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Hi! I'm taking my third attempt at GMAT soon, and I'm really struggling with improving my verbal. For context, I gave my first attempt in September 2020, and even though I scored a 730 (Q49, V40), I didn't do well on IR, so I had to retake my exam. On my second attempt, I scored 730 (Q50, V36) and did fine on IR, but the score is much lower than I was expecting.
For the third (and hopefully final attempt), I've been practicing regularly, and have been scoring Q50-51 consistently across mocks. For verbal however, I'm bouncing all around the place. These are my verbal scores from the mocks/CATs I have taken.
I've been maintaining a consistent error log, and am noticing that I get 3/4 questions wrong across each section in the mocks. At this point, I'm not sure what I should do to get my Verbal back up to 40. I'm not using the OG mocks because I used them fairly recently for my second attempt and my scores would not be a true representation of where I'm at prep wise.
Any tips? Please let me know.
Thanks!
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This is really an interesting case and in my opinion, the probability of it occurring would be higher in non-native English speakers. I'm anxious to know your findings and key learnings. Please keep posting on this thread on::: What exactly went wrong? ; How you identified your weak areas? ; How you improvised on them and in how much time?
True reasoning ability doesn't go down over time, it can only go up (barring any brain injuries or old age). Therefore, if you scored V40, you can still score at least V40 without any additional work. The question is: what's coming in between your true ability level and your actual performance on the test? I talk about some of the common explanations for that here:
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