bmierz86 wrote:Hi All, I have been studying for the last 4 months for my second attempt at the GMAT, after completing MGMAT Classes, Empower 4+ months and other books, I was able to get my quant score from low 30s to high 30s/low 40s, however my Verbal score has been consistently in the 21-29 range, despite doing WELL on OG practice problems /drills from the Review Books and other sources. I just don't know what is going on and why I am unable to improve my verbal score. I started reading Powerscore CR bible, I read the MGMAT SC book, I have notes and pages of notes everywhere that I read but on the actual CAT exams my score don't show any progress. In fact, today I took a CAT exam and got a Q38 V21 on the Official practice test.

I spent thousands of dollars this point on various book, classes, online sources and nothing has worked for the Verbal part for me. At this point this exam has become an addiction/some craze that I have given up social life mostly except 1 night a week and pound 2-3 hours a day of material that I think I get, but on the tests nothing happens. My target score is around 650_ so with a improve in Verbal I would get there since my Q isn't that bad when compared to it.

I have considered a private tutor in NYC at this point, because I am not sure what I am not understanding.

Also, on today's CAT I got 14 Verbal questions incorrect, and I got a 21, meanwhile i got 16 Quant questions incorrect and got a 38...I don't know what is going on because when I do OG practice problem drills my correct rate is in the 70% for Verbal.