Hi all,
I just wanted to have your opinions on the SC section as I have some doubts regarding the prep/strategy and the actual difficulty we face on the exam.
I took GMAT several weeks ago and did not do particularly well on the verbal section (V35). Regarding CR and RC, I could see difficult questions and answer choices but most of the stuff was not surprising to me as I had already seen difficult material on these sections. So yes in some questions I was between two choices and could have made a mistake but I am pretty sure if I had a chance to look at the question later, I'd say a-ha, realize my mistake, and move on.
Now with SC however, I have some doubts regarding all the material we have. I have pretty much consumed all
OG material, all GMATPrep material (using the tag function) and some 3rd party materials (I will get to this).
Now, I am pretty sure a lot of people advocate that its best to stick to official material when it comes to SC and I agree with that.
What I've seen on the exam however is that I found most SC questions significantly more difficult. What I mean by difficult is that I could not really apply most obvious split decisions, most answer choices could not be eliminated easily (even in hard GMATPrep ones you can always boil down to two choices) and I felt I was guessing far more than I had done anytime in my preps. Quite frankly, I dont think this was because of exam stress as I was happy with other sections and could see the way questions were made difficult: certain tricks, certain words, or just some hard passages. But SC on the hand was completely different than what I had seen anywhere.
So I guess my question to those who achieved a high verbal score and think SC is their strong point is that what sort of materials/strategies should I pursue next so that I am more ready for this type of randomness. I have a feeling that official guides, whether
OG or GMATPrep, perhaps except for a few questions, sort of miss the difficulty on the real gmat.
Any thoughts?