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10 Oct 2014, 08:38
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Hi Everyone,
This is Govind from Bristol, UK. I have been following gmatclub from the last 3 years. I go through lot of documents thru gmatclub on daily basis and got lot of encouragement from the site. I recently wrote GMAT but I got only 24 in my Verbal. My over all score is 620 (Q:50 and V:24). I am very disappointed since i was getting 28-30 in mock exams in GMAT prep and 34-36 in Kaplan exams.
I am male Indian working in UK from the last 4 years. I have worked in US, China for 5 years. I have been studying GMAT for the last 2 years. I got 530 first time then 590 2nd time then 620 this time. I spent 90% of my time in Verbal preparation (150+ hrs), but still i could not improve much from the last time i wrote. I know that my timing is an issue but if i try to answer quickly then i will not be answering correctly. Books and courses used.
1) Manhattan GMAT SC 2) CR Bible 3) All OG's 4) GMATPREP 5) 1000 SC
4) Veritas Prep and E-GMAT verbal package. - Courses were okay and they did not even bother responding when i said my score is low (530).
5) I took personnel coaching for 45 hours for verbal, including CR, RC and SC.
I have improved my knowledge a lot in the last 6 months, however its not reflecting in the scores.
I took 2 weeks off from my work before the exam and wrote close to tests so that i get used to testing habits. On the exam day my quant went very well (I am good at maths anyway).
Verbal section started and i knew that this is going to be tackled well. I tried to complete but i got 2 long RC's so i think i was doing well but at the end i had 12 mins and 10 questions (including RC).
I am very very very disappointed and i need to improve my verbal. My target score is 680 so that i can apply some UK universities.
Should i join some 50+ guarantee courses? I do not see that getting 680 is that difficult if i can get 50 in quant and 31 in verbal, but i am not getting that. I am planning to write one more time in December. Is 2 months time sufficient to improve verbal to desired score?
Please suggest if i need take any courses or any other approach. I am still shocked that i got only 24 in Verbal.... Any kind of encouragement will be useful.
Thanks,
Govind.
This is Govind from Bristol, UK. I have been following gmatclub from the last 3 years. I go through lot of documents thru gmatclub on daily basis and got lot of encouragement from the site. I recently wrote GMAT but I got only 24 in my Verbal. My over all score is 620 (Q:50 and V:24). I am very disappointed since i was getting 28-30 in mock exams in GMAT prep and 34-36 in Kaplan exams.
I am male Indian working in UK from the last 4 years. I have worked in US, China for 5 years. I have been studying GMAT for the last 2 years. I got 530 first time then 590 2nd time then 620 this time. I spent 90% of my time in Verbal preparation (150+ hrs), but still i could not improve much from the last time i wrote. I know that my timing is an issue but if i try to answer quickly then i will not be answering correctly. Books and courses used.
1) Manhattan GMAT SC 2) CR Bible 3) All OG's 4) GMATPREP 5) 1000 SC
4) Veritas Prep and E-GMAT verbal package. - Courses were okay and they did not even bother responding when i said my score is low (530).
5) I took personnel coaching for 45 hours for verbal, including CR, RC and SC.
I have improved my knowledge a lot in the last 6 months, however its not reflecting in the scores.
I took 2 weeks off from my work before the exam and wrote close to tests so that i get used to testing habits. On the exam day my quant went very well (I am good at maths anyway).
Verbal section started and i knew that this is going to be tackled well. I tried to complete but i got 2 long RC's so i think i was doing well but at the end i had 12 mins and 10 questions (including RC).
I am very very very disappointed and i need to improve my verbal. My target score is 680 so that i can apply some UK universities.
Should i join some 50+ guarantee courses? I do not see that getting 680 is that difficult if i can get 50 in quant and 31 in verbal, but i am not getting that. I am planning to write one more time in December. Is 2 months time sufficient to improve verbal to desired score?
Please suggest if i need take any courses or any other approach. I am still shocked that i got only 24 in Verbal.... Any kind of encouragement will be useful.
Thanks,
Govind.
10 Oct 2014, 16:47
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Dear Govind,
I'm happy to respond.
First and foremost, I would say: to improve your verbal, you need to READ. You need to read widely, well beyond anything related to the GMAT. You need to read hard challenging material in multiple topics. You need to read for an hour a day every day --- that's an hour over and above any GMAT-specific preparations. Since you want an MBA, you should already be getting yourself as informed as possible about the modern business world, so I would recommend reading the Wall Street Journal every; I would recommend looking at Bloomberg Businessweek regularly; and especially the Economist magazine --- read that from cover to cover each week. For more suggestions on what to read, see:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/gmat-reading-list/
Contact with colloquial spoken English is good for other aspects of your career, but that does not help you very much with the GMAT, which is about much more formal written English, as it used in academic or sophisticated business climates. That's what you need to be reading assiduously, every day, so that you adjust to these demands. When you read always think about GMAT Verbal tasks. Think about RC tasks (main idea, role of each paragraph, why was a detail mentioned, author's tone and perspective, etc.) For any arguments presented, think about CR tasks (strengtheners, weakeners; assumptions; what would allow you to evaluate the argument?, etc.) Look at individual sentences, and think about the grammar --- what modifiers what, parallelism, verb tenses, idioms, etc. All this work should be going on in the background, as you are also doing GMAT preparations.
On the GMAT side, here are some free GMAT Idiom flashcards:
https://gmat.magoosh.com/flashcards/idioms
Here's a GMAT RC practice question set on our blog:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-readi ... questions/
If you sign up for Magoosh, we indeed have a 50-point money-back guarantee:
https://gmat.magoosh.com/score-guarantee
Here's a free SC lesson:
https://gmat.magoosh.com/lessons/944-substantive-clauses
Here's a practice SC question
https://gmat.magoosh.com/questions/3257
Here's a CR practice question:
https://gmat.magoosh.com/questions/3746
Here's a one-month study plan:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/1-month-gm ... -schedule/
Since you have more than one month, I would highly recommend following the whole plan, then watching the entire series of Verbal lessons from start to end a second time.
Does all this make sense? Please let me know if you have any further questions.
Mike
I'm happy to respond.
First and foremost, I would say: to improve your verbal, you need to READ. You need to read widely, well beyond anything related to the GMAT. You need to read hard challenging material in multiple topics. You need to read for an hour a day every day --- that's an hour over and above any GMAT-specific preparations. Since you want an MBA, you should already be getting yourself as informed as possible about the modern business world, so I would recommend reading the Wall Street Journal every; I would recommend looking at Bloomberg Businessweek regularly; and especially the Economist magazine --- read that from cover to cover each week. For more suggestions on what to read, see:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/gmat-reading-list/
Contact with colloquial spoken English is good for other aspects of your career, but that does not help you very much with the GMAT, which is about much more formal written English, as it used in academic or sophisticated business climates. That's what you need to be reading assiduously, every day, so that you adjust to these demands. When you read always think about GMAT Verbal tasks. Think about RC tasks (main idea, role of each paragraph, why was a detail mentioned, author's tone and perspective, etc.) For any arguments presented, think about CR tasks (strengtheners, weakeners; assumptions; what would allow you to evaluate the argument?, etc.) Look at individual sentences, and think about the grammar --- what modifiers what, parallelism, verb tenses, idioms, etc. All this work should be going on in the background, as you are also doing GMAT preparations.
On the GMAT side, here are some free GMAT Idiom flashcards:
https://gmat.magoosh.com/flashcards/idioms
Here's a GMAT RC practice question set on our blog:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-readi ... questions/
If you sign up for Magoosh, we indeed have a 50-point money-back guarantee:
https://gmat.magoosh.com/score-guarantee
Here's a free SC lesson:
https://gmat.magoosh.com/lessons/944-substantive-clauses
Here's a practice SC question
https://gmat.magoosh.com/questions/3257
Here's a CR practice question:
https://gmat.magoosh.com/questions/3746
Here's a one-month study plan:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/1-month-gm ... -schedule/
Since you have more than one month, I would highly recommend following the whole plan, then watching the entire series of Verbal lessons from start to end a second time.
Does all this make sense? Please let me know if you have any further questions.
Mike
11 Oct 2014, 07:53
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Hi Govind,
Mike made a key point in his response: read. This will really help. You can start by reading op-ed sections of publications like the Economist, Financial Times, Businessweek, etc.
On another note, have you considered having a sessions with a tutor? That can really help find a better approach.
Jessica
Mike made a key point in his response: read. This will really help. You can start by reading op-ed sections of publications like the Economist, Financial Times, Businessweek, etc.
On another note, have you considered having a sessions with a tutor? That can really help find a better approach.
Jessica
