Dear VKM,
Sometimes “life happens” and we are not able to get the desired results. You should not think about the last attempt and approach the next one with a positive mindset.
Current SituationI would like to be very frank with you. Your current verbal score V20 (22 percentile) indicates that
you need help in all three verbal sections. This is quite evident from your ESR as well. If you are aiming to score 700 or more, you'll need at least a V35 (assuming you can get a Q51). Ideally you should aim for a V38 at least.
Accuracy at this point is not a good judge of your ability as you may not have faced very many difficult questions in your mocks because of your overall low percentile. Furthermore, please note that it is not possible to improve your score if you just improve in one or two sections. To understand more about Ability, visit this link:
https://e-gmat.com/blogs/what-are-ability-quizzes/.
How can you improvePreparing for GMAT is a very scientific process and we make sure that you are follow a methodical and strategic approach for the same.
You can only succeed on the GMAT when you have the right combination of concepts and application. A student should know how to apply the learned concepts properly to get a good score. In the actual GMAT exam, tricks and shortcuts tend to fail and only students with a proper approach to questions succeed. This is what we do at
e-GMAT.
We teach our students a foolproof process to solve questions and make them follow the same. This is the reason for our high rate of success.
Have a look at some of the links below to understand
1. Learn how Nikhil, currently a student at ISB Hyderabad, improved from
V19 (19 percentile) to V38 (85 percentile). In the interview (
https://goo.gl/UqfcbW), Nikhil articulates his struggles, outlining what worked for him and how was he able to finally improve to V38.
2. Richa improved from
12 percentile (V16) to 85 percentile (V38) on GMAT Verbal improved her overall score from 470 to 720. Read Richa's debrief:
https://goo.gl/8Gu2oS.
3. Suren improved from
470 (V17) to 740 (V40). Read Suren's debrief:
https://goo.gl/K2gUgU.
What to do next?We get a number of people who are in your shoes.
What you are trying to accomplish is very doable and has been accomplished by numerous non-natives. I recommend that you look at our Verbal Live Prep course:
https://e-gmat.com/courses/verbal_prep/.
Verbal Live Prep is the world's most comprehensive classroom course. The course is designed to instill a discipline in students that helps them work more efficiently towards their target score. The course helps you at every step, starting from defining your GMAT strategy (through our strategy sessions) to learning all the concepts (through our Verbal Online component of the course) and corresponding application (through the live sessions) and culminating at sessions that help you put your best foot forward as you take the exam (through
Scholaranium and tactical strategy sessions).
In addition, Verbal Live Prep is the world's only course to provide a
4-point Verbal Score Improvement Guarantee (
https://goo.gl/D6UKRl) and it is
GMAT Club’s most reviewed Live course (
http://gmatclub.com/reviews/e-gmat/e-gm ... -345345624).
You need
~120 hours to complete this course. Most people are able to complete it in
less than 40 days. You can view the complete batch schedule here:
https://goo.gl/op0as0.
Since you plan to take the GMAT again in January, you’ll have ample time to complete the course. Note that you also get recordings to all Live Sessions, which are 99% as effective as the live sessions themselves. Thus, you actually prepare for GMAT at your own schedule regardless of any session timings.
Also, this time when you prepare I would suggest you to not mix different mocks since you don’t understand whether you are improving or not. You should try to attempt all mocks from a single source only (
Veritas,
MGMAT, etc.).
Free TrialBy the way, have you checked out our Free Trial yet? We offer almost 20% of our course contents for free.
For your convenience, here are some direct links to the files. Do check them out to understand about our way of teaching and quality of content we offer.
1.
Verb-ed and Verb-ing Modifiers: https://goo.gl/50GBms2.
Bold Face: https://goo.gl/uprgDBWe have 100+ of such beautifully designed Audio Visual Files in our courses. Click here (
https://e-gmat.com/registration/) to register and login to our Free Trial and access 20+ hours of free lessons.
Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other queries.
Regards,
Rajat Sadana