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by bkw » Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:31 pm
Newbie726 wrote:Does anybody have any suggestions on Books or Newspapers i can read on my spare time to increase my verbal score?
We need to know what your weaknesses are to answer a question like that. Please do a (free) CAT test and let tell us what your weaknesses are so we can give recommendations.

Also https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2010/01/ ... -gmat-plan may be a good spot to start at.
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by David@VeritasPrep » Thu Feb 24, 2011 7:31 pm
That is a fairly indirect way to improve your score!

One thing you can do, rather than reading something different is to make the most of the things you do read for fun or work. You can practice a little sentence correction by learning about prepositions and modifiers and looking for those in your reading (as well as identifying subject - verb - direct object).

You can improve your critical reasoning by understanding the ways to spot conclusions and premises and looking for those in the things you read. You can work on reading comp by stopping at the end of paragraphs you read and trying to state to yourself the main idea in less than 10 words.

Those are some ways to get a little more out of what you already do.

How far out are you from taking your exam? How many months?
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by bkw » Fri Feb 25, 2011 2:49 am
David@VeritasPrep wrote:That is a fairly indirect way to improve your score!
Hmm OK, I thought it was the most direct way to benchmark, find weaknesses and improve them.
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by David@VeritasPrep » Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:41 am
Not your recommendation bkw!!!

No no, what you said is certainly the most direct - more so than my recommendation in fact.

No I meant that what "Newbie" was asking - books and newspapers (I assume non-GMAT) to read in spare time - is indirect.


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by bkw » Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:46 am
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by kingluis » Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:07 pm
BKW thanks for the link.
I am a non native English speaker who recently took the gmat, I got a 480 ( Q25 V31 ), but I'm planning on retaking the exam, overall my problem is the quant part, but I would like to get a higher grade on verbal. My weakness in verbal is Critical reasoning, and in RC my problem is the direct hit questions, I am getting around 80% correct in RC, 65% in SC and below 50% in critical reasoning, based on my last cat before the exam, around February 20th. Any help is appreciated

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