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08 Aug 2006, 09:30
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I am trying to take this exam beginning of October. I've taken the test once and scored V:28, Q:44. My goal is to get to ~700.
Would love to hear everyone's opinion on this...I am equally weak in all three categories on verbal, and one of the reasons is the my reading speed is slow. (I also can be better at actually solving the problems.) I think about not focusing on RC and focusing on SC and CR. (I think I get the most bang of the buck with SC, followed by CR) I will also continue to do the math problems to get better and faster at quant portion.
I figure if I can get my Quant to high 40's or 50, and get very good at SC and CR, I will leave myself more time for RC.
Do you think my strategy will get me my 700?
Would love to hear everyone's opinion on this...I am equally weak in all three categories on verbal, and one of the reasons is the my reading speed is slow. (I also can be better at actually solving the problems.) I think about not focusing on RC and focusing on SC and CR. (I think I get the most bang of the buck with SC, followed by CR) I will also continue to do the math problems to get better and faster at quant portion.
I figure if I can get my Quant to high 40's or 50, and get very good at SC and CR, I will leave myself more time for RC.
Do you think my strategy will get me my 700?
08 Aug 2006, 11:17
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currently I am following this same strategy... however, I must warn you that even though you get better in CR and SC, which I studied all summer and definitely got better at, RC is still causing a major pain with a hit rate of 70%...
the reason is that since many argue about first 10-15 questions are important, getting RC during those questions will cause a score to drop and recovering is harder... especially if you don't get all CRs and SC right... I experience this kind of stuff in my practice tests... sometimes I even see 2 RC in the beginning and it really causes a lower score... so the moral is... work on RC just as much as on CRs and SCs
on a side note, the probability of getting RC in first 10 questions is pretty high IMO
I am also a slow reader and English isn't my 1st language, so I struggle with RC because I want to save time and answer CRs and SCs, in which I have higher chances to be correct. Need to work on RC
the reason is that since many argue about first 10-15 questions are important, getting RC during those questions will cause a score to drop and recovering is harder... especially if you don't get all CRs and SC right... I experience this kind of stuff in my practice tests... sometimes I even see 2 RC in the beginning and it really causes a lower score... so the moral is... work on RC just as much as on CRs and SCs
on a side note, the probability of getting RC in first 10 questions is pretty high IMO
I am also a slow reader and English isn't my 1st language, so I struggle with RC because I want to save time and answer CRs and SCs, in which I have higher chances to be correct. Need to work on RC
11 Aug 2006, 19:58
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Don't read for RC...skim the passages. Much faster. Read the question first, then skim for the paragraph with the answer, and read only that. Look for key words like "however" and "although" and stuff like that to get the idea without having to read all of it.
