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710 -> 740 with ESR's, looking to improve for 750+ 25 Oct 2019, 20:17
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I went from 710 (Q48 V39) to 740 (Q50 V40), building off of these 2 posts:


https://gmatclub.com/forum/trust-the-pr ... l#p2381435
https://gmatclub.com/forum/from-740-q50 ... 37066.html


Study materials:

MGMAT basic guides (thats just to get familiar with GMAT)
E-GMAT verbal course
ALL OG questions 3x (800 OG 400 VR and 400 QR) so 1600 questions 3x times with detailed error log and dissection of each question
All 6 gmac official practice tests (they kinda suck tbh.. easier than actual thing at least for me)
MGMAT tests, Veritas Tests
MGMAT advanced quant book - worth it's weight in gold

Important from the 2 links above:

1. Use the finger trick as mentioned in above posts, saves time and it works. I first thought it was weird, but it works well and saves so much time.
2. First 10 questions matter so much, take the extra time (if you are already scoring high - this is not for people who struggle to finish or v35 level)
3. Trust the process e-gmat has for verbal (especially CR and SC), it works (and I didn't trust it when I took the test and got 710..)

Fanfan really covers how to nail verbal in the above post, so I don't need to rehash.

I've attached ESR's. Experts - could you advise on how to proceed to score higher on verbal? (v39 to V40 wasn't too much) egmat
daagh GMATNinja GMATNinjaTwo MagooshExpert EMPOWERgmatVerbal I've seen all your verbal posts on 100's of questions :)

For SC:

I use the meaning approach, which works well, but I can't seem to apply the grammar rules on easy / medium questions (not to mention hard ones too). It's not that I don't remember the rules, I know the rules very well by now (done so many repeats, all (400 OG+300 VR) 3x times so 2,100 questions and official mocks and the question pack. But there are always new ways they are tested on the actual test and I'm down to last 2 choices and then I have a 50/50 shot of getting it right... which doesn't help for a high score. If you see the ESR, my grammar was 57%, but communication (which I'm assuming is meaning) is 80%...

Really frustrating tbh, I've spent months on grammar rules and yet I seem to flub easy questions like these up:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/in-order-to- ... 31857.html
https://gmatclub.com/forum/laboratory-r ... 30331.html
https://gmatclub.com/forum/geologists-h ... 57873.html
https://gmatclub.com/forum/now-that-so- ... 96124.html
https://gmatclub.com/forum/at-the-time- ... 46988.html
https://gmatclub.com/forum/soaring-tele ... 81546.html (A vs B.. got it wrong again)
https://gmatclub.com/forum/to-josephine ... 64758.html (A vs D)
https://gmatclub.com/forum/one-of-the-p ... 87992.html
https://gmatclub.com/forum/narwhals-can ... 43866.html (no clue)..
https://gmatclub.com/forum/as-a-baby-em ... 48256.html (literal one..)
https://gmatclub.com/forum/now-that-so- ... 96124.html

like can "whose" refer to inanimate things? or only "which" can?


For CR:

I still struggle with negate assumption and I guess maybe trap answers? Feels like I'm answering it right on tests. My pre-thinking isn't that airtight.. I did just switch to pre-thinking recently so I might need more practice, but when was doing OG CR questions from books, I had decently high accuracy - which makes me wonder why I'm scoring low on CR in actual test. Btw, what does "analysis / critique" mean in the ESR under CR?

Now if I repeat OG though, I know the logic of the argument so well.. that I can no longer do those questions.. wondering if I have to move to LSAT CR?
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