Events & Promotions
|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Apr 2808:00 AM PDT
-11:00 AM PDT
Whether you are just beginning your MBA journey or fine-tuning your path to a 700+ score, GMAT Day is designed to give you a competitive edge.
gameboy11887
Joined: 20 Dec 2013
Last visit: 24 Jul 2019
Posts: 36
Own Kudos:
Given Kudos: 2
Schools: Booth '17 ISB '16 Haas '17 HBS '17 Insead Sept '16 Kellogg 1YR '16 Rotman '17 NTU '17 NUS '17 GMBA '16 Schulich '17 Sloan '17 Stanford '17 Tuck '17 Alberta University XLRI Yale '17 Wharton '18
GMAT 1: 620 Q48 V27
GPA: 3.9
Products:
Schools: Booth '17 ISB '16 Haas '17 HBS '17 Insead Sept '16 Kellogg 1YR '16 Rotman '17 NTU '17 NUS '17 GMBA '16 Schulich '17 Sloan '17 Stanford '17 Tuck '17 Alberta University XLRI Yale '17 Wharton '18
GMAT 1: 620 Q48 V27
Posts: 36
Kudos:
7
20 Feb 2014, 12:11
Kudos
Bookmarks
Hi
I have taken the GMAT last month and my scores were extremely low mainly due to very poor performance in Verbal. I did refer Manhattan review for SC and Power score for CR but on the Exam day neither I could apply the SC rules nor could comprehend the CR text and identified and distinguish between the really close ans choices
Need some help with regards to how I can improve my verbal skills and suggest some good Verbal material
I have taken the GMAT last month and my scores were extremely low mainly due to very poor performance in Verbal. I did refer Manhattan review for SC and Power score for CR but on the Exam day neither I could apply the SC rules nor could comprehend the CR text and identified and distinguish between the really close ans choices
Need some help with regards to how I can improve my verbal skills and suggest some good Verbal material
20 Feb 2014, 20:07
Kudos
Bookmarks
How much did you use the Official Guide in your preparation? Our preparation materials will put you in a great position to tackle the Official Guides. Excellent study in the Official Guides (including timed sets and heavy review) is a great way to prepare yourself for the actual exam. Taking GMATPrep practice exams will give you a decent idea of what you will score on test day so you can be sure you are ready before you actually take the exam.
KW
KW
20 Feb 2014, 21:32
Kudos
Bookmarks
gameboy11887
I may be biased here but I think our Verbal material is excellent. Let me give you an overview of how we handle the the 3 Verbal question types in our books:
SC - The effort required to answer 70%-80% of the questions correctly is not much. Most errors that appear on GMAT can be categorized - Agreement errors, Pronoun errors, Verb errors, Modifier errors etc. Learn to spot these quickly. Learning a list of rules doesn't help. Also, GMAT is focusing less and less on rules and more and more on logic e.g. above 700 level questions will often involve 'accuracy' errors i.e. grammatically an option is correct but it changes the meaning intended. We tend to overlook this error. So to improve SC, focus on the most common errors and make sure you know the correct usage. Then practice. OG13 has good questions to practice on. Go through the explanation of each and every option. Figure out why A, B, C and D are incorrect and why E is correct and so on...
CR - Very logical, very mathematical...There are some things which are very important to keep in mind, especially in 700+ questions. e.g. While working on Strengthen/ Weaken questions, focus on the conclusion of the argument. That is what you have to strengthen/weaken. Make sure that the option you pick strengthens/weakens your conclusion, not a premise of the argument. At the end of the day, every CR question comes down to some such detail. Our book discusses such details about every question type in 2-4 pages and then gives you practice questions. It's to the point and highlights the important things that you must keep in mind.
RC - Mainly practice will help. Read properly the first time around and note the scope, tone, organization and purpose of the passage. Then go on to questions. Do not make errors in the specific detail questions since the answer is right in front of you. Go back to the passage to confirm if you have a doubt. The extra 10 seconds are worth it. Our RC book which has many 650+ passages. In fact, some of them are the hardest that you could see on GMAT. It also discusses the various types of questions that are asked. Not that you need to know that for the exam but it helps in familiarizing yourself with what they are trying to test in each question type.
Also, in the last few months, we have developed practice tests that mimic the current GMAT pattern and we keep updating them continually. You can try one for free @ https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep-resource-links-no-longer-available-399979.html#/free-gmat-practice-test
