Dear all,
I am a 24-year-old non-native English speaker. For the university I wish to apply for I need a GMAT score of ~650 by the end of April 2019.
I have been preparing for the GMAT about 6 weeks (2.5 weeks off from work). Being a full time worker in a consulting firm, I didn't get much time to study during the week. On the weekends, I used to study about 2 - 3 hours on Saturdays and 6 hours on Sundays. The materials that I used:
"¢ OG 17
"¢ Magoosh online subscription (videos + question bank)
"¢ Manhattan GMAT books series
I had my first GMAT attempt 2 weeks ago, on December 10, and it was a disaster, especially the verbal section. I scored Q45 in quant and a very poor V26 in verbal (overall 580).
After finishing the quantitative part I felt quiet exhausted and I had huge problems to concentrate in the verbal section. I didn't really read the texts and rushed through the questions.
I have to admit that I only took two prep tests before the real exam since I needed the weeks off from work to cover the different math topics of the quant section. Especially in the last few days, I concentrated entirely on math and tried to solve as much questions as possible. Probably a bad idea...
For math the Magoosh videos were really useful, but for the verbal part they didn't help me much. I guess my biggest weakness lies within reading and critical reasoning. I always need too much time to read the passage and when it comes to the questions I have the impression I don't really understand what I've read. I went through all the "general tips" that are posted in different forums (look for structure words / main idea, pretend to be interested, etc.) but I still have big problems.
Now I have about 4 months left (weekends from January-March, full-time April) until the final application deadline and I don't really know where to start and what to do.
Do you have some advice for me? And did you have good experience with a tutors or online courses focusing on verbal?
Many thanks in advance.
Best,
Linda
I am a 24-year-old non-native English speaker. For the university I wish to apply for I need a GMAT score of ~650 by the end of April 2019.
I have been preparing for the GMAT about 6 weeks (2.5 weeks off from work). Being a full time worker in a consulting firm, I didn't get much time to study during the week. On the weekends, I used to study about 2 - 3 hours on Saturdays and 6 hours on Sundays. The materials that I used:
"¢ OG 17
"¢ Magoosh online subscription (videos + question bank)
"¢ Manhattan GMAT books series
I had my first GMAT attempt 2 weeks ago, on December 10, and it was a disaster, especially the verbal section. I scored Q45 in quant and a very poor V26 in verbal (overall 580).
After finishing the quantitative part I felt quiet exhausted and I had huge problems to concentrate in the verbal section. I didn't really read the texts and rushed through the questions.
I have to admit that I only took two prep tests before the real exam since I needed the weeks off from work to cover the different math topics of the quant section. Especially in the last few days, I concentrated entirely on math and tried to solve as much questions as possible. Probably a bad idea...
For math the Magoosh videos were really useful, but for the verbal part they didn't help me much. I guess my biggest weakness lies within reading and critical reasoning. I always need too much time to read the passage and when it comes to the questions I have the impression I don't really understand what I've read. I went through all the "general tips" that are posted in different forums (look for structure words / main idea, pretend to be interested, etc.) but I still have big problems.
Now I have about 4 months left (weekends from January-March, full-time April) until the final application deadline and I don't really know where to start and what to do.
Do you have some advice for me? And did you have good experience with a tutors or online courses focusing on verbal?
Many thanks in advance.
Best,
Linda
