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26 Sep 2019, 05:55
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NEEDING SOMEONE'S ADVICE!!
My quant is where I want it right now (~Q49), but my verbal is concerning me as of my last GMAT Club score.
My chronology of Verbal prep:
- Spent 6 months going through all 9 MGMAT books and every OG problem from 2013
*V20 July '19, GMAT Club - my very first score, before doing lots of practice problems
- Spent 2 months doing problems on Magoosh
*V35 Aug '19, GMAT Club - my first legit score, after having done many practice problems
- I wanted to get this up to a 39, so I spent about 3 weeks focusing more heavily on verbal - learning from very-hard level Magoosh questons and watching Magoosh videos.
*V28 Sep '19, GMAT Club
- How is this possible? I spent all that time focused on verbal, but my score dropped 7 points?! I know these unofficial mocks aren't super telling, but a 7 point drop is very significant, especially considering I was anticipating doing several points better than my previous 35. With that being said, when reviewing the answers, I shook my head at some of them, since I completely disagreed with either the answer selection or the setup of the question itself. Therefore, I wonder if these verbal mocks are just pretty poor as many reviews suggest. I know one is supposed to take these scores with a grain of salt, but at the same time, a 28 is 12 points below my goal verbal score.
Now I need to strategize how I will proceed. My goal score is a 710, and I will not stop until I have a 690 minimum. My GMAT Club best score is 670 so far.
My quant is where I want it right now (~Q49), but my verbal is concerning me as of my last GMAT Club score.
My chronology of Verbal prep:
- Spent 6 months going through all 9 MGMAT books and every OG problem from 2013
*V20 July '19, GMAT Club - my very first score, before doing lots of practice problems
- Spent 2 months doing problems on Magoosh
*V35 Aug '19, GMAT Club - my first legit score, after having done many practice problems
- I wanted to get this up to a 39, so I spent about 3 weeks focusing more heavily on verbal - learning from very-hard level Magoosh questons and watching Magoosh videos.
*V28 Sep '19, GMAT Club
- How is this possible? I spent all that time focused on verbal, but my score dropped 7 points?! I know these unofficial mocks aren't super telling, but a 7 point drop is very significant, especially considering I was anticipating doing several points better than my previous 35. With that being said, when reviewing the answers, I shook my head at some of them, since I completely disagreed with either the answer selection or the setup of the question itself. Therefore, I wonder if these verbal mocks are just pretty poor as many reviews suggest. I know one is supposed to take these scores with a grain of salt, but at the same time, a 28 is 12 points below my goal verbal score.
Now I need to strategize how I will proceed. My goal score is a 710, and I will not stop until I have a 690 minimum. My GMAT Club best score is 670 so far.
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27 Sep 2019, 10:42
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Hi Petfro49
Here is my INDIVIDUAL experience:
I had the same experience with GMATclub Verbal tests as you.
The range of score varied a lot between V37 and v21.
Besides, several questions are debatable and need more improvement (in my opinion). real GMAT is more clear.
Also I encountered several glitches. For example, I get a long RC with only one question (not 4 as supposed) which unfairly eat my time (I waste 4-6 min in reading to only answer one question)
And when I tried free other mocks (like Manhattan, Kaplan,....), I found better consistency and logic in results.
However, there are benefits:
1- It helped me a lot in time management.
2- the questions teach a lot of good ideas and tricks (although some questions not well structured and written)
In summary, for verbal, don't panic from the fluctuation in score. Focus on learning, time management and improving your smart guessing techniques to save time.
Here is my INDIVIDUAL experience:
I had the same experience with GMATclub Verbal tests as you.
The range of score varied a lot between V37 and v21.
Besides, several questions are debatable and need more improvement (in my opinion). real GMAT is more clear.
Also I encountered several glitches. For example, I get a long RC with only one question (not 4 as supposed) which unfairly eat my time (I waste 4-6 min in reading to only answer one question)
And when I tried free other mocks (like Manhattan, Kaplan,....), I found better consistency and logic in results.
However, there are benefits:
1- It helped me a lot in time management.
2- the questions teach a lot of good ideas and tricks (although some questions not well structured and written)
In summary, for verbal, don't panic from the fluctuation in score. Focus on learning, time management and improving your smart guessing techniques to save time.
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30 Sep 2019, 10:33
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even i faced same issue when i tried gmt club verbal. my gmat club test verbal score was less compared to othere test
