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Hello,

I took the GMAT yesterday and scored 530 (Q48/V16). I am a non-native and as you can see I am struggling with the Verbal section. My target score is 600+ , so I have to keep my Quant score and move my Verbal score to the high 20's. I definitely have to focus on Verbal.
Regarding my past studies:
I studied around 9 weeks - fulltime - 30h/week and I used only the Manhattan Books. I went through all of them (9 books) and did all the problem sets. The last 14 days before the exam, I did some real tests (GMAT Prep & Manhattan). My scores were between 520 and 600.

I am posting this, in order to get advices in terms of providing me with a 5 week-strategy (I will take the GMAT again on the 20th of May).
How can I boost my verbal score? Can you recommend any additional books or how should I proceed. I have the feeling that Sentence Correction is pretty okay, but CR/RC is really hard for me - especially under time pressure. It is hard for me to understand the arguments/text passages in the very short time frame during the GMAT.

I would really appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance!

ThomasG91 wrote:Hello,

I took the GMAT yesterday and scored 530 (Q48/V16). I am a non-native and as you can see I am struggling with the Verbal section. My target score is 600+ , so I have to keep my Quant score and move my Verbal score to the high 20's. I definitely have to focus on Verbal.
Regarding my past studies:
I studied around 9 weeks - fulltime - 30h/week and I used only the Manhattan Books. I went through all of them (9 books) and did all the problem sets. The last 14 days before the exam, I did some real tests (GMAT Prep & Manhattan). My scores were between 520 and 600.

I am posting this, in order to get advices in terms of providing me with a 5 week-strategy (I will take the GMAT again on the 20th of May).
How can I boost my verbal score? Can you recommend any additional books or how should I proceed. I have the feeling that Sentence Correction is pretty okay, but CR/RC is really hard for me - especially under time pressure. It is hard for me to understand the arguments/text passages in the very short time frame during the GMAT.

I would really appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance!

Hello,

This forum is intended for questions about the exam format and policies. For this strategy question, you might have better luck posting in another forum in this community.

Thanks,
Jeremy