How do I raise my verbal section score from 35 to 38 or 40 in 2 weeks?

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I scored a V-35, Q-47 Gmat-660 yesterday. I need to retake gmat in 15 days. How can I raise my Verbal score from 35 to 38 or 40?

MBAPrepCoach · Answer

I'm a firm believer that doing a zillion questions is not going to help this. You need to find strategies that work and then Master those strategies.

Farrell Dyan Hehn, MBA
Admissions Consultant & Verbal Strategist MBAPrepCoach.com

anzhere96 · Answer

Any sources you recommend to do the same?

HiLine · Answer

Get your ESR and post it so we can answer your question with any specificity. :wink:

EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi anzhere96,

First off, a 660/Q47 is a strong score (it's right around the 80th percentile overall), so it could be enough to get you into your first-choice School. As such, a retest might not be necessary. Depending on the Schools that you plan to apply to, you would likely find it beneficial to speak with an Admissions Expert about your overall profile. There's a Forum full of them here:

ask-admission-consultants-124/

Before I can offer you the specific advice that you're looking for regarding how to improve your Verbal score, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

1) How long have you studied?
2) What materials have you used?
3) How have you scored on each of your CATs (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores)?

4) What is your goal score?
5) When are you planning to apply to Business School?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

OptimusPrepJanielle · Answer

First question to you would be "why do you want to retake the GMAT so early?"

The best way to know where did you go wrong is by ordering the ESR and see where can you improve.
Post this, try to drill down in each question type:

SC: The questions test various concepts such as S-V agreement, modifiers, parallelism etc. Find out what troubles you.
CR: There might be certain types of questions that are troubling you. May be Assumption, may be conclusion, inference etc.
You need to find that out and then practice them
RC: This again can be drilled down into different types of questions and also different topics. See what questions and topics trouble you the most and then practice accordingly.
Quants: Again try to break the questions in topics such as Algebra, Number system (very important), Geometry, PnC etc.

As an addition, start preparing an error log and keep a note of all the mistakes you made and the lessons you learnt from the problems. This will ensure you do not make the same mistake again.

Make sure you complete all of the OG and the Verbal review and if required, you can buy the Question pack1 from mba.com

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