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completely devastated with my score in Gmat club verbal(v01) test, do anyone know the difficulty level of Verbal Gmat club tests, i have done OG12, and OG10 and my strike rate in OG12, OG10 was 70% and 80% and today i thought i would give a test a see where exactly i am, but after seeing the results my mind is blank,

i got 14 correct out of 41

I am planning to take the exam at the end of Jan, but i am completely unsatisfied with these results

My diagnostic test score (Before starting preparation) was 500

Can anyone please help me, how to approach,My main problem is reading comprehension..........
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The same about me...OG and prepsoftware are not good indicators, how you will perform on exam...I was doing OG with 80% correct answers, but after i take CAT tests and prep CATs i scored 490 and 530 :D , when you are under presure, performance declines....If you are not sure do not take exam, I postponed It, as long as saw I need to prectice more...
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Hi,

Some feedback on the Verbal Tests can be found here:
gmatclub-verbal-tests-verbal-challenges-vs-real-gmat-60938.html

You have to be sure to use multiple sources of practice questions. One of the best things you can do now is analyzing your mistakes carefully and working on improvement of the weakest areas.
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completely devastated with my score in Gmat club verbal(v01) test, do anyone know the difficulty level of Verbal Gmat club tests, i have done OG12, and OG10 and my strike rate in OG12, OG10 was 70% and 80% and today i thought i would give a test a see where exactly i am, but after seeing the results my mind is blank,

i got 14 correct out of 41

I am planning to take the exam at the end of Jan, but i am completely unsatisfied with these results

My diagnostic test score (Before starting preparation) was 500

Can anyone please help me, how to approach,My main problem is reading comprehension..........
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I have heard that gmatclub tests are harder than OG because they are supposed to challenge you if you aim at higher scores. However, take this with a grain of salt. I am not trying to confuse you that you will automatically do better.

You mentioned that your strike rate was around 70-80%. Does that include harder problems at the end of each section? Did you time yourself when you were doing the OG problems? If not, then that could explain it. It probably means that you need to do more problems because you will get more acquainted with the tricks. On the other hand, it could mean that you simply need to improve on your time management.

Those were some of my ideas, I hope it helps you!
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For SC in OG12 I took around 1.5 min per question and for CR i took around 2 min per question, i am very poor at RC and when i started the test My first question was from RC and i took round 15 min to finish, so i had to hurry and finish the exam and so this created pressure and indeed resulted bad score,but anyway i will try my level best to crack RC's as soon as possible

Thasks All for your valuable suggestions
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RC is hardest in verbal for everyone...there is no good strategy for that, only think you can do is reading different materials and analysing carefully...

I would suggest Manhatan GMAT RC..it takes just one day to cover that book, and it will encourage you and gives some ideas how to do RC questions...
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RC is hardest in verbal for everyone...there is no good strategy for that, only think you can do is reading different materials and analysing carefully...

I would suggest Manhatan GMAT RC..it takes just one day to cover that book, and it will encourage you and gives some ideas how to do RC questions...
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Actually, analyzing carefully might be a misleading advice. Why? You are actually not supposed to read CR passages word for word. You are supposed to go quickly (easier said than done) through the passage and pay attention to key words. Those key words will provide answers in hidden forms. Also, pay extra attention to the wording of the answer choices. One word misread and there you go, you got it wrong. I would recommend you to read MGMAT CR (or any other good CR book) and then by using the principles provided in a book, read random articles. That should help you improve.
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