GMAT Clubbers are scared of verbal. Period.

Question

If you kindly ignore the redundancy of the punctuation mark in the title of this thread, allow me to share some statistics that we have collected over the past few weeks. These are trends that we have noticed in the last few years that will conclusively prove that GMAT Club users are afraid of verbal, and we need to push for more participation to up our verbal game.

Critical Reasoning and Sentence Correction Stats

Statistics

Reasonable Assumptions

Timer Count = Number of attempts that GMAT Club users made in a forum.
Replies = Engagement with questions posted.
New threads = New Questions.

Statistics Summary

Critical Reasoning: In 2013, 2014, and 2015: The engagement was 5%, 3%, and 2% of the number of attempts in those years respectively.
Sentence Correction: In 2013. 2014, and 2015: The engagement was 8%, 2%, and 2% of the number of attempts in those years respectively.
In CR and SC, 2014 saw a 42% and 192% increase in question attempts, but a decrease of 10% and 12% respectively in engagement.

Statistics Inferences

Users attempt more questions on the timer but do not post solutions.
Users do not find it useful to post and ask for doubts on the forums.
Users search for other threads to solve queries.

Thoughts

As we have seen repeatedly in the Share GMAT experiences forum, most of the learning comes from asking questions and solving other people's questions (and thereby strengthening concepts), increasing the GMAT score considerably, I feel the lack of engagement directly causes a low morale of the community.

GMAT Club was built on creating an environment of peer learning, and I take responsibility to increase verbal engagement to thrive on more success stories as a result of participation in the forum.

As a next step, I am going to post new questions on the forum (many of you may have noticed), and update the alert band for all you guys to come together, discuss, brainstorm, and give the GMAT verbal a royal asskicking. Cheers to new beginnings

The alert message can be found here:

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AmoyV · Answer

What about RC? That is not an area to ignore. RC demands a whole different level of conditioning than SC and CR. While SC and CR may have more to do with skills, RC has a lot to do with endurance and keeping calm in a time intensive test. RC forum is way less active than the CR and SC forum.

souvik101990 · Answer

I agree with you there. But if you look at the RC forum now, you will find tons of new questions in the project that  Gnpth  has taken up. Hope you find them useful.

AmoyV · Answer

Have started working on them. Thanks for the initiative

alman888 · Answer

Thanks on the RC front. I'm a new-ish member of GMAT Club and - if I may speak frankly - have found the (600-700 level...I'm working my way up) RC section pretty underwhelming. I don't mean to berate contributors, but issues, such as no answers or not stating the source, are annoying. As much as beggars can't be choosers, it'd be great if the poorer quality passages could be weeded out.

Anyway, I'll go back into obscurity now!

Anyway, I'll go back into obscurity now!

aparnakar · Answer

Well I'll try to do my bit by posting and contributing regularly on the GMATClub verbal forums.

Carcass · Answer

Moreover, I have collected the most useful links on the board (really the best) aside the question posted by souvik

Here you can take a look verbal-question-bank-and-directories-by-carcass-195438.html for RC section

regards

alman888 · Answer

Thanks very much - your hard work is definitely appreciated here!

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