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Hii Experts/Students,

I have been preparing for GMAT since Nov-2019. My target score is 760.
I scored 540 (Q-42, V-23) in my first official GMAT Mock, which I took after a little practice.

After I took my first mock I realized that I have to work on my verbal score. Since then I am trying to improve my verbal score but not succeeded yet.

My last GMAT official mock score is 640. (Q-50, V-26)

With this preamble I would like to post my query now.

1) Sentence correction : I have finished all concepts, OG-10,12,2020 & GMAT advanced. And now my accuracy is satisfactory. I don't have any query for SC section.

2) Critical reasoning : Initially I was good at CR, but after mixing different concepts I have started facing difficulties.

Today I have solved Manhattan GMAT CR questions, and found it very helpful to build concepts.
Here my question to experts is: Is my method is correct? Since I have already exhausted Official Guides is it good idea to practice from manhattan?

If not then can anyone explain me how to improve?

3) Reading comprehension: Same in RC I have exhausted all OG passages, now practicing LSAT ones, Looking for response from someone who has improved from low level, because sometimes already through students really don't know how to Improve, they just good at RC at firsts place!!

Thank you in advance.

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GMATNinja, Crackverbal, E-GMAT Can you please guide me?
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2) Critical reasoning : Initially I was good at CR, but after mixing different concepts I have started facing difficulties.

Today I have solved Manhattan GMAT CR questions, and found it very helpful to build concepts.
Here my question to experts is: Is my method is correct? Since I have already exhausted Official Guides is it good idea to practice from manhattan?

If not then can anyone explain me how to improve?

3) Reading comprehension: Same in RC I have exhausted all OG passages, now practicing LSAT ones, Looking for response from someone who has improved from low level, because sometimes already through students really don't know how to Improve, they just good at RC at firsts place!!

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Hello, Thelionking1234. I like what TheUltimateWinner has posted above from the legendary standardized test ace Ron Purewal. My take on supplementing OG questions is as follows:

- Practice in small sets, no more than 5-10 questions. Too many students make the mistake of blitzing through high-quality questions without really learning anything, focusing too much on the correct answer when they should be focusing on what makes the incorrect answers miss the mark. If you go through 5 questions or so and leave them alone, without checking the answers, go do something else, and come back to the questions later, checking to see if you would answer them the same way, then you are engaging with the material at a deeper level. Although the GMATTM is not the LSAT, students taking the latter test often employ such a study method to improve their approach to that type of question (called Logical Reasoning on that test).

- There are some types of Logical Reasoning questions that align well with CR questions on the GMATTM, but by and large, the two are separate entities. I personally think GRE® passages better resemble what you are likely to see on the GMATTM. There are typically 1-2 such questions per Verbal section, and they look just like CR questions and follow the same sorts of logical patterns.

- Center your CR practice on official questions. If you have exhausted the questions from the OG, then find others that you have not seen. You can scour the directory for fresh questions. You are sure to find some that you have not previously attempted. The reason you want to practice primarily official questions is that GMACTM does not license its own questions, so third-party companies can only get so close to mimicking the real questions (or risk a lawsuit for copyright infringement). You could grow quite adept at tackling, say, Manhattan Prep questions and still perform just all right on official ones, simply because you might feel as though something is "off" about the real ones. Each source adopts a certain style for CR questions, and it is important that you grow accustomed to the one GMACTM uses for its questions.

- See if you can pin down which particular CR questions are relative strengths or weaknesses. You might be great at strengthen/weaken questions, for instance, but not so great at boldface questions. When you break down your performance from earlier practice, you can start to zero in on the question types that you most struggle with.

- Go back again and review. Look up every question you missed from the OG and see if a post that anyone has made in that thread resonates with you. This is how you improve your understanding of such questions and set yourself up for success on new ones. If something still does not make sense to you, then just write your own post, explain how you went about the process and still arrived at an incorrect answer, and ask for help. The community is happy to pitch in and offer advice.

Everything I have written above could just as easily apply to RC questions. Finally, be humble. Do not be afraid to admit (whether to yourself only or to others as well) that you missed an Easy question, perhaps. Maybe read over the Beginners' Guides to Verbal series by GMATNinja, even though you may not be a beginner. There is always something to learn. (I read such posts all the time to refine my own conceptual knowledge.)

Good luck with your studies.

- Andrew

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