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Hi, I have recently taken GMAT prep practice test and scored a meager 590(Q-48, V-24) . This score is all the more alarming because 2 months earlier Prep score was 610 !! :!:

This forced me to reschedule my examination. Verbal is clearly my weak area. I have referred to Manhattan guides(SC and RC), powerscore for CR. I have solved all the problems of OG13 and Kaplan. Clearly I have been making a mistake which I am not able to find out and need to fix it soon.(1 month remaining for my GMAT) Please let me know how to analyse my weakness and improve in my Verbal score.. Thanks in advance

skrishnakarthik · Answer

any suggestions guys.. ?

KarishmaB · Answer

I wish it were that cut and dry - do 100 questions from this and 200 from that and your score will be 40+ in a month. It doesn't happen - less so in Verbal. If it were that simple, prep test institutes would not have existed. It's not just about what you are doing but how you are doing it. The reason we exist is that we help our students figure out 'how' they should study, 'how' they should approach a given problem, 'how' they should think! Many people have the same problem as you and there are plenty of posts discussing this topic. e.g. go to https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep-resource-links-no-longer-available-399979.html#/ and search for 'low verbal scores'. You will find a ton of posts. If you search around the net a bit, you will get 1000+ posts addressing the problem of 'low Verbal scores' but they all are not relevant to you. To find out what is relevant to you, you need to identify your particular problems. This is not as easy as it sounds. Saying 'RC is my weak area' is not enough. You need to understand exactly what goes wrong - do you take too much time while reading the passage? Do you find many words difficult and hence do not understand the passage well? Do you lose focus mid way and then don't use your time judiciously? - there could be any number of problems. You need to identify each problem and then look for a solution for each. Look for tips and strategies, try out various different strategies given in different books till you hit the one that works for you. GMAT is not a test of knowledge but of aptitude. Building aptitude is a painful process. Reading some chapters from a book and doing some questions from another does not build aptitude. You have to work at it. You should understand the basics so well that if you get a question from anywhere, you should be able to deal with it quickly and efficiently.

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