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by gdsurdy » Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:51 am
Hello everybody... I have recently started preparing for GMAT. I have found myself comfortable with the Quant but lacking quite a bit in Verbal. I know I will be able to improve in Quant section with more practice. But Verbal just scares me. I have been honing my CR skills over the past few days but it doesnt seem to be working for me. I am getting only 60% of my questions right the first time. When i do the wrong ones the second time I get almost 90% correct. Probably because I only have 4 options to choose from and some are really careless mistakes. It is quite disheartening and frustating to not see any improvement. Need some advice/strategy which could probably help me getting the questions right the first time itself. I guess practice would improve my scores and I just need to be patient and not lose hope.

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by mbadrew » Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:00 am
Be sure to have a strategy before you start tackling question. When tackling questions, read the passage and look for the conclusion first, then read the question and tackle it using . If you need detailed strategies, then read Manhattan and Princeton books, which I've found to be quite useful

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by gdsurdy » Fri Apr 24, 2009 3:21 pm
Andrew, I have been reading Kaplan and other resources on the web which say read the question, than passage, identify evidence and conclusion, guess the answer and than look for the answer in the choices. It sounds simple on paper but in actuality hard to implement in the time given.
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by mbadrew » Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:21 pm
The main thing to do is to identify what sentence is the conclusion and what sentences are the premises. Once you've done that then it's easy to solve the question. If you read the question first it does help, however, you can sometime get mudled looking for the perfect answer. When doing questions, go slow and understand the logic. Remember, speed is a by product of accuracy. Start slow and then pick up speed.
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