Develop the Right Mindset to Succeed on GMAT Verbal

Many people find GMAT Verbal challenging at first and don’t see a path to mastery. Often, they perceive it as different from anything that they have succeeded at before.

As I have shown many students, the perception of Verbal as something only “other people” can handle is incorrect. In fact, GMAT Verbal is similar to Quant in one key way: finding correct answers requires noticing details and using tight logic. Is that something you can learn to do? Of course it is.

Think of GMAT Verbal this way: to correctly answer Critical Reasoning questions, you just have to know some basic logic and learn to notice key issues in arguments. You may already have many of the necessary skills. Similarly, getting Reading Comprehension questions right largely comes down to noticing what passages do and do not say.

There is no mystery here, no special ability that some people have and others don’t. With learning and practice, you can learn to see which answers make the most sense. As a result, you will be able to make the Verbal section part of your GMAT success story.

Warmest regards,

Scott Woodbury-Stewart
Founder & CEO, Target Test Prep