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URGENT HELP!

by marijose » Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:53 pm
hey guys i am lookinf for some professional help.. I think I cam getting stuck and not moving forward on the gmat..
I took it in december and got a 520, ( 40q and 22v) Ive been studying since January, verbal a lot... Ive taken some cats but I dont see that much improvements in both sections. Ive dropped my socre in quant...

Ive been studying from the og12, and verbal and quantitive OGreview.... Ive bought the 800score cats... but I just dont see improvements. I took the math section today and got a 41...

Ive bought the powerscore CR, and MGMAT sentence correction and an aristotle book that has a lot of RC passages..

Iread2-3 passages each day and practice problems on verbal and quantitive from og sources...

Im thinking of getting into knewton or veritas...

My aim is to get at leats a 650.. thats about 45q and 35v... right now Im all over the place in quantitive, from 37 to 41... and in verbal I am about at 30...

Does anyone think that getting into knewton or vertias ( both online courses) would be the fastest way to improve my score??

Would you recomend knewton or vertias??
Im non-native... so verbal is challenging for me.
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by therealtomrose » Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:25 pm
Marijose,

I have professional experience tutoring non-native english speakers to scores over 750.

I believe it is imperative that you have conversations with an in-person human who is a native speaker of American english. This might be a tall order given your situation, but there is simply no replacement for live, human-to-human interaction in this regard.

Here's why:

What you specifically need to do is interpret something on the GMAT, then run that by a native speaker and find critical moments when you are misinterpreting things.

If you pay for private tutoring to do this it will be quite expensive. I think a more reasonable route would be to "hire" a native american english speaking friend to work with you and pay them in beer/pizza/gratification/other. You do not need a professional for the next step in your quest, but you DO need a live human native american english speaker with good grammar :)

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by tpr-becky » Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:07 am
I too have personal experience tutoring non-native speakers to achieve their GMAT goals. While I agree face to face communication is probably best if that can't be had I would certainly try an online course.

I would be happy to offer you 30 minutes free in my Princeton Review online classroom if we can find a time and you can see if it is an experience you would be interested in.

Private message me if you want to set something up.

Best of Luck
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The Princeton Review
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