So I have been using Veritas Prep for the past 4-6 weeks to study for the GMAT. I bought the 12 books that cover all the various topics, it also includes the video on-demand series. Results are not particularly good, high 600s is my goal and I am not anywhere there yet - largely due to my verbal skills, or lack thereof.
March 13: 620 / 69 | 42 / 57 | 34 / 69
April 3: 590 / 59 | 44 / 63 | 28 / 48
April 3: 650 / 78 | 45 / 68 | 34 / 69
April 8: 630 / 72 | 42 / 57 | 35 / 74
April 12: 570/ 52 | 45 / 66 | 23 / 29
Today (April 12th), I wrote a mock GMAT exam and my results were quite poor. I did the whole 9 yards (AWA and IR) but by the time I hit verbal - my brain was toast, I had a headache, felt kind of dizzy. Pretty much bombed it. For the practice tests I have done prior, I always did the IR and the AWA - so generally pacing is not much of an issue, but today it was different. I have usually done these tests in the evening versus the day as well.
I spoke to the proctor and he said that Veritas isn't a good platform and that the tests are not CAT either (I believe they are, as far as I have read)...?
Anyway, I am fine (for now) with a Q43-45 - it would take some advanced studying to bring that up.
However, I'd get more (in terms of my overall score) if I focused more on my verbal. I'll admit, when studying critical reasoning and sentence correction - things go in one ear and out the other. English is my first language, but I have largely a colloquial understanding of the language through bad habits and what-not. Sigh.
In any case, what's my game plan. I have read SC more than once, but it was in one ear out the other.
RC isn't much better, a lot of the times the nature of the article influences my ability to comprehend what I am reading.
Science and history are my weaknesses.
I need some major advice on how to improve my V score - any thoughts?
EDIT: my verbal score is even lower than what I had originally posted :/
March 13: 620 / 69 | 42 / 57 | 34 / 69
April 3: 590 / 59 | 44 / 63 | 28 / 48
April 3: 650 / 78 | 45 / 68 | 34 / 69
April 8: 630 / 72 | 42 / 57 | 35 / 74
April 12: 570/ 52 | 45 / 66 | 23 / 29
Today (April 12th), I wrote a mock GMAT exam and my results were quite poor. I did the whole 9 yards (AWA and IR) but by the time I hit verbal - my brain was toast, I had a headache, felt kind of dizzy. Pretty much bombed it. For the practice tests I have done prior, I always did the IR and the AWA - so generally pacing is not much of an issue, but today it was different. I have usually done these tests in the evening versus the day as well.
I spoke to the proctor and he said that Veritas isn't a good platform and that the tests are not CAT either (I believe they are, as far as I have read)...?
Anyway, I am fine (for now) with a Q43-45 - it would take some advanced studying to bring that up.
However, I'd get more (in terms of my overall score) if I focused more on my verbal. I'll admit, when studying critical reasoning and sentence correction - things go in one ear and out the other. English is my first language, but I have largely a colloquial understanding of the language through bad habits and what-not. Sigh.
In any case, what's my game plan. I have read SC more than once, but it was in one ear out the other.
RC isn't much better, a lot of the times the nature of the article influences my ability to comprehend what I am reading.
Science and history are my weaknesses.
I need some major advice on how to improve my V score - any thoughts?
EDIT: my verbal score is even lower than what I had originally posted :/
Last edited by SLS_AMG on Sun Apr 13, 2014 9:55 am, edited 1 time in total.
