fitzgerald thanks for sharing your prep and exam experience with me and fellows at BTG. I think there was no over-analysis on my side. On the exam I was taking 15 sec. off from math talk and would make an aerial review of the quant questions. I did this with the question no 7 and spent 10 sec. for solution 'find last digit of a^b' <-- content changed, I got b=c^d and d=e^f where b, c, d are cycle numbers to obtain the last digit of 'a'.
My approach and strategy for verbal was triple - SC, CR and RC
For SC I was reading the sentence and tried to understand the meaning firstly. Then I moved to answer choice B if the sentence was not conveying the desired meaning and/or wasn't grammatically correct... kept working through all answer choices until I could decisively select the correct answer. When I could not succeed, I was making contender analysis.
For RC I employed skimming techniques. I was reading the first paragraph very carefully and then was concentrating on the first and last sentences of each paragraph, as I was quickly reading the entire text. At the end I was trying to link all paragraphs together and get the sense of passage. After all skimming and sense capture I was turning to questions in RC.
For CR I employed novelty at this time, BUT not for all question types only for weaken/strengthen and assumption types. I approached the inference, paradox type of questions as it was suggested in Hacks GMAT total verbal book (I bought one and studied). For CR weaken/strengthen and assumption questions - I was building small domains in my head to test and evaluate three hypotheses. These were based on the gap analysis of premise-conclusion. The gaps had to be filled with reasons after Stats/Sampling, Causal relationship (containing inside and outside conditions), and Analogies. I was focusing on this strategy for CR and it has worked fine for me before exam. I had decided to use it on the G-Day.
Nothing special just took exam and got the verbal score 16. I am still uncertain about the reasons behind my showing such a low score. Is this my true verbal ability?
My approach and strategy for verbal was triple - SC, CR and RC
For SC I was reading the sentence and tried to understand the meaning firstly. Then I moved to answer choice B if the sentence was not conveying the desired meaning and/or wasn't grammatically correct... kept working through all answer choices until I could decisively select the correct answer. When I could not succeed, I was making contender analysis.
For RC I employed skimming techniques. I was reading the first paragraph very carefully and then was concentrating on the first and last sentences of each paragraph, as I was quickly reading the entire text. At the end I was trying to link all paragraphs together and get the sense of passage. After all skimming and sense capture I was turning to questions in RC.
For CR I employed novelty at this time, BUT not for all question types only for weaken/strengthen and assumption types. I approached the inference, paradox type of questions as it was suggested in Hacks GMAT total verbal book (I bought one and studied). For CR weaken/strengthen and assumption questions - I was building small domains in my head to test and evaluate three hypotheses. These were based on the gap analysis of premise-conclusion. The gaps had to be filled with reasons after Stats/Sampling, Causal relationship (containing inside and outside conditions), and Analogies. I was focusing on this strategy for CR and it has worked fine for me before exam. I had decided to use it on the G-Day.
Nothing special just took exam and got the verbal score 16. I am still uncertain about the reasons behind my showing such a low score. Is this my true verbal ability?
My knowledge frontiers came to evolve the GMATPill's methods - the credited study means to boost the Verbal competence. I really like their videos, especially for RC, CR and SC. You do check their study methods at https://www.gmatpill.com
