Hi,
I am a working professional. I recently wrote gmat and got 610 in it Quants-48 and verbal 26. I am a non native english speaker. I have prepared for gmat 2 times before. I mainly prepared for gmat from Princeton and OG. I believe that my verbal is very weak and needs some major improvement. For instance if time is not a factor in the verbal section, my section score can go up to 36-37. I usually run out of time hence let go last 6 questions in verbal section. I also think that gmat has gotten tougher these days. Back in 2008 i got 650 with merely 20 days of preparation. Whatever the case may be, i want to improve my verbal and want to do so desperately. I think i will need to improve my reading skills, and grammatical skills. Can anyone suggest me some good way to do so(some materials may be)... I have already gone through the sc/cr/rc in OG/Princeton/gmat prep and Gmat prep question pack II. I feel that i am not very comfortable at reading a long passage / sentence it makes me go back and forth two times of a long sentence/passage/paragraph to get the whole idea and to understand it fully. Such sentences do always take 2 -3 mins of my time to solve them. Please advise me on how should I go about tackling these issues.
Moreover can anyone point me at some useful reading materials those are rich in quality english and are similar to the gmat rc passages.
I am a working professional. I recently wrote gmat and got 610 in it Quants-48 and verbal 26. I am a non native english speaker. I have prepared for gmat 2 times before. I mainly prepared for gmat from Princeton and OG. I believe that my verbal is very weak and needs some major improvement. For instance if time is not a factor in the verbal section, my section score can go up to 36-37. I usually run out of time hence let go last 6 questions in verbal section. I also think that gmat has gotten tougher these days. Back in 2008 i got 650 with merely 20 days of preparation. Whatever the case may be, i want to improve my verbal and want to do so desperately. I think i will need to improve my reading skills, and grammatical skills. Can anyone suggest me some good way to do so(some materials may be)... I have already gone through the sc/cr/rc in OG/Princeton/gmat prep and Gmat prep question pack II. I feel that i am not very comfortable at reading a long passage / sentence it makes me go back and forth two times of a long sentence/passage/paragraph to get the whole idea and to understand it fully. Such sentences do always take 2 -3 mins of my time to solve them. Please advise me on how should I go about tackling these issues.
Moreover can anyone point me at some useful reading materials those are rich in quality english and are similar to the gmat rc passages.
. I struggled big time improving my verbal. So do not worry, its just matter of time and some smart studying.
