ok. I took the gmat for the first time and totally failed (got 370) Q19V23. I was not gonna give up. I signed up for another test and bought Veritas books, SC Manhattan, New OG 13th edition and also decided to invest in one of the prep courses. After reading bunch of different reviews I went ahead with Master GMAT. The math portion of it was very helpful but when I had my one on one instruction time with my tutor he alwasy seemed to be in a rush and I would always have unanswered questions. Anyhow I took Kaplan test a week after my first test and scored 550. Below are my other scores:
Kaplan 550
MGMAT 1:580
MGMAT 2: 620
MGMAT 3:590
MGMAT 4: 600
GMATPrep 1: 480
GMATPrep 2:580
Yesterday when I gave my exam I got Q40V20=500. Very disappointed but I'm going to fight it until I beat it. I really need to improve my Verbal and wanted to know the best material that I can use to boost my socre by 10-12 points there. The funny thing is I would always score mid V30s on practice exams and when i was actually writing the real exam I thought the questions weren't too hard ( I guess I was wrong).