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by prat_agl » Sat Dec 08, 2012 1:55 pm
Hi,

I gave GMAT on 26th October and scored a mere 650(49 quant and 28 verbal). I was scoring around 700 in all the mock tests that I have given so far.

There were many nervous moments before the exam which did helped in reducing the score. Most importantly when I reached the center around 30 mins prior to the exam I was told my Texas licence will not work as a photo ID and I am required to fetch my Passport. So I drive around 20-25 miles to get it.

Please suggest what should I do to improve verbal score.
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by David@VeritasPrep » Sat Dec 08, 2012 5:53 pm
Okay so I have several thoughts for you!

1) You will know to have your passport this time so that will be much better!

2) Test Anxiety: This is an area that I think about a lot and have helped many students with. Here are some articles that I have written on the subject.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2012/10/ ... n-the-gmat

https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2012/06/ ... n-the-gmat


3) Improving on verbal is about two things "Narrowing your Focus" and having techniques that you can trust.

This article can help you to focus on the correct portions of the CR questions.
https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2011/02/ ... duncan-way

This article can help you stay focused on the right things for RC
https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2012/08/ ... prehension

This articles and postings can help you focus in on sentence correction
https://www.beatthegmat.com/sentence-cor ... 69595.html


Let me know if you have questions about specific question types in CR as I have written about each of these. Also if you have other questions from SC or RC.

Good luck studying! Hope it helps!
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by prat_agl » Sun Dec 09, 2012 8:09 am
Thanks a lot David. These articles are really helpful.
Can you please help with CR boldface and suggest some good practice material for SC?
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by David@VeritasPrep » Sun Dec 09, 2012 6:35 pm
Here is something that I just wrote in reply to another student concerning a strategy for Bold Faced questions.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/scientists-g ... tml#539650

Here are discussions that I have had on bold-faced questions:

These are questions that I wrote and then discussed:

https://www.beatthegmat.com/bold-faced-f ... tml#307471

https://www.beatthegmat.com/salt-water-p ... tml#291765

https://www.beatthegmat.com/bold-faced-e ... tml#293014


Here are other questions that I discussed:

https://www.beatthegmat.com/bold-faced-f ... tml#307471

https://www.beatthegmat.com/bold-faced-q ... tml#294134


And here is one about the crazy bold faced that only have one portion in bold and you have to choose the best replacement rather than describing it!

https://www.beatthegmat.com/useless-bott ... 66646.html

Hope it helps!
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