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vishalgan wrote:
Wondering if you guys would advise that I do anything specific to help improve my Verbal scores from range 34 - 36 to being consistently in the high 40s.

My Quant is more or less "sorted" and is quite consistently in the range of 49-51.

Just to share some background. I took the GMAT in '17 and managed a 690. (V49 Q34) and after a hiatus of 3 years, I resumed preps again in March this year and have taken 8 practice tests so far and my scores herewith, with the Verbal breakdown indicated by the side.

GMAT official 650 Q49 V25. (taken on March 28)
Veritas 1 680 Q48 V35 (April 10) [RC - 50%, CR - 60%, SC - 71%]
Veritas 2 710 Q51 V36 (April 18) [RC - 100%, CR - 63%, SC - 75%]
Veritas 3 680 Q50 V34 (April 25) [RC - 58%, CR - 82%, SC - 31%]
Veritas 4 650 Q50 V30 (May 1) [RC - 58%, CR - 58%, SC - 42%]
Veritas 5 690 Q51 V34 (May 2) [RC - 58%, CR - 50%, SC - 42%]
Veritas 6 710 Q50 V37 (May 12) [RC - 58%, CR - 54%, SC - 77%]
Experts' 1 700 Q49 V35 (May 17) [RC - 38%, CR - 70%, SC - 62%]

Thank you! Stay well...

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Thanks for sharing your journey so far. I'm kind of in a similar juncture though in 650's.
Your quant doesn't need to be much stressed upon but verbal does - it's relatively fine with V34-37. One thing I observed is SC and CR both together are playing a spoilsport.
If SC is around 70% and CR at 55% then your score is 700s and if SC < 50% and CR being a little better relative to SC then again overall score remains same.
RC 100% seems to be of not much help since you have score of 710 with 58%, when Quant is relatively fine if i consider Q50-51 equally.

My point is SC and CR accuracies are not at equal level in any of the mocks. May be, as I see, it's because in the tests you are able to focus on one more than the other - either SC is better losing out on CR or CR is better losing out on SC. May be you are getting fatigued(i do) in switching between CR and SC questions.

If you are able to maintain both SC and CR, at least, at about 70% (the best would be if you can keep 70% in all three) then probably you can more good results, keeping Quant unchanged.
I don't know how you can do that but getting into error log of these tests might help you with test taking strategies.

Quant, as suggested by disciplinedprep, you can retain Q50-51.
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