Scoring low in verbal

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Hi All, 
I am plan to take my test in a month. However, I am struggling with verbal. I usually score 8-9/12 on CR and SC each. I have practiced GMAT official. It has been of great help over the last month but I need to improve more. In CR, I make mistakes in "assumption" and "consideration questions whereas mistakes in SC are random. Your feedback and comments will be highly appreciated. TIA.

DisciplinedPrep · Answer

Umernadeem - Thank you for reaching out for help, and I can assure you that you are not alone. Please visit the verbal forum to find several existing high-quality posts that would provide you with strategies and concepts to improve your score in the verbal section. I have provided a sample post below.

How to Improve Verbal from V30 to V40

How to Improve Verbal from V30 to V40

madgmat2019 · Answer

In gmat club we have questions categorized based on difficulty and the topic......so u can go and checkout there....below is for CR, same will be available for each section

https://gmatclub.com/forum/critical-rea ... 28861.html

egmat · Answer

Hey  Umernadeem

Thanks for reaching out on the forum, it feels good to see you coming out and asking for advice.

It doesn't matter how many questions you are marking incorrect. What mattters the most is what level of difficulty questions you are marking incorrectly.

It is very good that you have identified your specific weakness in CR. I suggest you to go through this  Webinar on Pre-Thinking in Critical Reasoning . This will help you in improving your CR by changing the approach of solving questions.

For Sentence Correction, you should go through this  Webinar on Meaning based approach in Sentence Correction . This will help you in redefining your SC strategy and will help you in increasing your score.

I hope the above two webinars should be able to solve your problems regarding CR and SC.

Best
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EducationAisle · Answer

Hi Nadeem, I am afraid that this is generally indicative of  lack  of conceptual clarity and fundamentals. Which resources (other than official guide) have you been using for your Verbal prep?

authoritativefuji · Answer

I am in a somewhat similar situation as you, as I thought that my mistakes in Sentence Correction were random, as it is my main weakness in the verbal section.

However, I took a verbal CAT using the GMAT Club Test tool and quickly figured out my weaknesses. The tool is great as it gives you a lot of information about your performance and saves full-length practice tests for later.

Take the GMAT Club verbal CAT and let us know what your weaknesses are to get a better, more personalized answer.

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