Thanks, some more thoughts on verbal.
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Was never much into formal grammar, but memorizing PR's 8 types of mistakes helped. I used the acronym "IQSTAMPP" to help me remember, and tried to work on identifying the type of mistake in each question/potential answer, and eliminate from there. Most of the time, it was fairly easy to eliminate 2 or 3 right off the bat based on pronoun, tense, etc. Tried to wade through as much as the clutter in the sentences as possible and reduce it to its simplest form.
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Read the passages pretty carefully, taking notes, then went to the questions. I liked this better than skimming, because I felt it gave me a better sense of what was going when I got to the questions. This works for me as time wasn't going to be a factor; I finished verbal with 18 minutes to go. RC was actually my favorite part of the section, which helps. The PR advice of looking for tone, avoiding absolute declarations, "minority passage", etc were helpful. Narrowed down choices until I was left with 1 in most cases, 2 in a few...
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Read the question first, then read the passage, looking carefully for the conclusion, if there was one. Took notes on a few, especially the bolded questions. Remembered the PR advice that ETS "rewards narrow minds" and went through the answer choices one by one. Most were pretty obvious.