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GMAT 480 (38Q, 19V) - Verbal Help!

by jn053824 » Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:33 am
Hello! I'm new to this forum and I just wanted to introduce myself.

GMAT 480 (38Q, 19V)

The score above is the result from the first time taking the GMAT on April 9th after two and a half months of heavy study in the Quantitative section and minimal study in the verbal. I had taken Manhattan GMAT courses a few months back and the instructor told the class to focus on Quantitative if we lack the proper amount of time to study the materials. I am planning to take the next 3 months (June, July and August) to heavily study for the Verbal from the Manhattan GMAT books (and study math in between to refresh the material and keep myself from going crazy from reading boring passages lol) I've never been able to do well in verbal sections of tests even though I'm a native English speaker.

Question #1:
Sentence Correction is more of a memorizing rules kind of game for me, so I plan to study in this order:
Critical Reasoning, Reading Comprehension, Sentence Correction
I haven't studied for a full month and now I'm motivated again! I think I'll have to use the books to focus on the Critical Reasoning and the Sentence Correction sections and use my English knowledge and enthusiasm for the passages to get through the Reading Comprehension part lol...any suggestions?

Question #2:
From experience, do you think it looks bad if i get a high verbal score and a low math score with the second test?

Thanks in advance for your help!
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by nicktimoshenko » Tue Jun 08, 2010 12:22 pm
i guess it will be useful for you to read book from Manhattan ( https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Reasonin ... 097480696X ) it can quickly improve your performance in CR. improving SC is more challenging because it is require learn numerous idiom, etc, but for native speaker for successful solving CR sufficiently to understand way in which questions created.

In fact i have the same problem as you. So there are a lot of useful comments below this post
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by Patrick_GMATFix » Tue Jun 08, 2010 5:17 pm
Hi jn053824


the good news is that you have plenty of time to develop and execute a good plan if you're disciplined.

FOR LESSONS:
1) the flash lessons from gmatfix. I tell my clients to go through them over and over until they've internalized all the rules tested on the GMAT. You can see a sample flash lesson here.

2) I would also recommend the ManhattanGMAT SC books; overall they're excellent.

3) For CR, I hear a lot of good things about PowerPrep's Critical Reasoning Bible. I haven't used it myself but many tend to think that it's good.

FOR PRACTICE
1) Official Guides

2) GMATPrep. Use it to practice questions of all type. To get the most of practicing though it's crucial that you review your work with good solutions. Some people like to save their GMATPrep exams for last, but because it offers the best practice Qs anywhere, I recommend trying to master its questions (over 1200 of them). I hate to sound like an ad, but you can use the gmatfix Solutions Engine to organize the gmatprep content into difficulty and topic groups to better manage your practice. (see my signature).

Whatever you do, be consistent: Learn, practice, review, test, and review test. To many people spend a lot of time practicing but not enough time reviewing their work/test.

Good luck!
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by jn053824 » Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:23 am
Thanks for the feedback! I'm going to start studying again tonight. It's hard with full time work but with dedication, I know it can be done.

I have all the Manhattan GMAT books. Once I finish going over the books for Critical Reasoning, I plan on using the GMAT Official Study Guide to practice the questions, then restart the process over for RC and SC. Hopefully that will be completed by the end of July where I can start using the GMAT Prep tests on the computer to simulate the actual tests in August. Do you think that's a good game plan? Or should I take the GMAT Prep Test After I complete reviewing CR?

Patrick: I see you a fellow New Yorker! I'm not trying to get into the top business schools in the US, but I do want to get into CUNY's Baruch college, where I went for my undergrad degree in Accounting. I'm planning on pursuing the MBA degree in International Business. With a 38Q (51%) and 19V (16%), I know I need to work on my verbal, but do you think I'll be ok if I maintain my math score?
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by Patrick_GMATFix » Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:17 am
jn053824 wrote:Once I finish going over the books for Critical Reasoning, I plan on using the GMAT Official Study Guide to practice the questions, then restart the process over for RC and SC. Hopefully that will be completed by the end of July where I can start using the GMAT Prep tests on the computer to simulate the actual tests in August. Do you think that's a good game plan? Or should I take the GMAT Prep Test After I complete reviewing CR?
My approach would be different in that I wouldn't study just one question type for weeks before switching to the next. Instead, each week I would make time to study each type. I would also take tests every 2 weeks and review them.
jn053824 wrote:With a 38Q (51%) and 19V (16%), I know I need to work on my verbal, but do you think I'll be ok if I maintain my math score?
Last I heard, Baruch is actually quite competitive, on a level playing field with Pace U. I don't know the specifics though, so I would call the admissions office and ask for the mean and median GMAT Scores of admitted students. Perhaps the staff will be willing to divulge this information.

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