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Hi All, I need help in verbal. I am preparing for around 2 months now. I have exhausted OG and Quants/Verbal review and advanced partially. My score in OT was 540, 640, 650 and in last I paused in maths as I understood that the test is again going to ****. I don't understand what to do next and how can I improve the score. This is one. Second, is it possible in few weeks? My target collages deadlines are nearing. Scores are Q50-51 and V26-28. Lastly, I am facing major mental blockage while reading while giving exam. Is there a solution. I am already reading for an hour or more of difficult passages daily.
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It’s hard to tell. Have you used any kind of a strategy to prepare for verbal questions? Or just solving questions? It’s not really clear from your post 😬🙄
I started preparing with OG, Review books. Each day I used to take 36 Question from Verbal (in 65 mins) (~each section depending upon questions in RC) and 31 from Quants (in 62 mins). Maintaining an error log. I gave all free test online MGMAT, Veritas, E-gmat, Princton, for practice and keep an error log of that also. total Official sets I did were 28. Main problem is accuracy because I am getting question wrong from 11 (almost all easy to medium)- 20 ( around 21 very hard) out of 36.
What appears to be going on is that your starting level of quant skill was much greater than your starting level of verbal skill, but you sought to prepare for quant and verbal in the same way. In other words, while simply practicing by using questions from the OG was sufficient to get you to a high quant score, doing the same has not been sufficient to get you to a similar verbal score.
So, to increase your verbal score, you have to take a different approach, one that includes the following:
- You have to learn or review verbal concepts so that you have the foundational knowledge necessary for answering verbal questions.
- You have to develop or learn strategies that will reliably get you to the correct answers to verbal questions.
- You have to practice UNTIMED, rather than timed, to give yourself time to learn to see what's going on in verbal questions and arrive at correct answers. In other words, by doing sets of 36 verbal questions at test pace, you didn't give yourself time to learn and thus didn't develop strong verbal skills even though you did a high volume of questions.
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