, GMATPrepSC’s are close to the actual exam, but for some strange reason I thought the Verbal section was tougher than what I expected reading the various de-briefs. The SC guide definitely helped but it is not sufficient. I realized that one needs to have some inherent capability to ace the SC’s and RC’s on the Verbal section, else it has to be such that you have to incorporate the learnings in your daily usage (as pandeyrav rightly said). CR is all about managing the time to get it right and concentrating hard.


On the whole i was pretty much scoring around 37-40 range in all GMATPREPS / MGMATS for verbal. But GMAT on D Day seemed to be different ball game altogether.

I wouldn't really agree with your comment that one needs an inherent capability to ace the SC section of the test. There are only a finite number of rules (though almost like an infinite number of idioms!) that the GMAT tests and most of these are covered in the MGMAT SC book.

RC is somewhat more difficult to improve upon. Though even in this section if you start looking at the way the passages are structured (e.g - one animal multiple traits, or one cell multiple functions etc.)/the way passages shift scope from paragraph to paragraph/or within a paragraph itself/or the way the answers are structured you should be able to make rapid strides.

wow - great math score.
Here is my suggestions: gmat fiction and verbal study plan (under construction still) study-plan-for-verbal-gmat-98342.html