Back to square one in verbal :( Help please !!!

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Took GMATPrep1 yesterday and scored a pathetic 610 - Q48 V27

I finished 3 GMAT cats

MGMAT1 - 590 Q44 V29
Weak in both Quant and verbal. Worked on inequalities, timing and rate problems.
i was down in verbal with majority of mistakes in CR and RC and 4 mistakes in SC.
RC literally pulled me down as i was getting a whole RC wrong.
Started practicing 3 RCs a day
CR - Went through powerscore.

MGMAT2 - 640 Q48 V30
Still weak in geometry especially triangles and slope pblms, combinometrics - i haven't read the basics in these yet :(.
CR i was getting wrong in assumption and draw a conclusion questions.
RC - main idea and inference questions were still down.
SC - 3 mistakes and that too in idioms and SV agreement.
Worked more on verbal.

MGMAT3 - 660 Q48 V32
Same in quant missed pblms in geometry, combinometrics and rates.
RC - still few mistakes
CR - assumption, draw a conclusion, analyse arg structure.
SC - same 3 mistakes

GMAT Prep1 - 610 Q48 V27.
Wierd part is verbal score. Had some timing issues as well. I was spending more time on SC questions and sort of rushed up on other things especially RC.
4 wrong in RC - inference
4 wrong in CR - one assumption and one draw a conclusion
8 wrong in SC - this is something i never expected.
so far i had been confident in SC and now that has the majority of mistakes :( :( I have the exam in a month. GMATPrep scores will be the closest estimate of actual score and now i am totally demotivated/disappointed :( :( Losing confidence, after all the preparation seems nothing has improved.

Can someone experts help me out on how to get back. Aiming for a 700 i need a 35+ in verbal. Quants still i have some gap to improve so that will take me to 49/50 - yet to do the 300 best gmat pblms. But am way to confused to go with verbal, not sure of which section to work on ... :(
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by sam2304 » Sun Sep 25, 2011 4:51 am
Guys appreciate your help ... give some suggestions ...
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