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Hi sadams,

I've had a chance to review your 2 ESRs, but before we talk about that data, I'd like to know a bit more about how you handle the Verbal section overall:

1) What practice materials did you use before taking each of these Tests?
2) What are the exact 'steps' that you go through when dealing with a typical SC, RC and CR prompt?
3) How often do you find that you 'narrow the answers down to 2 choices' before you end up choosing your answer?

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Attached are pictures of my Enhanced Score Report for my two GMAT attempts.

The first attempt shows a low sentence correction and high critical reasoning, however the second shows the complete opposite. I understand that the test is adaptive, but what could cause such a high variance in the subsections? I have, throughout all of my studying, never performed so poorly on critical reasoning. It also appears that I answered all critical reasoning questions wrong. I have recently purchased Magoosh online self study for my next retake, but I am extremely concerned with this variance. Was I just unfocused or unlucky? What could have gone wrong here? I am completely at a loss :(

That is certainly a matter of concern. Perhaps complacency set in? Though, you did take slightly more time for CR questions in the second test so I can't say you rushed the section (until and unless you spent 10 mins on one question and just ran through the rest). You messed up most CR questions though you know how to solve them! Did you try a different approach? Take a GMAT practice test right away without working on CR at all. Report back your performance and perhaps we will have something more to go on...
Noteworthy thing about the SC performance is that you reduced the time taken but substantially increased your accuracy so that's great.
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I am so confused with GMAT here. how is this combination possible:

Score-I - V34
CR - 91 %le
RC - 73 %le
SC - 40 %le

Score-II - V36
CR - 5 %le
RC - 76 %le
SC - 87 %le

When you do well in all sections then you get V34 and you do nothing in one section but nail two section then you get V36, higher score.

Please don't tell me not to judge the algorithm. It has become very important to know how do we get such scores.

if we just do nothing in CR and do well in RC and SC then it will be easier to get V35. 700 score would be achievable by pushing score in quant and focussing only on SC and RC.