Timing on Verbal!

Hey!

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

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!

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.