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i am taking my gmat on 12th Aug 2010. I scored 610 on powerprep with no preparation. the quant score is 50 and verbal score is 26. Any suggestions as to how i should improve/prepare from here on?
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Toph@GMAT_REBOOT
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Did you struggle with the entire verbal section, or one or two types of questions in particular? Is English your first language?
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A very general answer is to read newspapers online everyday for at least 30 minutes, go over the Manhattan GMAT SC, and the Powerscore CR.ada3kor wrote:Hi,
i am taking my gmat on 12th Aug 2010. I scored 610 on powerprep with no preparation. the quant score is 50 and verbal score is 26. Any suggestions as to how i should improve/prepare from here on?
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Yes i struggled with the entire verbal. English is my first language.
I have now started with Manhattan SC and i see some improvement. Now that i know verbal is my weak area, should i concentrate more on verbal or quickly finish quant first and then handle verbal. ( background : i have just started my preparation, took the powerprep thats it )
I have now started with Manhattan SC and i see some improvement. Now that i know verbal is my weak area, should i concentrate more on verbal or quickly finish quant first and then handle verbal. ( background : i have just started my preparation, took the powerprep thats it )
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Read a lot of difficult materials that are not something you would normally read. Science passages would be my weakness, so I started to read a lot of them.
There are some good links under the Resources tab.
There are some good links under the Resources tab.
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that's goodada3kor wrote:okie... I have now started with the Verbal. I am planning to do it in the following order
1. Manhattan SC
2. Powerscore LR
3. OG
4. 100 questions
How does this sound? Any other suggestions? How do i tackle RC?
there is a ton of material around this forum!
you can read articles from the newspaper, wsj, ft, etc
have you also think about taking some preparation course? I don't know your budget
but it can really help
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Just to check- do you mean the 1000 question series?ada3kor wrote:okie... I have now started with the Verbal. I am planning to do it in the following order
1. Manhattan SC
2. Powerscore LR
3. OG
4. 100 questions
How does this sound? Any other suggestions? How do i tackle RC?
Another source that might help you are the old LSAT tests- the RC and CR sections are tougher than what you'll see on the GMAT so it should help with your confidence and your reading ability
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