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Timing on Verbal! 07 Jul 2019, 03:44
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Timing on verbal is becoming an issue. So
I would like to ask the experts here, what is the general time distribution one needs to have in mind, while going over RC,SC and CR questions. Thanks!

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Timing on Verbal! Updated on: 09 Jun 2021, 03:41
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Timing on verbal is becoming an issue. So
I would like to ask the experts here, what is the general time distribution one needs to have in mind, while going over RC,SC and CR questions. Thanks!

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Time consideration has been discussed in the following link by Ron Purewal. This "time consideration" is on the basis of older version of GMAT, but you can still take help from this video for the new version of GMAT.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTQlKd ... /playlists
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SC around 70 sec/question
RC/CR around 2 mins/question

Please note that these are not cast in stone, and may vary significantly from one candidate to other.
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Hey!

This should be helpful: https://gmatclub.com/forum/timing-strat ... ml?fl=menu
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Hi PC15,

I used the following approach that was easy to keep in mind:

Q completed... Minutes left
12.........................44
24.........................22

So basically 22 minutes for 12 questions (36 questions, 65 mins).

Hope this helps!
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Thanks a ton everyone for helping with your valuable inputs! :)

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So unlike timing on the quant section, timing on verbal is not as straightforward as just averaging 2 minutes per question. What makes timing on the verbal section a little more complicated is that answering questions of each of the 3 verbal question types takes a different amount of time per question.

Let’s start with Reading Comprehension:

On the GMAT, you can expect a total of four RC passages (although you do not know when you’ll see them). Reading Comprehension passages are either long (containing 4 questions) or short (containing 3 questions). You should spend roughly 2 to 3 minutes reading the short passages and 3 to 4 minutes on the long ones. Since you should have a rough idea of what you read after reading the passage, each question should take you roughly 30 seconds to a minute and a half to answer. Thus, look to spend a total of about 6 to 8 minutes on each RC section.

Sentence Correction:

You will see 11 to 13 Sentence Correction questions and each question should take you between 60 and 90 seconds. As you improve your Sentence Correction skills, you should be able to answer each question in closer to 60 seconds.

Critical Reasoning:

Once again, you will see between 11 and 13 Critical Reasoning questions. As you probably know, CR questions tend to be written in a convoluted way so to bait you into missing key details. Thus, it’s usually best practice to spend between 90 seconds and 3 minutes each CR question.

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