How can I improove verbal skills? suggestions, strategies...

Question

hi, i have a lot of problems with my verbal skills because I am international student and I want to ask you help me with this problem, could you suggest any strategies?

sonibubu · Answer

For SC, use Manhattan GMAT's guide. I didn't like their RC and CR as much.

Ravshonbek · Answer

Privet, 
send me your email address i will send you some stuff in verbal.

robinantony · Answer

Work on your RC. I can't stress enough how important RC is. People tend to ignore it. Practice and practice! Good Luck!

JustDeals · Answer

Ravshonbek: i want to improve my verbal skills also

faraji13 · Answer

Read a book, preferably one with a technical or political viewpoint. It only takes a few hours, and it will condition your brain to analyze arguments, as you'll be subconsciously thinking about what the author is arguing, how compelling their argument is, what would make the argument more or less compelling, etc, all things you'll have to tackle on the GMAT. Since they're professionally edited, you'll also be looking at a lot of properly constructed sentences, and especially if English is a second language, you'll pick up the nuance of sentence structure, grammar, etc. Good luck.

GMATBLACKBELT · Answer

I have to disagree with this approach. While reading a book, WSJ, economist etc... can help your reading skills. Why not just do RC's??? Pick up the paper tests or better yet grab some LSAT RC's. These are among the most difficult RC's you will see. If you can master LSAT RC's you are good to go. Also, unlike GMAT RC's, there are so many LSAT RC's that you can buy that you will probably never run out of these RC's.

jimmyjamesdonkey · Answer

GMATBlackbelt, would you agree though that RC is the key to a high verbal score?

eschn3am · Answer

Manhattan GMAT for SC
1000SC/RC/CR for practicing everything else
OG11 and OG Verbal

that's my verbal approach anyway. I really need to focus on verbal as well these last 3 weeks, my 4 practice CATs have a 5 point range in verbal

solaris1 · Answer

I actually agree with this.

After consistently getting stuck in the v39-41 range, I spent 3-4 days doing nothing but RC's and devising an effective note taking strategy for Long Passages. I personally think that was instrumental in me taking my score up to v46.

I think most of us tend to spend a lot of time preparing for SC's and ignore RC's for the most part thinking that doing well on RC's is just an inherent skill - either you have it or you don't. That's not true; you can learn how to do well on RC's as well.

neerajch · Answer

Good strategy for RC is to just practice and practice. This will help you a lot.

billyjeans · Answer

Hi, can someone tell me what is 1000SC/RC/CR and where to get it? Thanks

vinviper · Answer

Thanks!

bobinabob2 · Answer

thx

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