desertEagle
GmatTutorKnight
i want to score high on verbal. 45+ preferably.
@GmatTutorKnight
Might be worth checking out the Share GMAT Experience sub-forum to get some insight about the difficulty and accuracy level for that type of Verbal score.
If you're solid on Verbal fundamentals and time management, consider working on your solving approach. Perhaps work with a study buddy who aces the verbal section who can share their approach, particularly on SC and RC since you mention them. This sort of learning doesn't have to take very long. Had one student, for example, go to a V45 from a V41 in less than two weeks. Because the scoring on Verbal past V40 gets pretty steep in a sense, accuracy will become more and more important. Even on my V48, I actually only got 1 counted question wrong. Basically, 1 question dropped my scored by 3 points.
For SC, also consider checking out Manhattan-Prep's 6th Edition for Sentence Correction.
Sad to know that one wrong question can lead to a drop of 3 points in VA score.
I have time managment issues and i do many SC problems wrong. In RC i take too much time while reading, I take around 5 mins to read a 3 para passage. and get around 3 out of 9 wrong. Thats 66% accuracy in 600-700 level questions.
Kindly provide your suggestions in these regardsI will try to find a study buddy for SC and RC as recommended by you.
Thanks
People need to understand how broad these questions are. There are entire
books written about SC and RC--how are we supposed to give you a succinct summary of how to improve to a 45+ in a single post on this forum?
Why are you missing questions? What habits do you have? What have you tried from the material you've read or watched? What have you struggled with? You're trying to get a 45+ on verbal, something only 1% of test takers do. If this were something with an easy answer, the 45 would be meaningless because everybody would start to get it.
If you want some free resources, check the 'studying for verbal starter kit' link in my profile. But understand you're trying to do something phenomenal, and there is no single piece of advice, or even ten single pieces of advice, that will get you there. It's going to take phenomenal amounts of work to get this phenomenal score. Review questions thoroughly. ID why the right answer is right, why the wrong answers are wrong, why you were tempted by the wrong answer(s), why you were tempted to eliminate the right answer. Learn how the test-maker constructs these little verbal puzzles.