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gig92
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Hello All,
I having been following "beat the gmat" for some time now. I took GMAT twice (including one today). The first test was a bomb for me, cannot really speak about it. Yesterday, in my second attempt, I got 77 percentile (47) in Quant and only 35 percentile (25) in Verbal, Total 600. I was shocked to see my verbal score even though I improved Quant score very much. My perofmance in verbal was even worse than the last time even if I had tried to understand every rule (actually I was very confident on all parts of Verbal). The only weakness I see now is that I didn't practice with time limits on Verbal (as I tried to understand the details of concept).
Also, during the exam I felt that there was no time whatsoever to reflect on Verbal questions. I mean it seemed that I was able to understand the questions quite easily (that's not really was the case it seems to me now!!). Anyway, I am going to retake for GMAT last time in the end of March. I have seen all recommendations on books to follow. I have studied the books over and over again (it's been more than a year that I have been trying to prepare well). Last year I got 111 on TOEFL. The Verbal section should not be that difficult!!
I think I have been faltering on timing in Verbal. I am going to restart with GMAT Official guide questions. Could any of you please take a few minutes to give me a feedback on where I might be getting bad in Verbal? During my preparation I tried to practice timing on "one kind" of questions because usually books have seperate sections. Do you think I can try some mixed strategy to master verbal section?
I will highly appreciate any advice.
I having been following "beat the gmat" for some time now. I took GMAT twice (including one today). The first test was a bomb for me, cannot really speak about it. Yesterday, in my second attempt, I got 77 percentile (47) in Quant and only 35 percentile (25) in Verbal, Total 600. I was shocked to see my verbal score even though I improved Quant score very much. My perofmance in verbal was even worse than the last time even if I had tried to understand every rule (actually I was very confident on all parts of Verbal). The only weakness I see now is that I didn't practice with time limits on Verbal (as I tried to understand the details of concept).
Also, during the exam I felt that there was no time whatsoever to reflect on Verbal questions. I mean it seemed that I was able to understand the questions quite easily (that's not really was the case it seems to me now!!). Anyway, I am going to retake for GMAT last time in the end of March. I have seen all recommendations on books to follow. I have studied the books over and over again (it's been more than a year that I have been trying to prepare well). Last year I got 111 on TOEFL. The Verbal section should not be that difficult!!
I think I have been faltering on timing in Verbal. I am going to restart with GMAT Official guide questions. Could any of you please take a few minutes to give me a feedback on where I might be getting bad in Verbal? During my preparation I tried to practice timing on "one kind" of questions because usually books have seperate sections. Do you think I can try some mixed strategy to master verbal section?
I will highly appreciate any advice.
gig92
