Hello Everyone,
I started my GMAT prep last week of November (4hrs/day), in this duration I gave 3 mock tests; the first one at the beginning without any prep from mba.com (Q44,v23), the second was a free mock of veritas prep(Q45,v22), and the third from manhattan free mock (Q47,v27). After a thorough analysis of all 3 exams, I concluded that in Quant I am lagging only in 2-3 topics such as probability, pnc, and statistics while in Verbal my major area of focus was RC and SC. I think I can improve my quant with a little bit of practice and clearing the concepts, but verbal needs a miracle.
Before giving my last mock, I studied SC from Manhattan SC Edition 6 book, while CR was prepared by practicing a few questions from OG. My overall accuracy in CR was around 80% where I was making mistakes in inference, assumption-based questions, hypothesis, and paradox based questions. I think with additional practice I can manage CR. I have a fair understanding of how to approach RC based questions while also I am familiar with few rules of SC such as modifiers and subject-verb agreement, but when it comes to solving the questions I struggle in these areas:
1. RC: Unable to comprehend the entire passage due to which I am unable to understand the central idea and tone of the passage.
2. SC: I am able to understand the rules when I read the theory in the book, but I am unable to apply it on questions as I get confused, also sometimes it becomes extremely difficult for me to identify the subject and verb of the scentences.
I have finalized to purchase one of the online course available either from
Magoosh or
GMATWHIZ (Quant+Verbal), however, both are equally good, only thing I noticed that the video length of
GMATWHIZ was really long making the entire course duration to be ~6 Months while
Magoosh can be covered in 3 Months.
If anyone has tried both the courses, can anyone suggest to me which would be ideal for purchases? My main focus area is Verbal while I am also taking Quant for general practice as the only source of questions with me are from OG and Quant/Verbal Review. Also from the two-course providers which one is having its question difficulties closed to GMAT.
I am planning to give GMAT in mid-April 2021.
Thank you for your valuable feedback.
and found it good for all the modules. The questions they provided were standard and the solutions were also good. It helped me improve my score from 570 to 720.
but could not improve their score considerably. They said that it was not very great with the methods and strategies.
I think it would be better if you checked the free trial of both the courses, talked to the people of respective courses and then decide. All the best