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03 Aug 2023, 02:57
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Hi,
Issue: Struggling with time in the Verbal Section.
-I start trailing on the benchmark time after the initial 5-10 questions. I know that i should be using 1min per SC, 2min per CR and 1min per RC question (+3/4 minutes for reading the passage). But i end up taking 50% more time for the initial 10-12 questions.
- Sometimes I end up taking 3-5 minutes on a single question. Sometimes its a consistent time lag on each question, adding up to cause a time deficit of 4-5 minutes. ( 2 question*2 minutes extra= 4min deficit or 1 min extra * 4 questions = 4 minutes deficit)
Mindset: Fear. Trying hard not to make a mistake, Knowing that margin of error is small in verbal.
Result:
- Playing catch up the entire test, once I start trailing on the time after 10-12 questions.
- I am usually left with the 3-4 questions in the last 2-3 minutes. I end up panicking and guessing them all. All 3 end up wrong.
Steps taken:
1. Meditation (4-5months)
2. Warm Up questions: 2/3 CR questions. I fear doing SC questions in warm up because I fear that if I make a few mistakes, It would lower my confidence.
Additional Info:
- I have been preparing for 3 months. I started timed practice around 1 month back. Since then, my Official mock scores in Verbal have been 42,42 and 41. Goal is to reach V43/44 in Official mocks and V42 in the real exam.
- Also, I never face such issues in the Quants section. Despite doing verbal first in the mock tests.
- My accuracy in RC, CR (LSAT, OG) is decent (90%). Better than my accuracy in SC (OG: 500-600: 90%, 600-700: 75%, >700: 50%). However, I end up taking more time for all three types of questions .
How can I deal with this pacing issue in Verbal?
Issue: Struggling with time in the Verbal Section.
-I start trailing on the benchmark time after the initial 5-10 questions. I know that i should be using 1min per SC, 2min per CR and 1min per RC question (+3/4 minutes for reading the passage). But i end up taking 50% more time for the initial 10-12 questions.
- Sometimes I end up taking 3-5 minutes on a single question. Sometimes its a consistent time lag on each question, adding up to cause a time deficit of 4-5 minutes. ( 2 question*2 minutes extra= 4min deficit or 1 min extra * 4 questions = 4 minutes deficit)
Mindset: Fear. Trying hard not to make a mistake, Knowing that margin of error is small in verbal.
Result:
- Playing catch up the entire test, once I start trailing on the time after 10-12 questions.
- I am usually left with the 3-4 questions in the last 2-3 minutes. I end up panicking and guessing them all. All 3 end up wrong.
Steps taken:
1. Meditation (4-5months)
2. Warm Up questions: 2/3 CR questions. I fear doing SC questions in warm up because I fear that if I make a few mistakes, It would lower my confidence.
Additional Info:
- I have been preparing for 3 months. I started timed practice around 1 month back. Since then, my Official mock scores in Verbal have been 42,42 and 41. Goal is to reach V43/44 in Official mocks and V42 in the real exam.
- Also, I never face such issues in the Quants section. Despite doing verbal first in the mock tests.
- My accuracy in RC, CR (LSAT, OG) is decent (90%). Better than my accuracy in SC (OG: 500-600: 90%, 600-700: 75%, >700: 50%). However, I end up taking more time for all three types of questions .
How can I deal with this pacing issue in Verbal?
03 Aug 2023, 05:18
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Hi sk69.
It sounds as if you just aren't quite where you need to be in SC. If you're scoring in the 40s on Verbal, you'll see only medium and hard questions, and your medium and hard SC practice accuracies aren't high enough for your goal.
So, I think you need to go back to doing untimed SC practice until you achieve higher practice accuracy in SC.
You may also need to study some SC concepts and strategies to support your achieving higher accuracy, by which I mean 90%+ in medium questions and 80%+ in hard.
For some insights into how to practice Verbal for best results, you could read this post.
Three Key Practice Tips for Mastering GMAT Verbal
You could also read this post to get some ideas for speeding up in Verbal, but I think, mainly, working on SC is your path to your goal.
How to Get Faster at GMAT Verbal
It sounds as if you just aren't quite where you need to be in SC. If you're scoring in the 40s on Verbal, you'll see only medium and hard questions, and your medium and hard SC practice accuracies aren't high enough for your goal.
So, I think you need to go back to doing untimed SC practice until you achieve higher practice accuracy in SC.
You may also need to study some SC concepts and strategies to support your achieving higher accuracy, by which I mean 90%+ in medium questions and 80%+ in hard.
For some insights into how to practice Verbal for best results, you could read this post.
Three Key Practice Tips for Mastering GMAT Verbal
You could also read this post to get some ideas for speeding up in Verbal, but I think, mainly, working on SC is your path to your goal.
How to Get Faster at GMAT Verbal
03 Aug 2023, 07:22
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Thank you Mr.Marty
I've almost exhausted OG SC question bank. Would you recommend redoing them? (I don't remember the answer for most of them)
I've almost exhausted OG SC question bank. Would you recommend redoing them? (I don't remember the answer for most of them)
