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arashyazdiha
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Hello,
There are many non native speakers like me that have many difficulties with the verbal section and specifically with the timing matters. I really worked hard for building up my accuracy in the tests prior to the timing. and started to develop a better pace, however I have been much better. But yesterday I took GMAT Prep#1 for the first time and I scored perfect in Quant but awful in verbal. I had a great accuracy in Quant part with more than 15 minutes in excess. But I had acceptable accuracy in Verbal for the first 30 questions but awful at the end because of the bad timing. I had no choice to random guess the lass 4 questions that hopfully(!!!!) all of them were wrong. According to the hearings this consecutive wrong answers specially at the end of the exam, drastically hurts the score.
Now, As I don't have too much to try a new strategy I wanted to ask a question about some kind of strategy that I came up with: I think it will be appropriate if I make sure that until approximately question#30 I get some surely correct answers(as I can feel) and then try to random guess about 4 or 5 questions since then(probably it is better to get wrong answers) and then for the last 5 or 6 questions I put more time to answer correctly. This way I can control the accuracy of the last questions and even the timing as I ignore reading carefully the 5 questions in between.
Please comment and help me with that
Thanks
There are many non native speakers like me that have many difficulties with the verbal section and specifically with the timing matters. I really worked hard for building up my accuracy in the tests prior to the timing. and started to develop a better pace, however I have been much better. But yesterday I took GMAT Prep#1 for the first time and I scored perfect in Quant but awful in verbal. I had a great accuracy in Quant part with more than 15 minutes in excess. But I had acceptable accuracy in Verbal for the first 30 questions but awful at the end because of the bad timing. I had no choice to random guess the lass 4 questions that hopfully(!!!!) all of them were wrong. According to the hearings this consecutive wrong answers specially at the end of the exam, drastically hurts the score.
Now, As I don't have too much to try a new strategy I wanted to ask a question about some kind of strategy that I came up with: I think it will be appropriate if I make sure that until approximately question#30 I get some surely correct answers(as I can feel) and then try to random guess about 4 or 5 questions since then(probably it is better to get wrong answers) and then for the last 5 or 6 questions I put more time to answer correctly. This way I can control the accuracy of the last questions and even the timing as I ignore reading carefully the 5 questions in between.
Please comment and help me with that
Thanks
