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Hi,
I am a non-native speaker and I scored 17 on my GMAT verbal section, which shows how weak I’m at it. Honestly speaking, i didn’t prepare for verbal section because I wasn’t even good at the basics. I spent 2 hours a day on quant concepts for a week and scored 49. I didnt like Math either in my childhood, but worked on it and now I love Math. That’s is what I want to do with my Verbal section.
Instead of shying away from Verbal section difficulties, I have decided to work on my weakness. I aim to score 45 in my verbal section, a Herculean task, but I feel it can be done if I do my things right. I am planning to take GMAT after a year. So I thought I will take first 2-3 months(2-3 hours a day) to develop reading habit and learn the basics so that I can start building on them once I actually start my GMAT prep. ( I didn’t want to jump right into GMAT prep, as I feel overwhelmed when I try to answer Verbal question because I barely know any concepts and I might even give up if I see my results are discouraging, which is not what I want).
I have started reading Economist and NGC magazines to accustom myself with lengthy passages and articles. If the topic of the article is familiar, I understand the gist of it even when I don’t understand few sentences because of their construction or because of some new words used. As GMAT is not kind enough to give familiar topics on the test, I have to start understanding the sentence formations better.
Below are few sentences I found in the articles I read and they have different constructions
1. While Vox’s leader, Santiago Abascal, criticises illegal immigration, his main pitch is to recentralise government, ban separatist parties and crack down on the Catalan regional administration.
2. SoftBank controls important companies, including Sprint, an American telecoms outfit, and Arm, a British tech firm that is a vital cog in the semiconductor industry.
3. MagicLab’s owner, Andrey Andreev, a Russian billionaire, has faced criticism for presiding over an allegedly sexist culture.
4. From 2001 to 2016, researchers caught ice seals, fur seals, Steller sea lions and northern sea otters from around the Bering Strait, and tested them for PDV, which affects the lungs and brain.
5. Its funding ratio of 40.7% is one of the worst in America, according to the Centre for Retirement Research (crr) in Boston.
6. The situation is getting worse. In 2009 the schemes’ actuaries requested $2.1bn, but only $1.6bn was paid.
7. By 2018 the state paid in $4.2bn, still well short of the $7.1bn the actuaries asked for.
8. Offering workers a defined-benefit pension, where an income based on final salary is paid for the rest of their lives, is an expensive proposition, especially as life expectancies lengthen.
9. Pension shortfalls are common across America, with the average public scheme monitored by the crr just 72.4% funded.
10. In parts of Africa, the benefits of circumcising adolescents can outweigh the costs by about 10 to 1, according to the Copenhagen Consensus Centre (ccc), a think-tank.
11. The narrow ridge, the site of early Jerusalem and today packed with houses occupied mostly by Palestinian residents, conceals a subterranean labyrinth of natural caves, Canaanite water channels, Judaean tunnels, and Roman quarries.
I understood these sentences. However, not always I understand which clause refers to which part of the sentence. Because I’m losing confidence, I am trying too much to understand what I read, which sometimes even causing confusions with list of items separated by , in a sentence with clauses separated by ,.
How can I get better at understanding the sentences when they are too long? Is there a way to understand which clauses refer to which subject/object etc?
Please excuse the lengthy post and the mistakes in it.
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I am a non-native speaker and I scored 17 on my GMAT verbal section, which shows how weak I’m at it. Honestly speaking, i didn’t prepare for verbal section because I wasn’t even good at the basics. I spent 2 hours a day on quant concepts for a week and scored 49. I didnt like Math either in my childhood, but worked on it and now I love Math. That’s is what I want to do with my Verbal section.
Instead of shying away from Verbal section difficulties, I have decided to work on my weakness. I aim to score 45 in my verbal section, a Herculean task, but I feel it can be done if I do my things right. I am planning to take GMAT after a year. So I thought I will take first 2-3 months(2-3 hours a day) to develop reading habit and learn the basics so that I can start building on them once I actually start my GMAT prep. ( I didn’t want to jump right into GMAT prep, as I feel overwhelmed when I try to answer Verbal question because I barely know any concepts and I might even give up if I see my results are discouraging, which is not what I want).
I have started reading Economist and NGC magazines to accustom myself with lengthy passages and articles. If the topic of the article is familiar, I understand the gist of it even when I don’t understand few sentences because of their construction or because of some new words used. As GMAT is not kind enough to give familiar topics on the test, I have to start understanding the sentence formations better.
Below are few sentences I found in the articles I read and they have different constructions
1. While Vox’s leader, Santiago Abascal, criticises illegal immigration, his main pitch is to recentralise government, ban separatist parties and crack down on the Catalan regional administration.
2. SoftBank controls important companies, including Sprint, an American telecoms outfit, and Arm, a British tech firm that is a vital cog in the semiconductor industry.
3. MagicLab’s owner, Andrey Andreev, a Russian billionaire, has faced criticism for presiding over an allegedly sexist culture.
4. From 2001 to 2016, researchers caught ice seals, fur seals, Steller sea lions and northern sea otters from around the Bering Strait, and tested them for PDV, which affects the lungs and brain.
5. Its funding ratio of 40.7% is one of the worst in America, according to the Centre for Retirement Research (crr) in Boston.
6. The situation is getting worse. In 2009 the schemes’ actuaries requested $2.1bn, but only $1.6bn was paid.
7. By 2018 the state paid in $4.2bn, still well short of the $7.1bn the actuaries asked for.
8. Offering workers a defined-benefit pension, where an income based on final salary is paid for the rest of their lives, is an expensive proposition, especially as life expectancies lengthen.
9. Pension shortfalls are common across America, with the average public scheme monitored by the crr just 72.4% funded.
10. In parts of Africa, the benefits of circumcising adolescents can outweigh the costs by about 10 to 1, according to the Copenhagen Consensus Centre (ccc), a think-tank.
11. The narrow ridge, the site of early Jerusalem and today packed with houses occupied mostly by Palestinian residents, conceals a subterranean labyrinth of natural caves, Canaanite water channels, Judaean tunnels, and Roman quarries.
I understood these sentences. However, not always I understand which clause refers to which part of the sentence. Because I’m losing confidence, I am trying too much to understand what I read, which sometimes even causing confusions with list of items separated by , in a sentence with clauses separated by ,.
How can I get better at understanding the sentences when they are too long? Is there a way to understand which clauses refer to which subject/object etc?
Please excuse the lengthy post and the mistakes in it.
Posted from my mobile device
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17 Nov 2019, 01:41
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Hi, sundeep535,
It's good that you identified your weak section and started reading magazines. Such reading will improve your both RC and SC capabilities. However, it seems that you might need to refresh your basics and i would suggest to refer Manhattan SC guide. Once, you go through the guide, you can enroll for free trials of test prep companies, having good reviews, to ace GMAT verbal.
Thanks,
Raxit T.
It's good that you identified your weak section and started reading magazines. Such reading will improve your both RC and SC capabilities. However, it seems that you might need to refresh your basics and i would suggest to refer Manhattan SC guide. Once, you go through the guide, you can enroll for free trials of test prep companies, having good reviews, to ace GMAT verbal.
Thanks,
Raxit T.
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17 Nov 2019, 02:59
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sundeep535
well you can surely give a try on reading manhattan verbal books as they are really good especially for SC..
well you can surely give a try on reading manhattan verbal books as they are really good especially for SC..
sundeep535
