I just Beat The GMAT!

adityachowdhury wrote:This is my first post on BTG. I have taken the GMAT once in October this year and scored 680(Q50,V31). I did not give any FLT that time and I urgently need advice on whether I am on the right track in the Verbal section. I have been practicing continuously now for the past 1 month and am hoping to give the GMAT again in the 3rd week of Jan 2014. From what I have gathered this is the basic summary of my current prep:

1- Quant- I am clear with most concepts in the quant section. I have finished the OG and I practice some tough questions nowadays. Hopefully this should be enough.

2- Verbal- I have followed the Manhattan SC guide which is pretty thorough. I have been practicing from the OG and have now started preparing SC from the Aristotle Holy Grail series. I seem to have a problem in pronouns and antecedents though.

3- Verbal- For CR, I have been following the CR bible and have come to only one conclusion- I can pick out the correct answer most of the times but the biggest problem seems to be that I tend to overthink in the wrong direction sometimes and this leads to my downfall in this section. Probably my strongest part in the verbal section.

4- Verbal- RC seems to be the part in which I truly suffer. My accuracy in RC seems to be in the 20-30% region. From what I have gathered, I try to keep everything in my mind and do not tend to go back to the passage while solving the questions. Also, while solving the questions, I tend to overthink and forget bits and pieces from the passage which affects my accuracy considerably. I have started practicing from the Aristotle RC practice.

Can an expert kindly provide some basic strategy on the verbal section especially RC which I can follow?